July 2010
90 posts
Stereoscopy News
New 3D lens for Panasonic cameras
Panasonic has announced it is developing a digital 3D interchangeable lens for the Micro 4/3 system, to be launched by the end of the year. The lens will include two optical paths, projecting left and right image pairs onto the camera sensor.
Nvidia 3D Vision Pro
Nvidia is launching the new 3D Vision Pro glasses. The Pro system incorporates active shutter...
Cinema5D news
Cinema 5D Interview With Duclos Lenses. 70-200mm Cine Mod.
Click here to view the embedded video. By: Jared Abrams I stopped by Duclos Lenses and asked Matthew Duclos a few questions. The Duclos modified Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Zoom Lens has been around for some time. They are in the process of converting the new…
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Today3D
Sony’s 360-degree RayModeler 3D display brings its glasses-free act to LA, plays Breakout (video) — Engadget
Sony talked up its cylindrical no-glasses 3D 360-degree prototype display last fall, and now it’s showing off the tech, dubbed RayModeler 3D, on US soil at SIGGRAPH 2010 through tomorrow. A major bonus of that showcase is an English language video —…
3D TV...
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Technicolor Receives Binding Offer from Francisco Partners to Acquire Grass Valley Broadcast & Professional Business
Francisco Partners, a San Francisco, California-based private equity firm focused on investments in technology-based companies, has made a binding offer to Technicolor (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TCH) for the acquisition of the Grass Valley Broadcast…
New Facility in...
Barco | Digital Cinema
First digital cinema drive-in movie theatre in the country selects Barco
Spud Drive In, located in Driggs, Idaho, becomes the first “true” digital drive-in offering the best in digital DLP Cinema® technology, the brightest images, and 3D projection to showcase first-run movies
Barco releases DCI compliant Series 2 projectors with integrated CineCanvas(TM)subtitling
Kortrijk, Belgium, 22 July...
Stereoscopy News
Headache removing algorithm
ETHLife just published a paper about a recently developped algorithm that automatically removes all nauseating unwanted disparities in a stereo image. Let’s hope next version will also improve bad scenarios….
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Panasonic Goes 3D With New Camcorder and G-Series Lens - Update
Panasonic unveiled a slew of new Lumix cameras just last week, but the company wasn’t quite done with itsfall camera and camcorder announcements. Today, Panasonic announced its first 3D high-definition camcorder for consumers (a pro-level 3D camcorderwas…
Is 3D Already Dying? Is Color TV Dying? Probably not.
If you...
Digital cinema news (Google)
Barco | First digital cinema drive-in movie theatre in the country …
Rancho Cordova, CA — 27 July 2010 — Barco, the global leader in digital cinema technology, announced today that it has deployed its digital cinema projectors at Spud Drive In, making the venue the first “true” digital drive-in in …
Digital Cinema Filmmaker’s Courses complete set » Therapidbay...
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AvatarLabs Names Daniel Weisinger as Producer
Encino, CA, July 27, 2010 – AvatarLabs, one of Hollywood’s leading online marketing agencies, specializing in the creation of online rich media, sites and original branded digital content, has named Daniel Weisinger as in-house Producer. Said Rex…
Linear Acoustic Dances With the Stars
LANCASTER, Pa. (USA) — July 27, 2010 — Linear Acoustic,...
Stereoscopy News
Making of the fastest 3D car movie ever
Manx Meister is about a Mercedes SLS driven at 160 mphby F1 driver David Coulthard on the Isle of Man (Making of video link at the end of this paper).
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CineTechnica
The PortaBrace Ultimate HDSLR Travel Kit
[See post to watch Flash video]One of the great advantages of HDSLR cameras is their small size. One of the supreme disadvantages is that there can be all sorts of little fiddly bits to keep track of. My old Super16 Aaton kit was a dozen cases —…
Simple ALEXA Workflow With Final Cut Pro
ARRI’s ALEXA camera offers several recording options,...
Cinema5D news
Philip Bloom Signature Edition Pocket Dolly.
Click here to view the embedded video. Kessler Crane has announced a new Philip Bloom Signature Edition Pocket dolly. It is an honor to have a piece of equipment named after you. There is just something really cool about having gear made to your specifications….
Warren Miller, Dendrite Studios and Level 1 Shooting With HDSLR’s.
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Today3D
Sharp Adds 3D TVs To Quattron Range
Following on the heels of Panasonic and Samsung, Sharp Electronics has revealed that they will begin shipping 3D TVs in the latter half of 2010. 3D technology has been all the range ever since the phenomenal success of Avatar, and it looks like there…
Gefen Announces Gefen ToolBox Extra Long Range Extender for 3DTV
Connectivity solutions provider Gefen...
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NewTek Introduces LightWave 10 at SIGGRAPH 2010
Offering its most advanced 3D technology with real-time viewport rendering, support for instant OpenGL shading views, advanced data interchange, immersive filmmaking and visualization tools NewTek, worldwide leader of 3D animation and video products announces…
StudioGPU Delivers Unmatched Efficiency and Flexibility to 3D Production...
Stereoscopy News
Singapore Launches Home 3D TV Trials
Singapore launched its one year home 3D TV trials on 26 July 2010 on terrestrial TV, cable TV and IPTV in partnership with MediaCorp, Starhub and SingTel and involves the 3D recording of the National Day Parade.
Panasonic affordable 3D camcorder unveiled
Panasonic is planning a more affordable stereoscopic 3D camcorderat a mysterious July 28th Tokyo...
Today3D
Clash of the Titans Gets 3D Blu-ray in Germany
The first day-and-date 3D Blu-ray release in the world will come from an unlikely studio, with an unlikely title - and outside the US. On August 10, the German branch of Warner Home Video is releasing Clash of the Titans in a two-disc edition, with one…
Welcome The New Panasonic Consumer 3D Camcorder - HDC-SDT750
We all knew that Panasonic...
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Tickets Now on Sale for the Third Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet
Filmmaker and Creative Networking Gala to Unite Digital Filmmakers During IBC 2010 FCP, Adobe, Avid users, gurus and digital filmmakers from around the world will gather again in Amsterdam, NL. during IBC 2010 for the Third Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet…
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Stereoscopy News
Stereo-Blind ?
Not everyone is loving the 3D craze. Depending on which expert you listen to, between 2 and 12 percent of all viewers are unable to appreciate video shown in 3D. To know if you are stereo-blind (or not), use the Depth Perception test at the end of this…
ATI 3D-Glasses
Soon NVIDIA will no longer be alone in offering a 3D film and gaming solution with stereoscopic...
Cinema5D news
Life In A Day. July 24th 2010.
Click here to view the embedded video. By: Jared Abrams Today is the day to film something interesting about your day. Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald are working with YouTube to create a film from the entries submitted this week. Today is the only day…
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Today3D
Green Hornet brings on the scrotum jokes and eye-popping 3D visuals
The Green Hornet panel at Comic-Con unveiled both an extended trailer and a scene that was far enough in the 3D conversion process to share. A lot of the trailer was the same sort of stuff we saw in the previous trailer, at least as far as the action…
Scarlett Johansson set to sign on to new 3-D sci-fi movie
Scarlett...
Cinema Tech Geek
KDM De-constructed
Today I cover the KDM or Key Delivery Message, used to UNLOCK a DCP so it can be played in the cinema. I cover how it works and how secure it is. I recommend distributors view this Video as so they have a better understanding of the technology they…
View 3D-DCP’s with dcpPlayer
Recently here at digitAll the company I part own released the dcpPlayer (Available now as...
Stereoscopy News
Darts on UK 3DTV
The satellite sports channel Sky Sports (UK) will be showing the World Matchplay Darts championships in full 3D. The action takes place during the 24th and 25th July when the semi finals and final of the competition take place at the Winter Gardens in…
Stereoscopic Player 1.6.2
3DTV.AT relased in June its version 1.6.2 with several bug fixes, including the annoying...
FilmJournal International - News
Gold Medal debuts new look for Cone-O-Corn
Gold Medal Products’ Cone-O-Corn (item #2067) has a new look, featuring a bright yellow and red design.
Barco adds CineCanvas subtitling support to d-cinema projectors
Barco’s DP2K family of digital-cinema projectors is now available with integrated CineCanvas™ subtitling support. The new functionality can be installed via a simple firmware upgrade....
The Briefing Room
Jay Silverman Productions Shoots “Cage Free Eggs” Spot for Client Egg Innovations
Hollywood, CA, July 26, 2010 – The viewer slowly enters the hallway of a long, dark, gloomy prison ward, as we hear a metal cup jangling against a jail cell’s bars. A prison guards admonishes, “Knock it off,” as we continue on our path. The VO…
AvatarLabs Wins Five 2010 Communicator Awards, Including Two...
Cinema5D news
Tweet To Win A Think TANK Photo Multimedia Wired Up 20 Bag.
Click here to view the embedded video. ThinkTANK Photo makes some really killer camera bags. They are a very forward thinking company with some great ideas behind their gear. The Multimedia 20 Bag has tons of options for a run and gun style setup. There…
Quick Take: Sennheiser MKE 400 Mini Shotgun Microphone.
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Today3D
First Jackass 3-D Photo Puts Johnny Knoxville On A Rocketing Jet Ski
The first official photo from Jackass 3-D has been released, and as you’d expect, it features someone doing something stupid. More critically, it features someone doing something which could result in one of those gimmicky 3D moments in which something…
CEA Ups 3DTV Forecast To 2.1 Million Units For 2010
The Consumer...
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SIGGRAPH 2010: Autodesk Showcases Latest Digital Entertainment Creation Workflows
Live in Los Angeles and Virtually on the AREA Autodesk, Inc. will showcase its Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) technology and how it enables cutting-edge pipelines for games, film and television production at SIGGRAPH 2010, July 27–29 in Los Angeles….
Autodesk 3ds Max Software Celebrates Its 20th...
Dolby Labs
Dolby Laboratories Announces August Schedule of Events for the Financial Community
Dolby Laboratories Announces August Schedule of Events for the Financial Community
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XDC News
XDC/FTT and Cineplex Agree on Deploymentvof 451 Digital Screens in Germany
Cineplex, one of the large German cinema circuits, and the Belgian VPF service provider XDC agreed on the conditions of a digital roll-out of the 451 Cineplex screens. The German integrator FTT played an important role in the pre-negotiations and will…
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Stereoscopy News
3D at 1000 fps with I-MOVIX
Fletcher Sports (Chicago, USA) has installed the first I-MOVIX SprintCam® Vvs HD systems in the U.S., and successfully completed the industry’s first deployment of extreme slow motion in 3-D for ESPN’s Home Run Derby® 2010.
Jackass 3D first pictures
On 15 October 2010, we’ll all be able to to see Jackass 3D but Paramount will be premiering the first...
XDC Blog
XDC new corporate videos
Because cinema means video…we are very happy to present you our very new corporate videos. Just click to see the video presentations of : XDC Overwiev & VPF XDC CineStore® Products XDC Deployment & Operations XDC Content Lab XDC Web Portals…
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Cinema5D news
Wanted: Beta Testers For the Teradek Cube Wireless Transmitter
Click here to view the embedded video. By: Jared Abrams Teradek wants you to beat up their wireless transmitter. They are looking for “Beta Testers” for the Cube™. This is a great way for the company to get real test results from the field. So many…
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Digital Cinema Foundry
Brightwood “Swan Song”
Talented filmmaker Dillon Novak had submitted a couple music videos to us a couple of months back. We’re just now able to show them to you. The first that we will be featuring is Swan Song, beautifully shot and set to some really cool locations. Read…
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Today3D
XpanD - XpanD 3D Cinema is Promoting Peace in the Middle East
With an ambitious goal of bringing cutting-edge entertainment and good will to the West Bank, German filmmaker Marcus Vetter has teamed with international sponsors, including global 3D leader XpanD, to renovate and reopen the sole-standing cinema complex…
Saw 3D Poster Takes The Saying Eye-Popping 3D Literally
It was quite...
The Briefing Room
The Kerner Group, Former Home to ILM’s Model Shop, Restructures and Launches New Service Brands; Offers 3D Production Expertise
San Rafael, CA, July 22, 2010 — Based in Marin, California, The Kerner Group, the 30-year home to George Lucas’ original Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), and today a collection of innovative companies and divisions that offer award-winning creative…
Tillamook...
Today3D
LG unveils its first 3D notebook
The LG R590 has been announced and is LG’s first 3D notebook. It sports a 15.6 inch display, an Intel Core i7 processor, SRS Tru-Surround HD, Nvidia GeForce GT335M graphics card, optional Blu-ray drive and TriDef software that converts 2D video to 3D…
NEC releases starter kit for 3D projectors
NEC Display Solutions is offering a 3D starter kit as an...
Digital cinema news (Google)
Custom financing: Digital cinema manufacturers provide flexible …
In addition to fundamentally changing movie production, Avatar had a significant impact on the number of digital-cinema deployments, with a sharp increase in interest from exhibitors in deploying more 3D screens. …
Studio Daily Blog » The Future of 3D at the SMPTE Stereo Conference
The conference opened with...
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Craft Animations Announces New Custom Development Service
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - July 20, 2010 - Fulfilling the growing need for high-quality 3D toolsets that solve even the most difficult or mundane animation tasks, Craft Animations today announces the availability of its Custom Development Service. Ideal for…
Nina Saxon Design Creates Opening Title Credits Sequence for New Angelina Jolie...
Stereoscopy News
Sterrix vaporware ???
Several sources are reporting a new autostereoscopic display with 100 views from the german company STERRIX. The display has a supposed resolution 100 times higher than HD. Sterrix Technologies’ 3D OLED auto stereoscopic display is supposed to generate…
PS3 games limited to 720P 3D
Sony has limited the quality of three-dimensional content for the...
CineTechnica
Backup Your Video To CF Cards With The Nexto
New firmware for the Nexto Video Storage Pro (NVS2500) was recently released, which adds several new features to the product. These updates include preview support of AVCHD clips, preview support of the new Canon XF300/305 video format, and greatly improved…
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Cinema5D news
Tim Halperin “She Runs” Music Video. One Long Dolly Shot.
Click here to view the embedded video. By: Jared Abrams DOP Jonathan Combs was kind enough to contact me about this really cool music video. He used the Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon 24-70mm Zoom Lens. The video is one continuous dolly shot with moving…
Sebastian Wiegärtner Twitter Contest. Tons Of Gear Here.
By: Jared Abrams...
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The Killers Celebrate Independence Day At The White House; Band’s Trusty DiGiCo SD7 Serves As Chief Audio Commander On Presidential Gig
Even though The Killers are officially on hiatus, they can still make time to come together in the name of Liberty. The group joined Brandi Carlile and Cedric the Entertainer, as official guests of President Barack Obama, to headline the “Salute to...
Stereoscopy News
Thor and Captain America confirmed in 3D
It’s official: The hammer of Thor and the shield of Captain America will fly straight at moviegoers in 3-D. On Saturday, July 24, Marvel Studios and director Kenneth Branagh will present “Thor” at Comic-Con International, and will try to persuade…
Baseball looks cool in 3D
Fox, working with DirecTV, 3D specialist PACE and YES,...
Cinema5D news
HDSLR Follow Focus: Arri, Chrosziel, Zacuto & Red Rock Micro
Click here to view the embedded video. By: Jared Abrams I am lucky enough to have my C5D office at Birns and Sawyer, Hollywood and recently grabbed the follow focus units that they had for this little side-by-side comparison video. I must warn you that…
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Stereoscopy News
The fastest graphics card on the planet
Built with dual Nvidia Fermi “GF100″ graphics processors and over 3GB of onboard memory, the ASUS MARS2 is destined to be the fastest graphics card on the planet.
Real or Fake?
You are not sure if a 3D movie was shot in 3D or if it was converted from 2D? There is a new website with the info for some 100 movies up to now.
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Cinema Tech Geek
View 3D-DCP’s with dcpPlayer
Recently here at digitAll the company I part own released the dcpPlayer (Available now as demo and purchase at www.digitall.net.au **Obvious self promotion**) A cool feature of the dcpPlayer is the ability to view 3D content. In this video,…
DCP Deconstructed
Today we have a close look at what makes up a DCP or “Digital Cinema Package”. I will...
FilmJournal International - News
IMAX signs with China’s Lumière Pavilions
IMAX Corporation and Lumière Pavilions, one of the fastest-growing private movie exhibition chains in China, announced an agreement to install three digital IMAX theatre systems in the People’s Republic of China.
Ballantyne Strong to expand screen production facility
Ballantyne Strong has completed the acquisition of the Joliette, Quebec...
Today3D
Sony Boss Spends $500M Promoting 3D TVs He Doesn’t Have
Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, believes that those “silly” 3D glasses needed to view 3D TV is helping reunite families by bring everyone together for TV events. He has also taken a stab at the performance of past Japanese management at Sony and is…
Sony Wants 3D Gaming Kept To 720p On The PlayStation 3 - MTV Multiplayer
3D was a big...
Toscana/Interviews with Cinema5D and Scott...
Toscana
Toscana - worth every hour of the flight from LA.
Interviews with Cinema5D and Scott Bourne
Jared Abrams from Cinema5D stopped by the studio on Tuesday to sit down and chat. He caught me at an interesting time, as my crew and I were in the midst of packing for our trip to Italy (leaving today!). We still had time for a good talk though,…
Is “Q” Behind this? A James Bond...
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Enhance Technology Announces New Channel Alliance Program
Santa Fe Springs, Calif., July 16, 2010 – Enhance Technology, Inc., a global leader in designing & manufacturing storage systems and solutions for enterprise and SMB customers and one of the 2010 CRN Channel Chiefs, unveiled the new Enhance Channel…
Audience and Guest Judges Select At the Porno Shop as Winner of Big Vision...