Digital Cinema Society

RSVPs are now being accepted for the Digital Cinema Society's exploration of Motion Picture Lighting and Grip Technology. The event will return to the IATSE Local 80 stage in Burbank, CA on May 21st. Our 2020 Expo was the last major in-person event to take place before the pandemic lockdown and our 2021 edition had ... [ Read: RSVPs Now Open for May 21st DCS 2022 Cinema Lighting Expo ]

NAB 2022 is over and we can now say, having been a part of the large crowds roaming the show floor each day, that everyone seemed both happy and relieved to be back in person. Shooting our interviews Camera-2-Cloud was a game changer, allowing us to delivery our NAB show floor coverage to you faster and cleaner than ... [ Read: All DCS Coverage of NAB 2022 is Now Streaming ]

The DCS crew is in Las Vegas for NAB 2022 and James Mathers welcomes you to our streaming coverage.  Practicing what we preach, we are putting some of the latest technology to the test by producing our  streaming booth tour coverage using a Camera-2-Cloud workflow.  Technology from Adobe, Frame.io, Teradek, and ... [ Read: James Mathers Welcomes Viewers to DCS Streaming Coverage of NAB 2022 ]

Practicing what we preach, DCS will put some of the latest technology to the test by producing our  streaming booth tour coverage of NAB 2022 using a Camera-2-Cloud workflow.  Technology from Adobe, Frame.io, Teradek, and Sony will help us deliver our fully edited interviews in record time so that those who cannot ... [ Read: The Digital Cinema Society at NAB 2022 ]

It is with heavy hearts that we report the sad news of the passing of our friend and collaborator Karl Kresser.  Together with his wife, Juliane Grosso, he was responsible for producing Cine Gear Expo.  Prior to Cine Gear, he was the Marketing Manager at Otto Nemenz International Inc. for over 20 years. In addition ... [ Read: DCS Mourns the Loss of Cine Gear Expo Producer Karl Kresser ]

Sony Electronics and the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts have announced a new partnership to help foster cinematic education. The USC School of Cinematic Arts will be adding a variety of the latest Sony Imaging equipment ranging from cameras including VENICE 2, FX9 and FX6 models as ... [ Read: Sony Electronics Steps Up to Support the USC School of Cinematic Arts ]

In the run up to NAB, Blackmagic's Grant Petty held an online briefing detailing several new products and updates to DaVinci.  Known as Blackmagic Cloud, the combined hardware/software system is designed for editors, VFX artists and others to collaborate via the cloud in realtime.  Chief among the new products is Blackmagic ... [ Read: Blackmagic Announces New Cloud Collaboration Products and Upgrades in Davinci Resolve 18 ]

Canon has announced the launch of a new series of lenses for the company’s EF Cinema Lens lineup to be known as the Flex Zoom Lens series.  The first lenses in the series are the CN-E20-50mm T2.4 L F/FP wide-angle zoom lens and the CN-E45-135mm T2.4 L F/FP telephoto zoom lens.  The lenses are said to maintain ... [ Read: Canon Announces New Flex Full-Frame T2.4 Cinema Zoom Lenses ]

AJA has announced free firmware updates for many of their popular products including the Ki Pro Go and U-Tap and more.  Updates are available for select AJA openGear cards with a host of improvements designed to help production professionals better maintain the integrity of signals and manage associated metadata as ... [ Read: AJA Announces Free Firmware Updates for Many of Their Popular Products ]

In the lead up to NAB, Adobe has announced that all of Frame.io’s video collaboration tools, including Camera-2-Cloud, will now be included in Creative Cloud subscriptions. In addition to C-2-C, integrated post-production review and approval workflow features allow project stakeholders to collaborate seamlessly ... [ Read: Big New Features Added to Adobe Creative Cloud Including Full Integration of Frame.io and Camera-2-Cloud ]