Film Scanning for Commercials in a Digital World 

By Dongsoo Kim, chief administrative executive, Mercury Post, Korea

In early 2010, our team here at Mercury Post in Korea started the evaluation process for a new film scanner for our advertising and commercials digital intermediate workflow...

My Post House: Sabertooth Productions 

Greg Leuenberger, CEO of Sabertooth Productions, and his small team of designers, editors, and artists provide production, postproduction, animation, and graphic services to a variety of technology...

PHYX Keyer Review 

By Franklin McMahon

PHYX started out producing plug-ins for Apple's Shake compositing software, and the company has since branched out to develop a solid keying solution for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects, and Final Cut Express...

Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X Beta Sight 

By Alexandre Domingue, owner, Post-Moderne, Montreal

We at Post-Moderne were approached by our fellow Montrealers at Autodesk in September 2009 to see if we'd be interested in beta testing Smoke for Mac OS X...

Sundance Production: Skateland 

By Trevor Boyer

Robert Hoffman, editor of the Sundance 2010 entry Skateland, traveled from Los Angeles to Austin to join the project after production was complete. In the absence of an editor, assistant editor Yusef Svacina and the producers had completed four separate cuts of their own...

Up in the Air Step by Step 

By Ellen Wolff

The signature image from Paramount Pictures' Up in the Air shows actor George Clooney framed in an airport window, gazing out at the tarmac. The shot depicts a meditative moment that any airline traveler can relate to...

Format Wars 

By Michael Goldman

To Dean Devlin, it’s all straightforward: Episodic TV production not only should move toward all-digital production and acquisition, it must and it shall...

Winging It 

By Michael Goldman

It Might Get Loud Director Davis Guggenheim brought his subjects--guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White--together for the first time...

Shooting Enemies 

By Michael Goldman

Racing from one Hollywood postproduction facility to the next in the wee hours one night in early June, director Michael Mann and his colleagues wrangled the last major chore related to the theatrical release of Mann’s new gangster picture, Public Enemies...

Technicolor’s Recession Strategy 

By Michael Goldman

Long before the recession, Thomson was well on its way to restructuring its famed Hollywood subsidiary, Technicolor...