A new ep of fxguidetv is up, covering da vinci and a new workflow spark called informer. This is our last one from NAB — thanks for all the emails and comments about our efforts from Las Vegas. We appreciate hearing from you.

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fxguidetv #26 is on the air! This episode comes to you from NAB in Las Vegas and features an exclusive interview with Ted Schilowitz from RED, a look a what the wizards at the Foundry are working on to improve stereoscopic workflow and we’ll also explain why Angie suddenly has many tattoos.

Our newest podcast looks in depth at the RED announcements that were made Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

Mike Seymour and Jason Wingrove discuss the new 5K camera “Epic”, the pocket professional camera “Scarlet”, RED Ray and more. RED is once again the longest line for a booth at NAB and we’ve got all the information for you.

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Our first podcast from NAB is up, covering the 2008 Autodesk User Group meeting on Sunday afternoon. The ep was recorded before the start of the show on Sunday evening, so we continued our annual tradition of covering the big meetup. Tomorrow’s podcast will be a roundtable with our industry friends and fxphd postgrads who make it to barcamp. Last year’s barcamp podcast was a blast, so be sure to check back on Tuesday for that or subscribe in iTunes so you get automatically notified. I’ve been twittering NAB (johnmontfx) as has Mike (mikeseymour) and Jeff (neonmarg).

Big news at the user group meeting was the showing of Flame and Smoke 2009 for the first time publically. We talk about the release in the podcast, but don’t get through all the features so we’ll do so here. Smoke users were a happy bunch after the user group meeting, since they now have batch in smoke via what is called BatchFX (a much improved SegmentFX). Flame users have the same functionality, but since they already had batch — there was generally some disappointment in the lack of new features. Effectively, the reactions are reversed from the 2008 release where flame users seemed to get all the cool toys. Considering 2008 was released in September of last year, there were actually quite a few improvements in the software in a relatively short period of time. The engineering team and beta users had a very compressed schedule.

For a more complete listing on what’s new in flame and smoke, click through on the read more link…..
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Ep 2 of Red Centre is out, with hosts Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymour

This week on the show: the guys get ready for NAB and discuss the Nikon mount, the new Red Lenses and more..

Note: Red Centre will be coming from Vegas NEXT MONDAY with all the news from the show floor on the “three huge” Red announcements.

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As we gear up for NAB the press releases having started rolling in. Here are a few items that caught our interest:

Prime Focus Purchases 1000 Seats Of Fusion®
That is not a typo… 1000 seats. One thousand seats!

Apple ships Final Cut Server!

Cine-tal Systems to acquire cineSpace product line from Rising Sun Research.

Also the Los Angeles Times reports that Digital Domain is ramping up its plans to go public.

More details and links after the jump.

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We had such a good reaction to our fxguidetv eps on the red camera that we have decided to do a RED podcast every 2 weeks. Join Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymour as they look at a summary of what’s happening in and around the RED Camera. We’ll cover updates - news of third party add ons and test drives of the latest builds and most importantly we will keep you up to date with the latest advances in post production tools, and workflow.

Sometimes it can be hard work monitoring all the traffic on places such as Reduser - we’ll try and give you a summary and discuss the implications for directors, DOPs and of course post-production / visual effects. The podcasts will be every two weeks - except for time such as NAB and special announcements like Scarlett!!! To listen go to http://www.fxguide.com/redcentre.
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MPC plans to open a Santa Monica-based visual effects facility in late 2008. MPC LA will initially focus on the U.S. commercials VFX market, and it will also provide a front-end presence to MPC’s Los Angeles-based studios features VFX business.

MPC LA is to be headed by VFX executive producer Mark Tobin. Tobin was most recently managing director and executive producer at A52, and he was previously a producer at Method.

According to Graham Bird, director of Commercials Production at MPC, “The MPC brand is all about creativity and quality. The combination of our state-of-the-art facility in Santa Monica, coupled with Mark Tobin’s extensive knowledge and insight, provides a powerful creative alternative for Los Angeles and U.S.-based advertisers and commercial production companies.”

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