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Encore turns to Baselight to colour the story of Picasso

The second series of National Geographic’s popular series Genius focuses on the extraordinary life of painter Pablo Picasso. Colourist Pankaj Bajpai at Encore in Hollywood was charged with creating the look that evoked the time and place as well as t...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 05 July 2018

Love Ire and Song for Frank Turner and Robe

Folk punk singer songwriter Frank Turner recently played four vibrant and fully sold-out nights at London’s Roundhouse venue, performing four completely unique sets and presenting lighting designer Tom Mason-Smith - who loves challenges - with the ta...

Published 03 July 2018

Leader LV5490 Deployed for 4K Coverage of World Football...

Leader's LV5490 4K/HDR multiscreen waveform monitor has been chosen as a master reference test instrument by several of Europe's leading public-service broadcasters organisations which are screening key games from the event in 4K UHD. "The LV5490 has...

Submitted by Stylus Media Communications

Published 28 June 2018

IDX DUO-C198 Powers Digital Film Test Shoot for Antonio M...

Latest-generation DUO-C198 batteries in the IDX ENDURA V-Mount series were chosen to power Sony's recently introduced Venice 35 mm 6K camera in a short movie shoot by the cinematographer António Morais, Golpe Filmes. With typically 198 Wh capacity an...

Submitted by Stylus Media Communications

Published 28 June 2018

2018 Engineering Excellence Award Winners Announced by HP...

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards Committee has announced the winners of the 2018 HPA Engineering Excellence Award. Winners were determined at a blue ribbon judging session held at IMAX on the 16th of June. The coveted honor will be...

Submitted by ignite strategic communications

Published 28 June 2018

Cobalt Digital and Technicolor HDR Technology Deployed by...

Cobalt Digital today announced that leading satellite service provider AT&T is using high dynamic range (HDR) technology from Cobalt and Technicolor to bring more vivid and realistic images to 4K broadcasts of live “MLB Network Showcase” games on its...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 26 June 2018

SHOOT ANYWHERE WITH THE NEW ROTOLIGHT NEO 2 EXPLORER KIT

Rotolight, the award-winning British LED lighting manufacturer, has announced the launch of the NEO 2 Explorer Kit, a portable, powerful and lightweight three-light kit for photographers and filmmakers on the go. The new Rotolight NEO 2 Explorer Kit...

Published 12 June 2018

Lighting Design Group Chooses Gemini 2x1 Soft Panel Light...

Litepanels today announced that Lighting Design Group (LDG), a global leader in television lighting design, chose Litepanels’ new Gemini LED soft panels for international broadcast coverage of the May 19 wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan M...

Submitted by Dundee Hills Group

Published 11 June 2018

National German Basketball League Livestreams with Blackm...

Blackmagic Design today announced that the 2. Basketball-Bundesliga, Germany’s second tier national basketball league, has developed a live production workflow using broadcast infrastructure from Blackmagic Design to live stream matches from venues a...

Submitted by Blackmagic design

Published 08 June 2018

Robe Helps Deutschland Find a Superstar

The 2018 edition of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) is featured another exciting and eye-catching lighting design created by the show’s long term LD Manuel da Costa and Jonas König of MDC Lichtgestalten, utilising over 100 Robe Pointes which w...

Published 07 June 2018

Kino Flo Highlights LED Tubes

BURBANK -Kino Flo Lighting Systems will reveal the motion picture and television production industry's first True Match® LED tubes specially designed by Kino Flo for operation in 4Bank, Double and Single fixtures and for stage design lighting during...

Submitted by Cirro Lite Europe Ltd

Published 07 June 2018

Kino Flo Plays With Fire

Kino Flo brings Frankenstein to life! The company's new TrueMatch® Firmware 3.0 introduces eight new lighting effects (FX) modes, including a version of Lightning called "Frankenstein". TrueMatch 3.0 transforms Kino Flo LED's into Candle, Fire, TV, P...

Submitted by Cirro Lite Europe Ltd

Published 07 June 2018

Kino Flo Image 80 40 Upgrade to LED

Kino Flo Lighting Systems is ramping up retrofits of its legacy fluorescent Image fixtures to repurpose them as Image LED fixtures starting this June. Repurposing the legacy Image studio series products makes it easy and affordable for customers to t...

Submitted by Cirro Lite Europe Ltd

Published 07 June 2018

Large RoboSpot System is a Winner at Eurovision 2018

The high profile, popular and much celebrated annual singing event resplendent with glitter, glamour and a hugely enthusiastic international fanbase … was this year staged at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. The RoboSpot system was specified ont...

Published 05 June 2018

James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment to Shoot AVATA...

James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment will use Sony’s new VENICE motion picture camera system for principal photography on the upcoming “Avatar” SEQUELS. The first “Avatar” movie, released in 2009 and also shot on Sony professional cameras, shatte...

Submitted by Marlin PR

Published 04 June 2018