By Michael Goldman
Avid's DS Nitris HD finishing system continued to push into the film mastering realm on a recent documentary from filmmaker George Butler Going Upriver:...
Share and Share Alike By S. D. Katz
Most production pipelines are a mixed environment of competing software, proprietary code, and legacy systems. We may expect companies to resist communicating...
Blue Sky Bluescreen By Michael Goldman
For digital filmmaking aficionados, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow's path to the big screen has to be considered the ultimate feel-good story. It goes something like this: In the early '90s, a film-school graduate dreams of making a stylized, independent film combining live actors with digital environments entirely in a computer. He labors for years to make a six-minute rough version of his idea on an early Macintosh laptop in his apartment...
Desktop DI By S. D. Katz
It's time to start thinking about your future. For content producers, the biggest challenge today is finding the best price to performance ratio when...
By S. D. Katz
Adobe After Effects has more than 350,000 users. This makes it a breeding ground for every plug-in developer in the solar system, and a cottage industry...
By Michael Goldman
Jim Muro's first experience with a digital intermediate took place on his first project as a DP Kevin Costner's Open Range. For his second DP job, Paul...
Building Collateral By Michael Goldman
Dave Canning recalls being extremely up front with director Michael Mann when the director first floated the notion of using the Grass Valley Viper FilmStream...
DI Innovations By Michael Goldman
Many of the big effects movies that debuted in the summer of 2004 went through a digital intermediate mastering phase at several prominent facilities around the world. The process is now so common that the use of DI, in and of itself, is no longer news. That said, the industry saw plenty of DI innovations this year. Two of the biggest effects films of the summer illustrate this fact. Spider-Man 2 became the first major studio feature to undergo a...
By Preston Kuntz
Karma Bank
Karma Bank
Karma Bank is an established postproduction company located in the heart of the Hollywood film scene. Most of its work involves finishing movie trailers......
Local Color By Michael Goldman
When Denys Arcand's Quebec-made film, Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) earned a Best Foreign Language Academy Award this year, it marked a major triumph for the film industry...