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About Joe Herman

Joe Herman is a filmmaker, artist and post production specialist and writes often about the industry. You can reach him at joe[at]legendmultimedia[dot]com. Or reach and follow him on Twitter @JoeHermanTweets.

Collaborate from Afar with HP’s ZCentral Remote Workflow Plus New Z Workstations and DreamColor Displays

Few of us probably thought about remote working before the pandemic forced most of us out of the office. True, some people found it more convenient to work from home, while others prefer to live ion exotic locales. However, perhaps the most important enabler for remote work was the advent of a fast internet which […]

Agency Profile: Mekanism

Mekanism is an independent creative advertising agency with offices in New York, San Francisco and Chicago and Seattle. Recently, I had a chance to chat with Sarah DiLeo, Executive Producer & Managing Director at Mek Studios, Mekanism’s full service in-house production and post company, about them and the work they do. DiLeo is currently located […]

Annual Adobe MAX 2020 Delivers Important New Features to Video Apps

Adobe MAX 2020, Adobe’s annual mega-conference for creatives, began yesterday and ends Thursday. There are an amazing number of virtual sessions to check out, and they’re all taught by experienced instructors. You’ll find that topics are aimed at creatives, covering areas such as digital photography, filmmaking, graphic design, AR, VR, and much more. Like previous […]

Stock Footage Only: That’s the Rule at the First Ever Adobe Stock Film Fest

Now here’s an interesting concept: Since you can’t shoot like you want to these days, how about holding a film festival where all the films were made entirely with shots from a stock footage library? The Adobe Stock Film Fest, live streamed beginning July 15, makes great sense in today’s stressed out production scene. I […]

Intel Challenger AMD Delivers First 64-Core Threadripper Pro in New Lenovo P620 Workstation

Taking it Straight to Chipzilla’s Fastest Xeon The Core Wars are heating up. With today’s launch of the Threadripper PRO ThinkStation P620 — the new AMD chip sports 64 computing cores that tops anything Intel delivers — Lenovo has pulled out from the workstation crowd. In case you’re keeping score: this is the first and […]

What’s New, Creative Cloud? We Offer Our Take on Adobe’s Recent Updates

It’s Been 16 Years Since Creative Suite Launched. Does Cloud-centric Adobe Still Deliver? Twice a year – we’re used to it already. “It” is when Adobe announces its upgrades to Creative Cloud suite. So much of our industry depends upon this family of video and audio apps including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Character Animator, […]

Latest Maxon Cinema 4D S22 Drops, Delivers Easier UV, Viewport Enhancements

Subscription model promises more regular updates, while better UV mapping just makes life easier. Kitty image credit: Maxon Creative artists in motion media know that this is the best of times (in spite of the current news of the world). The power of the digital tools and technologies 3D artists wield today, with apps like […]

Asus Zenbook Pro Duo – Does Doubling Your Screens Double Your Fun?

For modern music producers in the midst of our media-everywhere world, having a really capable computer has moved from “Oh that’s nice” to essential. For this video review of the ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo, we’re turning again to Consordini demo specialist Alan Scott. As a professional musician and producer, Alan states what’s going to sound […]

Video Review: Does IK Multimedia’s SampleTank Deliver What a Sound Editor Needs?

If you score film or television projects, you know that the more sounds you can draw on, the better. That doesn’t mean you can’t create your own custom patches, but when deadlines loom, you want to draw on the largest libraries of samples as you can. That’s why we’re taking a look at IK Multimedia’s […]

Maxon’s Merger with Red Giant and Acquisition of Redshift Widens its Horizons in 3D and Beyond

2019 saw significant buyout and merger action in the visual effects world. This past mid-December, Friedrichsdorf, Germany-based Maxon – creators of the 3D app Cinema 4D – merged with Red Giant, well known for its advanced filters offering particle effects and more. The two companies will become one under the media and entertainment division of […]

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NAB Looks Toward In-Person 2021 Show

The National Association of Broadcasters said it has done research that shows there is growing sense that the 2021 NAB Show could be an in-person convention this October.

Not surprisingly, NAB said that the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 will be the biggest influencer (for three in five respondents) in whether to attend an in-person event.

To read the full article on Broadcasting + Cable, click here.

 

Rupert Neve, the Father of Modern Studio Recording, Dies at 94

When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.

The Neve 8028 console and others he made had by then become studio staples, hailed by many as the most superior consoles of their kind in manipulating and combining instrumental and vocal signals. They were responsible in great part for the audio quality of albums by groups like Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Grateful Dead, and Pink Floyd.

Read the full obit in the New York Times.

New York City Movie Theaters Can Reopen at Limited Capacity, Gov. Cuomo Says

After nearly a year of closures, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given movie theaters in New York City permission to reopen at limited capacity starting on March 5.

During his daily press briefing, the Empire State leader said cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other safety measures such as masks, social distancing, and heightened sanitizing measures will be required. Last October, New York venues outside of the city were allowed to reopen with similar restrictions.

To read the full article in Variety, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Amazon Prime Video Direct and the Dystopian Decision to Stop Accepting Docs


Chris Lindahl and Dana Harris-Bridson outlined Amazon’s position in IndieWire: “When Amazon made a unilateral decision in early February to stop accepting documentaries and short films via Prime Video Direct (a policy that also covers ‘slide shows, vlogs, podcasts, tutorials, filmed conferences, monologues, toy play, music videos, and voiceover gameplay’), the announcement also served as a quiet purge.

The above continues on to some surprising conclusions on DOC NYCs Monday Memo, 

Disney to Close Upstate Blue Sky Studios

Various sources have reported that Disney is in the process of shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the largest animation studio on the East coast. The former 20th Century Fox animation division pulled in $5.9 billion churning out 13 feature films including the Ice Age franchise.

Publications have noted how Disney – which had three animation studios including Pixar and Disney Animation – couldn’t make the case to have these many houses when the pandemic took a toll on the company’s profits.

Some 450 employees will lose their jobs, though some hope to get into one of Disney’s other animation houses.

Here’s Deadline’s report.

Here’s Variety’s report.

Epix Announces ‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 2 Premiere Date

Epix revealed that the second season of “Godfather of Harlem” will premiere on April 18. Set in 1964, the crime drama series explores the collision of the criminal underworld and civil rights movement. The second season will follow Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) battling the New York crime families for control of the French Connection, a pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor.

To read the full Variety article, click here.

Sony’s FX3 is a compact $3,900 camera for filmmakers

Sony has announced the FX3. As expected, the camera is essentially an A7S III with features from the company’s Cinema line crammed into a body that looks like the A7C. Its backside-illuminated full-frame sensor has an effective resolution of 10.2-megapixel when shooting video and 15 stops of dynamic range.

To read the full story on Engadget, click here.

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