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BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 6 POST JAN/FEB 2023 SOUND LOUNGE RENEWS PARTNERSHIP WITH EDITBAR FOR REMOTE WORK BOSTON — New York City-based audio post studio Sound Lounge (www. soundlounge.com) has reopened its Boston hub in partnership with Editbar, the full service creative company. Sound Lounge Everywhere provides re- mote audio post and sound mixing services for clients between New York and Boston. Now, for the first time since the pandemic-led closure, clients in the Boston market will be able to access the mixing talent at Sound Lounge's New York location. "We are excited to renew our collaboration with Editbar to seamlessly pro- vide access to Boston-based clients for their audio post production needs," says Marshall Grupp, partner and COO of Sound Lounge. "When the pandemic hit, we all pivoted to working remotely, providing top-notch mixing capabili- ties and an unmatched level of streaming quality. However, we are now able to deliver services at a level comparable to in-studio from our Boston location and welcome the return of 'in-person' services." "Editbar is thrilled to have our Sound Lounge Everywhere studio back open," adds Phoebe Cole, executive producer of Editbar. "It's always been such an important component to our client's workflow, and being able to offer the capability again will no doubt be a game changer to a city hungry to return to in-studio supervision. We've loved seeing friendly faces around for our edits again, and being able to house audio production under the same roof will only make things more streamlined than they already are." Since launching, Sound Lounge Everywhere's service has been used on several commercial projects, including the Hyatt with Royal Caribbean, Dunkin Donuts, Bank of America, McDonald's, Sam Adams, Subway, Liberty Mutual and Puma. Discussions for additional locations are also underway for 2023. AUTODESK RELEASES OPEN RV ON ASWF GITHUB SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk has released Open RV on GitHub, an open- source version of its Sci-Tech award-winning media review and playback soft- ware. The code will be hosted at the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) as part of the Open Review Initiative, which is working to build a unified open- source toolset for playback, review and approval of motion picture and related professional media. As part of the open-source community, RV will continue to develop through community-driven updates and Autodesk engineering. Autodesk will continue to manage and develop RV for its commercial customers, and it will be an active contributor to Open RV and the Open Review Initiative to support a standardized toolset for native review. This move underscores Autodesk's belief that open standards and interoperability are essential to the viability and growth of the visual effects, computer graphics and animation industry. "In releasing Open RV, we're bringing the code base from a commercial- ly-available product to GitHub, and we hope to do more of this in the future," explains Diana Colella, SVP media and entertainment at Autodesk. "We're excited to open source RV to help creative teams get projects reviewed and approved with greater ease, and ultimately reach final pixel faster and more cost effectively." RV is a native review and playback tool used by VFX, animation and content creation teams of all sizes. The new open-source version of RV allows users and studios to review any media with largely the same features as the com- mercial version, and customize, modify and implement new core functionalities tailored to project demands or workflow needs. "Autodesk's generous contribution of Open RV to the ASWF is one of the foundational pillars of the Open Review Initiative and marks the beginning of a community-led effort to develop an interoperable platform and application suite for media review and approval in the entertainment industry," says Erik Strauss, technical steering committee chair for the Open Review Initiative at Academy Software Foundation. "RV's long standing position as the de facto reference ap- plication for media review, and the vibrant community surrounding it, make Open RV the per- fect jumping off point for our initia- tive's effort to provide a best in class review and approval ecosystem for developers, studios and artists collaborating on content creation." Open RV will be managed by a technical steering committee (TSC) chaired by Autodesk and consisting of engineers and contributors from the commu- nity. The project will operate under the oversight of the Open Review Initiative alongside Dneg's xStudio and Sony Pictures Imageworks' Itview. Software engineers and developers interested in contributing to the project and the community can join the ASWF Open Review Initiative Slack channel and the Open Review Initiative mailing list. Autodesk is a founding member of ASWF, developed by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) and the Linux Foundation in 2018. The ASWF aims to advance open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation and sound technologies. Autodesk RV source code, Open RV, is now available to developers and the open source community via the ASWF GitHub.