SANTA MONICA, Calif. –December 15, 2010–Company 3 is completing digital intermediate work on a number of eagerly-anticipated feature films, including those below, listed by colorist:

Stefan Sonnenfeld: Green Hornet, Season of the Witch, Rango, I Am Number 4, Sucker Punch, The Rum Diary
Siggy Ferstl: The Mechanic, Lincoln Lawyer
Scott Gregory: No Strings Attached
Stephen Nakamura: The Conspirator

Company 3 is also proud to have completed DI work on two films selected to screen in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, held next month in Park City, Utah. Also listed by colorist:

Siggy Ferstl: Circumstance

Alex Bickel: The Sound of My Voice

Hollywood, CA — December 2, 2010 — Encore Hollywood is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Intravartolo as Senior Inferno Artist of the company’s visual effects department. Intravartolo comes from Prime Focus’ Post Logic facility as creative director, North America/senior Inferno artist, where he worked on such projects as director Zack Snyder’s upcoming feature, “Sucker Punch,” as well as the “CSI” and “Law & Order” franchises. Previously, he worked for Modern Video Film and the Post Group creating impressive VFX on series such as “Desperate Housewives” and miniseries “John Adams.” He is recognized in the industry as a master artist/compositor, with multiple Emmy nominations and a win for his work on the HBO biopic “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.”

“We’re thrilled to have Mark on board,” says Bill Romeo, Sr. VP of Ascent Media’s Entertainment Television division. “His reputation precedes him. He has done amazing work and been recognized with just about every award there is in the effects field.”

“I’m very excited to be joining the Encore VFX team,” enthuses Intravartolo. “The company has such a great reputation. I feel it has the opportunity to grow further and I look forward to growing with it.”

Intravartolo, who spent nine years as an editor on sitcoms, commercials and music videos and another 15 in the visual effects realm, explains that the skills he’s acquired in both fields often intersect. Editing, he says, “helped me develop a keen sense of timing and of seeing exactly how an individual effect is going to play within a scene. That infuses my VFX work every day.”

In addition to his VFX virtuosity, Intravartolo also possesses a high level of technical expertise in the area of stereoscopic 3D post, having contributed his skills to a number of 3D feature films, including the James Cameron blockbuster, “Avatar. ”

Intravartolo is proficient in Inferno, Flame, Smoke and Avid systems, and has been nominated for multiple Emmys, Monitor Awards, MTV Music Awards and British Design & Art Direction Awards.

Montreal, Canada – December 1, 2010 – Matrox® Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of release 2.1 software for the Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices for Mac. Key features of this release include Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium support and a powerful new stand-alone software application, Matrox Vetura Capture.

Matrox Vetura Capture lets users quickly and easily capture QuickTime files using popular codecs installed on their editing systems. Users of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can capture to the Matrox MPEG2 I-frame full raster (1920 x 1080) HD codec or to other popular Adobe-supported codecs. Users of Final Cut Pro can capture to ProRes and other popular Final Cut Pro codecs. Users of Avid Media Composer can capture directly to Avid DNxHD .mov files or other popular Avid-supported codecs.

“Media Composer users in network environments will appreciate how the Vetura Capture and Playback applications allow the use of Matrox MXO2 LE, MXO2 and MXO2 Rack on SDI ingest and playout stations,” said Wayne Andrews, Matrox product manager. Editors on the network can use Matrox MXO2 Mini devices for monitoring while editing, then put material back on the network to go out SDI from another Matrox-based ingest/playout station.”

“We are listening to our customers and continuing to add value to the Matrox MXO2 product line,” said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior director of sales and marketing. “This release rounds out Matrox MXO2’s cross-platform support with complete I/O, fast H.264 encoding, and other important productivity benefits for users of the three most popular professional editing applications: Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer.”

Availability

Matrox products are available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. Release 2.1 for Mac is now available to registered users of Matrox MXO2 devices and
Matrox CompressHD as a free download from the Matrox website.

Key Features of Matrox MXO2 Family for Mac

· Convenient form factors for use in studio, on set, in the field, and in OB vans

· Works with Intel-based MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, and Apple Xserve systems

· Broadcast-quality HD/SD video and audio input/output

· Flexible support for leading codecs, file formats, cameras, and workflows

· Extensive application support including Final Cut Pro, Apple Color, Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, and many more

· Support for popular 3D workflows

· Cost-effective HD monitoring for Avid Media Composer 5 with Matrox MXO2 Mini

· 10-bit HDMI input, output, and monitoring with calibration controls

· 10-bit realtime hardware up/down/cross conversion on capture and output

· Hardware acceleration of Final Cut Pro Dynamic RT segments, HDV, and DVCPRO HD

· Matrox Vetura Capture – stand-alone application for quick and easy capture to a variety of QuickTime codecs

· Matrox Vetura Playback – stand-alone application for convenient playback of H.264 and .mov files

· Also available with Matrox MAX for faster than realtime H.264 encoding

London, UK. December 1st, 2010: Leading visual effects software company, The Foundry, today launched an open beta of their brand new digital cinema camera workflow product, STORM.

Internally developed from the ground up, STORM initially brings assistance to RED Digital Cinema camera production workflows, addressing the growing needs of digital camera acquisition and metadata-rich production, on and near-set.

STORM helps camera operators, DITs, cinematographers or directors review their RED footage for content, editorial and visual intent. Quick and easy to use, STORM helps users sort their material and explore creative ideas with a flexible effects stack and timeline. Selects can be passed to Final Cut Pro as QuickTime and FCP timelines can be conformed to the original RED material in STORM.

The Foundry is making this public beta widely available in response to the huge amount of interest shown in STORM since it was first shown at IBC this year. “STORM has been developed in very close conjunction with users and has had a very involved alpha period. The open beta is a chance to gain wider feedback helping ensure STORM lives up to expectations and delivers a flexible, efficient digital workflow.” said Richard Shackleton, Head of Product Development at The Foundry.

The STORM beta can be downloaded from http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/storm and is FREE to use until the 1st Feb 2011 when the full product release is due. It requires a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro with at least 2GB RAM running OSX 10.6.4 or later. STORM is optimised for RED R3D footage and will use a RED ROCKET card if one is installed.

Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at RED, adds:

“Having seen STORM in detail, I’d describe it as REDCine-X on steroids. Well worth the time to investigate it’s capabilities if you are involved in post-production, working with RED footage. The Foundry have looked at RED workflow in great detail and taken logical integration with RED to a very evolved state. We’re very excited that those shooting and posting RED all over the world will soon have access to this software.”

More information about STORM including case studies and introductory videos can be found on our website http://www.thefoundry.co.uk.