Digital Cinema Society

NVIDIA has announced its next generation of Quadro professional GPUs, delivering up to twice the performance and data-handling capability of the previous generation.  Unveiled at SIGGRAPH, this new lineup delivers an enterprise-grade visual computing platform to meet the growing demands of working with more complex ... [ Read: NVIDIA Announces New Quadro GPU Lineup ]

Blackmagic Design announced the release of DaVinci Resolve 11, available for download free of charge for all existing DaVinci Resolve customers. It is said to be a major upgrade with over 100 new editing and color-grading features including nonlinear editing with context sensitive trimming tools, onset file cloning, ... [ Read: Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 11 is Now Shipping ]

DCS mourns the loss of longtime member Walt Martin who worked with Clint Eastwood on 14 films receiving an Oscar nomination on Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers.  Walt worked on more than 70 films over the course of his 41-year career, most recently with Eastwood on American Sniper and Jersey Boys.     Walt’s ... [ Read: Walt Martin, Oscar Nominated Sound Mixer for Clint Eastwood Passed Away July 24th ]

Excerpted from the James Mathers column One DP’s Perspective in the Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter July 2014   The world is abuzz with talk of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (“UAVs”,) and in order to avoid conjuring up images of CIA missile strikes, or NSA spying, I’ll avoid the synonym “drone.”  ... [ Read: A Flying Can of Worms -- UAVs for Professional Cinematography ]