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Steve Jobs Trashes Flash for iPhone

Scott Gentry | 03/05- 10:41 AM

I find that news for video developers for the small screen very disappointing.  Particularly when YouTube works just fine on my iPhone.  Steve goes into depth explaining some technical reasons for the lack of Flash, but in the end basically pushes the ball into Adobe’s court to make it happen.

Without trying to pick sides here, there seems to be a fast growing adoption of the iPhone and after this Thursday’s SDK expected announcements, the iPhone expansion will seemingly continue at perhaps an even faster pace.  So where does that leave video developers for mobile applications?  There’s Quicktime, and perhaps that’s the real point here.  Is Apple simply not working hard on Flash acceptance because it wants greater use of Quicktime?  I wouldn’t doubt it, but what do I know?

Artbeats Raises the Bar on Royalty-free Stock Footage, Unveiling Dozens of New HD Titles at NAB 2008

Scott Gentry | 03/05- 10:12 AM

Myrtle Creek, Ore. –— March 5, 2008 –— Artbeats, the industry’s leading creative footage resource, today announced it will debut a wide range of exclusive royalty-free collections and solo clips during the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB). New titles scheduled for release at NAB include: Ultra Water 2 and Ultra Nature, which feature 1000fps (frames per second) slow-motion footage shot with the Phantom HD, the first use of that camera for stock footage. Additionally, Artbeats will unveil its newest series of HD aerial titles: Miami Aerials; Atlanta Aerials; Dallas Aerials and Texas City Aerials. The company also plans to release Energy and Environmental; Energy includes aerial clips of wind, water, solar, petroleum and nuclear energy; Environmental features footage of air pollution, recycling, replanted timber and more. Other titles planned for release during NAB include Executive Jet, which offers landings and takeoffs of business jets plus exclusive air-to-air footage of a Gulfstream IV, and City Edges, which has unique and dramatic close-up shots of city skyscrapers and architecture.
Artbeats will showcase these and many other royalty-free titles on the company’s massive HD plasma display wall at NAB 2008, booth SL5413. To learn more about Artbeats’ NAB 2008 product releases, as well as special discounts and offers available exclusively for NAB attendees, please visit http://www.artbeats.com/nab2008. 

HBO FILMS’ ‘BERNARD AND DORIS’ SHOT WITH PANASONIC VARICAM

Scott Gentry | 03/05- 10:06 AM

SECAUCUS, NJ (March 5, 2008) – HBO Films’ Bernard and Doris, a drama inspired by the real-life story of the tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her last butler, was shot by Director of Photography Mauricio Rubinstein with Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam® HD Cinema camera. Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (Doris) and Oscar-nominee Ralph Fiennes (Bernard) deliver acclaimed performances in this intimate drama that tells the hypothetical story of these two disparate characters and their unlikely friendship.
Bernard and Doris will play on HBO through the end of March; its next air date is Thursday, March 6 (ckeck http://www.hbo.com for details). The movie was directed by Bob Balaban, written by Hugh Costello and executive produced by Balaban, Jonathan Cavendish, Adam Kassen and Mark Kassen.
Director of Photography Rubinstein, a native of Mexico, worked for many years with director Alejandro Agresti, including the films The Cross (Cannes International Film Festival - Un Certain Regard) and Wind with the Gone (winner, San Sebastian International Film Festival 1998).  His first collaboration with an American director was Casa De Los Babys from director John Sayles. Other recent films include Sorry, Haters (shot with Panasonic’s DVX100 camcorder) from director/writer Jeff Stanzler, and Puccini for Beginners from director Maria Maggenti.

dvGarage Announces Conduit Suite

Scott Gentry | 03/05- 10:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO — March 5, 2008 — dvGarage, a provider of tools and training for the next generation of media artists, today announced Conduit Suite, the latest update to its line of Conduit nodal compositing tools. Introduced through Conduit Suite is Conduit Live, dvGarage’s powerful new standalone nodal capture tool that offers real-time video compositing and analysis of any form of digital footage live. Conduit Studio also offers new users the latest version of Conduit for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, along with Conduit versions for Apple Motion and Apple Final Cut Pro. In addition, the Conduit Suite includes a free three-month Pixel Corps membership (a USD $200 value), an hour of video training and a quick-start guide. Conduit Suite is available for download at http://www.dvgarage.com.
“Conduit Studio will have a tremendous impact on the overall workflow of today’s compositors, directors and artists by offering flexibility, advanced architecture and powerful tools in one solution,” says Alex Lindsay, dvGarage founder and chief architect. “Conduit also utilizes the processing speed and power of the computer’s GPU; as a result users are seeing better performance and color precision than an application can offers on its own, and rendering is done in real time.”
Developed in partnership with Lacquer’s Ben Syverson and Pauli Ojali, Conduit utilizes Apple’s FxPlug technology to combine high-end nodal compositing with high-performance Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration, providing users with a powerful variety of visual effects compositing tools that render in real time. By relying on the GPU, Conduit provides blazing fast render speeds to augment the power of an “open-ended” compositing environment. As a result, users can do complex effects, even to HD frames, without incurring much or any delay.

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