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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Valley is home to many post-production companies serving the varied needs of film, commercial and television productions. Providing services from editing, to digital effects, to voice dubbing and beyond, the Valley's cache of post-production firms have provided essential creative services to multi-million dollar blockbusters and independent film ......

New Media Hollywood keeps post-production companies on the cutting edge with the latest in computer technology For seven years, Chris Speer worked out of a spare bedroom crammed with memory chips and mother boards. When an order came into his fledgling computer company - New Media Hollywood - he'd request ......

Three NZ post-production houses - Oktobor, Sauce and Digital Post - recently bought into eBUS, a new integrated digital delivery and asset management service. "We're closing the loop," says David Plummer, ceo of Silverscreen and Oktobor. "We move all of the filmed material to digital once it leaves the film ......

Post-production work for animated programming has virtually disappeared from the United States, with low-cost companies overseas handling most of that time-intensive work. Also, an increasing number of animators have themselves bought digital equipment to handle the post-production process in-house. Nonetheless, North Hollywood-based VirtualMagic Animation Inc. manages to stay in business ......

Quantel's iQ product has been enjoying a continued run of success with recent sales to a number of post facilities around the globe. Paris-based Mikros Image, California facility Post Logik and the Japanese post house Q-Tec are all among post production outfits that have opted for iQ systems. Hollywood and ......

Executes upon 2007 Game Plan WAYNE, Pa. -- Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE), a holding company which builds value in growth-stage technology and life sciences companies, today announced the sale of its holdings in Pacific Title & Art Studio, Inc., a leading provider of a broad range of digital and ......

For most in the film production industry, evolution is a constant. Long a fixture of the Wellington post scene, the 2D group has rebranded itself as Sauce (founding partner David Tingey says the original name came about because he and co-founder Darryn Smith had first names starting with 'D' - ......

SBA marks 50th "SBA marks 50th with 'Hall of Fame' ceremony" Kent Hoover "The Small Business Administration expects about 3,000 small businesses to attend its National Entrepreneurial Conference and Expo in Washington, D.C. " - Brief article on the SBA's 50th. They've helped a lot of us so check ......