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3D films have their moment at Oscars
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Mar 08, 2010
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Wins for 'Avatar,' 'Up' show that format is making inroads. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards proved a coming-out party for
movies shot and released in 3D.
With two best-picture contenders --
"Avatar" and "Up" -- and
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How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D
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Mar 08, 2010
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Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie
of all time, it's inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as
the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively
expensive. Here's how they
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Digital Cinema Building Momentum as 3D Drives Market
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Mar 03, 2010
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There
are 16,405 digital cinema screens around the world, an increase of 86.4
per cent on 2008, with further growth to come in 2010 as digital 3D
pushes the market towards a 35mm-free cinema sector. This means that
14.8 per
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Steven Soderbergh Featurette on Shooting Che with RED
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Jan 26, 2010
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A director’s singular vision and quest for filmmaking without limits.
The upcoming Criterion release of Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” has a
brilliant little featurette in the disc that talks about the Red One
camera, and how
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Film-based 3D Projection Making a Comeback?
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Jan 26, 2010
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Before you jump to conclusions and think we’re talking about red green
anaglyph - we’re not. A Los Angeles-based startup, Oculus3D, has
announced that is has developed a low-cost 3D theatrical format that
works with the
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Avatar Poses DI Challenges
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Jan 20, 2010
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James Cameron's
"Avatar" is not only a monumental leap into the potential future of 3D
digital cinema, it was also shown in up to 4,000 3D cinemas worldwide
from one of the most challenging digital intermediates ever
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Television Begins a Push Into the 3rd Dimension
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Jan 07, 2010
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Ralph Kramden can finally buy a television. It was more than half a century ago, in a 1955 episode of “The
Honeymooners,” that Kramden, the parsimonious bus driver played by Jackie Gleason, told his wife, Alice, that he had not
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How to Avoid Getting a Headache During Avatar (or Other Digital 3D Movies)
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Dec 21, 2009
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Film reader Mike S alerted me to a nice article over at ShadowLocked which features tips on how to avoid getting a headache during digital 3D movies. And by digital 3D movies, I mean Real D, Dolby
3D or IMAX 3D. You know, the
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Post Focus - Zeus Streamlines V Workflow
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Dec 21, 2009
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To streamline the large volume of greenscreen work required for ABC’s new sci-fi series V
(which reimagines the popular 1983 miniseries of the same name),
artists and technicians at Zoic Studios combined off-the-shelf
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Behind the Post of ‘Avatar’
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Dec 18, 2009
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By the time you read
this, millions of 3D film fans will have experienced the forest moon
Pandora and its fiercely beautiful blue-skinned inhabitants, the Na’vi.
But as of this writing, the post production on James Cameron’s
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Sony Claims to Beat 3D Parallax with Single Lens Camera System
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Oct 08, 2009
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"Smoke and mirrors" never had much of a positive connotation but, sans
the smoke, Sony is looking to a unique mirror technology to get beyond
some of the core image capture problems with recording 3D. The company
is about to
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Stereo3D - Creative Boon or Desperate Financial Ploy?
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Oct 08, 2009
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Can Will Stereoscopic 3D reinvigorate interest in deep-focus staging
and a greater utilization of the spatiality of cinema? And Is
Stereoscopic 3D 'all that and a bag of chips?' Or is it doomed to die?These
were the questions
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Fox's 'Dollhouse' Adopts P2 HD
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Sep 30, 2009
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The second season of Twentieth Century Fox Television’s Dollhouse is being shot with the VariCam 3700, Panasonic’s premier solid-state P2 HD VariCam camcorder.
While the first season of the show was shot on 35mm film, the last
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Prime Focus Launches View-D 2D-to-3D Conversion Process
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Sep 29, 2009
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Prime Focus' View-D is a proprietary 2D-to-3D conversion process that allows filmmakers to efficiently create stereoscopic 3D movies from source material shot on virtually any medium.
View-D will be introduced at international
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Digital Cinema Society Discusses HDSLRs
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Sep 28, 2009
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At DV Expo in Pasadena on Sept. 23, 2009, the Digital Cinema Society held a meeting devoted to the Canon 5D Mark II and soon-to-be-released 7D and the Panasonic Lumix GH1,
still cameras that some people have adapted to use as
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