The Post Group “Classic” Reunion to be held Saturday, February 10th, 2007, in Hollywood

Hollywood, CA - October 23, 2006 - The organizing committee for the first Post Group Reunion has issued a Save-the-Date announcement for Saturday, February 10th, to individuals who worked at The Post Group and its family of companies from 1974 to 2004. The official event website is now open: www.thepostgroupreunion.com.

The iconic post facility, founded by Fred Rheinstein in 1974, more

Iroquois, ON, Canada - October 24, 2006 - Ross Video announced today Current TV, a national cable and satellite channel founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt dedicated to bringing the viewers voice to television has invested in a Synergy 4 MD-X digital production switcher. Synergy is being used daily for everything from simple pod wraps to full blown multi-studio productions using both the Los Angeles and San Francisco stages at the same time. more

Iroquois, ON, Canada - October 24, 2006 - Ross Video and Michael Stevens & Partners‘ (MS&P) Chromatec officially announced their partnership to expand the openGear terminal equipment platform. The Chromatec product focuses on a range of colour in-picture audio metering and audio, video alarm systems. MS&P‘s Chromatec joins other terminal equipment vendors in supporting the award winning platform. more

New York City - October 24, 2006 - At the NAB New York Content Creation convention, Cinital (TM) LLC (www.cinital.com), an emerging developer of next-generation visual effects tools, today announced the availability of Previzion (TM) HD Studio, the company‘s robust, end-to-end virtual studio solution that offers affordable, advanced camera motion tracking and scene integration technology for rapid previsualization and visual effects creation. Previzion effectively integrates the complete visual effects pipeline into one application, including 3D camera tracking, live video I/O, keying, 3D background rendering, compositing and real-time color correction. Prevision enables accurate matching of live action foregrounds and computer generated backgrounds. The new system ships after NAB New York, running October 24-26 at New York‘s Javits Convention Center. [Editors‘ Note: Cinital will be demonstrating at Booth #125.] more

Integration of Viz|Curious World Maps with Viz|Artist, Viz|Trio, Viz|Content Pilot, and Viz|Weather Creates Broader Product Line

Bergen, Norway, October 23, 2006 - Vizrt has announced the integration between its Viz|Curious World Maps software with other key Vizrt products including: Viz|Artist graphics design tool, Viz|Trio real-time CG, Viz|Content Pilot content management and control software, and the Viz|Weather real-time broadcast weather solution. more

2 M/E Digital Production Switcher Used to Produce Tampa Municipal Events

TAMPA, FL, October 23, 2006 — The City of Tampa‘s Television division recently purchased a HANABI HVS-3800S digital production switcher by FOR-A Corporation of America, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries. more

Wes Plate of Automatic Duck heads to the Indy Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting tomorrow to talk about his newest timeline translation tools for Final Cut Pro users. Automatic Duck announced last week that they had completed porting Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP to the Intel platform, so this will be one of the first times users will get to see these tools in action on Intel-based Macs.

The Indy Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting will be held tomorrow, October 24 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at SBi Media in Indianapolis.

Stockholm, Sweden- 23 October 2006 - Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications for film and video, was honoured with an Award for Engineering Excellence from the Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA), on October 7.

The company‘s Digital Vision Optics (DVO) image processing software was one of just three products to receive the first-time award, selected by a jury of peers in the Hollywood community - engineers from post-production facilities, studios, technology organizations and guilds, and technical journalists from the post-production trade press. more

HONOLULU, October 19, 2006–Matthew Libatique, ASC will receive the 2006 Kodak Vision Award for Excellence in Cinematography at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival. The festival presents this recognition annually to a cinematographer who has made significant contributions to advancing the art of filmmaking in the Pacific Rim. The presentation will be made during the festival‘s awards ceremony here on October 26 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. more

Donald M. Morgan, ASC will receive the first American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Career Achievement in Television Award. He will be feted at the 21st Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration here on February 18, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Morgan has earned five Emmy® Awards for his artful cinematography on the television movies SOMETHING THE LORD MADE, OUT OF THE ASHES, MISS EVERS‘ BOYS, GERONIMO and MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI, with four additional nominations for FOR LOVE OR COUNTRY: THE ARTURO SANDOVAL STORY, THE SIEGE AT RUBY RIDGE, DOUBLECROSSED and ELVIS. He has also claimed top honors in the television movie/miniseries/pilot category in the ASC Awards competition for THE SIEGE AT RUBY RIDGE, GERONIMO, DILLINGER, and MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI, along with two nominations for OUT OF THE ASHES and FOR LOVE OR COUNTRY: THE ARTURO SANDOVAL STORY. more