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Will HP Fall?

For anyone involved in the postproduction industry, the news this past week that HP would potentially sell off its computer division was a wake-up call…

Best of Tech 2010 Part 2

Here’s Part 2 of our list of the best new tech of 2010…

Use a Mobile Workstation on Your Next Editing Job?

It comes as no surprise to hear more and more manufacturers make claims for mobile workstations matching if not replacing big iron workstations…

How Cinema 4D Conquered Manhattan – Part III

Why has Cinema 4D enjoyed success and adoption by studios in New York in spite of such formidable competition from other top notch products…?

How Cinema 4D Conquered Manhattan – Part II

These hardware and software developments began a significant change in the industry that, in a few short years, was one more knock against mid-range houses in the City that often offered pricey CGI as part of a postproduction package…

How Cinema 4D Conquered Manhattan

For a while now, I’ve noticed a buzz for Maxon’s Cinema 4D in production houses in New York…

Visualize This

If you need to work with lots of high-resolution images—for editing, design, scientific research—you’re in luck…

Getting More Out of After Effects CS5

(Chris and Trish Meyer) are true pioneers of employing desktop apps in pro productions, and are probably the best-known AE trainers in the biz.

Nvidia Shows New Product Lines at CES

For anyone involved in graphics and animation—or if you’re an avid gamer—Nvidia’s Fermi GF100 was the draw.

Nvidia Kicks Graphics Up a (Big) Notch

I don’t expect to write directly very much about hardware and other nuts & bolts technology…But I still reserve space to take notice when significant changes are afoot. This is one of those times.

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

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.

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.

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.