American Zoetrope Taps AJA Hi5-3D for Stereo Previews of Coppola’s 'Twixt' 

AJA Video Systems announced that production company American Zoetrope used the AJA Hi5-3D Mini-Converter to enable convenient, cost-effective post-production reviews of stereo 3D sequences for Twixt, the 2011 thriller from director Francis Ford Coppola that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. ...

Smoking Storage 

"Lights, camera, action" are the words uttered by countless budding film directors to some of the greatest movie icons of all time. The history of film spans hundreds of years. Film editing has moved on tremendously from the early days of the invention of the motion and projector camera...

AJA Ki Pro Beta Sight 

By Jeff Cronenberg, Series Editor, Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow has been airing for 14 seasons, has had eight Emmy nominations, and is PBS' highest-rated prime-time series...

Controversial Edit 

By Tim Lovell, film editor, Mugabe and the White African

This is the film President Robert Mugabe did not want the world to see. Shot covertly and with fear of imprisonment, Mugabe and the White African documents the brave and historic struggle of a 74-year old white Zimbabwean farmer to hold onto his land in the face of state-sanctioned terror...

XenData Beta Sight 

By Mark Lindey, senior engineer, systems administration, Modern VideoFilm

Modern VideoFilm delivers postproduction services and quality control to its partners such as Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, NBC, and Universal...

Managing Rich-media Content in 3D Production Workflows 

By Chris Duffy, StorNext product marketing manager, Quantum

3D movies such as Avatar are bringing incredible eye-catching content and visuals to the big screen. Recent announcements from television broadcasters to show programming in 3D also support the growing interest in the immersive entertainment benefit that 3D provides...

Planet 51's Postproduction Workflow 

Spain had an otherworldly success on its hands this year with Planet 51, the country's leading box office hit...

Video Storage Spins, For Now 

By Trevor Boyer

Got a shelf of hard drives sitting idle in an office or closet? Most video producers probably do. Whether your facility backs up its projects a different way every time or it has a well-articulated deep-storage plan that involves lots of checkboxes and offsite storage, there's likely a measure of uncertainty that still exists within the workflow...

A Decade of Vanguards, #10 

By Trevor Boyer

This post marks the first in a series on the millimeter website wherein our editorial team reveals its selections of Vanguard Awards for the past decade...

P2 Hits Its Stride in 2009 

By Helmut Kobler

Panasonic's P2 was the first tapeless format to take the tired, old workflow that shooters and producers have used for 30 years and drag it into the 21st century...