ZEISS Cinematography will once again join the annual Hollywood Professional Association Tech Retreat in Palm Springs this February. In their HPA Innovation Zone booth, the team will demonstrate the CinCraft Mapper metadata application, the natural extension of XD technology premiered by ZEISS last May.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Wooden Camera designs and builds professional camera accessories for film and video production. With solutions for virtually every digital motion-picture camera, professional cinematographers, camera operators, and creatives worldwide rely on Wooden Camera. This January, Wooden Camera introduces it's new line of Kits for Panasonic DC-GH6.

Pop Paper City is a 3D children’s series produced by LoveLove Films in the UK. Pop Paper City sees a group of paper characters go on crafty adventures together with the help of their live-action guardian Helping Hand. The series comprises 52 episodes of 11-minutes each, and it is the first children’s series ever to be produced using Maxon One animation, rendering and motion design software package, including Cinema 4D, Red Giant, and Redshift.

Maxon, developers of professional software solutions for editors, filmmakers, motion designers and visual effects artists, today announced several updates to the company’s product line. The November 2022 release features a new blazingly hot feature for Cinema 4D - Pyro. Pyro allows artists to create fire, smoke and explosions - easily simulated using GPU or CPU. Other Cinema 4D features include an integrated Redshift Camera and Radial Symmetry for modeling. Forger expands its professional modeling functions by adding Cinema 4D's advanced Symmetry capabilities. The latest release of VFX enhances Real Lens Flares with more natural elements, adding Schmutz and Diffraction effects to the optical simulation. And the latest version of Trapcode offers an interactive and updated user interface for Particular's curves and color gradients.

The wait for big DoPchoice softening solutions is over. Now there's Snapbag softboxes and Snapgrids of great proportions and a simple mounting solution to match. The new Fat-Rabbit^™ easily mounts a choice of 8-ft Double-Hex and 6'x5' Snapbags to large and multiple fixture arrays for ARRI Skypanel 360, Triple/Double DMG/Rosco MAXI Mix, Prolight XL Panels, and 4X Litepanels Gemini 2x1, etc.

Video Europe, the largest sub-rental provider of cameras, lenses and accessories to the trade in Europe, closed a deal at IBC2022 to add the latest lens from Canon to its inventory. The company is the first in the market to place orders for the new CN8 lens, launched at IBC.

Cinema Audio Society will honor multiple Oscar® and CAS Award nominee Peter J. Devlin CAS with its 2023 Career Achievement Award. The tribute will be presented at the 59th CAS Awards on Saturday, March 4, 2023, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. 

Black Box, an industry leading global systems integrator and Certified Integrator for Zoom Rooms announced that the company has become a Zoom Phone Certified Integrator, bringing Zoom's video communications platform and its feature-rich cloud phone system to market. With accredited individuals across its engineering, sales and delivery teams, Black Box is equipped to provide value-added services such as design, deployment and management for Zoom Rooms and Zoom Phone globally, helping customers get up and running quickly with these robust communications tools.

RED DIGITAL CINEMA® officially announced the availability of the new V-RAPTOR XLTM 8K VV camera today during a livestream event. The V-RAPTOR XL system expands on the most advanced RED® camera platform ever, leveraging the current flagship V-RAPTOR 8K VV + 6K S35 multi-format sensor inside of a large-scale-production ready XL camera body.

Villrich Broadcast, will be at this year's IBC Show in Hall 12 Stand A22, were we will demonstrate several solutions that can be combined with a PTZ workflow. One of the systems that will be displayed is that of Canon and Seervision. This set up exists out of a Canon CR-N500 PTZ and the Seervision Suite. The Seervision Suite integrates directly with a wide variety of Pan/Tilt Heads and PTZ cameras, and their API allows you to keep using all your existing systems while continuing the workflow of your video production.