Hollywood, California, USA – January 11, 2021 – Blackmagic Design announced today that production company SoKrispyMedia’s newest release, “Stick Figure War” was shot in Blackmagic RAW using Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 and Micro Studio Camera 4Ks, with post work done in DaVinci Resolve Studio. The 2016 “Stick Figure Battle,” which has garnered more than 23 million views, pitted two students against each other as they draw fighting stick figures on a classroom white board. The recently released “Stick Figure War” increases the stakes, not only incorporating an entire classroom of students, but bringing extensive cutting edge visual effects to bear. Created by ...

Reduced bay-spacing antenna design and two-station combiner will accommodate a second station while providing Educational Media Foundation’s WJKL-FM with a robust FM signal RAYMOND, Maine, January 11, 2021 — Dielectric’s global business continues to expand through key customer wins, with the CALA region representing an especially strong region of activity for FM radio business. Educational Media Foundation (EMF) has added to Dielectric’s CALA business momentum with the installation of a listener-funded Dielectric DCR-M for WJKL-FM, a non-commercial station serving the island of Puerto Rico. EMF worked closely with Dielectric on a broadband antenna design to support both WJKL on 105.7 ...

Chicago, IL – January 11, 2021 – IPV, global leaders in enterprise video management, have announced that adidas Runtastic will use Curator to centrally control and publish their rapidly growing video archive of brand assets. With more than 170 million registered users worldwide, adidas Runtastic has digitized traditional fitness through social networking, gamification, and an industry-leading mobile fitness app. The digital fitness giant is the latest global brand to choose Curator with the aim of optimizing engagement with its users through video.   Curator adds the ability to remotely work and seamlessly collaborate through Adobe’s Creative Cloud. This supports adidas ...

El Segundo, Calif., 7th January, 2021 – Envoi is partnering with Meta to launch a metadata-as-a-service offering for its cloud-based content management, distribution, and monetization platform. Envoi gives filmmakers, broadcasters and video content providers a complete secure end-to-end video management and distribution system. The Meta platform enables media and entertainment companies to contract Envoi to input key metadata into their content libraries, using a combination of AI tagging and manual data entry. This process ensures that all assets are compliant with Hollywood standards, and easily accessible through Meta’s advanced API Gateway. Envoi’s metadata-as-a-service tagging is EIDR compliant and simplifies content ...

FRISCO, TEXAS – January 11, 2021 – MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, today announces Amy S. Marmolejo as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Marmolejo joins the Company with an extensive background in advising, developing and leading world-class financial organizations for both domestic and international corporations. She reports directly to Matt McConnell, CEO. Marmolejo brings deep experience gained from working with organizations of all sizes, ranging from growing start-ups and large public companies to multinational technology providers. Marmolejo started her career in public accounting where she spent seven years serving clients across multiple industries. She later held several corporate ...

January 8, 2020 With 2020 having been a highly unusual year for the recording industry, the release of Taylor Swift’s Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on the Disney+ platform at the end of November provided a welcome, intimate insight into one of the biggest recording stars of our time. A mix between documentary film and live performance, the 106-minute long movie sees Swift perform all the tracks from her Folklore album live at the secluded Long Pond Studio in upstate New York. Shooting it was a considerable challenge. Not only is the studio a small, intimate space, but Covid-19 ...

DALLAS— Stephen Arnold Music enjoyed a banner year in 2020, creating sonic branding and custom music for national and local clients across the United States and internationally. Highlights of the studio’s work included a complete branding package supporting the launch of NewsNation, a groundbreaking, 3-hour primetime newscast that debuted on Nexstar Media Group’s WGN America in September.  The package included the show’s spirited main theme as well as thematically-related cues for show segments, opens, teases, promos, IDs and other packaging. Earlier in the year, the studio provided custom music for an image campaign underscoring WGN America’s commitment to its community ...

Clear-Com®'s EMEA Sales Director, Nicki Fisher, has gladly accepted an invitation to be the new Chair of the Board for Rise, a non-profit organization that supports women in the media and entertainment technology sector.