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Bits & Pieces Audeze offers new monitors L at a glance AS VEGAS — Audeze (www.audeze.com) has intro- duced the Reality-1 nearfield studio monitor, based on the same planar magnetic driver technology the company uses in its LCD headphones. The result, they say, provides detailed response, depth, accuracy and clarity. Reality-1 takes advantage of the Alpha Drive, a next- generation planar magnetic transducer that delivers a frequency response range of 150Hz to 30KHz, while eliminating crossovers and phase shifts in the mid range. The high-performance driver is combined with two dynamic woofers that provide deep, tight bass at the low-end. Reality-1's Alpha Drive is housed in an enclosure that includes two custom-built DSP and amplifier modules. SONY (www.pro.sony.com) has resumed production and delivery of HDCAM SR professional videotape, and the company's Sendai tape facilities in Japan will soon be returning to full capability, with gradual increases in production. Tape coating production of HDCAM SR and HDCAM media restarted in July at Sony's Sendai/Tagajo plant, with shipments of new product resuming at the end of August for HDCAM SR and early September for HDCAM. According to Sony, volume will increase each month as the company works to stabilize production and ensure the high quality control standards. BLACKMAGIC in Milpitas, CA, has released DaVinci Resolve 8.1, a new software update that can be downloaded by existing customers free of charge via the company's Website (www.blackmagic-design.com). The 8.1 release offers support for Apple Final Cut Pro X XML round trip, new layer node composite effects, ACES color space support, compatibility with Avid AAF for round trip with Media Composer, Final Cut Pro 7 clip size and position support, new copy commands for grades, upgraded EDL features, support for UltraStudio 3D for Thunderbolt and compati- bility with the 2011 MacBook Pro 15-inch laptop. IMAX (www.imax.com) and EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (www.kodak.com) have entered into a relationship that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in IMAX theatres. IMAX licensed from Kodak certain rights in the digital cinema field to a port- folio of more than 50 patent families covering fundamental laser projec- tion technology. The company also licensed rights to a broader range of patents covering complementary technologies useful for laser projec- tion products. This relationship will enable IMAX to deliver high-quality digital content to IMAX film-based screens. THE MILL (www.themill.com) in NYC created visual effects for State Farm's State of Chaos spot in which a giant robot terrorizes a suburban community. The live-action spot was directed by Jim Jenkins of O Posi- tive. The Mill relied on Autodesk's Maya for modeling, Mudbox for texturing and Softimage for animation, lighting and rendering. The Foundry's Nuke and Autodesk Flame were used for compositing. Pixel Farm's PFTrack and Science D Vision's 3D-Equalizer were called on for tracking. Mental Images Mental Ray was the renderer. Post Production Services Digital Post, Editorial & QC Services 150 Unique, State-of-the-art Editing Suites Audio Editing, Mixing, Conforming, Layback and Restoration Smoke, Final Cut Pro and Avid Editing, Clipster and Effects Tapeless Mastering, Encoding, DCP Packaging and File Transformation Duplication Services Stock Footage Library Footage for Commercials, Features and Television 6 Full Service Theatres & Screening Rooms Seating from 33 to 516 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90038 323.956.3991 www.TheStudiosAtParamount.com 6 Post • November 2011 www.postmagazine.com MTI FILM (www.mtifilm.com) has selected a video transport system from T-Vips (www.t-vips.com) to facilitate remote collaboration of the 2012 revamp of TV's Dallas series. The TNT show's post pipeline will allow realtime transport of show dailies between its Dallas studio and MTI's color correction facilities in Los Angeles. LA-based PRIMAL SCREAM (www.primalscreammusic.com), which creates original music, has opened a new location in Austin. The com- pany's founder/creative director Nicole Dionne will work with both studios to produce music and sound for advertising, film and TV pro- mos. The studio took on the expansion in an effort to tap the musical talent available in Austin. CUT+RUN's Michelle Burke and Steve Gandolfi have launched a new LA office (ww.cutandrun.tv) in Santa Monica. The new location features four offline edit suites outfitted with Avid Media Composer 5.5.3, Apple Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 and Adobe CS5 software. Wacom Intuos4 tablets are used as an interface. Finishing is via Autodesk Flame Premium 2011.