Aframe’s Cloud Video Production Network Goes Live in North America

AbelCine Named an Upload Center, Proving High-Speed Ingest of Full Resolution Video

New York, NY – April 16, 2012 – Aframe, the cloud video production platform designed to liberate the professional video production process, today announced that its US private cloud network is live and actively supporting the company’s growing North American client base. Operational in London since 2010, Aframe’s private cloud network allows professional video creators to share, search and collaborate without on-site equipment or full-time staff.

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International Cinematographers Guild Local 600 Selects AbelCine To Create DIT Workshops

AbelCine Training Classes Teach Theory and Practice of Digital Imaging Technician’s Role

NEW YORK, NY – April 12, 2012 – AbelCine has partnered with the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600 to create a series of workshops on the role of the Digital Imagining Technician. With the growing number of Digital Cinema Cameras on productions today, the DIT position on set has become essential. Recognizing this trend, the Guild turned to AbelCine to put together workshops that would help educate their members on the role of the DIT. These workshops focus on understanding camera formats, data management, color science, on-set color management and dailies generation. More »

April 5, 2012 – New York, NY – AbelCine today announced the launch of a new and unique financing program designed to make owning ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH Lab® production dailies system more affordable than ever for DITs, video engineers, and other dailies professionals. SCRATCH Lab delivers powerful, intuitive, real-time tools for the production dailies pipeline, and has been used for films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Company 3), TV shows such as Harry’s Law (Warner Brothers), and commercials for the likes of BMW, Audi (Brownian Motion). Available immediately, AbelCine’s new program will finance systems for up to three years, and is available in three starting configurations: SCRATCH Lab software only, a Laptop Package and a complete Workstation Package. Prices start as low as $265 per month.

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Vision Research Introduces the Versatile Phantom Miro M320S Compact Digital High-Speed Camera

New Phantom Miro M320S Designed for a Variety of Applications From Scientific Research to Creative Media

WAYNE, N.J. (April 2, 2012) – Vision Research, the leading manufacturer of digital high-speed imaging systems, presents the Phantom® Miro® M320S digital high-speed camera, which takes portable high-speed imaging to the next level by combining the lightweight, rugged design of Vision Research’s latest Miro family with advanced features not found on any other camera in its class.

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Vision Research Selected to Receive Academy Award® for Contributions to High-Speed Camera Technology

 Phantom® High-Speed Camera Is First Digital Cinema Camera Recognized by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

WAYNE, N.J., January 6, 2012 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has selected four colleagues from Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of digital high-speed imaging systems, to receive Scientific and Engineering Academy Awards® for their contributions to the design and development of Phantom® high-speed digital cameras. More »

Educational Developments Teach Filmmakers and Videographers End-to-End Production to Post
Workflows and Techniques

New York, New York – December 12, 2011 – Manhattan Edit Workshop (Mewshop), the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination, is pleased to announce a training partnership with industry leading film and digital media equipment supplier AbelCine.  Their first collaboration, ‘Hands On: From the Camera to the Cutting Room,’ is a two-day intensive workshop in the art of shooting and editing narrative and documentary film.

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SECAUCUS, N.J., Nov. 29, 2011  – Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG), the world’s leading supplier of entertainment and event technology, is pleased to announce that AbelCine is now a North American dealer for the award-winning PRG TruColor™ Foton™ lighting fixture for the film, TV and photography industries. AbelCine, a supplier of professional film and digital equipment with facilities in New York City, Burbank, CA and Chicago, IL, has added the Foton to its line of lighting products that it offers its clientele.

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Phantom 65-Z3D Receives Creative COW Blue Ribbon Users’ Choice Award for Best Stereo 3D Camera System at NAB

AbelCine and Vision Research recognized for their role in bringing the breakthrough single-camera 3D system to market

New York, NY, September 15, 2011 – The Phantom 65-Z3D with Zepar 3D Optics, presented by AbelCine, was named the recipient of Creative COW’s Blue Ribbon Award for Best Stereo 3D Camera System at the NAB Show 2011.

Every year, Creative COW’s editors feel the pulse of the industry by monitoring the feedback from over 1.7 million monthly visitors in the months following NAB. Creative COW then announces the products and technologies that working professionals have identified as most likely to have the biggest impact on their future. The Phantom 65 Gold, manufactured by Vision Research, equipped with Zepar stereoscopic lenses from MKBK to make up the Phantom 65-Z3D system, was selected as one of these technologies. More »

Former Panavision Executive Joins AbelCine’s Burbank Team in the Role of Industry Relations and Business Development

New York, NY – April 4, 2011 – AbelCine is pleased to announce that respected industry veteran Andy Romanoff has joined the company.

Most recently, Romanoff served as Executive Vice President, Technical Marketing and Strategy, for Panavision. In his role with AbelCine, he will focus on Industry Relations and Business Development, with a concentration on the Phantom 65 Gold and other high-speed camera systems from Vision Research.

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Customers to benefit from even better service and faster response times

OBERKOCHEN, February 17, 2011 – Lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss has appointed the US firm Abel Cine Tech, a leading supplier of professional film and digital equipment with facilities in New York City, Burbank, California, and Chicago, Illinois, as a “Carl Zeiss Authorized Service Partner”. Building on years of cooperation between the two companies, the aim of the partnership is to allow Carl Zeiss customers in the Americas to benefit from optimized customer service. In particular, the partnership will further reduce the amount of down time associated with repairs. In the future, local services will be carried out more efficiently and according to the highest quality standards.

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