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Crawford Purchases Baselight HD Color Grading System from FilmLight

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Crawford Media Services has purchased a Baselight HD color grading system from FilmLight and plans to make it a central component of a new facility that it is constructing for its Crawford Post Production division. Baselight HD which will include Spirit Control and Stereoscopic 3D options will be integrated into a file-based workflow that will also include editorial finishing and audio post systems as well as centralized media storage.

GDC Technology Upgrades SA-2100 Servers

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

GDC Technology has introduced the S2 upgrade for all SA-2100 digital cinema servers. The upgrade allows customers to connect the servers to the next generation Series 2 DLP Cinema projector. 
“Once again GDC is quick to respond to the technology shift in the evolving digital cinema industry and brings to its customers the best and latest in digital cinema technology ” says Dr. Man-Nang Chong founder and CEO of GDC Technology.

Grass Valley Names Cut and Win Contest Winner

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Grass Valley has announced the winner of its highly Cut And Win contest in which editors using Edius real-time editing software were tasked with producing a commercial on the features and capabilities of Edius to compete for a chance to win thousands of dollars’ worth of production gear.
  The online competition attracted over 400 000 page impressions and over 200 registrations from 52 different countries.
 
The Grand Prize winner Frank Aldana receives a full post-production package comprising a HP ProBook laptop computer a Panasonic video camcorder and an external hard drive.

Fraunhofer Institutes Open Tomorrow’s Cinema

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The Fraunhofer Institutes HHI and IDMT Berlin have opened Tomorrow's Cinema with the premiere of Germany's first 180-degree short film Orlac reloaded. Tomorrow's Cinema is a showroom with high-resolution digital 180-degree panoramic projection. The core of this technology is a 180-degree screen installed by Kinoton and an Iosono 3D sound system from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. 
The special screen consists of a glass fiber fabric specifically designed to support high-resolution digital projection of up to 6K.

Matthews Ships Gear to Raleigh Studios in Budapest

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

Matthews Studio Equipment has shipped multiple quantities of over 465 different items of grip and lighting control products to Origo/Raleigh Studios and Hollywood Rental Budapest. The company estimated the value of the shipment to be in the high six-figure range. “Hollywood Rentals has had a longstanding and productive relationship with Matthews Studio Equipment ” says Kelly Koskella president of Hollywood Rentals. “Over the years both parties have complimented each other’s business by sharing technical input.

Orion Planetarium Installs New LED Projector

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

The newest projectiondesign projector the FL32 1080 ReaLED DLP has been installed inside the Orion Planetarium at Denmark’s Aarhus University. Equipped with a hand-selected wide-angle lens the FL32 1080 creates a four-meter by six-meter image of the stars galaxies space ships and a wide range of computer generated video animations while remaining hidden from the public gaze.

Global Immersion to Deliver New 4D Theatre Experience at Scotland Visitor Center

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:00 -- Nick Dager

A new visitor center set to open next month will be the first permanent 4D theatre installation in Scotland and will feature a custom-produced 4D show interactive pre-show area and 78-seat main theatre integrated with an array of experience effects including stereoscopic 3D lighting audio wind snow and aroma. Global Immersion is managing the design and fit-out of both the pre-show area and 4D theatre and began the renovation in January.

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