AEON – A Life in a Day
The DMCI’s AEON follows a lifetime of seasons using 3D animation and light at TEDxSydney. Read more
MPC – Still Life Animation
MPC animated a decomposing classical still life painting in real-time, recreating a Dutch painter’s brush strokes and realistic behaviour of flies and maggots. Read more
Sound Devices Expands Recording & File Transfer for PIX 260i
Sound Devices rack-mounted PIX 260i gains new audio and video functions, 
formatting drives as exFAT and transferring files over a network while recording.
Novo Digital Camera Brings Cinematic Tools to Action Shoots
The tiny Novo Cinema Camera for action applications adds cinematic functionality 
including manually adjustable exposure and C-mount lens system for extreme
macro shooting.
EditShare Field 2 Shared Storage is Now Portable
EditShare Field 2 shared storage platform integrates media asset management 
in a portable size and design for file-based productions on-the-move.
T & F Shoots Family Masterpieces on Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Thornberg & Forester produced four :15 spots for Friendly's Restaurants 
with Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Resolve, now showing on the client’s
site and social media channels.
Animation Mentor Character Rigs Challenge New Animators
Animation Mentor is releasing a series of character animation rigs to 
students and alumni. The first group is available, surfaced, ready for
lighting and part of their new VFX program.
Seagate Delivers SSD Series & Purpose-built 4TB Video HDD
The Seagate solid state drive series includes a client SSD, two enterprise 
SSDs and the storage memory X8 Accelerator PCIe card. The 4TB Video
3.5 HDD is enginneered for video.
Panasonic’s Small, Bright Projectors Deliver Images Everywhere
Panasonic’s new 3-chip DLP projectors are extremely small and light 
for their class. The single-chip DLP models have very high brightness
and Digital Link compatibility.
STS-GRIOT Centralises Post Services on Facilis TerraBlock SAN
STS-GRIOT studio centralises and manages access to media for 
all of its post-production services, editing and finishing, sound
to colour, on the Facilis TerraBlock 24D SAN.
Dejero LIVE+ Portal Remote Control Aims to Expand Coverage
The Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitter and LIVE+ VSET mobile 
ENG systems now have a new remote control function integrated
into LIVE+ Portal intelligent online management.
Hackett Films Gains Design, Animation & Production Talent
Hackett Films in Sydney has now expanded their team with 
producer Sarah Harris, VFX/design artist Pete Nizic and recent
graduate Kimberley Lund.
Telestream Episode Encodes Cannes Festival to the Web
The Festival de Cannes official website team are encoding all 
of the event’s web videos with Telestream Episode Engine
video encoding software for the third year in a row.
Marquise MIST Dailies Move with NVIDIA Quadro K4000
Marquise MIST Mobile for on set dailies will ship with the most 
recent NVIDIA single-slot GPU, the Quadro K4000, from 1 June
to help balance GPU size with performance.
Australian News Connects Editors with Quantel Workflows
Australian News Channel has completed a major upgrade for its 
Quantel Enterprise sQ production and playout, updating to V5
software and QTube connected workflow system.
V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp Accelerates Lights, Geometry & Render Engine
Chaos Group’s 1.6 upgrade to V-Ray for SketchUp improves visualization 
workflows, render quality and tools for scene complexity, and is now
available for free open Beta.
PacTv Converts Frame Rates Live with FOR-A UFM-30FRC
PacTV Centre now operates three FOR-A UFM-30FRC frame rate 
converters to handle diverse formats when transmitting feeds
around the world from LA, New York and London.
Tiffen Photo fx Ultra v5 Simulates Looks & Lenses for DPs
Tiffen Photo fx Ultra v5, named ‘Best Mobile Photo App of 2013’ 
by TIPA, lets users simulate filters, lenses, lab processes, grain,
colour, light and more professional photographic effects.
Canon EF Super-Telephoto Zoom Lens Extends EOS DSLRs
Canon has built a new interchangeable EF lens for the EOS DSLR 
cameras, the EF200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x, a super-
telephoto zoom incorporating an internal extender.
Front Porch Content Storage Integrates with Ericsson & Sony
Front Porch Digital is now integrating its DIVArchive and LYNX 
cloud-based content storage management with Ericsson’s disaster
recovery and Sony Optical Disc Archiving.
iN DEMAND Pumps Up Promotional Content with AJA
iN DEMAND creates volumes of promotional content for on-demand 
movies and sports, distributed to video providers with a flexible
workflow based partly on AJA hardware.
