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www.postmagazine.com 7 POST MAY 2017 METTLE RELEASES VR MASTER SERIES MONTREAL — Mettle (www.mettle. com), a motion graphics studio based in Montreal, Canada, that develops plug-ins for use with Adobe software, has just released a free master series to help teach filmmakers about story- telling in the 360 format. Those interested in learning more can download free 360 assets, and then follow along in the company's 360/VR Master Series of tutorials. Participants can use the same assets that instructor Nick Harauz uses and learn basics, from object removal, stabilization, adding text and graph- ic to post FX and transitions, and exporting to the correct 360 format. The free course teaches all about 360 video post production in After Effects and Premiere Pro, using the company's own SkyBox Suite. Details are available at: www.mettle. com/360vr-master-series-free-360- downloads-page. JAPAN INSTITUTE OF MOVING IMAGE USES BLACKMAGIC CINTEL FILM SCANNER FREMONT, CA — The Japan Institute of the Moving Image has installed and is using Blackmagic Design's (www.blackmagicdesign.com) Cintel Film Scanner for archiving student films that have been shot at the col- lege over the past four decades. Japan Institute of the Moving Image history began with the leg- endary filmmaker Shohei Imamura's film school, which was launched in 1975. The college is one of the few film schools that still have classes using film cameras, and there have been more than 300 films over the years that their students have com- pleted using film. "We now deliver in digital, even shooting with a film camera in a class, but we used to create 10 to 20 student films a year using film media. We strongly felt we needed to do data archiving to preserve those films that we have created. Also, the telecine we had used was broken and could not be repaired, so we thought rather than purchasing another telecine, we wanted a film scanner. However film scanners on the market were not something we could afford," says Daisuke Wakabayashi, the in- structor of the school. He continues, "Then I heard Blackmagic acquired Cintel. We installed the Cintel Film Scanner as soon as Blackmagic started shipping it. The affordability of Cintel was a huge benefit for us. And we have installed a number of Blackmagic products, such as DaVinci Resolve. And as Resolve is the same software used to control Cintel, it was even extra comfort to install it because we are already used to the interface. "We have many 16mm films, so we used Blackmagic's 16mm Gate when we scan our films. The scanned image has great image quality." Japan Institute of the Moving Image also uses a number of oth- er Blackmagic products, such as DeckLink, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion, UltraScope, SmartScope Duo 4K, Audio Monitor and the Teranex 3D Processor for both production and post production. The Teranex 3D Processor is used as part of the archiving process to up-convert the college's many Betacam, VHS and DVD films, which all are SD and need to be digitally archived along with the films converted with the Cintel. "I like the simplicity of Blackmagic products. I am in charge of selecting equipment to install as well as setting those up once we purchase. I couldn't have believed before that I could have set up a film scanner by myself, but with Cintel, it was easy. Also, the frequent software updates from Blackmagic are very help- ful. Sometimes the feature that I wished to be somehow improved is really improved the way I wished in the next version. The fast response to user's feedback is very valuable," Wakabayashi concludes. BITS & PIECES