http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra JMR Electronics Features Douglas Trumbull's library of tutorials, articles, reviews and more for media professionals world wide. en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/HFR-Cinema_Douglas-Trumbull-JMR.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/HFR-Cinema_Douglas-Trumbull-JMR.php Douglas Trumbull wanted to make UFOTOG, a 10-minute short, to showcase his vision of immersive movie-going: 120 fps at 4K in 3D, on a curved screen. To shoot and present a movie in a never-before-seen format, he turned to JMR Electronics to design and build a server and storage system that could col Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Wayne-Brinton.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Wayne-Brinton.php Modus FX created 227 visual effects shots in Now You See Me, a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson and Isla Fisher about four young magicians who appear to rob banks during their performances, distributing the spoils to their audiences, while the FBI and Int Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Star-Trek_Into-Darkness-VFX.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Star-Trek_Into-Darkness-VFX.php On Star Trek Into Darkness, VFX producer Ron Ames was concerned about standardizing color information between production company Bad Robot and the VFX companies ILM and Pixomondo as well as DI facility Company 3. The solution was installing Dolby's PRM-4200, a professional reference monitor that can Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:10:18 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Star-Trek_Into-Darkness-Editors.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Star-Trek_Into-Darkness-Editors.php The old saying is that the edit is the final version of the script. For editors Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. and Maryann Brandon, A.C.E, their work on Star Trek: Into Darkness began far earlier than that -- when they were asked for their advice on how to shape the script in the first place! In conversatio Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:01:56 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/3D-Conversion_The-Last-Emperor.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/3D-Conversion_The-Last-Emperor.php Rumors had buzzed for two years that director Bernardo Bertolucci was interested in converting his masterpiece The Last Emperor to 3D. That became a reality when the 3D version debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. The sensitive job of handling the conversion went to Prime Focus in London, which dedi Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Rachel-Morrison.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Rachel-Morrison.php Cinematographer Rachel Morrison, who photographed the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner Fruitvale Station, was presented with the Kodak Vision Award at the 2013 Women In Film (WIF) Crystal + Lucy Awards in Los Angeles on June 12. The award is given annually to a female filmmaker wi Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Restoring-Richard-III.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Restoring-Richard-III.php When The Film Foundation decided to restore Richard III, the non-profit film preservation organization approached Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures Executive Vice President, Asset Management, Film Restoration & Digital Mastering, Sony Pictures Entertainment. The job was to return the film as close as poss Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Peter-Suschitzky.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Peter-Suschitzky.php British cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, BSC, ASC has shot an astonishing number of films that have become iconic: Privilege (the film that inspired George Lucas to ask him to shoot Star Wars), Star Wars Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and every David Cronenberg f Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:30:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Great-Gatsby-Iloura.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Great-Gatsby-Iloura.php In director Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, one of the more dramatic locations is the Valley of Ashes, a bleak, depressing rubbish dump that the characters pass through on their way between Manhattan and Long Island. Nearly everything there was created by Iloura, an Australian VFX company. Iloura V Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:30:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Great-Gatsby-Animal-Logic.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX-Great-Gatsby-Animal-Logic.php Award-winning, Sydney-based VFX and animation company, Animal Logic delivered 590 shots for the gilt, luxurious and captivating film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. 175 people worked on Gatsby over the course of a year and a half. VFX Producer Ingrid Johnston and VFX Supervisor Andy Brown talk to Cr Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:45:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Avid-CatDV.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Avid-CatDV.php Square Box Systems' has just unveiled a CatDV asset management system for integration with Avid nonlinear editors. Pegasus is a premium CatDV client that is based on the CatDV Enterprise product and, in addition to integration with Avid Media Composer, also offers metadata support for RED Epic. With Fri, 31 May 2013 21:43:53 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Randy-Coonfield_Arrested-Development.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Randy-Coonfield_Arrested-Development.php Shapeshifter in Los Angeles most recently color-corrected and added VFX to ten of the new 15 episodes of the cult TV show Arrested Development. The job came to the full-service post facility almost accidentally, when colorist Randy Coonfield advised the production on how to best round-trip between t Thu, 30 May 2013 20:35:20 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Ross-Riege.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Behind-the-Lens-Ross-Riege.php Ross Riege just finished shooting his first feature film, The Kings of Summer. Currently working on a feature-length documentary with director Greg Kohs, Ross took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with Creative COW about his career path as a young cinematographer and his experiences shooti Sat, 18 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Ray-Harryhausen.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/Ray-Harryhausen.php "When we grieve Ray Harryhausen's passing, we are at least in part grieving perhaps the last living link to the earliest days of movie visual effects," says Creative COW's Debra Kaufman. She spoke to many of today's VFX giants who were inspired by Ray, including Phil Tippett, Richard Edlun Thu, 16 May 2013 21:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX_Victoria-Alonso_Iron-Man.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX_Victoria-Alonso_Iron-Man.php Victoria Alonso, Marvel Studios Executive Vice President of Visual Effects and Post Production, began her career in the early days of the digital visual effects industry. We had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Victoria about the Iron Man movies, post production's evolution, remote dailies an Sat, 11 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX_Alessandro-Cioffi_Iron-Man_3.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/VFX_Alessandro-Cioffi_Iron-Man_3.php Seventy artists from Trixter worked an entire year to create a formidable 208 VFX shots for Marvel's Iron Man 3. Each new episode in the Iron Man saga details a slick new technology created by the ingenious Tony Stark, and the new installment does not disappoint! Combining the hard surface geometry Mon, 06 May 2013 19:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Sony-Creative-Software.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Sony-Creative-Software.php Sony Creative Software offered some important updates with its Vegas Pro 12 software. Chief among the upgrades was native support for 4K and support for Panasonic's P2 cameras. Sony Creative Software also highlighted SpectraLayers Pro and Sound Forge Pro Mac, which were shown as a technology demonst Sun, 28 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Matrox.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Matrox.php At NAB 2013, Matrox Graphics' new Mojito 4K is a quad 3G-SDI 4K video monitoring card aimed at Adobe professional editing on the Windows platform. Also new is Matrox Monarch HD, an under-$1,000 compact video streaming/ recording appliance designed for users who need to simultaneously stream a live e Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-JMR.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-JMR.php Chatsworth, California-based JMR Electronics came to NAB with an expanded suite of SilverStor Desktop products, a cloud-ready SAS/SATA/SSD RAID solution, server and workstation. Starting at $5,000, the SilverStor family now includes SilverStor's 4-Bay and 8-Bay SAS/SATA JBOD/RAID systems, 3-slot and Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-JBA-Telestream-SNS-CatDV.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-JBA-Telestream-SNS-CatDV.php At JB&A's annual Pre-NAB Special Event, the media management company brought together a range of companies representing the entire production/post pipeline, to show off a range of workflow solutions. Some of those companies included Christie, which showcased its new Phoenix content management system Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:32:49 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-AJA.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-AJA.php AJA Video Systems debuted its Ki Pro Quad solid-state portable video recorder for 4K camera-to-editorial workflows with Apple ProRes and RAW data. The new Ki Pro Quad supports 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 recording at HD and 2K resolution and real-time scaling from 4K/Quad HD to 2K/HD among its many other featur Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:30:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-ATTO.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-ATTO.php ATTO Technology celebrates its 25-year anniversary at NAB 2013, and showcased its portfolio of products, including its latest 16Gb/s Fibre Channel products such as the Celerity Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). Also on show were the FastFrame line of Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Converge Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-NewTek.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-NewTek.php At NAB 2013, NewTek unveiled 3Play 4800, a multi-camera server for live sports production that features real-time uses, redundant capture, high-end visual effects and slo-mo, as well as live replay switching and social media publishing. 3Play 4800 is the latest in the 3Play series of replay server t Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:35:23 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Panasonic.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Panasonic.php Panasonic used NAB 2013 to unveil a number of new products and technologies. Chief among them was the third generation VariCam, the first to incorporate Panasonic's new AVC-ULTRA video codec for native 1080/60p operation. The company also unveiled the AJ-PD500, its first P2 HD recorder with native A Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:45:27 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Anton-Bauer.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kaufman_debra/NAB_2013-Anton-Bauer.php Anton/Bauer came to NAB 2013 to celebrate its Scientific and Engineering Award from AMPAS earlier in the year...and to introduce three new products: the Anton/Bauer Gold Spectrum Wireless Series, the result of a collaboration with sister Vitec company Integrated Microwave Technologies; the DIONIC HD Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:22:16 GMT