LaCie 8big Pro5: The Big Box
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das element 2.3 speeds library browsing
Version 2.3 adds AVIF import, popularity data, gallery navigation and CLI fixes aimed at large studio media libraries.
PolygoFlow Dash asset manager goes free on Fab
Free Dash asset manager lands on Fab: browse local assets across UE5 projects, tag up to 1000 assets a month, and use smart collections.
SMPTE updates its AI report: a roadmap for media engineers
SMPTE’s revised AI report defines where AI stands in media: open source, agentic systems, security, ethics, and data. Read before you automate.
New Trailer walks FMX 2026 home
A walking bus, a hopeful sunrise, and a nod to FMX’s roots: “Bus Buddy” drives the FMX 2026 trailer straight into the ROAD AHEAD.
FMX Turns 30 in 2026
FMX 2026 celebrates 30 years of digital media creation. Stuttgart, May 5–8, 2026. Theme: “The Road Ahead”. Book your rooms, time flies.
Rebelle 8: Digital Painting’s Physical Upgrade
Rebelle 8 turns digital painting into a physical experience. The new Bristle Brush engine simulates every hair of a real brush, RealShader adds true lighting and shadow depth to thick paint, and the NanoPixel 2 engine scales artwork up to 32 K resolution. With layer-specific materials, symmetry tools, Escape Motions’ latest release feels less like an update and more like a real studio, minus the turpentine.
Netorium and dveas move in together
netorium AG and dve advanced systems merge to combine broadcast IT, VFX, and postproduction workflows for European clients.
Howler 2026 lands: AI inpainting, Confetti particles and four-track audio for under $33
Howler 2026 reinvents the quirky painting app with AI image tools, particle effects and multitrack audio—and it’s still just $32.99.
Rebelle 8 Hits Early Access: Brushes Get Bristly, Updates Get Sensible
Rebelle 8 enters Early Access with new Bristle Brushes, NanoPixel 2, RealShader, SoftShadows, and a perpetual license with 1-year free updates.
BMD ups the ante with 16 TB Media Module for URSA Cine 12K LF
Blackmagic Design introduces a 16 TB Media Module (M.2 SSD) for URSA Cine 12K LF, doubling storage to support 12‑bit BRAW at 1 432 MB/s and 10G workflows.
Flame 2026: OCIO, Files and Timeline Magic
Discover the seven key innovations in Flame Family 2026—from OpenColorIO to AI-enhanced video quality.
FilmLight sends your frames!
FilmLight’s Nara simplifies media workflows and improves collaboration. And you don't even need to have Baselight in your pipeline! The latest version enables seamless progress reviews, approvals, and compliance processes—all without proxies. Interested?
Foundry Announces Modo’s Retirement: A Final Version Before End-of-Life
Foundry announces the end of Modo development, shifting focus to core products; support for Modo 17.1 will continue until contracts expire.
Your breakthrough in the media industry!
Apply now for the 2024 scholarship from the Mediengründerzentrum NRW.
A new element is here!
Element, our favourite 3D asset manager, is entering its second version - now with infinite scroll, duplicate detector and the long-awaited assignment of textures and maps to geometry within the manager!
Timeline Tools von The Foundry 2
Color, Comp und Conform! Nuke and Nuke X are the de facto-standard in node-based compositing. But even seasoned Nuke artists have often had little or no contact with the closely related reviewing and finishing products.
Off to the cloud with Blackmagic raw files?
Transcode BMD raw footage natively with Alteon.io - saving creative professionals many hours of work. Alteon.io promises to support other important file formats.
Version 1.1.4 of “das element” released!
Is the future of asset management coming from Munich? The new version offers incremental improvements that will fuel your asset organisation mania!
USD Shell Extension | Release
Actvision released: a source-free software solution for USD file management.
Kyno as an editing assistant for Resolve
Review: In DP 04 : 2020, our author Uli Plank took a look at the management app Kyno - and its support for Blackmagic Design.
NAB Show 2021 Moves to October
NAB Show 2021 moved from April to 9–13 October in Las Vegas as organisers responded to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Berlin Funds Digital Film Production with €2 Million
Berlin’s 2020 Digital Film Production programme allocated €2 million annually to CGI- and VFX-intensive film and series projects.
Following the Acquisition of Blue Order: Avid Expands Interplay into a Complete Media Asset Management Solution
New Interplay product series enables media companies to increase the value of their assets, collaborate in more varied ways and gain enormous flexibility.
NAB 2009: NorCom Presents Complete MAM System
NorCom presents NCPower Compact, a preinstalled media-asset-management system covering ingest through playout.
Photoshop workshop at Macromedia
The Macromedia Academy of Media is offering a free short workshop on two special Photoshop topics. The renowned photographer and author Karsten Rose (Digital Face & Body Styling, Addison-Wesley) will demonstrate the possibilities of digital face and body styling and introduce the automation and workflow of Photoshop. The workshop starts at 6 pm and lasts approx. 2 hours.
Karsten Rose is an internationally renowned photographer and image composer. For years he has been researching and perfecting the use of Adobe Photoshop in the professional post-processing of people images. He is the author of numerous specialised books, such as "Digital Face & Body Styling (Addison-Wesley)" and a sought-after speaker at conferences (Photoshop Convention).
Music Meets Media
Music without pictures - no problem. But images without music? Hard to imagine for fiction and documentary films in cinema or TV, videos, commercials or games. Join us for a discussion about the challenges between harmonious interplay and fierce conflicts of interest at the one-day event "Music meets Media".
on 5 March 2009, 20 speakers from the music and media industry will explore topics ranging from "Music everywhere - and nobody listens" and "Who sets the tone - the image or the composer?" to new revenue models and a look at future developments.
The event is organised by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for New Media, medien-netzwerk-münchen, the Association of Independent Music Companies (VUT) and the Audiovisual Media Cluster (CAM).
ORF.at Is Austria’s Leading Online Information Medium
According to the Austrian Web Analysis (ÖWA) for June 2008, the broadcaster’s ORF.at website achieved an all-time high of 207 million page impressions for editorial content.
Online Video Complements Traditional Television Viewing
The internet is more important than television for young people.
BBC Opens Its First Global Integrated News Centre
For the first time, the BBC will bring together all its international expertise in a global, integrated news centre. From Monday, July 7, television channel BBC World News, BBC World Online, and the news teams and staff of BBC World Service Radio and its online platforms will unite as a unique global multimedia news organization supporting the BBC’s international news services.
Peter Thiem Moves to Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing
Peter Thiem (45) will become Managing Director of Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing (SHDM) on August 1, 2008. He will once again be jointly responsible for the business with Managing Director Gerd Richter-Kiewning, with whom he previously worked in the same role from 2005 to 2007.
Multimedia Service Providers Continue to Grow and Hire
Revenues at German Internet and multimedia service providers rose by an average of 19 percent in 2007. This is the most important finding of the survey for the New Media Service Ranking 2008, presented by the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V., Hightext iBusiness and the trade magazines Horizont and Werben & Verkaufen.
Indie Magazine Pitchfork Launches Alternative to MTV
Online magazine Pitchfork, well known and popular among indie fans, has launched a new internet music television channel.
“Desperate Housewives” Ends with a Season Record
ProSieben’s scheduling of the “Desperate Housewives” season finale paid off. On Wednesday evening, 2.43 million viewers aged 14 to 49 watched the final episode for the time being, “Tornado.”
Guiding Theme for MEDIENTAGE MÜNCHEN 2008 Announced
MEDIENTAGE MÜNCHEN will address the theme “Advertising in Transition—Value and Effectiveness in the Flood of Digital Media.”
Wikipedia Goes to Print: Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut Publishes Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut, an imprint of Wissen Media Verlag, is publishing the one-volume “Wikipedia Encyclopedia,” based on the online encyclopedia. The printed reference work will be available in bookstores from September 2008 for €19.95.
Media and Games Industries in Dialogue
Munich Gaming 2008 takes place from 5 to 8 April 2008.
Do Not Allow a Step Backwards in Youth Media Protection
ZDF Rejects Statements by the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media.
MySpace Lifts the Lid on Its Own Music Service
iTunes Competitor Set to Launch in the Coming Months.
Germans Call for More Media Education
That is the result of a Politbarometer survey that ZDF has just conducted on the protection of minors in the media.
FDP: Schächter’s Censorship Accusation Is Absurd
Responding to ZDF Director-General Markus Schächter's criticism of the limits on public-service broadcasters' online activities in the 12th Interstate Broadcasting Amendment Treaty, the FDP parliamentary group's media expert Hans-Joachim Otto states::
March TV Market: RTL Scores Across Genres
In March, RTL again leads among viewers aged 14 to 49. With a 15.8 percent audience share, it is ahead of ProSieben at 12.1 percent, Sat.1 at 10.9 percent, VOX at 7.4 percent and ZDF at 7.1 percent. Among the total audience, RTL places behind ZDF and ARD with an 11.7 percent share.
N24 Continues on Its Growth Course
Germany's leading news channel N24 achieved an average market share of 1.2 percent in the advertising-relevant target group of viewers aged 14 to 49 in the first three months of the year. This is the best first quarter in the channel's history and represents an increase of 0.1 percentage points compared with the first quarter of 2007.
Criticism of Commercial Broadcasters’ TV Programming
CDU/CSU politicians and church representatives have criticised commercial television broadcasters' Easter programming for its numerous violent films.
TV Record: The Box Ran Hot Over Easter
247 minutes – that is how much time each viewer aged three and over spent in front of the television per day from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
CyberLink Introduces PowerProducer 5 Authoring Software
Digital-lifestyle software developer CyberLink has launched CyberLink PowerProducer 5.
Emmerich’s Stone Age epic opens at number one
Science fiction and future scenarios are director Roland Emmerich's favourite genre. For his new film “10.000 B.C”, he takes a giant step into the past.
Experience the media world in Canada:
MedienCampus Bayern is offering another exchange programme with the Canadian region of Québec for students and young professionals in all media-related disciplines.
Blu-ray gains a new rival in the format war
No sooner has the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD been decided than the next contender, HD-VMD, appears on the scene. London-based New Medium Enterprises (NME), the company behind the Versatile Multilayer Disc, intends to hold its own despite Blu-ray's triumphant advance.
Pictures from the Hobnox party
Hobnox is an online entertainment and publishing platform that recently held a major event at Berlin's Tresor. DP was a jury member and has posted the hottest party pictures online.
Blu-ray: Chinese companies challenge Taiwanese DVD manufacturers
Leading Chinese DVD manufacturers have responded to Toshiba's withdrawal from the HD-DVD business by converting their production facilities to the Blu-ray format.
First technology channel on the internet
Yesterday in Düsseldorf, Germany’s first technology TV channel was launched at the annual meeting of the SACHEN MACHEN initiative founded by VDI. The WebTV channel ‘TecTV’, established especially for young people, is produced by the Stuttgart moving-image agency fischerAppelt, tv media and can be reached at www.tectv.de.
Wizzard Media licenses 35 programme formats to sevenload
World’s largest provider of video podcasts shows international stars and shows in sevenload channels
10th anniversary gives KI.KA its most successful year
KI.KA celebrated its birthday for a whole year and was rewarded by its viewers with peak ratings: with 16.4%* among three- to 13-year-olds, the channel achieved its highest annual average and increased its market share by almost two percentage points compared with the previous year (14.5%).
MySpace expands offering with celebrity website
Entertainment news and background reports take centre stage.
ARD chairman again opposes giving up advertising
ARD chairman and director-general of Saarländischer Rundfunk Fritz Raff has again opposed giving up advertising on public-service broadcasting in Germany following comments by French President Sarkozy about public-service broadcasting’s advertising revenue in France.
Super RTL launches with a new design
Since yesterday, Super RTL has appeared with a new look and new claims. “Nice to see you” is the friendly, personal greeting with which the channel addresses viewers in its evening programming.
Second place for rbb’s “Abendschau”
“Abendschau,” rbb television’s Berlin news magazine, ranked second among regional news programmes in Germany in 2007.
hr television is the 2007 winner among Germany’s regional channels
As the only regional channel, hr television gained viewers significantly in 2007.
China limits videos and podcasts on the Internet
China has issued strict regulations for controlling videos, podcasts and other audio offerings on the Internet. From February, only majority state-owned websites may distribute such films or radio programmes.
30th birthday of the TV heavyweights
They went on air together 30 years ago: "Tagesthemen" (ARD) and "heute-journal" (ZDF) have classified and evaluated world events every evening since January 2, 1978.
RTL II in 2007: Successful in all programme genres
In 2007, RTL II achieved an average market share of 6.3 % in the commercially relevant target group of 14- to 49-year-olds (previous year: 6.0 %).
Best year in the channel’s history: kabel eins with a 5.6 percent market share in 2007
With a 5.6 percent market share, kabel eins achieved the best result in the channel's history and exceeded the previous year by a full +0.2 percentage points (2006: 5.4 percent).
ProSieben grows in the young target groups
With a mix of gripping blockbusters, outstanding show productions, strong afternoon formats and exciting sporting events, ProSieben recorded a clear growth compared with the previous year in the target groups of viewers aged 14 to 49 and 14 to 29.
Berlin Week of Free Radio
Berlin radio initiatives are holding a "Week of Free Radio" in Berlin from January 1-9, 2008.
NDR Television Continues on Course for Success
NDR Television remains ARD's most successful third channel in 2007. With a nationwide annual market share of 2.8 percent, the broadcaster maintained first place, followed by WDR Television, which achieved an annual figure of 2.6 percent. Altogether, 10.7 million people in Germany tuned in to the third channel from the north every day during the year now drawing to a close.
PHOENIX Again Achieves a Record Result
PHOENIX again achieves a record result in the 2007 broadcasting year: In the eleventh year of its existence, the ARD and ZDF events and documentary channel achieves a market share of 0.9 percent. This corresponds to an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared with 2006.
Sat.1 Closes the Year with a 10.6 Percent Market Share Among the Advertising-Relevant Audience
In the year now drawing to a close, Sat.1 achieved a market share of 10.6 percent among viewers aged 14 to 49, making it the third-strongest channel in the advertising-relevant TV market (2006: 11.3 percent). Among the total audience (viewers aged 3 and over), the channel achieved 9.6 percent (2006: 9.8 percent).
Broadcasting Council Praises WDR Training Activities
In 2006, Westdeutscher Rundfunk trained a total of 1,455 young women and men in vocational training occupations, traineeships, work-shadowing placements and internships. This emerges from the 2006 education report presented to the Broadcasting Council, which the committee acknowledged with praise.
Gary Greenfield Is the New Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Avid Technology
Experienced technology expert takes over leadership of media pioneer Avid Technology.
DVD Charts Glow Yellow
A hit on television for 20 years; celebrated on the cinema screen by more than 4.5 million visitors. Now Springfield's yellow menace is really shaking up the media control DVD charts. "The Simpsons – The Movie", the first feature film from the pen of Matt Groening, shoots straight to number one from a standing start.
Online News Takes Readers Away from Newspapers
News on the Internet is increasingly luring readers away from printed daily newspapers. This is the result of a study that will be published this Friday in the academic journal «Media and Communication Studies». For the first time, it had been possible to demonstrate a shift in use between print and online, the authors Castulus Kolo (Munich) and Robin Meyer-Lucht (Berlin) announced.
Marl Days of Media Culture
The Adolf Grimme Institute is organising a congress with numerous presentations under the title "Measuring values - The production landscape in motion". Topics include: "Focused - the new image of the producer", "Digital deal - new platforms, new revenues, new content?" or "What's on? The right nose for new forms and formats"
Big Brother Awards 2007: Prizes for C.S.I. and taxi association
Hans Dichand honored as a "Lifelong Nuisance".
Presentation of the “CNN Journalist of the Year 2007”
Austrian journalist and presenter Christoph Feurstein was honored with the prize for his television report on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Ten years of digital media at Harz University of Applied Sciences
The weekend of November 9 and 10 at Harz University of Applied Sciences, in the Department of Automation and Computer Science, is entirely devoted to media informatics. After ten years, a field of study has developed in Germany whose future has only just begun.
Led Zeppelin in the iTunes Store
THe Digital Box Set can be pre-ordered from today for around 80 euros
Promotion at Paramount Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment promotes Dr Andreas Kelz to Vice President and Managing Director GSA
SWR Rebuilds Kaiserslautern Studio
SWR invests about €4 million in its Kaiserslautern studio, concert hall and multimedia production facilities.
Paul Hering now “Head of Technology” at n-tv
Paul Hering (42) is now the “Head of Technology” at news broadcaster n-tv. He is thus responsible for broadcast, studio production and all other technical matters at n-tv.
German gross advertising market rises significantly in the first nine months of 2007
The German gross advertising market continued to grow in the first nine months of 2007.
Studio Hamburg Sells AVC to Sertronics
Studio Hamburg sells its 330-person AVC service subsidiary to Switzerland's Sertronics while refocusing on production.
Concerns about ARD’s planned online «media library»
The «media library» planned by ARD is meeting with concerns at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery, which has the leading role in media policy. It must be examined whether the project for free downloading of television and radio programmes from the Internet is covered «in peripheral areas» by the state treaty.
pong de: Experimental Music and Media Festival
From November 3 to 24, 2007, there will once again be exhibitions and performnaces at the Cologne media festival.
Study Finds Limited User-Generated Content
A German media study finds that 7.2 percent of internet users aged 14 to 64 regularly create blogs, comments, images, videos or reviews.
dc days: Seminar on Children’s Media Projects
Viola Gabrielli from the Akademie der Kindermedien e.V. was won over for this topic.
Mirko Schulze Joins Askania Media Management
Mirko Schulze has taken over programme management at Berlin production company Askania Media and will lead it with Martin Hofmann.
12.51 Million TV Viewers Watch International Match
An average of 12.51 million viewers aged three and above watched the football international match between England and Germany on Wednesday.
Nickelodeon Stops Marketing Junk Food
The children’s television channel Nickelodeon will no longer make its licensed characters available to advertise junk food.
Fujitsu Services Assumes Responsibility for Reuters’ IT Infrastructure
Employees of all Reuters branches worldwide gain access to IT services through modern infrastructure and service centres from Fujitsu Services
buffed.de Launches Print Role-Playing Magazine
Computec Media is extending online role-playing brand buffed.de into a 128-page bimonthly print magazine.
Tele Veronika Applies for Broadcasting Licence for Nationwide Television Programme
Tele Veronika GmbH, a 100 %-owned subsidiary of Prime Beteiligungen AG (Appenzell), which wants to broadcast a nationwide television programme from Hanover in spring 2008, has submitted an application for a broadcasting licence to the Lower Saxony state media authority.
Finalists Announced for First German IPTV Award
Twenty-nine entries reach the final round; winners will be announced on 30 August at a gala event.
S4M Opens Asian Office in Kuala Lumpur
The new Malaysian office is intended to support S4M’s expansion in the Asian broadcast market.
GVU Seizes Several Thousand Pirated Copies
In a three-day focused operation, GVU - Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen e.V. together with Czech authorities successfully took action the against the sale of pirated copies at German-Czech border markets
Georg Kofler Leaves Premiere
Dr. Georg Kofler, Chairman of the Executive Board of Premiere AG, will leave the company on August 31, 2007. Kofler asked the Supervisory Board for the early termination of his service contract. The agreement on the mutually agreed termination of the service contract was signed yesterday.