First Spirit HD Telecine in the Southeast U.S. Delivered to Manhattan Transfer Miami 

Manhattan Transfer Miami (MTM) has a new Thomson Grass Valley Spirit HD Telecine to support its launch in August of a full range of digital intermediate and high-definition (HD) television services for its advertising agency clients...

Fade to Black: Tony Kaye, Director 

By Darroch Greer

Tony Kaye, the man who brought us the inside view of racism in American History X, is an uncompromising filmmaker who does not do things by halves. Lake...

Drastic Technologies and Digitalvideo Computing Storage Solution  

Ciprico has been selected by Drastic Technologies and Digitalvideo Computing (DVC) to provide its MediaVault 4210 storage array for DVC’s ClipRecorder XTrem 2K Digital Disk Recorder and workstation...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

I'm a 3D skeptic, but I'm willing to be proven wrong this time. I'm probably poorly equipped to judge the latest stereoscopic resurgence due to 20 years...

For-A HD Frame Converter Enables International Digital Cinema Presentations of ‘Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD’  

For-A announced that its FRC-7000 HD frame rate converter is proving to be a key component enabling live broadcasts of operas from New York's famed Metropolitan Opera...

Fade to Black: Mat Beck, Director/Visual Effects Supervisor 

By Michael Goldman

Mat Beck calls the opportunity to direct last month’s “Prototype” episode of the TV drama Smallville a logical—if uncommon—evolution for a visual effects veteran....

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

One of my favorite things I heard at NAB was the comment that Apple had, with the announcement of ProRes 422, legitimized compression. The implication...

Fade to Black: Olivier Dahan, Director  

By Darroch Greer

"I don't do any storyboard--never," Olivier Dahan says, rather defiantly. I don't work with the script on the shoot or in my hotel room. I don't plan everything....

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Between last year's NAB and now, Intel has gone through one of its most productive periods in history, delivering the new Core 2 Duo chip and the new...

Fade to Black: Zhang Yimou, Director  

By Darroch Greer

Zhang Yimou is the greatest name in Chinese cinema. He is best known for his moving parables of Chinese life starring the radiant Gong Li Red Sorghum,...