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Bits & Pieces 10 Post • May 2014 www.postmagazine.com N EW YORK — AICE (www.aice.org), the marketing communications post production association whose members are independent creative editorial, design, visual effects, color grading, audio, music and post production companies, has announced the finalists for its 2014 AICE Awards. Leading with 12 nominations in a wide range of categories is Cut+Run (with offices in LA, San Francisco, New York and London). Also performing well in the competition is Umlaut in San Francisco, which scored eight finalist entries. Other AICE companies that were ranked near the top of the list include Cutters, with seven total finalists; Arcade Edit, with six finalist entries; and Rock Paper Scissors, which earned five finalist nomina- tions. Cut+Run's work was singled out across a wide spectrum of categories, with finalists in the Alterna- tive Media (:90 and under) category for Nike; Automotive for Volkswagen and Fiat; Fashion/Beauty for the Council of Fashion Designers Award Film Series; and Storytelling for Adobe, among others. Umlaut was recognized for its Skype work, which earned finalist nods in the Alternative Media (over :90), Online Campaign and Storytelling categories, and its work for Levi's, which was nominated in the Alternative Media and Fashion/Beauty categories. AICE also announced its 2014 AICE Awards Curatorial Committee, which includes editors, VFX art- ists, designers, colorists and audio engineers from across the membership, to ensure that the finalists determined by the judges were appropriate for, and meet the criteria of each category. Editor Bob Spector of Beast in San Francisco, a member of the AICE Awards committee and VP of the AICE board of directors, says the formation of the Committee was the result of a review of category definitions. SMPTE announces calls for student paper, scholarship applications SGO's Mistika adds Dolby Vision support W HITE PLAINS, NY — The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (www.smpte.org), the professional member- ship association for motion-imaging standards and educa- tion for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, has announced a call for papers for a special student issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Jour- nal, as well as for the SMPTE Student Paper Award. SMPTE is also accepting applications for the Louis F. Wolf Memorial Scholarship. "Education is one of SMPTE's three pillars, and there is no better way to demonstrate our commit- ment to education than by recognizing and supporting students, who are the future leaders of our industry and our future members," says Pat Griffis, education VP at SMPTE. For the student issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, students in the field of motion pictures and television, with an emphasis on technology, are encour- aged to submit papers on technical, engineering, and scientific developments in motion pictures, television, and related fields. Chosen papers will be published in the November/December student issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. SMPTE's Student Paper Award honors an outstand- ing paper prepared and submitted by a SMPTE Student Member that deals with some technical phase of motion pictures, television, photographic instrumenta- tion, or their closely allied arts and sciences. The paper receiving the Student Paper Award will be published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, providing recognition both for the author and the institution at which the work was done. The Louis F. Wolf Memorial Scholarship is open to SMPTE Student Members who are full-time students enrolled in an accredited high school or two- or four- year college or university. L ONDON — SGO (www.sgo.es) announced that its flagship color grading and finishing platform, Mistika, now supports Dolby's (www.dolby.com) Dolby Vision technology, enabling the display of high dynamic range (HDR) images with wider color gamut capabilities. Dolby Vision is intended to help content creators and television manufacturers deliv- er true-to-life brightness, color and contrast by augmenting the fidelity of Ultra HD (UHD) and HD video signals for over-the- top (OTT) online streaming, broadcast and gaming applications. Mistika has supported full HDR workflows for some time now, and is positioned to enable its users to take full advantage of this technology. "Our goal at SGO is to look forward and analyze which upcoming technologies will best enable our customers to grow their businesses," says SGO CEO Miguel Angel Doncel. "We then aim to bring complete workflows incorporating those technologies to market first, so that our customers have the upper hand over their competitors." "Creative teams using SGO's Mistika can embrace the full gamut of colors, peak brightness and local contrast available with Dolby Vision," says Roland Vlaicu, senior director, broadcast imaging, Dolby Laborato- ries. "Films and TV shows will look more like the real world, and viewers will notice details that might have previously gone unseen." SGO, working in close collaboration with Dolby, will look to make the Dolby Vision workflow capabilities available in Mistika from Version 8.2, which was previewed at NAB last month and is due for release shortly after IBC 2014. SMPTE members got together at the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas. Mistika V.8.2 will support Dolby Vision. Finalists announced for 2014 AICE Awards