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Art of the Edit Company 3 Partners with FutureWorks Company 3 - a Digital Intermediate powerhouse in Santa Monica, CA - joined forces with FutureWorks, a Mumbai-based post-production facility, in order to offer its color grading services to Bollywood's feature film and commercial clients. Feature Debra Kaufman Film History & Appreciation These Amazing Shadows An editor's journey through the films that made America (or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the B-Roll) Feature, People / Interview Doug Blush ARRI The Academy Award of Merit goes to... the ARRILASER Film Recorder On February 11, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honor the ARRILASER film recorder with an Academy Award of Merit in the form of an Oscar Statuette. Feature Debra Kaufman ARRI The SciTech Award Goes to... ARRI/Zeiss Master Prime Lenses for Motion Picture Photography At the 84th Annual Academy Awards for Technical Achievements, Dr. Jürgen Noffke and Uwe Weber will be honored with a Scientific and Engineering Award for the ARRI Zeiss Master Prime Lenses. Feature Debra Kaufman Cinematography Editing the Farrelly's The Three Stooges In Atlanta to work on 'The Three Stooges,' the editor of 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Kingpin' reflects on comedy, timing, and editing as a team sport. Feature, People / Interview Sam Seig Cinematography Qube Cinema Delivers 4K 3D From a Single Server Qube Cinema made history by delivering 4K 3D from a single server at the Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium in Galveston, Texas. "Space Junk 3D" was projected onto an 80 by 60-foot giant screen at high bit-rate 4K stereoscopic DCP through two Barco projectors. Feature Debra Kaufman Cinematography The SciTech Award Goes to... the Stab-C Classic, Super-G & Stab-C Compact Stabilizing Heads At the 84th Annual Academy Awards for Technical Achievements, Nettmann Systems International's "versatile family of 5-axis camera and lens stabilizers" will be honored with a SciTech Award: to E.F. "Bob" Nettmann for the concept and system architecture, Michael Sayovitz for the electronic packaging and integration, Brad Fritzel for the electronic engineering, and Fred Miller for the mechanical engineering of the Stab-C Classic, Super-G and Stab-C Compact stabilizing heads. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography The SciTech Award Goes to... Side Effects' Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt At the 84th Annual Academy Awards for Technical Achievements, Side Effects senior mathematician Mark Elendt and 3D graphics programmer Andrew Clinton will pick up a Technical Achievement Award (an Academy Certificate) for the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra software. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Hugo and The Joy of Filmmaking In this expanded version of the article from Creative COW Magazine, VFX Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director Rob Legato shares some of the secrets of a tribute to the love of making and watching movies, and insights into two filmmaking masters. All of us at Creative COW congratulate Rob on his Academy Award nomination for his visual effects work on Hugo. Feature, People / Interview Rob Legato Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate What a Long, Strange Year It's Been! Apple imploding. Adobe ascending. Avid opening up. Who could have seen it coming? Here's Walter's look at what happens when the blinders come off. Feature, People / Interview Walter Biscardi Stereoscopic 3D Fields of Valor: the Civil War in 3D Inspired by the massive number of historic stereoscopic still photos from the Civil War, 3net has ventured to deliver the four-part miniseries, "Fields of Valor" in 3D, dubbed "the most ambitious 3D project ever produced for television." Feature Debra Kaufman Sony F Series & PDW Series Cameras Cinéma Vérité with the Sony PMW-F3 Two-time Creative Arts Emmy Award™ winner Zach Zamboni puts the cinéma vérité in cinema with the Sony PMW-F3. More sensitivity in the F3 means more possibilities -- shooting longer after sunset, more available light and more ambient fire in on-the-fly situations. Editorial, Feature Zach Zamboni Cinematography The SciTech Award Goes To...The Pictorvision Eclipse On February 11, at the 84th Annual Academy Awards® for Technical Achievements, Michael Lewis, Greg Marsden, Raigo Alas and Michael Vellekoop will receive a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for the concept, design and implementation of the Pictorvision Eclipse, an electronically stabilized aerial camera platform. Feature Debra Kaufman DSLR Video Plan It Like a Bank Heist A DSLR shoot -- wait, make that two shoots including a couple of Panasonic AF100s -- that is a reminder to both plan for everything, and be ready for anything. Feature, People / Interview Stephen Menick Film History & Appreciation 32TEN Studios Opens for Practical/Digital Effects Former ILM and Kerner Optical employees have banded together to launch a new company at a familiar address in the historically significant building at 3210 Kerner Blvd in San Rafael. Feature Debra Kaufman Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Panasonic's P2 Wins an Emmy Panasonic's industry-changing P2 Solid State recording format has been honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its "pioneering development of removable solid-state media for video camera/recorders." Feature Debra Kaufman JVC cameras/decks JVC Launches Handheld 4K Camcorder: The GY-HMQ10 JVC has just unveiled its latest 4K camera, the GY-HMQ10, which will be offered for sale at NAB 2012. Feature Debra Kaufman Stereoscopic 3D LG Debuts 3D Ultra Definition TV LG's internet connected super high resolution 84 inch Ultra Definition 3D TV will offer resolutions of four times that of existing HD panels. The "world's largest 3D Ultra Definition TV" has 8 million pixels for a resolution of 3840 x 2160. Feature Debra Kaufman Creative COW StockYard Welcome to the Creative COW StockYard The newest member of Creative COW is now open to serve you. Feature Ronald Lindeboom Audio Professionals Drive garners Oscar Nom for Soundelux's Lon Bender and Victor Ennis Garner Oscar nominated Soundelux Supervising Sound Editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis & team take the audience of "Drive" on an aural trip. Feature, People / Interview Debra Kaufman Cinematography Global Cinematography Institute Launches Classic and Virtual Cinematography Courses On January 14 at the Beverly Garland Hotel in North Hollywood cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC and Yuri Neyman, ASC will unveil plans for an "Expanded Cinematography" program for postgraduate students and filmmakers at their newly established Global Cinematography Institute. Feature Debra Kaufman Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Real World Editing: From Avid to FCP and Back Again The inside story of reality TV giants Bunim/Murray Productions, and their trip from Avid Media Composer to Apple Final Cut Pro...and back again. Feature, People / Interview Mark Raudonis Cinematography Douglas Trumbull: A Writer-Producer-Director-Engineer-Inventor Looks Forward While others reflect on his 45 years of achievement, Douglas Trumbull currently has five movies underway, and some strong ideas about saving the future of filmmaking. Feature, People / Interview Douglas Trumbull Stereoscopic 3D Flying Monsters 3D Realizing that 3D would be a superb way to portray the prehistoric world of the Pterosaurs -- beautiful flying creatures with 35 foot wingspans -- Anthony Geffen and Sir David Attenborough's maiden voyage into stereoscopy was begun. Step back in time with Creative COW as we look into the making of Flying Monsters 3D. Feature Debra Kaufman Broadcasting JVC introduces HD 3D Production Analysis Monitor JVC Professional Products Company has just introduced the DT-3D24G1U 24-inch HD 3D LCD production analysis monitor, the latest addition to the company's Vérité G Series product line, which promises to deliver precision adjustment of 3D images aimed at production and post. Feature Debra Kaufman

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