Post-Production
CGI Isn’t the Problem: In Hollywood, Reality’s Not Guaranteed
June 16, 2015 | Joshua Sikora
As another summer of blockbusters rolls around, it seems like the audience may finally be losing its appetite for computer-generated images (CGI) — at least if articles like this or this are to be believed. Across …
Math in the Movies
March 12, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
The Verge highlights the research of Pixar Senior Scientist Share Tony DeRose:
“The topic of DeRose’s lecture is “Math in the Movies.” This topic is his job: translating principles of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra into software …
The Rule of Six
February 2, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
A preview of oscar-winning editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) talking at an NFTS post-production symposium, introducing his ‘Rule of Six’, for the Imaginox Online Creative Academy of Film and Television.…
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved
January 25, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks (TechCrunch, January 25, 2013)
“The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future …
"The Hobbit" and High Frame Rates
January 15, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Leandro Marini, Founder and Supervising Colorist of Local Hero, and Andrew Wahlquist, Technologist of Local Hero, have an informal chat about high frames rates, “The Hobbit,” and the future of movies.
Frame-Rate Follies
December 14, 2012 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on The Hobbit and HFR (Notebook, December 14, 2012)
The failure of The Hobbit‘s HFR / 48 fps, therefore, isn’t so much a failure of design as it is a failure …
Walter Murch on Editing, Cinema, and Final Cut Pro
October 27, 2012 | Cinema & New Media Arts
In this comprehensive talk at the Boston FCPUG SuperMeet, acclaimed editor and sound designer Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, author of In the Blink of an Eye) begins by discussing some …
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