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Mimi Pickering knows what it's like to be given a chance. The documentarian got her first taste of filmmaking in the late 1960s at Appalshop, the multi-disciplinary...

Digital Acrobatics 

By Michael Goldman

At Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., as work on Spider-Man 3 winds down, many of the key players behind the film’s visual effects extravaganza (just less than 1,000 shots) are finally starting to contemplate life without the spider...

Commercial Calls for Multi-media Recording and Custom Camera System  

When Co-directors, Steve Osborn and Zach Passero of El Paso, Texas-based Tortilla Productions were first approached to produce a commercial campaign for their clients Helen of Troy and TIGI, they knew that one format wasn’t going to be enough to capture the individualism and cutting-edge style that their clients are known for nationwide. ...

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....

Step by Step: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 

By Ellen Wolff

Diseny's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been rightfully praised for dazzling character animation, but its CG cast isn't the only advanced animation...

New DI Pipeline 

By Michael Goldman

Spider-Man 3 was, of course, a huge digital effects project. Significantly, it was also Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI)'s first 4K DI project, executed at its new facility on the Sony lot in Culver City, Calif....

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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...

Edit Review: NewTek SpeedEdit  

Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Until recently, most NLE software applications have followed similar workflow protocols. Now a company that helped to invent this industry has come up...

Mark In 

Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...