NYC Production & Post News
Every year, right around Siggraph, MAXON announces a new release to CINEMA 4D, their popular and versatile 3D modeling, animation and rendering application. This year is no exception as the company took the wraps off CINEMA 4D Release 19 (R19). A new release of CINEMA 4D is big news amongst 3D artists and animators as […]
Blackmagic Design has a history of acquiring high-end sophisticated post production software, releasing a free version or a pro version for a reasonable cost, and then continuing to develop the software with major updates packed with great new features. This was the case with DaVinci Resolve and continues with Fusion, a powerful node based compositing, […]
Photogrammetry – using photographs to measure something-increasingly turns up on production sets, with graphic artists using the info to build set extensions, or re-create ancient places. Now one new group – The Arc/k Project – plans to use the technique to create replicas of buildings that are in danger of being destroyed, whether by nature or by humans…
New York is the documentary capital of the country, with more docs made and finished here than any other part of the country. Many of those docs make their way into festivals and theaters, as well as onto cable TV or a VOD channel. Doing great work with a documentary means treating the audio, digital […]
Moving further into becoming a one-stop shop for productions that want everything under one roof makes sense for many edit houses today. Read why the new PostWorks Digital Cinema might be a great place for indie directors who want more control over distribution…
This summer will be an exciting one for the Molecule, as the innovative visual effects company joins the ranks of New York post production firms that have undertaken major expansions to keep pace with the unprecedented amount of post work in the Empire State…
Joe Herman looks at HP’s recent workstation launch event. Turns out that the workstation you might use tomorrow will sit on your lap and be more powerful than the one you might have in your edit suite…
RED Digital Cinema’s new RED Raven module offers 4K RAW recording. A minimal RED Raven system – without a lens – runs around US$10,000…
At Siggraph 2015, Lenovo announced two new mobile workstations that offer serious production power on the go. The first machines to offer Intel’s new Xeon E3-1500M v5 chipset, they handle up to a massive 64GB RAM…
The purchase and expansion plans of UK-based Procam are further securing claims for the New York market as a production hotspot. But Procam NY also fills a big hole for local rental operations as once prolific Manhattan-based houses either went out-of-business or moved out of the city altogether (major supplier Arri CSC, for example, decamped to Secaucus, NJ […]
