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Millimeter October 2005

Tight Ship

By Michael Goldman

Joss Whedon Chuckles at the question, "How did the filmmakers behind Universal's Serenity produce a high-end, science-fiction epic for the big screen without access to Star Wars-type money?" "We did have Star Wars money — the money they had in the 1970's for the original Star Wars, that is," he laughs. "Actually, it's true — this is a low-budget film relatively speaking, but we had the advantage of using fresh...


Editor's Notes

Blended Family

By Cynthia Wisehart

Understandably, the announcement that Autodesk intends to acquire Alias sent a flurry of apprehension through the Maya faithful. Alias president Doug...


Features

A Blustery DI

By Michael Goldman

Late last year, just prior to sailing off to shoot the next two Pirates of the Caribbean films, director Gore Verbinski finished up what he refers to as his so-called “little, low-budget” movie starring Nicholas Cage...


Step by Step

Step by Step: Doom

By Ellen Wolff

Doom isn't the first blockbuster videogame to get a live-action film treatment, but it gets extra points for attempting something that's extremely difficult to achieve with a motion picture camera — a lengthy sequence that simulates the unbroken...


Clips

Compressed DI

By Michael Goldman

O Entertainment of San Clemente, Calif., recently created a new iteration of the project formerly known as Santa Claus Versus the Snowman using Adobe Premiere...


Converging Pipelines

By Michael Goldman

Australian sister facilities Digital Pictures Iloura and Digital Pictures Melbourne recently combined a Lustre-based digital intermediate workflow with...


Hot Spots

Hot Spots

By Beck Finley

A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter...


Fields & Frames

Fields & Frames

By Dan Ochiva

At IBC 2005, open source, IT-style capturing and editing finally came to video production with Grass Valley's introduction of its Infinity product line....


Beta Sight

Da Vinci Resolve

By Lars Palmqvist
Digital Film Lab

In 1998, Digital Film Lab became one of the first postproduction facilities in Europe to introduce the digital intermediate (DI) process for long-format...


Hotware

Products: Canon

By Dan Ochiva

Canon’s HDV move is big...


Products: Cine-tal

By Dan Ochiva

Making DI hit its marks...


Products: JMR

By Dan Ochiva

Internet SAN...


Products: LaCie

By Dan Ochiva

More, better RAID...


Products: Softimage

By Dan Ochiva

Softimage 5...


Products: The DR Group

By Dan Ochiva

Turnkey color correction...


Products: Addonics

By Dan Ochiva

Moving to SATA...


Products: Pandora

By Dan Ochiva

Color correct with speed...


Products: Eyeon

By Dan Ochiva

Eyeon's Fusion 5 now includes 3D compositions with lights, cameras, and primitives, as well as support for FBX files....


Products: ADS Tech

By Dan Ochiva

Easy NAS kit...


Products: ERG Ventures

By Dan Ochiva

Monitoring HD...


Out and About

Out and About

Industry Events...


Fade to Black

Fade to Black:
George Clooney, Director

By Darroch Greer

"I thought, when we got into it, that your black-and-white pictures were always these beautiful, Greta Garbo shots," says actor/writer/director George Clooney,...


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