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ENGINE ROOM ROLLS CAMERA FOR LARRY KING LIVE IMAGE SPOT

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Engine Room is proud to have been tapped by the creatives at CNN On-Air to produce its Fall Season image spot for Larry King Live. The spot highlights the stature of the broadcast icon, with a unique behind-the-scenes view of his legendary, Los Angeles-based news studio.

STEELE Studios accelerates RED workflow with Quantel for Cindy Crawford

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

STEELE Studios (formerly STEELE VFX), known for its wide variety of services including DI, Visual Effects, Graphics, Online and Beauty, has recently purchased new Quantel technology to provide dramatically faster RED One Camera workflows.

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #4 - Sharing Your Sequence

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

New to Final Cut Pro 7 is an export function called Share. Gone are the days where you have to figure out your compression settings to export a sequence. One set of settings for your ipod, another for the web, another to create a DVD. Now, all you have to do is choose your destination and Final Cut Pro will determine the best settings for you!

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #5: Speed Changes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes. Simple-yet elegant and powerful. You will be able to change speed in your clips easily and with a lot of flexibility.

CUT + RUN ENJOYS THE XBOX 360 EXPERIENCE WITH NEW CAMPAIGN BY DIRECTOR STEVE COPE

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Cut + Run recently collaborated with production company Rattling Stick and agency McCann Erickson London on the new campaign for the Xbox 360 platform.

CUT + RUN FOLLOWS THE LIGHT WITH THE FORD FOCUS

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This latest spot for Ogilvy, showcases the attraction of the Ford Focus. "White & Orange" was directed by Vaughan Arnell of production company Serious Pictures and edited by Leo King of Cut + Run, and began airing earlier this month.

Blur Studio Reels In Animation for Goldfish Crackers Campaign

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Blur Studio recently completed a ten-spot series of commercials for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers via Young & Rubicam, NY. The campaign is entirely computer generated and was directed by Blur's Leo Santos.

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #6 - Apple ProRes Formats

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Apple ProRes is not new to Final Cut Pro 7. It was introduced in Final Cut Pro 6. But with FCP 7, the ProRes family has been expanded to include 3 new-and extremely useful-formats.

The New Video Standards War - Ogg Vorbis vs. MPEG-4

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

There is a new video CODEC standard battle that is about to turn into a full, blown out war. On one side is Google and FireFox with the Open Source video format called Ogg Vorbis. In the other corner is Apple with the industry standard MPEG-4. The shared ground they are fighting over: dominance in HTML5. This article looks into this new battle and looks to see if there is already a clear winner.

Speeding Premiere Pro CS4's H.264 Encoding with NVIDIA QuadroFX and Elemental Accelerator

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

High definition video editing and HD video encoding are two of the hardware intensive tasks that can be done with a computer. It takes a lot of power to complete these types of jobs, oftentimes rendering your computer limited in functionality while it encodes video. NVIDIA's Quadro line of graphics cards can help to speed up H.264/AVC encoding in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 with an assist from Elemental Technologies' Elemental Accelerator.