In this week’s podcast we talk to Don Shay, the publisher of the world’s leading authority and publication of record for the visual effects industry: Cinefex.

In this week’s fxpodcast, we discuss the recent release of Autodesk’s Smoke 7 editing product. Our two guests were beta testers for the release and are able to provide insight into the product as they have been using the product for months. We also talk about Smoke’s support for the Final Cut Pro XML standard with Stephane Labrie of Autodesk. What exactly is XML and is it simply an industry buzzword for a text file?

We concentrate on the fxPlug SDK in Motion 2, as well as highlight a new set of Motion DVD templates. Guests are Ben Syverson – developer of DVMatte Blast, Sean Safreed — partner at Red Giant Software, and Simon Maziak — creator of MotionVFX DVD templates.

Marco Paolini is a compositor and president of Digital Film Tools, a company that creates production proven plugins. Noteworthy for their digital simulation of optical filter, effects and camera effects, they also include a range of compositing tools developed in the firing line of feature film production at Digital Film Works.

One of the most successful viral ad campaigns of recent times is Carlton Draught’s Big Ad. In this weeks podcast we discuss the spot with Andrew Jackson, the visual effects supervsior from Animal Logic in Sydney.

In this week’s podcast we talk to one team from each of the two visual effects categories for this year’s Emmys as well as discuss the first-ever bake off.

We take an over view of this great film and then burn down on one sequence for an in depth look. Interviews with people at MPC, Framestore-CFC and Cinesite.

London-based Sohonet has targeted the the media and film industries by providing tools and a network that can carry massive files, quickly and at very low cost. In this week’s fxpodcast, Mike Seymour gets the details from Dave Scammel, Managing Director for Sohonet.

Mike Seymour interviews the father of HDR imagery, Paul Debevec, to learn how he invented HDR and what his latest research is investigating – with amazing results.

Massive software is well known for its epic shots in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with the release of Massive 2.0 – we asked just how practical is it to use Massive in a ‘normal’ TV Ad spot? In this week’s podcast we talk to A52’s 3D team leader Craig Xray Halperin, about what it took for A52 to go from not even having the software to creating 10,000 agents celebrating two Clydesdale horse teams meeting in St.Louis on the 4th of July.

We sit down with Marc Petit, Vice President Product Development and Operations, and discuss NAB, Toxik, the state of the current software, and his thoughts about Apple’s recent moves.

In our first fxPodcast, Mike Seymour chatted with Scott Dougherty and David Lingenfelser about the company’s work on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.