STORY FIRST: BREAKING THROUGH THE CLUTTER IN THE AGE OF MARIE KONDO

Can you recall your your first computer, or video game console? What about your first camera, or cellphone? Did those new things spark joy ? It's probab...

ACE Events Offer Community, Technology, Expertise

This summer offers fantastic opportunities to connect with the editing and post production community through ACE! ACE TechFest June 8, Universal Studios Join...

2019 Women in Film Annual Gala Highlights Advocacy and Entrepreneurship

Honoring Amy Poehler, Issa Rae, Elizabeth Debicki and Cathy Schulman, the 2019 Women In Film Annual Gala promises to be an exciting evening highlighting advocac...

Avid Delivers Greater Flexibility and Control to Audio Mixing Workflows with Availability of New EUCON Software

Avid recently announced the immediate availability of a new version of EUCON sof...

DigitalFilm Tree Uses Davinci Resolve To Color The 100

Celebrating the debut of the sixth season of the post-apocalyptic, sci-fi drama, The 100 , DigitalFilm Tree-DFT-would like to thank its color team, including S...

Pro Tools 2019 Delivers More Power and Performance for Fluid Music Creation and Demanding Audio Post Workflows

Avid recently announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools 2019. The lates...

Entertainment Technology 2019

Attend the upcoming joint SMPTE/AIS conference Entertainment Technology 2019 on June 5 and 6 at the Santa Clara Marriott. With a dual track technical/creativ...

Duplitech Turns to Xytech's MediaPulse to Streamline Asset Management as its Film Restoration Business Grows

Three years ago, media service company Duplitech launched its 4K Film Services D...

HPA News

As you see in our NewsLine feature story, HPA has hired a Phil Kubel as the organization's director. Phil will be joining HPA in this new role starting May ...

Phil Kubel Named as Director of Hollywood Professional Association

Burbank, CA (May 23, 2019) -The Hollywood Professional Association, the trade association serving the community of individuals and businesses who provide creati...

ELEMENTS unique MAM Media Library just got smarter with exciting new features

The sophisticated, yet easy to use media asset management software, embedded in the media storage, incorporates many one-of-a-kind features, including an embedd...

New all-NVMe High-Performance Storage Appliance BOLT from ELEMENTS

ELEMENTS announced the launch of an entirely new media storage, ELEMENTS BOLT. Designed to handle resolutions of 8K and higher, the compact 2U appliance provide...

Signiant's SDCX Fabric Powers the Multi-Cloud Future of Media

Signiant Inc. recently announced new capabilities and adoption metrics for the innovative cloud-native SaaS platform that is driving the company's growth. A...

Cloudfirst.io and Signiant team up to Offer Accelerated Next-Generation Cloud Migration Solutions

At NAB Show 2019, Cloudfirst.io, an innovator in next-generation digital archive...

Trend Roundup from NAB 2019

NAB has seen quite a few changes in the media and entertainment landscape since it was founded in 1923 as a radio organization. In the intervening years, it has...

Sohonet Joins Media Innovation Cloud Alliance

Sohonet, the global experts in connectivity, media services and network security for the media and entertainment industry, has joined the Media Innovation Cloud...

Blue Collar Post Collective Boosts Diversity at NAB Show with Charitable Efforts

The post production non-profit facilitated NAB attendance for ten lower income professionals with support from Flanders Scientific, LaCie, additional corporate ...

Imagica Group Makes Strategic Investment in Pixelogic

Imagica Group Inc., an integrated global media holding company and the parent company of SDI Media Group, Inc., has made a strategic investment in Pixelogic, ac...

Women In Film a Contender for LA2050 Grant

Entertainment is one of L.A.'s biggest industries, yet its leadership does not accurately represent the people of L.A.: only 23% of leadership positions are...

Xytech Systems, Blackbird Partner to Streamline Asset Management Process for MediaPulse Users

Xytech, leaders in facility management software for the broadcast, media service...

Submit Your Work Now for the HPA Engineering Excellence Award!

For the 14th year, The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ) will honor the companies and individuals who draw upon technical and creative ingenuity to deve...

HPA Awards Opens Call For Entries For Engineering Excellence Awards

April 16, 2019 (Burbank, CA) - For the 14th year, The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA ) will honor the companies and individuals who draw upon technical...

Latest Version of ClearView Flex On Display at Sohonet Beach Club @NAB

Sohonet will be brighting up the exhibition hall at NAB next month, with the Sohonet Beach Club, located in the South Lower Hall, SL14205. In addition to conve...

Xytech Launches New Web UI for MediaPulse Sky

Xytech has announced it will launch the 2019 version of its MediaPulse facility management software system at booth SL4705 during the 2019 NAB Show from April 8...

Avid and FotoKem Renew Multi-year Enterprise Agreement

Avid recently announced that FotoKem, a leader in digital and film post production for over five decades, has renewed its multi-year enterprise agreement with A...

Scale Logic Offers Media Management Workshops at NAB

Scale Logic, Inc. is going back to school at NAB, with two days of media management workshops on the show floor with some of the industry's most prominent t...

Signiant Introduces Jet, the Newest Product on its SaaS Platform

At NAB 2019, Signiant is introducing Jet, a new SaaS. Targeted at simple lights-out use cases, Signiant JetTM meets the growing need to replace scripted FTP w...

Digital FilmTree Provides Post for Nearly 250 Episodes of NCIS: LOS ANGELES as Hit Show Celebrates 10 Years on the Air

As NCIS: LOS ANGELES hits its 10th year anniversary, DigitalFilm Tree congratula...

Cutting Edge Merges with ALT

ALT Systems, Inc., a premiere media and entertainment solutions provider, and Cutting Edge, a leading file-based media systems integrator, jointly announced tha...

Cinionic World at CinemaCon 2019

Cinionic, the Barco, CGS, and ALPD cinema joint venture providing a new visual standard with advanced services and technology solutions to enhance the movie-goi...

Blackmagic Design Announces DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder

Blackmagic Design recently announced DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder, an all new PCIe capture card featuring 4 independent HDMI 2.0b input connections for simultane...

Signiant Introduces Patent-Pending Intelligent Transport

At NAB 2019, Signiant Inc, a long-time leader in intelligent file transfer, is introducing its new patent-pending intelligent transport architecture. The archit...

November May Seem Like a Long Time Away, But It's Not

By Christine Purse, Chair, HPA Awards The HPA Awards will return to the Skirball Cultural Center on November 21, 2019, but the HPA Awards schedule kicks off in...

A Deep Dive into Deep Fakes

By Debra Kaufman Wikipedia defines deep fakes as a portmanteau of deep learning' and fake', and refers to videos in which celebrities and politic...

DAS 2019 Registration Now Open!

Since 2007, AMIA's Digital Asset Symposium has provided the opportunity to compare and discuss approaches from a wide variety of institutions dealing with t...

Tickets On Sale Now for ACE EditFest!

Take advantage for early bird pricing for ACE EditFest events in both LA and London. EditFest London takes the stage at BFI Southbank on the 29th of June, while...

Cold War Wins American Society of Cinematographers Feature Award; The Crown, Beyond, and Patrick Melrose Take Top TV Prizes; Namme Claims Spotlight Award

Blackmagic Design Forms Strategic Partnership with the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Blackmagic Design announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with the ...

Avid Customers Shine at the 91st Annual Academy Awards

Numerous films recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 91st annual Academy Awards were crafted using Avid's creative audio and...

DigitalGlue Outfits Major Hollywood Studio with Avocent High-Performance KVM System

DigitalGlue recently provided one of Hollywood's biggest film & television s...

Ring The Alarm's Audio Offering Expands Through Partnership with Therapy Studios

Ring The Alarm bolsters its services as part of the growing partnership between ...

Therapy Studios' Doobie White Edits Netflix's Polar

In Intuit's recent broadcast campaign featuring the spots A Prosperity Story and Power of Giants, Emmy-nominated sound designer Eddie Kim, as a producti...

Editor Lisa Bromwell, ACE at Women in Post

At the annual Women in Post luncheon at the HPA Tech Retreat, editor Lisa Bromwell, ACE (The Sessions, In Treatment) described her journey to become a successfu...

Maria Psyhogios to Lead Testronic Americas Film & Television Business Development

Testronic has announced that Maria Psyhogios has joined the company as Vice Pres...

Avid Customer Association's Third Annual Vote Now Open Through March 17

Avid, in partnership with the Avid Customer Association (ACA) today announced the launch of the third annual ACA Vote, which will remain open until March 17. Th...

From a Young Entrepreneur to HPA: Thank You!

By Clare Runciman As a young entrepreneur who has struggled like a lone ranger to build and run a small studio business for the past 6 years, the HPA YEP progr...

AJA Ships FS-HDR v2.6 with New Dynamic LUTs

AJA Video Systems has released a free v2.6 firmware update for the FS-HDR real-time HDR and WCG converter/frame-sync, fusing AJA's production-proven hardwar...

AJA HA5-12G Mini-Converters Now Available

AJA Video Systems is expanding its 12G-SDI products for professional broadcast, production and proAV workflows with the new HA5-12G Mini-Converters, now shippin...

HPA Tech Retreat 2019: 8K Is Here, Ready Or Not

As I write this, the second day of the annual HPA Tech Retreat is underway. So far, we've learned about deep fakes, film restoration at 12 million frames pe...

HPA Tech Retreat Panelists: AI in M&E is in its Infancy

Don Eklund, CTO for Sony Pictures Entertainment, sees a pretty simple explanation for why artificial intelligence has become such a prevalent technology today, ...