The Hollywood Professional Association Industry Recovery Task Force will explore how CBS/ITV Entertainment’s Love Island USA moved from Fiji to Las Vegas and kept their exacting production and delivery schedule intact in the midst of the Coronavirus upheaval, late in 2020. HPA’s Virtual Town Hall, the latest in the series produced by the Industry Recovery Task Force, will take place on February 10 from 11:00 a.m to 12:30 p.m. PDT.
Assimilate today announced an update of their Live Assist and Live Looks on-set software, which enables a first in highly efficient, streamlined on-set workflows at unprecedented price/performance value for video assist and digital image technician live grading functions. Also included is newly added support for AJA and Blackmagic routers, as well as integrated NDI output among other highly anticipated features.
MTI Film has released a new update to Cortex, its family of products for managing workflows from the set through post-production. Cortex v5.3.2 includes numerous improvements to performance and user-experience and streamlines common workflow tasks.
Pacific Post in Los Angeles has released the remote collaboration platform PacPost.live. Originally built as an internal solution to immediately address the demands for remote work in March due to pandemic lockdowns, Pacific Post has added features to make PacPost.live a robust live streaming solution, and is now offering it to the broader industry.
OwnZones Entertainment Technologies has announced that its cloud-based platform Connect, and its integrated features like FrameDNA have been named finalists in both the SaaS Awards, for Best Data-Driven SaaS technology and the CSI Awards for Best Use of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning in Video.
OwnZones Entertainment Technologies has released three new features to its OwnZones Connect platform to support customers and optimize user experience. The new features, which include: Deep Analysis, Task Management, and Search Service, help Connect users efficiently organize, manage, and deliver content as well as collaborate better via the cloud while working remotely.
With normal production not an option during the pandemic, at the request of advertising agency The Marketing Arm, the Chicago creative company The Colonie remotely edited, color graded and finished a live-action commercial for State Farm insurance. Its team rallied, pulling volumes of stock shots, user generated content in conjunction with Catch & Release and even augmented footage by filming their own families at home in scenarios that have become the new norm.
The White Wall has been called one of the most exciting scripted television series to come out of Scandinavia in recent years with its unique storyline, high production value and superb cast. It was primarily shot in a remote village in northern Finland and set in the present time with science fiction elements. The story was based on an unusual white wall discovered deep underground at a mining site of one of the world’s largest nuclear waste depositories.
Hula Post, Burbank, California, has launched Hula Post Everywhere, its newest post-production service. Primarily developed as a solution to create remote workflows during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hula Post Everywhere is wherever feature and television editors need to be, anywhere in the U.S.
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.
