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The Carnivàle Life 

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Director Scott Winant understands that it's taking too long to chop an actor's arm off, and he's a man pressed for time. Winant needs to get the bloody sequence right since it's crucial to the season finale of HBO's critically acclaimed series Carnivàle. The stylish show, currently midway through its second season, tells the story of dust-stained “carneys,” circus freaks, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. ...

The HD Bomb 

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When visual effects veteran Peter Kuran produced, directed, and released a documentary on the history of the atomic bomb called Trinity and Beyond: The...

Edit Integrate Review — Reliant Digital Duplication Suite 

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Sorenson's reputation for excellent video compression, including implementations of MPEG-4 and Macromedia Flash, has carried its Squeeze Compression Suite...

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I was just watching the New England Patriots game, and the commentator was saying "What a brilliant, unexpected play call that was!" for the third or fourth...

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Discreet's Lustre has become a major part of the digital intermediate pipeline at Sony Pictures Imageworks. As part of our digital intermediate (DI) services,...