www.postmagazine.com May 2009 • Post 7
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at a glance...
WHOSCREATIVE.COM
recently launched its Website development
service, which offers an easy solution for building a personal Website.
The company offers packages with features that deliver the compo-
nents needed to create sites that help ar tists look their best and at-
tract business. For a $7.50 per month an artist can customize the look
and feel of his site without knowing HTML and CSS. And for those
who would like support,WhosCreative's designers can take general di-
rections and design a more customized site.
ADOBE
(www.adobe.com) recently released updates to its Audition
audio application. The V.3.0.1 patch now allows users to perform all
spectral and waveform editing operations, regardless of the number of
processors their system has.
NYC-based footage provider
FRAMEPOOL
(www.framepool.com)
has entered into a sales and representation agreement with the Na-
tional Film Board of Canada (www.NFB.ca) that will allow Framepool
to offer content from the NFB via its online portal.The NFB produces
and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital
media productions. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 pro-
ductions, which have won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars.
SABERTOOTH
(www.sabertooth.tv), a new collective of designers, di-
rectors, VFX specialists and interactive ar tists, has opened in Venice,
CA. The facility prides itself in providing end-to-end digital solutions
and is headed by creative director/founder David Cullipher and execu-
tive producer John Busenberg. Cullipher and Busenberg were par t of
Two-Headed Monster, where they created interactive, CG and other
projects for Infiniti, P&G's Share Water Project, Hyundai and VW.
DIMENSION 3
(www.dimension3-expo.com), a festival for professionals
involved in 3D stereoscopic production, post and display, will take place in
Paris, from June 2-4, 2009.The event is now in its third year and serves as
a meeting point for pros who create 3D stereo content for cinema,TV,
videogames, home entertainment, communications and training.
Following an agreement with
RED DIGITAL CINEMA
, SGO's
(www.sgo.es)
MISTIKA
now has full capability to suppor t the Red
One's .R3D file format. Mistika is an all-encompassing system for edit-
ing, conforming, compositing, image restoration, multi-mastering and
color grading. The Mistika system can play out .R3D files to tape with-
out the need for any conversion. The format support helps save valu-
able disk place as large DPX files don't have to be created.
2G DIGITAL POST
(www.2gdigital.com), a Culver City-based HD on-
line facility specializing in TV and airline versioning of motion pictures,
has named Lisa Griffin and Thayer Jester as senior sales executives. 2G
will open a new, all-fiber facility in Burbank later this spring.
ARRI CSC
(www.arricsc.com) has relocated its Manhattan camera
rental depar tment to a custom-designed facility in Secaucus, NJ. The
36,000-square-foot department is 50 percent larger than the previous
one and reunites the camera department with the company's lighting
and grip division.
"3.5 billion wire hangers go into US landfills every
year. I like the idea of reusing a hanger for a bit be-
fore throwing it away to biodegrade, but isn't there
something wrong with the whole concept? How
about the 'throw away' part? Bring your own hang-
ers into your dry cleaner, starting now.They can be
those scary wire hangers or plastic ones, or even
the creepy ones with ads on them. Whatever you
bring in, they will re-use. And bring in re-usable dry
cleaning bags."
— Lesley Chilcott, producer/Earth advocate
ideas
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