Sans Digital Introduces Newly Designed 5-Bay TowerRAID External Storage

PVC News Staff | 01/22- 01:26 PM

City of Industry, CA – January 22, 2009 – Sans Digital, a leading provider of high performance storage subsystems, has updated its 5-bay external TowerRAID TR5M1 RAID storage solution to the newly designed TR5M-B and TR5M. Based on the same features as the previous models, these new towers adapted a more sophisticated outer shell in both black and silver, completing the unified appearance of the TowerRAID series.

EVANGELICAL MINISTRY ENHANCES VIDEO PRODUCTION QUALITY WITH HDTV LENSES FROM CANON U.S.A.

PVC News Staff | 01/22- 01:29 AM

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., January 21, 2009 – As television audiences switch to HDTV, program producers of all kinds are transitioning to this new format to ensure that the shows they shoot today will appeal to viewers in the future. For the in-house production facility at the Voice of Evangelism, in Cleveland Tenn., converting to HDTV included purchasing three Canon DIGISUPER 22xs Compact HD studio lenses and two Canon HJ11ex4.7B IRSE wide-angle portable HD zoom lenses from the Broadcast and Communications division of Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, to accommodate the ministry’s expanding weekly television and multimedia outreach.

Craft Animations Extends Craft Director Tools to CINEMA 4D

PVC News Staff | 01/21- 09:41 PM

GOTHENBURG, Sweden - Jan. 20, 2009 - Further expanding the artist-friendly workflow, Craft Animations™ today announced the availability of its Craft Director Tools™ for users of MAXON CINEMA 4D. Craft Director Tools utilize high-end artificial intelligence and autonomous control systems to drastically condense traditional animation processes. Combining these unprecedented animation tools with CINEMA 4D’s ease-of-use and image quality, users receive a time-saving and cost-effective animation solution capable of saving hours, days and weeks of laborious animation time.

HUGE REDUCTION IN FOUNDRY SPARKS PRICE AS AUTODESK REVOKES DEVELOPMENT LICENCE

PVC News Staff | 01/21- 09:34 PM

London, UK. January 1st 2009—The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that effective immediately, it has significantly reduced prices on plug-ins for Autodesk® advanced systems, as it is no longer part of the Autodesk Authorised Developer Network programme and can no longer guarantee continued development or support. The decision follows notification by Autodesk that it will not renew its development licence with The Foundry, citing competitive issues. The decision ends Autodesk’s twelve-year development relationship with The Foundry and its users.

AJA FS1 and KONA 3 Help NASA’s Goddard Television Take Flight

PVC News Staff | 01/20- 09:43 PM

Grass Valley, CA (January 20, 2009)—AJA Video Systems, a leading
manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions,
announced today that its FS1 converters and KONA 3 video capture and
playback cards are an integral part of the HD post production workflow at
Goddard Television, the media distribution arm of NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center. The FS1 is a universal HD and SD, audio and video frame
synchronizer and converter supporting virtually any input or output format,
and KONA 3 is AJA’s top-of-the-line uncompressed capture card for SD, HD,
and Dual Link 4:4:4 HD for Apple Mac Pro systems.

GENARTS ACQUIRES UK’s SPEEDSIX

PVC News Staff | 01/20- 09:30 PM

CAMBRIDGE, MA.—JANUARY 20, 2009 – GenArts Inc., the leading provider of digital visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SpeedSix Software Limited. As of today, all SpeedSix employees will join the GenArts team and remain in the UK. In addition, SpeedSix’s renowned Monsters and Raptors visual effects will be sold and supported in their current form alongside GenArts Sapphire, creating the industry’s most compelling family of state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects software.

Maximum Throughput’s MAXedit® Server Edition Multi-user Editing Solution Now Shipping

PVC News Staff | 01/20- 09:15 AM

With MAXedit, broadcasters, postproduction facilities and studios can rapidly and cost-effectively set up a multi-seat editing environment that’s suited for news production, specialty programming, digital dailies, corporate and institutional productions and offline editing. Multiple concurrent users can access MAXedit by launching it from a Web browser. They can review, edit and render compressed and uncompressed SD/HD content, without using specialized workstations or needing to upgrade existing network infrastructure. Users connected over LAN or over the Internet, simply log on to the MAXedit application server and begin editing—all editing operations are processed and executed on the MAXedit server. The scalable editing solution fits into any workflow with its broad native support of tapeless, movie and sequence-of-images formats such as Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM, AVC HD, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2/4 and DPX.

New C-Stand Rolling Bag from Petrol

PVC News Staff | 01/19- 12:28 PM

This new padded semi-hard carrier is designed to hold up to four C-stands comfortably and securely.

Litepanels Expands to Larger Facility

PVC News Staff | 01/19- 12:26 PM

Litepanels, Inc. welcomed the new year with a move to a larger and more efficient location in Van Nuys, California.

With the success of Litepanels’ professional production LED lighting fixtures, the company outgrew its old North Hollywood building. The ample new facility houses both warehousing and shipping areas, with room for separate product development, assembly and repair departments.

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