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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....

Mad Men, Crash Ditch DVD Dailies

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

As Lionsgate switches shows including Mad Men and Crash to the new D3 System, the company is moving from distributing dailies on DVD to an all-streaming solution. The new workflow is definitely greener and probably more secure, and it's also reduced headaches for Williams....

Mega Playground Tunes DP Dailies for Accuracy, Efficiency

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT

New York’s Mega Playground is introducing DP Dailies, a new HD dailies workflow built around Digital Film Technology’s Bones Dailies system that it says can save feature-film producers more than $100,000 over a conventional, two-pass dailies-and-DI workflow on a production shooting more than 250,000 feet of 35mm footage....

ER Goes Red in the Home Stretch

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 0:00:00 EDT

The popular medical TV episodic ER is winding down after a 15-year run. But it’s going out with a bang: after the entire run was filmed on 4-perf 35mm, the last seven episodes were shot with the Red camera....

The Spirit Closes the Distance Between VFX and the DI

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST

The Spirit, directed by Frank Miller and based on the Will Eisner comic book series, may have been disappointing at the box office, but it excelled at finding new ways to integrate digital production and post. That’s thanks to The Orphanage, a VFX/production company in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and its co-founder Stu Maschwitz, the movie’s second unit director and visual effects supervisor....