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BBC Street unlocks creative and technical opportunities w...

BBC Street, the in-house post-production facility at BBC Scotland in Glasgow, has installed a new Baselight system to upgrade their grading and finishing suite with Baselight’s latest powerful 4K/HDR toolset and to improve their client experience. BB...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 09 July 2019

Netflix Film Paddleton Takes a Unique Approach to Sound

With a unique improvisational acting style at the heart of the Netflix original film, Paddleton, capturing audio was of paramount concern for Sound Supervisor Daniel S. McCoy CAS, owner and operator of ToneMesa, Inc. Taking into consideration that re...

Published 27 June 2019

Lucky Finn Productions Uses Indipro Tools to Power Docume...

Filming documentaries is hardly an easy feat; you contend with weather, environmental conditions, outside noise and un-trained talent. For freelance Cinematographer Neil Fernandez, owner of Lucky Finn Productions, this career path has literally led h...

Published 10 June 2019

Sony VENICE Continues to Evolve with High Frame Rate up t...

Sony has today announced that its VENICE full-frame digital motion picture camera will receive additional High Frame Rate (HFR) capabilities and added workflow flexibility with a new Version 5.0 firmware update planned for January 2020. Following the...

Submitted by Marlin PR

Published 03 June 2019

Insight TV Launches Third Series of Power and ...Martial...

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD HDR/ broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is launching the third series of Power & … – its multi-episode and topical documentary-style series that focuses on normal people with extraordinary lives. Po...

Submitted by Jump PR

Published 30 May 2019

Wisycom Provides Ideal RF Signal Range For German Comedy...

Filmed in an improvisational-meets-scripted style, jerks. is a German comedy series that follows two friends who find themselves in often precarious, albeit hysterical, situations. With this unique format, Production Sound Mixer Philipp Sehling reli...

Published 29 May 2019

Production Sound Mixer Adam P. Lawrence Improves His Work...

Production Sound Mixer Adam P. Lawrence has had a lifelong love for audio/visual storytelling. For the last decade, Lawrence has turned that passion into a career, mixing audio on countless film and television productions. As with any field productio...

Published 09 May 2019

Western Fire Chief Association Uses Blackmagic Cameras

Blackmagic Design announced today that the Western Fire Chiefs Association used the Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K to document the experiences of 35 fire chiefs on a recent research trip to the city of Paradise...

Submitted by Blackmagic design

Published 07 May 2019

New kit to shoot perfect down-the-lens interviews

The ‘down-the-lens’ interview is quite commonly seen in documentary programmes where the subject is talking directly to the camera rather than to an unseen person off-camera. This very powerful technique is performed using a two-way mirror box setup,...

Submitted by PrimeLight Films Ltd

Published 02 May 2019

VI RENTAL REPLACES ENTIRE TRIPOD FLEET WITH SACHTLER FLOW...

Sachtler today announced that VI Rental, the hire division of UK broadcast equipment provider Visual Impact, has made a major purchase of Sachtler's flowtech100 carbon-fibre tripods and Video 18 S2 fluid heads. In response to customer demand, VI Rent...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 25 April 2019

At NAB 2019, Sony unveils products, solutions and workflo...

At NAB 2019, Sony is showcasing its latest solutions which offer further creative options and greater flexibility to enable new and existing broadcast and media customers to future-proof their businesses and bring their visions to life. From content...

Submitted by Marlin PR

Published 09 April 2019

SMPTE at the 2019 NAB Show

NAB Show's Future of Cinema Conference (FoCC), "Now, Next, and Beyond the Yellow Brick Road,\" produced in partnership with SMPTE®, will take place April 6-7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the South Hall, Meeting Rooms S222/S223. Experts who a...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 03 April 2019

VidOvation at the 2019 NAB Show

AVIWEST 4K and Multi-HD HEVC Video Encoding and IP Distribution Stream 12G/3G SDI Over the Public Internet and CellularAt the 2019 NAB Show, VidOvation will demonstrate the Emmy Award-winning AVIWEST HE4000 4K Ultra HD (UHD) HEVC live encoder, which...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 07 March 2019

Blackmagic Design Announces New URSA Mini Pro G2 Camera

Blackmagic Design today announced URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2, a second generation URSA Mini Pro camera featuring fully redesigned electronics and a new Super 35mm 4.6K image sensor with 15 stops of dynamic range that combine to support high frame rate sho...

Submitted by Blackmagic design

Published 05 March 2019

Filmmaker Todd Douglas Miller to Present Keynote at 2019...

SMPTE®, the organization that is defining the future of storytelling, today announced that Todd Douglas Miller, the filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed "Apollo 11\" moon landing documentary, will present the keynote at the 2019 NAB Show's Futur...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 27 February 2019