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The Media Village is hiring. We're looking to add to our sales and technical teams
The Media Village is looking for sales and technical staff to complement our existing team!
Sales Manager
We are looking for a Sales Manager to help manage our sales activities in Singapore. Remuneration is based on a basic salary with commission.
Requirements as follows:
- Strong direct sales/account management experience
- Experience in managing key government and education accounts
- Experience in and knowledge of broadcast or film/video post production is a plus
- Able to work independently and exercise initiative
Sales Engineer
We are looking for a Sales Engineer with the ability to perform a pre-sales and direct sales role in Singapore. Remuneration is based on a basic salary with commission.
Requirements as follows:
- Strong knowledge of film/video production and post production systems, with the ability to configure solutions to suit customer’s requirements
- Good consultative and communication skills
- Some direct-sales experience with the ability to generate quotations in Excel
- Good inter-personal skills, independent worker and the ability to exercise initiative
Technical Support Specialist
We are looking for a Technical Support Specialist to complement our support team. This role is based in Singapore, with occasional travel required. Basic requirements are as follows
Requirements as follows:
- Experience maintaining Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems
- Good knowledge of networking and storage systems
- Strong customer support and troubleshooting skills
- Experience in maintaining post production systems such as Autodesk Flame or DaVinci Resolve is a plus
- Willing to work off-hours when required
- A good team player and be able to work independently
If you are interested in applying for any of the above positions, please email your resume to [email protected]
Facilis TerraBlock Shared Storage Unleashes Productivity for Emoxis
At Emoxis, jobs are passed from offline, to 3D, motion graphics and online finishing at a rapid pace, and TerraBlock has simplified and accelerated the flow of data through Emoxis’ workflow. “Our operational team is lean, so productivity is hugely important. We want our creatives to be able to perform at top speeds, and with TerraBlock at the center of our workflow, they can,” said Mark Sun, creative director, Emoxis. “Our files render and transfer quicker than ever before, and we can playback uncompressed Adobe Premiere files in real-time. This functionality is crucial, especially when facing tight deadlines daily.”
Before integrating TerraBlock into its workflow, Emoxis explored NAS and standard file sharing with a centralized server, but quickly found that those solutions lacked the performance needed for concurrent connectivity and multi-format playback, while using more complex protocols. After searching for a higher quality storage solution that could match its video centric workflow needs, Sun purchased the TerraBlock through integration partner The Media Village. “We couldn’t be more pleased with our final decision. After using the system for some time, it’s evident that Facilis’ team is dialed into our needs as video creators and built a highly efficient solution at a price point that can’t be beat,” noted Sun.
Collaborating closely with The Media Village and Facilis, Emoxis’ TerraBlock installation ran smoothly, and the team was up and running in no time, with TerraBlock connected via 8Gb Fibre Channel to five Mac workstations that run Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Adobe® Premiere Pro®, Autodesk® Smoke®, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve and/or Avid® Pro Tools®, in addition to four Windows motion graphics suites that are linked via 1Gb Ethernet and run Adobe® Creative Cloud™ and Autodesk® 3ds Max®. The system is also linked to three producer workstations, a custom archive workstation, encoding suite, ten render farm nodes and an administration file server.
Emoxis is unique in that it is not a full edit-based post-production house, and shares its storage with producers, whose work typically requires 1Gb access to input documents into project folders. While real-time performance played a role in the decision-making process, finding an affordable, fast and easy way to share data between the entire team was the most important. “With Facilis, you don’t incur per-seat licensing fees, and you can easily customize your connection, whether Fibre Channel or Ethernet, to work in a hybrid environment,” said Sun. “It’s also easy to use and there is no cumbersome metadata controller; you can customize your workflow to cover a variety of situations. That alone made it a no brainer in terms of our decision to acquire TerraBlock.”
Over the course of post production on each project, Emoxis’ team will often draw upon high quality stock footage purchased from sister company, MotionElements.com. As the HD and 4K footage arrives uncompressed, the team has to be able to maintain maximum availability and speed while transcoding the footage for the timeline, which TerraBlock has afforded.
TerraBlock has also eliminated the need for Emoxis’ team to migrate project files from one workstation to another when changing edit suites, because all of the workstations can access footage directly from the system. “TerraBlock has put our editors at greater ease. It’s simplified the project planning process and changed the flexibility of how we work as a team for the better,” explained Sun. “We needed to move uncompressed HD files in real-time, and TerraBlock delivered; we wanted everyone in our studio to have access the same shared volume and TerraBlock provided that.”
He concluded, “No news is good news in this business, and we never hear any complaints about file access or networking from the staff. TerraBlock works perfectly the way we envisioned it would, which gives our entire team a peace of mind.”
About TerraBlock
Facilis TerraBlock is a high-capacity, multiplatform, shared storage system for post-production and content creation professionals. It fosters collaboration, supporting Fiber channel and Ethernet, as well as volume and file-level control.
About Facilis Technology
Founded in 2003, Massachusetts-based Facilis Technology, Inc. designs and builds affordable, high-capacity, turnkey shared storage and archiving solutions for post production and content creation professionals working in the film, television, education and audiovisual markets. Its production-proven solutions are fast and intuitive – making it easier for creative professionals to collaborate and work more efficiently. Flexible, scalable and compatible with industry-standard creative solutions, Facilis’ products blend seamlessly into any studio environment – boutique, mid-size or large – and have been installed in more than 2000 facilities worldwide. http://facilis.com/
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The Media Village was in the Philippines for our post production event, "Confluence in Talent and Technology", held in Makati on 5 August 2014 and in Quezon City on 7 August 2014. Over 200 people attanded the event across the two locations and we are very grateful to everyone who took the time off to attend.
We also thank Jobert Monteras, Adrian Tecson, Mae Carzon, Courtney Pryce, Dave Yu, Edwin Tan, Chen Junbin and Marilen Magsaysay for all the efforts in preparing and delivering their wonderful presentations.
Join MediaV in Manila for the International Film Expo
Join The Media Village in Manila for the International Film Exposition (IFX), held at the SMX Convention Centre from 27 to 29 June 2014. Visit www.ifx.ph for more information.
We will be part of the Blackmagic Design booth, together with Thirty Six-O, the Philippines distributor for Blackmagic Design, and will be showcasing their latest solutions, including the range of Blackmagic Cinema Cameras and DaVinci Resolve.
We're pleased to have some of the top Filipino colorists at our stand, showcasing the work they have done on DaVinci Resolve. Join us at the following demonstration times:
FRIDAY, 27 June 2014
11.45am - Optima Digital, featuring Marc Ambat and James Ecito
1.45pm - SQ Film Lab, featuring Angelo Santos and Elmer Buencamino
3.45pm - welovepost, featuring Pedring Lopez, Jason Cahapay and Jam Jimenez
SATURDAY, 28 June 2014
11.45am - TBC
1.45pm - Underground Logic, featuring Aids Tecson and Aurie Anden
3.45pm - Post Manila, featuring Musse Cruz and Mel Quimosing
Lots of new features in DaVinci Resolve 11! Expected release in June 2014 for free to existing users. Here’s a list of what’s new:
DaVinci Resolve 11 NAB 2014
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High Level New System Features
- Multi-user collaborative workflow with simultaneous editing, grading and metadata entry. (Full Version only)
- User selectable enhanced and optimised foreground and background render caching.
- Completely New Multiple Level Render Caching includes selectable cache points for source, nodes, clip and timeline, cache indicators on edit and color page showing selection and status of cache and user selectable cache formats; ProRes, DNxHD, Uncompressed 10-bit and 16-bit float.
- Dual monitor user interface support.
- Apple certified ProRes decode and encode support on Linux.
- High performance OpenFX framework extension for multi GPU OpenCL and CUDA plugins.
- GUI support for multiple languages; English, Japanese and Chinese.
- User customizable keyboard shortcuts and presets.
- Multiple auto save versions.
Media Page New Features
- Clone tool for SD Cards, SSDs and disk drives includes multiple destination clone and checksum report.
- New reveal or hide clip metadata window option.
- Media Pool thumbnail clip detail popup now displays clip frame rate.
- Split Clip operation automatically moves the focus to the newly created clip.
- Camera metadata support for RED and Sony Raw clips.
Edit Page New Features
- Editing and Assembly
- Keyboard absolute or relative timecode input for all viewers and timeline.
- Create Timeline Using Bin and Create Timeline Using Selected Clips to quickly assemble a timeline from any media in the media pool, with or without mark in/out preserved and using original clip order.
- Full JKL transport control now includes frame by frame.
- Source/Timeline viewer playhead ganging.
- Split video and audio in and out points on source and timeline viewers.
- Slide source destination selector in the track control manager.
- Shift click and drag to constrain clips in time while moving them to higher or lower tracks.
- Ability to deselect a gap by clicking it.
- Through Edit Indicator on the timeline with join through edit command.
- 4-up display for slip and slide.
- Option-dragging the top or bottom of a simple edit point turns it into a split edit point.
- Option arrow key to move clips vertically up and down tracks.
- Sub-clips are easily generated using the viewer.
- End of timeline is now indicated on the viewer.
- Editable names for video tracks.
- Timeline tracks display number of clips on the track.
- Inspector selector for Video, Audio, OpenFX adjustment options.
- User defined favorite transitions, titles OpenFX plugins and generators.
- Editing of compound clips.
- Stereo Decision List import supported via ColorTrace.
Trim Edits
- You can now always roll and edit in selection or Trim mode.
- Trim Start and Trim End let you resize the in or out point of a clip that intersects the playhead to the current playhead position.
- Symmetrical and Asymmetrical trimming with multiple selections at once.
- Extend edit command for single and multiple edit selections.
- JKL dynamic trimming to dynamically resize or trim the selected edit.
- JKL dynamic Slip or Slide to dynamically slip or slide the selected clip.
- Option U key will now toggle Edit Point Type .
- U shortcut selection will switch a selected clip among Video+Audio, Video Only, Audio Only.
- Single key shortcut selection to Play Around Clip.
- Move/Trim/Edit a selected edit or selection of clips based on timecode entry.
Audio
- Audio crossfade with 0dB, +3dB and -3dB transition options.
- Adaptive audio track option to map up to 16 audio channels.
- Clip audio mixer.
- Numeric editing of audio mixer fader value.
- Option to use system audio even when Desktop Video is selected for use.
- Source viewer audio waveform display with each audio channel displayed.
- Multiple zoom selection for audio in source viewer.
- Track audio mixer offers mono channel routing.
- Display of multiple channel audio waveforms in user selected timeline audio clip.
Transitions
- Add default transition to selected edit points.
- Default transition contextual menu includes duration selections.
- Inspector now includes a transitions duration parameter.
- Inspector includes transition start on edit, centre on edit and end on edit options.
- Also includes ease in, ease out and ease in/out transition options.
- Concurrently add transitions to multiple selected edit points.
- Extend edit command to extend clips to the playhead.
- Oval Transition now includes aspect ratio support.
- Default transition support.
- Favorite transitions indicators.
- Command drag and bump a clip in a track generates a dissolve.
- Image dissolve modes, Video, Film, Additive, Subtractive, Highlights and Shadows.
Effects
- Edit keyframe timeline with curve editor including splined based (bezier) ease-in/ease-out and linear selections.
- Graphics files have default duration for editing.
- Copy and paste all attributes to multiple clips.
- OpenFX plug-ins can now be used for transitions and generators.
- Retime Clip menu now also appears on the right click contextual menu.
Titles
- Extension of rich title generation tools including stroke size and color, over/underline and strikeout, tracking, line spacing and capitalization.
- Underline and behind graphic bars for text.
Timeline list
- Timeline Folders to manage timelines in the timeline list.
- Addition of Creation and Modified Date data in timeline list.
- Name, creation and modified date filters for timeline list.
- Pop-up menu to filter out all but .xml or .aaf for .edl files in the xml, aaf and edl importer.
Markers and Edit Index
- Add markers to Source Clips, in the Source Viewer of Media or Edit pages, for reference.
- Add notes to flags and markers with color selection.
- Keyboard shortcuts to jump to previous/next markers.
- Option to ripple timeline markers when any track is rippled.
- Snapping on timeline markers.
- Flags and markers now shown in Edit Index.
- Additional Edit Index fields.. start and end source timecodes, slate timecode, audio TC, resolution codec and source frame rate.
- Sort Edit Index with display selectors.
- The edit index list includes ‘Show Through Edits’ and Offline clips options.
Additional Keyboard Shortcuts
- Additional play commands; Play In to Out, Play Around In, Play Around Out, Play to Out.
- Previous/Next Gap shortcuts - governed by auto selection.
- New shortcut key to focus on Media Pool Folder view.
- Command # keys to focus on Media Clips, Effects, and Edit Index.
Color Page New Features
- Camera Raw palette now includes Highlight and Shadows recovery, Saturation, Contrast, Midtone Detail, Color Boost Lift and Gain controls.
- All Camera Raw controls now available on the BMD control panel.
- Highlight and shadow recovery, Color Boost and Midtone Detail now available in all corrector nodes.
- Color Chart based auto color balance.
- Enhanced grading Group management with Pre-Clip and Post-Clip node graphs.
- Additional keyer finesse controls for cleaner keys.
- Additional Split Screen group to show all highlight views.
- Gallery stills and memories now selectable in one Split Screen group.
- New saturation vs. saturation curve.
- New LAB colorspace selection in corrector nodes.
- Dense color matching for Stereoscopic 3D.
- Key lock option for node sizing to allow objects to be moved into selected area.
- Broadcast Safe out of limit display and soft clip level selection.
- Windows now include Opacity for greater control of isolations.
- Multiple layer OpenEXR support in the node graph.
- Direct control of multiple HDLinks for on set multiple camera grading.
- Gallery page now directly accessible from the Color page.
- Single frame track forward and backward mode using for complicated tracks.
- Updated Softlight composite mode.
- Timecode type display selection now uses a context menu.
- Timeline markers and flags with notes now shown on Color page.
- Multiple user named PowerGradeTM Albums.
- Node icons to display tools used on each node.
- Node editor mute icon to display when bypassed.
- Option click Enhance Viewer mode to display full screen viewer.
- Option to hide the mini timeline.
- Tint control for Arri Raw files.
- Phantom Raw debayer improvements.
- Automatic dead pixel concealment for PhantomCine.
- Color page viewer toolbar for selection of viewer and modes.
- Video scopes now refresh in real time.
- CinemaDNG RAW settings includes new 4K Production Camera specific log curve.
Deliver Page New Features
- Expanded render queue for clearer display of render jobs.
- Render source clips at source resolution option.
- easyDCP generation now support inclusion of subtitles.
- Folder path retention now selectable from top or bottom of folder path.
- Render settings refined into standard, intermediate and advanced lists to speed selection.
General Enhancements
- Users can now use drag and drop to move projects in the Project Manager.
- Support for new ACES 0.7.1 standard.
- Selectable ACES version in Master Project Settings.
- Supports easyDCP IMF encoding and decoding.
- Shared media path mapping support for sharing/moving projects between Mac, Linux and Windows systems.
- Edius HQX and HQ Quicktime decoding on Mac and Windows.
- MXF OP1a encoding support to allow video and audio in the same file.
- 12 bit RGB DPX support.
- Option to select 6G-SDI in UHD monitoring mode.
- Decoding of Panasonic MTS video.
- LZW compression option for TIFF rendering.
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