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VIMEO LAUNCHES ADVANCED STATISTICS FOR PLUS MEMBERS
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Site Provides In-Depth Analysis of Users’ Videos Including Embed Data, Daily Volume & Geography
NEW YORK, March 2, 2010 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], launched its new Advanced Statistics feature today, which provides Vimeo Plus members with detailed information on the playback of their videos. Plus members can now see video analytics broken down by date range, geography, and embed location.
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Oxford Film Festival – An Eye Opening Experience
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I recently had an opportunity to accept an invitation to the Oxford Film Festival to be on a panel and to do a workshop. This was my first journey to one of the smaller festivals on the circuit. I must say going to this festival was definitely an eye-opening experience for me.
See for many years I only saw festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Toronto as festivals filmmakers such as myself would want to go to. Why? Because that's where the buyers were. Not only were they great festivals but distribution and sales reps were there. To be quite honest I always thought the smaller festivals were a bit of a waste of time. Boy was I wrong.
Lucky for me on the van ride from Memphis to Oxford I was joined by a charming fellow named Chris Holland. Not only is Chris a cool guy but he is all knowing in the realm of film festivals. He even wrote a book about it: Film Festival Secrets. During my stay there we had a lot of time to hang out together at events and he really drilled in my head the importance of small festivals for filmmakers. Read More→
Cinedeck Debuts Industry’s First Camera-Mountable, Extremely High Quality Recording, Monitoring, Playback and Editing Device
NEW YORK, NY (February 9, 2010) -- Cinedeck (www.cinedeck.com) today announced the debut of the world’s first camera-mountable, HDMI/HDSDI recording, monitoring, playback and editing device for the production community. Designed by cinematographers for cinematographers, Cinedeck defines an entirely new category of extremely portable, affordable, platform agnostic, cinema-grade recording and monitoring solutions for anyone with an HDMI or HDSDI camera.
Cinedeck is:
Extremely Portable: measuring 5”x8”x3.5” and weighing less than 4 pounds, Cinedeck is camera-mountable and stores (with all cables and accessories) in a space no larger than a shoe box; Read More→
Can you please comment below? I'd appreciate it.VIMEO EXPANDS ITS VIDEO PLAYBACK CAPABILITIES WITH LAUNCH OF HTML5 PLAYER
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2010 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], today added a second playback option for all of its members who use the Chrome or Safari browsers with the public beta launch of its new HTML5 player.
“We are committed to providing our users with high quality viewing options,” said Andrew Pile, Vimeo Vice President of Product and Development. “Many of our members asked for HTML5 support and we listened. We look forward to seeing the results of this beta test.” Read More→
What are your thoughts on the subject?NewTek Launches HD Portable Live Production System
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NewTek TriCaster™ TCXD300 offers HD/SD live switching, live HD virtual sets, live HD streaming and more
SAN ANTONIO – NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that it has launched TriCaster™ TCXD300, a product that redefines portable live production with benefits that include high definition and standard definition (HD and SD) live multi-camera switching, full HD streaming, live HD virtual sets, HD titling, HD digital disk recording, HD editing, audio mixing, efficient workflow, multiple effects layers and much more.
"NewTek TriCaster TCXD300 represents a breakthrough in portable live production, allowing users to more successfully engage audiences, deliver messages and events, build brands and create new revenue streams. Customers can now produce network-quality HD or SD output, access unprecedented effects and layering capabilities, and take advantage of the most powerful virtual set technology available," said Andrew Cross, executive vice president, engineering, NewTek. "As the newest member of our TriCaster product line, this system combines industry-leading performance and ease-of-use to suit the diverse goals of producers ranging from beginners to seasoned professionals." Read More→
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Fuze Movie Solves Challenges of Remote, Distributed Review and Approval Workflow with Collaborative, Synchronized Shared Media Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 19, 2010) – Fuze Box (www.fuzebox.com) today announced it is entering the content creation and post production marketplace with the launch of Fuze Movie. Fuze Movie is a real-time collaborative media review and approval solution created specifically for editors, VFX artists and digital media designers faced with the challenges of collaborating with numerous remote, and often widely distributed colleagues and clients. Combining an industry-unique frame accurate media player with seamless real time collaboration capabilities, Fuze Movie creates a cost-effective, efficient and easy digital media review and approval workflow experience for users.
Leveraging Skype as its communications backbone, Fuze Movie effectively eliminates the frustrations and inefficiencies of collaborating across distributed workgroups by creating a real time shared workflow environment for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Fuze Movie is based on the highly acclaimed review and approval solution, syncVUE, which was acquired by Fuze Box in 2007. Michael Buday, the industry renown editor who created syncVUE, is now the Company’s chief software designer and principal developer of Fuze Movie. Read More→
What do you think? Please comment below to tell me.CANON GROUP DONATES $220,000 TO HAITI RELIEF EFFORTS
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Lake Success, January 15, 2010 – The Canon Group, including Canon Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc. and Canon Latin America, Inc., today announced that they have pledged approximately $220,000 (20 million yen) to the Haiti relief and recovery efforts, following the devastating earthquake that struck the region, causing extensive destruction and loss of life.
The Canon Group is contributing to the relief efforts for victims of the earthquake through donations to Red Cross Organizations which will help to provide the people of Haiti with necessary supplies and services including food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support.
"The Canon Group would like to express its condolences to the people of Haiti and our thoughts go out to all of the people that have been affected by this inconceivable natural disaster," said Joe Adachi, president and chief executive officer, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "A tragedy of this magnitude requires support from the global community and it is our hope that our contribution, along with all of the aid coming in from around the world, will help the people of Haiti begin the rebuilding and healing process."
Nice job Canon!
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Oh RED why do you tease me so?
Posted by: | CommentsTed from RED dropped by Engadget at CES and teased us all with a peak at Scarlett. I so want to wait for this camera on my next film but the money is closing and I need to get going. My plan is to shoot with the Canon 7D and I was very content with that until I saw this video! Dammit!
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MOTO Development Group Creates Simple DIY Performance Analysis Test for Touchscreen Consumer Electronics
LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)-- Jan 09, 2010 MOTO Development Group today unveiled a video and photographs of a touchscreen performance test between the Google Nexus One, the Apple iPhone, the Motorola Droid, and the HTC Verizon Droid Eris.
The video and photos of MOTO’s “DIY Smartphone Touchscreen Analysis” experience is available here: http://labs.moto.com/diy-touchscreen-analysis
DIY with One Finger and a Drawing Program
MOTO Development Group created the simple technique so that anyone can evaluate the resolution and accuracy of touchscreen devices before they buy. To conduct the test, consumers open a basic drawing program and draw a few diagonal lines drawn across the screen.
Draw Slowly. On a quality touchscreen, people can draw clean straight lines, even while going very slowly. The image that appears on screen accurately represents the slowly drawn lines. However, on inferior touchscreens, it’s basically impossible to draw straight lines. Instead, the lines look jagged, stair-stepped or zig-zag, no matter how slowly you go. The inferior image results from the sensor size is too big, the touch-sampling rate is too low, and/or the algorithms that convert gestures into images are too non-linear to faithfully represent user inputs. Read More→
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