Millimeter September/October 2008
By Ellen Wolff
In the hallway of a former bicycle factory outside Vancouver, British Columbia, a bloody corpse lies on a gurney, swathed unceremoniously in plastic wrap....
By Michael Goldman
The remarkably efficient Clint Eastwood filmmaking machine keeps marching along with, at press time, three feature films in various states of progress....
By Ellen Wolff
One of the most iconic movie images of 2008 shows a rusty robot dwarfed by mountains of trash receding into distant haze. The image captures the plight...
By Cynthia Wisehart
This issue represents a busy month in the field. For our cover story, Ellen Wolff went to the Sanctuary set in Vancouver, British Columbia, to see the...
By Ellen Wolff
Comic timing is a phrase usually associated with actor pratfalls rather than the effect of a CG helicopter crashing to the ground. But for the DreamWorks/Paramount...
By Barry Braverman
Few professional broadcast cameras have achieved the vaulted status and battle-hardened reputation of the original Panasonic Varicam. Introduced at NAB...
By Mark Ulano
I have been quite fortunate in my career, having had the opportunity to work as the production sound mixer for films such as Titanic, Austin Powers, Kill...
By Michael Lewis
Photo News Media
It was just another typical day for our news-content company. Hurricane Dean had made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Mexico's Costa Maya region. Dean...
By Dan Ochiva
The Digital Negative (DNG), promulgated by Adobe, is an open, publicly available archival format for RAW files generated by digital cameras. The idea...
By Dan Ochiva
While it may not garner the headlines the way some big-name 3D animation programs do, anyone paying attention in the post industry knows that NewTek LightWave...
By Dan Ochiva
As working resolutions continue to rise and pipelines in post get more complex, solutions for improved throughput are worth considering. That's what Iridas...
By Dan Ochiva
Even as Nvidia faces problems, such as a recently filed shareholder lawsuit over its supposed hiding of unprecedented failure rates of its graphics cards,...
By Dan Ochiva
As the economy tightens, pricey gear gets farther away from many a rental house's or production's budget. BandPro Film and Digital has one solution: lease....
By Dan Ochiva
Aaton has pioneered in developing and manufacturing innovative motion-picture equipment, but the small Grenoble, France, company that's headed by cinema...
By Dan Ochiva
Avid must be serious about drumming up new business. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based company turned up at IBC 2008 after passing on the previous two shows....
By Dan Ochiva
If you've ever wanted to try working with surround-sound mic techniques, the latest PortaMic 5.1 camera-mountable surround mic from Holophone makes it...
By Dan Ochiva
When the Cell processor turned up in Sony PlayStation 3 in 2006, many questioned the value of the initiative. It's a joint venture with IBM and Toshiba,...
By Dan Ochiva
If you're planning on working in higher-res formats or growing your facility or if you just want to make sure you're investing in gear that will be relevant...
By Dan Ochiva
No one's giving up oncelluloid yet, but it's striking to see the amount of innovation still on tap from companies such as Arri and Aaton. Cintel is another....
By Dan Ochiva
For years, Autodesk has touted its Lustre system as a top digital color-grading rig. By IBC 2008, the company had taken to presenting the latest in Incinerator...
By Michael Goldman
With a successful track record as a movie producer (The Road to Wellville, Thirteen Days, and Children of Men, among others), Marc Abraham chose a small...
By Craig Erpelding
Mind-Made Media is a Los Angeles-based independent production company started by two indie and big-budget filmmaking veterans: Alexandra Austin and Mike...
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Green Meets Red
Clint's Collaborators 
Filmic Animation 
Step By Step: Tropic Thunder 
Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX2700 
Beta Sight: Aviom Pro16 Series 
Beta sight: AMCC 3ware Sidecar 
Products: Ikonoskop
Products: NewTek
Products: ATI
Products: Band Pro
Products: Aaton and FilmLight
Products: Avid
Products: Holophone
Products: Sony
Products: Enhance Technology
Products: Cintel
Products: Autodesk
Fade to Black: Marc Abraham, Director 
Q&A with Mind-Made Media