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Merge Works at Speed of Thought for 3D Post, 4K Workflow, and Restoration in SCRATCH noneColorist and compositor Jerome Thelia and photographer David McLain founded Merge six years ago in Brooklyn, New York. www.mergegroup.com At the core of Merge's in-house took kit are systems they believe unify production and post production: the RED ONE(tm) 4K Digital Camera and ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH(r) Digital Process Solution. 2G Digital Post Moves Entertainment Industry to Digital Distribution Jaxon Lang2G Digital Post is a post-production company specializing in versioning and re-mastering major movies and television programs for the broadcast, Electronis Sell-thru and airline industries. Among the services it provides for a broad range of distribution outlets are: content editing; graphics and titling; digital restoration; compression; and foreignlanguage dubbing and sub-titling. 2G also offers formatting and packaging services, including high-definition and standard-definition formatting; format conversion; and archiving.
DUCK Handles Stop Motion for Spongebob's 10th Anniversary noneStop-motion animation pros Screen Novelties, the latest talent addition to DUCK Studios, created a jolly opening sequence for children's favorite SpongeBob SquarePants' 10th anniversary special on Nickelodeon. The roughly :45 piece is a spectacular showcase of the diverse capabilities of DUCK's newest creative team. Rhino Supervises Entire Assembly Line for Mazda noneRhino CD Vico Sharabani recently collaborated with director Jason Smith of Industry on an elegant new :30 for Mazda via Doner, Detroit. Sharabani supervised the planning, shoot and post work for all VFX, with a special focus on a detailed pre-vis to streamline the spot's creation as much as possible. SUSPECT Animates Richard Wilde's World noneThirty-five years ago, Richard Wilde launched the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Today, he still is still chair running the program with enthusiasm and unparalleled leadership, recruiting the top industry talent as instructors to maintain the college's reputation as one of the best of its kind. He is nothing less than a living icon in the world of graphic design and advertising. Stardust Lights Up Holiday TV Campaign for RadioShack noneBi-coastal creative production studio Stardust has put its unique and quirky spin on the holidays in a TV campaign for RadioShack via ad agency Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners (BSSP). Stardust's Los Angeles studio leveraged its multidisciplinary chops, handling everything from the live-action shoot with Stardust's Brad Tucker as director, to designing, animating, editing and finishing eight spots, which feature a cornucopia of filmmaking techniques, animation styles and even rapper Biz Markie. DIRECTOR/EDITOR DOUG WERBY TAKES HEARTFELT APPROACH TO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SPOTS CANON 5D PROVES EFFECTIVE FOR MULTI-LOCATION ONE DAY SHOOT noneAgency Engine Company 1 recently turned to kaboom and director/editor doug werby to produce two spots that showcase the unique services available at Tyler Heart Institute at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP). Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #3: Exporting Blu-ray Discs Diana WeynandAre you creating a project in HD? Want to export it to an HD disc? Well now you can. With Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use the Share function to export a sequence to Blu-ray disc. Troika Design Group Teams Up with CableVision Networks MSG and MSG Varsity Leverages Sports Branding Expertise to Launch MSG Varsity and Give MSG Game Broadcasts a Signature Look noneTroika Design Group, a strategic branding and design agency for sports, media and entertainment companies, has been tapped by Cablevision properties MSG Network and newly launched MSG Varsity, to elevate the brand identities of these two networks. Brickyard VFX Lends a Hand to Sprint for "Pass the Pixi" noneArtist owned and operated, bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently completed compositing, color grading, and CG work on a new spot for Sprint's webOS Palm Pixi - a smartphone that falls squarely into the 'for fun' camp. Titled "Pass the Pixi," the spot was directed by the Snorri Brothers of The Cartel for agency Modernista! and first aired November 17 in North America. Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate Collection HD and Class on Demand Complete Training for Pinnacle Studio 14 John VirataPinnacle Studio 14 is a very mature video editing system targeted mostly at home users and video editing enthusiasts, but certainly not limited at these groups. Any application that continues into double digit versions has to be a good app with a lot of functionality, and Studio 14 is one of those application's that has its own ecosystem of support with books, online sites, and video tutorials.
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