NEW YORK CITY— BREAK+ENTER, a Nice Shoes company, has promoted Ari Rubenstein to Creative Director. Rubenstein will lead the studio’s team of VFX supervisors, artists and producers, manage its slate of film and television projects and set its overall creative approach. A 30-year industry veteran, Rubenstein joined BREAK+ENTER in 2021 as a VFX supervisor and has led its work on several key assignments, including the Amazon Prime series Outer Range and the independent feature Nanny, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. BREAK+ENTER’s other recent projects include The Pentaverate, Russian Doll, Pennyworth and The Many ...
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KBS Advances Remote Broadcast Transmission with AJA BRIDGE LIVE
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), Korea’s largest public broadcaster, delights audiences across the region with a broad range of content, including live coverage of international sporting competitions. As it began preparations to relay a high-profile global sporting event held in Beijing, China, in March 2022, pandemic-era challenges prompted KBS to rethink its traditional production approach. Rather than rely on dispatching local crews and broadcast facilities as it had in the past, KBS leveraged a cloud-based broadcasting system to enable remote production. To bolster monitoring and return signal configuration for the transmission, the company established a workflow comprising an AJA BRIDGE LIVE ...
Read More »URSA Mini Pro 12K Used for VFX on Season Four of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Fremont, CA – June 13th, 2022 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K digital film camera was used to capture visual effects (VFX) plates for the fourth season of the Emmy Award winning series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” VFX Supervisor Lesley Robson-Foster also used the URSA Mini Pro 12K as a witness camera for the series, capturing footage from all over New York City, including the Coney Island boardwalk, the top of the Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel and Central Park. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” from renowned creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and Executive Producer Daniel Palladino, written and ...
Read More »Pixellot Raises $161 Million with a Goal to Accelerate Sports Democratization
Pixellot, the world leader in automated sports video and analytics solutions, announced today it has completed a $161 million funding round led by PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth, with the participation of existing investor Israeli Secondary Fund (ISF). The round also includes secondary capital from existing investors. As part of the transaction, Ronen Nir, Managing Director at PSG, and Govind Anand, Principal at PSG, have both joined Pixellot’s Board of Directors. Pixellot’s AI-automated video production and analytics technology enables a fully automated end-to-end solution that includes capturing, ...
Read More »Silver Spoon elevates Netflix’s Iron Chef revival with groundbreaking technology
The real-time studio delivers augmented reality and extended reality graphics for Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, reimagining the legendary competition franchise for a new generation. Silver Spoon, masters of the principles of virtual production, have contributed 3D visuals to Netflix’s revival of the Iron Chef franchise. Following their work on Fox Alternative Entertainment’s Alter Ego and CBS Sports’s March Madness, the studio generated augmented reality graphics as well as eight unique 3D XR environments for the competition show, helping to refresh the show’s look while preserving its essence. Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend pits five Iron ...
Read More »ATP Media Scales Delivery of Valuable Live Match Content with M2A CONNECT
ATP Media chooses M2A Media’s cloud IP transport service to automate, optimise and manage the delivery of its live match feeds via the cloud M2A Media, leading innovators in cloud-based video solutions, today announced that ATP Media, the global sales, broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP Tour, has chosen M2A CONNECT to power the delivery of its live tournament feeds. ATP Media required a solution to automate its use of AWS Media Services, while providing an operational managed service so as to centralise the acquisition and distribution of its live tournament feeds allowing it to scale delivery into ...
Read More »ATG Danmon Completes Studio Relocation and Full-UHD Upgrade for That Lot
ATG Danmon announces the completion of a multi-camera studio and control room upgrade for That Lot, one of Europe’s leading providers of social media content production support. The project coincided with the relocation of That Lot’s headquarters to new premises in Bishopsgate. It is an upgrade to full UHD vision, routing, recording, monitoring and archiving. “ATG Danmon proved an effective and efficient partner when we commissioned the broadcast-quality facilities at our Holborn premises in 2019,” says Ben Forder, Head of Video at That Lot. “That made it the logical choice for this venture. Moving to new headquarters at 135 Bishopsgate ...
Read More »Air Climber™, Cross Dovetail Plate & LB² Location Baby Bracket at Cine Gear Expo booth #B119
Matthews Studio Equipment returns to Cine Gear Expo to introduce new mounting solutions to aid common on-set grip issues—Air Climber™, Cross Dovetail and LB2 Location Baby Bracket.
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