Mammoth HD expands the MHD/RED Library with the addition of Glacier Nat’l Park to the MHD/RED National Park Gallery.

Glacier National Park, Montana - Shot on RED 4K - feature the MacDonald and St. Mary Lakes, Rocky Mountain scenics, waterfalls, streams and spring flowers of early summer.

Shot on RED in 4K - Available in HD1080, HD720 and 2K/4K more

Myrtle Creek, Ore. –— July 15, 2008 –— View hours of botanical growth compressed into seconds with Grow! 2, Artbeats’ latest addition to its extensive library of royalty-free stock footage. A complement to the very popular Grow!, Timelapse Flowers and Timelapse Plants collections, Grow! 2 features fascinating footage that shows the amazing effects of time on single flowers and plants. Grow! 2 is available in both HD and SD resolution and includes superior quality content that can be used for broadcast, feature films, commercial, multimedia, game development, independent production and more. Grow! 2 can be downloaded at www.artbeats.com. more

Mammoth HD adds Tiger Sharks to the MHD/RED - Ocean Life/Underwater Galleries.

Tiger Sharks - Shot on RED - in the murky waters at Aliwal Shoal in South Africa. The worlds second largest predatory shark next to the Great Whites interacts with sharks, divers, lampreys and Blacktip Sharks. more

Community-based stock footage marketplace emerges from beta with 50,000 clips, stunning low prices, and a next-generation user interface.

New York, NY July 8, 2008 — Pond5.com announced today the launch of version 1.0 of its next-generation online marketplace for royalty-free stock video footage, which includes several groundbreaking features and a site design that sets a new standard for speed and ease-of-use. The launch coincides with another milestone: the fast-growing collection now offers more than 50,000 broadcast-quality SD and HD clips available for instant download, starting at $5 per clip. more

Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, has completed DI and VFX services for HighRoad Entertainment’s “The Perfect Game.” The inspirational feature will be released theatrically by Lionsgate Entertainment August 8, 2008. “The Perfect Game” was directed by William Dear and filmed by DP Bryan Greenberg from a script by W. William Winokur.

“The Perfect Game” centers on the 1957 Little League World Series Champions, a barefooted, rag-tag team of boys from poverty-stricken Monterrey, Mexico who defied extraordinary odds to become the first foreign team to win Little League World Series—doing so in a perfect game, the only one in championship history. Based on a true story, “The Perfect Game” tells the tale of how their miracle changed not only their lives, but also an entire city’s destiny. more

For the First Time, World’s Number One Nonfiction Media Company Opens Up Music Library to General Production Community

LOS ANGELES (June 27, 2008) – Discovery Communications, the world’s number one non-fiction media company, and APM Music, the world’s largest provider of production music for use in film, television, radio, games and new media production, have expanded their 12 year relationship with the launch of Discovery Studios Tracks. This partnership makes original music cues from the Discovery family of channels, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and Science Channel, available for the first time for licensing into third party productions. more

Myrtle Creek, Ore. –— June 30, 2008 –— Shoot for the stars and take a trip high above the corporate towers and historic attractions of one of the most famous cities in the United States with Los Angeles Aerials 2 – Downtown and Los Angeles Aerials 2 – Surrounding Area, the newest royalty-free stock footage collections from Artbeats. more

Thought Equity Motion & WatchMojo Spotlight Sports

The digital revolution is making it easier for just about anyone to become a content creator and distributor on the web. But while the options for marketers and agencies continue to expand, production budgets overall are dwindling, target audiences becoming more fragmented and efforts to successfully monetize online video content remains challenging, to say the least.

Two companies that appear to have broken the “monetization” code are Thought Equity Motion and Watchmojo. Thought Equity Motion is the world’s largest supplier of online motion content licensing and management services. Watchmojo is a producer, publisher and syndicator of original web video with nearly 4000 published videos online. more

Yankee Stadiums iconic facade, along with giant billboards of today’s greatest baseball stars, magically appear across New York City to herald the arrival of the final All-Star Game ever at legendary Yankee Stadium.

To promote the landmark final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium this July, the Fox Sports in-house Creative Group came up with a concept of having Yankee Stadium’s famous white facade animate and appear on iconic New York landmarks, while massive mechanical billboards of todays star players simultaneously start appearing on top of skyscrapers. To achieve the visual effects needed to bring the spot to life, Fox Sports’ creative team once again partnered with Paris based visual effects house BUF. more

New York – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 17, 2008 – For today’s creative talent, having the most innovative tools and resources is the key to success. That’s why leading stock footage house, Ribbit Films is introducing 12 volumes of pre-keyed HD clips on DVD in addition to their individually purchased and downloaded “Drag and Drop” clips. Both available for purchase on their website (www.ribbitfilms.com), creative directors, film editors, directors, producers and designers can choose from a number of collections of pre-keyed film clips that Ribbit is offering – anything from a fight-scene to people walking down a street to various sports and dancing. more