CUT + RUN FOLLOWS THE LIGHT WITH THE FORD FOCUS
This latest spot for Ogilvy, showcases the attraction of the Ford Focus. "White & Orange" was directed by Vaughan Arnell of production company Serious Pictures and edited by Leo King of Cut + Run, and began airing earlier this month.
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The New Video Standards War - Ogg Vorbis vs. MPEG-4 By Matthew David
There is a new video CODEC standard battle that is about to turn into a full, blown out war. On one side is Google and FireFox with the Open Source video format called Ogg Vorbis. In the other corner is Apple with the industry standard MPEG-4. The shared ground they are fighting over: dominance in HTML5. This article looks into this new battle and looks to see if there is already a clear winner.
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Rhino 'Crashes' Fall Lineup With Spot Promoting Starz Series
Rhino Creative Director Vico Sharabani recently completed yet another close collaboration with the Snorri Bros., this time creating all the VFX for a carefully choreographed :30 promoting the new season of Starz' acclaimed series, Crash.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience By Mike Jones
It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS By John Virata
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
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Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign
Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal.
...Read More »
SUPERFAD SENDS MESSAGE FROM WYCLEF JEAN & VOILA FOR AGENCY GLG
The Garrigan Lyman Group recently tapped Superfad to create a branding commercial that would embody the spirit and beauty of Haiti for Voila a Haitian telecommunications company. At the heart of the campaign is Haitian-born superstar Wyclef Jean from whose hands spill the paint that creates an animated and colorful representation of the essence of Haiti.
...Read More »
Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree
Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability.
...Read More »
Buster Design's PSA for Matt Damon Endorsed Charity ONEXONE Becomes Focus of Web Parody
Buster, the conceptual design division of award winning agency and production company Stun Creative, has conceived and produced a PSA for the Matt Damon endorsed charity, The "ONEXONE" Foundation. The PSA spot brings attention to the fight against hunger for children around the world and features an appearance by Academy Award winner Damon.
...Read More »
Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO's 'Living Climate Change' Initiative
Sister companies Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation and design firm IDEO on the welcome video for the Living Climate Change website: www.livingclimatechange.com, an initiative developed by IDEO. In the short, directed by IDEO design director and associate partner Roshi Givechi, company CEO Tim Brown asks what role design can play in the challenges we face with climate change.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story "
For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis.
...Read More »
Unfiltered Entertainment's Wake the Witch By John Virata
Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc., worked over the months of September, October and November of 2008 to finish shooting Wake the Witch, a direct to DVD psychological horror/suspense feature film that is expected to be released through Amazon.com and Filmbaby.com this month. The company edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and shot the film using JVC's GY-HD250U camcorder, shooting more than 20 hours of footage during the course of 24 days.
...Read More »
Indie Filmmakers Find Partner in Post Production at Monaco Labs
Indie filmmakers are on a roll. The number of high-quality indie films produced annually continues to grow dramatically within the US, and this growth extends throughout the world as well, from Mumbai to Soho, to New York, LA, Korea, and Jakarta. International Film Festivals abound, with indie filmmakers being acknowledged for the quality content and execution of their films. And the growth of the indie filmmaker community is taking off with help from the numerous film schools who are using the latest digital cinema technologies in their curriculum.
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Bluetooth headsets have become more and more popular throughout the years and now more and more cell phones have been able to take advantage of this technology. In this review we'll be looking at a brand new Bluetooth headset from iTech, the SolarVoice 908, one of the first solar charging headsets on the market.
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Thank goodness you're a pack rat! You know, have to grab, keep everything that flies by...ok everything except that report or news item or YouTube yuck you saw last week and now desperately need. Can't find it it save your behind. And still you don't have enough storage...there are new worlds to conquer, new worlds to destroy or take home with you. Don't worry Flash will always be there for you Dale!!!!
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On this Veteran's Day 2009, as we honor those who served and gave their lives for America, there are stories about man's best friend being told by those who fought alongside their "War Dogs of the Pacific." Most Americans have no idea that dogs were trained to sniff out the enemy during World War II, 549 to be exact fought with the U.S. Marines on Guam, Saipan, and other battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater.
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Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?
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CUT + RUN ENJOYS THE XBOX 360 EXPERIENCE WITH NEW CAMPAIGN BY DIRECTOR STEVE COPE
Cut + Run recently collaborated with production company Rattling Stick and agency McCann Erickson London on the new campaign for the Xbox 360 platform.
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CUT + RUN FOLLOWS THE LIGHT WITH THE FORD FOCUS
This latest spot for Ogilvy, showcases the attraction of the Ford Focus. "White & Orange" was directed by Vaughan Arnell of production company Serious Pictures and edited by Leo King of Cut + Run, and began airing earlier this month.
...Read More »
Blur Studio Reels In Animation for Goldfish Crackers Campaign
Blur Studio recently completed a ten-spot series of commercials for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers via Young & Rubicam, NY. The campaign is entirely computer generated and was directed by Blur's Leo Santos.
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Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #6 - Apple ProRes Formats
Apple ProRes is not new to Final Cut Pro 7. It was introduced in Final Cut Pro 6. But with FCP 7, the ProRes family has been expanded to include 3 new-and extremely useful-formats.
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The New Video Standards War - Ogg Vorbis vs. MPEG-4
There is a new video CODEC standard battle that is about to turn into a full, blown out war. On one side is Google and FireFox with the Open Source video format called Ogg Vorbis. In the other corner is Apple with the industry standard MPEG-4. The shared ground they are fighting over: dominance in HTML5. This article looks into this new battle and looks to see if there is already a clear winner.
...Read More »
Rhino 'Crashes' Fall Lineup With Spot Promoting Starz Series
Rhino Creative Director Vico Sharabani recently completed yet another close collaboration with the Snorri Bros., this time creating all the VFX for a carefully choreographed :30 promoting the new season of Starz' acclaimed series, Crash.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro freebies for a better edit experience
It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
...Read More »
Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign
Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal.
...Read More »
Buster Design Creates Show Open for DJ AM's MTV Series, "Gone Too Far"
MTV's "Gone Too Far" documentary series features the late Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, counseling other addicts in recovery, as he, himself, had dealt with his own addiction problems. "I got so lost in my disease, I was gone," he once said.
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SUPERFAD SENDS MESSAGE FROM WYCLEF JEAN & VOILA FOR AGENCY GLG
The Garrigan Lyman Group recently tapped Superfad to create a branding commercial that would embody the spirit and beauty of Haiti for Voila a Haitian telecommunications company. At the heart of the campaign is Haitian-born superstar Wyclef Jean from whose hands spill the paint that creates an animated and colorful representation of the essence of Haiti.
...Read More »
Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree
Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability.
...Read More »
Buster Design's PSA for Matt Damon Endorsed Charity ONEXONE Becomes Focus of Web Parody
Buster, the conceptual design division of award winning agency and production company Stun Creative, has conceived and produced a PSA for the Matt Damon endorsed charity, The "ONEXONE" Foundation. The PSA spot brings attention to the fight against hunger for children around the world and features an appearance by Academy Award winner Damon.
...Read More »
Sarofsky Corp. makes motion design imprint with quartet of diverse projects
Just six months after its launch, Sarofsky Corp. (http://www.sarofsky.com) is attaining its goal of bringing high-end design and concepting to many disciplines including advertising, entertainment and broadcast television.
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Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO's 'Living Climate Change' Initiative
Sister companies Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation and design firm IDEO on the welcome video for the Living Climate Change website: www.livingclimatechange.com, an initiative developed by IDEO. In the short, directed by IDEO design director and associate partner Roshi Givechi, company CEO Tim Brown asks what role design can play in the challenges we face with climate change.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story "
For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis.
...Read More »
Unfiltered Entertainment's Wake the Witch
Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc., worked over the months of September, October and November of 2008 to finish shooting Wake the Witch, a direct to DVD psychological horror/suspense feature film that is expected to be released through Amazon.com and Filmbaby.com this month. The company edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and shot the film using JVC's GY-HD250U camcorder, shooting more than 20 hours of footage during the course of 24 days.
...Read More »
Indie Filmmakers Find Partner in Post Production at Monaco Labs
Indie filmmakers are on a roll. The number of high-quality indie films produced annually continues to grow dramatically within the US, and this growth extends throughout the world as well, from Mumbai to Soho, to New York, LA, Korea, and Jakarta. International Film Festivals abound, with indie filmmakers being acknowledged for the quality content and execution of their films. And the growth of the indie filmmaker community is taking off with help from the numerous film schools who are using the latest digital cinema technologies in their curriculum.
...Read More »
Royale Unites with MTV Asia to Helm Exotic Music Video for Apl.de.Ap's "Take Me to the Philippines"
MTV Asia tapped Los Angeles-based motion design & production studio Royale to create the music video for "Take Me to the Philippines," the latest effort by hip-hop artist Apl.de.Ap of The Black Eyed Peas.
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Company X Editor Barney Miller Collaborates with Renowned Fashion Photographer/Director Stephane Sednaoui
Advertising Agency Soho Square tapped Company X Editor Barney Miller and renowned Parisian Fashion Photographer/Commercial & Music Video Director Stephane Sednaoui to complete a luminous 30-second skin care spot entitled "Power."
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