Editing

MTI Film Releases Cortex v5.3 Workflow Management Software

Tue, 06/23/2020 - 12:51 -- Nick Dager

MTI Film today announces the release of Cortex v5.3, the latest version of its family of products for managing workflows on set and in post. This latest release includes a host of new features that make managing and processing data during production and post-production easier and more efficient. It also adds support for the latest sound and picture formats and delivery requirements of leading distributors, including Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Quibi.

SubtitleNext V5.6 with Smart Text Assist Available Now

Tue, 06/16/2020 - 11:21 -- Nick Dager

PBTEU of Sofia, Bulgaria has released SubtitleNext Version 5.6, which offers a new centralized Smart Text Assist feature that the company says significantly speeds up and simplifies the entire text-altering process. It combines all of the text-altering tools in one place so that they can be easily accessed. This provides a reliable and consistent framework for busy subtitlers to achieve fast results.

Axle ai Launches Remote Work Solution for Avid Media Composer

Wed, 06/10/2020 - 11:06 -- Nick Dager

Axle ai has launched a new Pro option for its axle ai 2020 software that supports Avid’s Media Composer professional editing software. With the new axle ai 2020 Pro module, Avid editors now have the capability of accessing both native Avid media and a wide range of other media remotely, through any standard web browser.

Nagra Offers Watermarking Plug-In for Avid Media Composer

Sun, 04/26/2020 - 09:40 -- Nick Dager

Nagra, a Kudelski Group company, has launched a new forensic watermarking plug-in for editing and collaboration workflows on Avid's Media Composer video editing software. The NexGuard Plug-in for Editing Software allows studios, content owners and post-production houses to ensure protection of high-value assets when sharing pre-release content such as feature films or TV series with their editing department, reviewers or their creative agencies.

Editing Continues Thanks to Vortechs

Fri, 04/10/2020 - 09:58 -- Nick Dager

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has curtailed production activity in much of Hollywood, Vortechs, an independent supplier of post-production technology, is implementing novel solutions to help its clients stay on track with motion picture and television projects. Vortechs-supplied projects, now working remotely, include the upcoming Warner Bros. features Suicide Squad 2 and In the Heights, directed by John Chu and edited by Myron Kerstein.

Compression, File Sizes Topics at Next SMPTE Hollywood Section Meeting

Thu, 03/05/2020 - 12:42 -- Nick Dager

The Hollywood Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers will explore the evolution of video compression, and new ideas for keeping files small, while preserving quality and creative intent, at its monthly meeting, scheduled for March 26 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Rock Documentary to Open Tribeca Film Festival

Wed, 02/26/2020 - 14:34 -- Nick Dager

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, the new feature documentary from Grammy Award-winning director Mary Wharton, producer Chris Farrell and writer Bill Flanagan, will make its world premiere April 15 as it opens the 19th Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The rockumentary-flavored film, which went through post-production finishing at Sim Post New York, centers on the 39th president’s life-long passion for music and rock’s contribution to his unlikely journey from a peanut farm in Georgia to the White House.

Film Festival Hit Edited at The Colonie

Tue, 02/25/2020 - 10:52 -- Nick Dager

Two Dum Micks, an offbeat comedic short film, written, directed, and produced by D.B. Sweeney and edited by Keith Kristinat at The Colonie in Chicago, has won more than two-dozen first-place film festival awards to date. It tells the story of Mikey and Mick, played by Sean Astin and Sweeney, as two down-and-out guys who come up with an implausible jailhouse scheme to get the money they need to solve their legal problems.

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