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Co-Producer Bryan Carroll on the Tech Behind Public Enemies

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT

A turning point in the career of Public Enemies producer Bryan Carroll was when he worked as a film and visual effects editor for James Cameron on Titanic. “That’s what sparked my interest into shooting movies digitally from script to screen,” he said....

ILM Builds the Bots for IMAX Shots in Transformers Sequel

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

With over 52,632 parts and nearly 12 million polygons, the robot is the biggest model Industrial Light & Magic has built in its 30 years of model making. And they built the bot for IMAX shots....

Field-Testing the HPX300

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

When director Bryan Gunnar Cole and cinematographer Peter Nelson headed to North Florida to shoot wildlife footage at the 7,000-acre White Oak Conservation Center, the first production question that had to be answered was which camera system to use. They ended up wrangling a pre-release version of the AG-HPX300 P2 camcorder....

Editors Are a Cut Above at CineGear

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

At CineGear 2009, a group of top-notch ACE editors—Mark Goldblatt, Michael Tronnick, Maryann Brandon, Maysie Hoi and Tina Hersch—got together to showcase some of their more challenging editing sequences and describe what’s going on in the business today....

Nice Shoes Integrates Guava, Upgrades Color-Grading Rooms

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Change is afoot at Nice Shoes, the New York commercial post facility that recently invested more than $3 million to upgrade its color-correction rooms from their long-standing da Vinci suites to brand-new Baselight EIGHT systems....