Los Angeles February 8, 2010—Cinema Audio Society President Edward L. Moskowitz, CAS announced today that for the first time since 2004 there will be a President’s Award presented at this year’s CAS Awards Dinner on February 27th. The President’s Award is presented at the discretion of the President and the Board of Directors of the CAS to an individual who has been dedicated to the advancement of Sound.
Said Moskowitz, “This year I am pleased to announce that we will be honoring Manfred Klemme with the President’s Award. Mr. K, as he is affectionately known, has spent decades involved in motion picture sound and the quality of sound we listen to in films today is a result of his years of dedication and his technical advances and designs.”

CAS President’s Award Honoree, Manfred Klemme
After spending years with Nagra Hollywood, Manfred Klemme founded M. Klemme Technology Corp. the company that manufactures, more…
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February 9, 2010 - For Immediate Release
Ross Video New@NAB 2010
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Ross Video raises the bar in high end production switchers with the North American launch of Vision Octane, the world’s first 8 MLE switcher. Vision Octane is extremely powerful with 35 Full Screen HD Animation Stores, 24 Channels of 3D DVE with WARP capability, 96 inputs, 48 outputs, and an unprecedented total of 56 Keyers - 32 Full Keyers, 12 AuxKey Mixer / Keyers on the aux bus outputs and 12 DVE key combiners. Vision Octane can be loaded with any number of MLEs from 1 to 8, match any application, and be combined with up to 9 different control panels.
The entire Vision Series ships with a new 3G infrastructure as a standard feature, fulfilling the promise of Vision being a more…
New Interviews with Randy Jackson (Zebra) and Jon Payne (Asia)
New York, NY - The Kweevak Music Magazine radio show is one of the Internet’s longest running institutions now available around the world on demand in digital Podcast format. The program is the brainchild of Kweevak.com founder Rockin’ Rich Lynch and it regularly delivers astounding interviews with world famous musicians coupled with amazing indie music from the site’s expansive library of songs.
Over the past decade Kweevak.com has quietly created a much loved and heralded portal for indie music promotion, engaging artist interviews and music industry news - and a key component of the website has been its influential and underground radio show that consistently brings some of the world’s best-known musicians to the show’s global listening audience.
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LANCASTER, PA. – Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control solutions for digital television, has inked a deal with C.N. Rood, to handle sales in the Benelux market, which encompasses Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. more…
Los Angeles—The Cinema Audio Society, in conjunction with the American Cinematheque, will present the annual CAS “Meet the Winners” panel at no charge to the attendees on Sunday, February 28th at 5:30 PM at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood.
In making the announcement, CAS President Edward L. Moskowitz said, “This year we are delighted to be joining with the American Cinematheque in presenting our annual ‘Meet the Winners’ panel. Both the Cinema Audio Society and the American Cinematheque include in their mission statements the exchange of information and dialogue between filmmakers and the general public. While we won’t know the winners of the five categories until the envelopes are opened at the 46th CAS Awards Dinner the evening before, we do know that the projects that will be represented at the panel will be the best of the best in sound mixing from 2009. more…
Cinedeck Debuts Industry’s First Camera-Mountable, Extremely High Quality Recording, Monitoring, Playback and Editing Device
NEW YORK, NY (February 9, 2010) — Cinedeck (www.cinedeck.com) today announced the debut of the world’s first camera-mountable, HDMI/HDSDI recording, monitoring, playback and editing device for the production community. Designed by cinematographers for cinematographers, Cinedeck defines an entirely new category of extremely portable, affordable, platform agnostic, cinema-grade recording and monitoring solutions for anyone with an HDMI, HDSDI or LAN camera. more…
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Lighting designer Christopher Landy of Brooklyn-based Vibrant Design LLC was called on to cook up a fresh new look for the new season of Food Network’s popular series “Ultimate Recipe Showdown”.
Hosted by Guy Fieri, “Ultimate Recipe Showdown” premieres Sunday, March 14th at 9pm ET/PT. Each week, four contestants compete to win $25,000 and for the chance to have their recipe be deemed the “ultimate” in the following categories: comfort food, burgers, cakes, hot & spicy, desserts, and hometown favorites.
“It’s the ‘American Idol’ of home cooking,” says Landy. “It’s a cooking show, it’s a competition show, complete with a running commentary by Guy Fieri. He’s constantly on the move.” This challenge proved especially difficult to Landy, who chose two 1×1 LED LitePanels to light his host. “Basically, where ever Guy went, he was followed by a steadi-cam, 2 Litepanels, a stage manager, floor producers and a more…
Software Generation Ltd (SGL) is a leading provider of content archive and storage management software solutions. At NAB SGL will demonstrate its open system architecture, highlighting the substantial cost and workflow benefits that SGL’s fully accessible systems provide. SGL will show its seamless integration with Interplay 2.1, Avid’s production asset management system. This will be demonstrated by first-class demo artists. The company will highlight its support for the latest version of Apple’s Final Cut Server (FCS). It will also demonstrate its client-based web tool FlashBrowse II. As the leading archive provider, SGL is supporting LTO5, the latest data tape release capable of holding 70 hours of material at 50Mbs and will unveil further details at the show. more…
LOS ANGELES—Award-winning 740 Sound Design provided sound effects for four spots featured during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The company lent its talents to ads promoting Intel, Vizio, Audi and Dove. Here is a list of credits for each spot: more…
Nice Shoes has brought on advertising sales and marketing pro Travis Taylor to unify its U.S. sales force, grow its core business, and expand into new realms. Taylor, who will hold the title Vice President of Sales & Marketing, has extensive experience in sales management, print advertising, event marketing, rebranding, and implementation of innovative and automated systems to overhaul ingrained corporate sales cultures. Prior to joining Nice Shoes, Taylor held similar positions at MetroMedia Company, Clear Channel Communications, Centra Software, and the Buxton Company. more…