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Motion Picture Sound Editors to Honor Antoine Fuqua with Filmmaker Award

66th MPSE Golden Reel Awards Slated for February 17th Studio City, California – November 13, 2018 – The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) today announces that it will honor Antoine Fuqua with its annual Filmmaker Award. The director of such films as The Equalizer (1 & 2), The Magnificent Seven, Southpaw and Training Day, he […]

Review of Lenovo’s ThinkPad P1, an Ultrabook Workstation

Not too long ago, Lenovo invited NYCPPNEWS to Nice Shoes, a well-regarded color grading house and full-on production studio in Manhattan. We had a chance to tour all of the floors of the Manhattan-based creative house, then got into details about the soon-to-be released Lenovo ThinkPad P1. This thin and light mobile workstation was touted […]

First-City Funded VR/AR Center in the Country Opens at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Photo credit: Kreg Holt (This is a long release from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment; if you would like a more enjoyable reading experience, check out The Bridge, Brooklyn Business News’ article.) Brooklyn, New York – On October 24, 2018, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor’s Office of Media and […]

HOBO Mixes Two VR Projects For Samsung, New Google Maps Social Media Ads

NEW YORK, NY – HOBO, the award-winning creative audio post/sound design studio continues to impress with a recent spate of work that includes an online ad campaign for Google Maps via agency Anomaly, New York; and two VR films for Samsung that both received Vimeo’s highly-coveted “Staff Picks” designation. To date, the videos have been […]

Rochester Institute of Technology opens doors on new MAGIC Spell Studios

Reported by by Vienna McGrain, RIT University News October 30, 2018 Live filming of a commercial. Live audio mixing with sound engineers. Screenings of short films created by students. Video game development demonstrations. Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as Rochester Institute of Technology formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell […]

HP Ups the Creative with Z Club

HP decided its connection to creatives needed nurturing, and in new ways the company hasn’t tried before. Last week at annual Adobe Max, the company revealed just that, new plans and initiatives to better deliver their hardware to the world’s creative professionals. At the conference, HP announced Z Club, a program to offer creative professionals […]

Awesome Audio Tools: Review of Presonus Studio One 4, Notion 6 and PSO

I’ve tried out a lot of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) for music production over the years. The first one I sunk my teeth into was Cubase but, along the way, I’ve bumped into others, each with its own cadre of devotees. At some point, I adopted Pro Tools, largely because it is widely used in […]

Multi Emmy-Nominee Andy Yerkes Named 3Beep’s Head Of Development

Boutique Script Writing And Sound Studio Expands Development Offerings Via Association With Emmy Award-Nominated Writer And Producer NEW YORK, NY — 3Beep, a boutique script writing and sound studio, has announced its association with Andy Yerkes, who will contribute to its creative services team as Head of Development. Yerkes is integral to 3Beep’s initiative to […]