The Orphanage Shuts Its Doors

Mark Christiansen | 02/05- 12:14 PM

As reported by Orphanage co-founder Stu Maschwitz on his blog, The Orphanage has indefinitely ceased operations. The San Francisco-based visual effects and animation company was founded a decade ago and was most recently the lead house on Frank Miller’s film The Spirit, and in the past had been the lead house on films including The Host and the last half-dozen films by Robert Rodriguez, not to mention major contributions to Hollywood tentpoles Iron Man, Superman Returns, Live Free or Die Hard, Pirates of the Carribean, The Day After Tomorrow, and many, many more.

No direct reason for the sudden announcement was included in the blog post, but it follows on the heels of other recent recession-related announcements, including, also in San Francisco the decision last week by Radium to close its original studio here.

On a personal note, as a onetime Orphan myself, I repeat Stu’s closing “message to the visual effects industry”: “You will never find a better employee than a former Orphan.”

I-Movix Products Featured at the 2009 NAB Show

PVC News Staff | 02/05- 08:43 AM

SprintCam® Live V2.1 provides a market-leading combination of extremely high frame rates with the instant replay essential for live sports broadcasting. New for the 2009 NAB Show, SprintCam Live V2.1 allows the user to capture from 500 to 10,000 frames per second and to replay them instantly, which corresponds to a replay speed 20 to 400 times slower than usual speed. Compared with the SprintCam Live V2, this new product offers the following new features: better image quality (thanks to new algorithms), enhanced remote functions that enable fine-tuned settings, a slow motion remote with a new cueing system, and unmatched light sensitivity.

New Products and Advances at the 2009 NAB Show

PVC News Staff | 02/04- 08:41 AM

Community TV enables viewers and social communities to manage broadcast content on-air and online. Using web 2.0 applications, never.no has created TV and web broadcast applications especially for the complete high-quality broadcast integration of user submitted content. Authorized participants are invited to upload their own broadcast-quality content directly through the uploading service. Once the content is online, moderators or the participant can edit and schedule according to pre-set rules. When complete, the material is prepared and broadcast according to the user’s specified schedule. In addition to being played on air, it is simultaneously circulated to the online community, where it can be viewed, rated, and commented on.

Matrox Announces Matrox RT.X2 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Bundles

PVC News Staff | 02/03- 08:46 AM

Montreal, Canada – February 3, 2009 – Matrox Video Products Group today announced that new value-priced bundles of the Matrox RT.X2 and RT.X2 LE realtime editing platforms and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 are now available worldwide.  The bundles include either the RT.X2 or RT.X2 LE realtime editing card with a professional breakout box, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, and Adobe OnLocation CS4.

Divergent Media Releases ClipWrap 1.1 – Adds support for iMovie, Final Cut Express and Avid

PVC News Staff | 02/03- 08:44 AM

Divergent Media announced today the immediate availability of ClipWrap 1.1, a major revision to their highly popular Macintosh application.  With ClipWrap 1.1, your camcorder’s m2t files can be converted or transcoded for editing in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express, and Avid.

Brooklyn, NY February 3, 2009—Divergent Media announced today the immediate availability of ClipWrap 1.1, a major revision to their highly popular Macintosh application that batch converts m2t video files into QuickTime files for editing in iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Avid.

LaCie Ethernet Disk: Up to 6TB in a Rack-Mounted Backup Appliance

PVC News Staff | 02/03- 08:36 AM

Today LaCie announced that it has doubled the speed at which its high-performance, large-capacity LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive burns discs to eight times (8x) standard data writing rates. The increased speed to burn files applies to both single and dual-layer discs. LaCie also has upgraded the authoring and backup software that ships standard with the product.

The CalDigit VR. Serious Storage. Simplified. Shipping Now.

PVC News Staff | 02/02- 01:04 AM

Placentia, California, February 2, 2009 - The CalDigit VR, the most complete two drive RAID system on the market today, is now shipping. It offers impressive performance, unmatched connectivity, and superior quality all in a sleek and easily upgradable enclosure that is both small and functional.

Omneon ProCast CDN(TM) Boosts Speed, Efficiency of HD Graphics Delivery for NBC Sports

PVC News Staff | 02/02- 01:02 AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Jan. 30, 2009—NBC Sports is using the Omneon ProCast CDN(TM) high-performance content distribution platform during its broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII to move large HD graphics and audio files from NBC’s facilities in New York to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Fla. for on-air production on game day. Leading up to and during the game between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers on Feb. 1, NBC Sports will use ProCast CDN technology to deliver graphics files in a small fraction of the time normally required for such transfers. ProCast also allows NBC Sports to realize significant efficiencies in managing its resources, as the Omneon solution allows the graphics team and equipment to remain in New York rather than move to Tampa Bay for the game.

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