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Adobe Launches Best Practices Guide for Long Form, Episodic Post Production
Adobe launched an “Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices and Workflow Guide for Long Form and Episodic Post Production” that it said July 27 was created with film and TV editors sp... More
MVP Publishing Schedule
The MVP: Metaverse + Virtual Production e-newsletter will not publish Aug. 4 and Aug. 11. The MESA editorial department will also not be publishing on MESAonline.org between Aug. 1... More
M&E Journal: How Prepared Are You for the Metaverse?
When you hear people talking about the metaverse, it seems very conceptual and as a result, it can be difficult to understand tangible use cases. Really, the best way to think of i... More
Entertainment Evolution Symposium Returns Sept. 21
The Entertainment Evolution Symposium (EES), the annual gathering of industry innovators and thought leaders, all discussing the use of data to effectively blend physical and digit... More
M&E Journal: Many Metaverses
On proto-metaverse gaming platforms like Fortnite and Roblox, members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha have proven their comfort with and excitement for the next generation of social media t... More
M&E Journal: You Unlock This Door With the Key of Imagination
Welcome to the metaverse issue. Never before have we embraced a technology for so long, building experiences around different aspects of the fundamental technology driving the “m... More
HITS Spring: Scan Truck Drives From Reality to the Metaverse
It takes a whole village of professionals to deliver the cutting-edge technologies involved in delivering the highest-quality 3D assets for commercials, feature films, TV shows, vi... More
M&E Journal: High Risk, High Reward
When 71-year-old Bob Iger jumps on the bandwagon and joins a virtual avatar company, it’s a sign the metaverse has morphed into the next big thing in tech. Maybe it doesn’t ... More
HITS Spring: Better Data Management Can Keep Virtual Productions on Time and on Budget
Virtual productions rely heavily on 3D assets and when a production company is shooting in volume, the assets that are rendered in real-time have to be just right. The process o... More
HITS Spring: How Community Collaboration Helps M&E Innovation
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) is the premier community for production and post-production individuals, businesses and technologies. Each year at the legendary “wee... More
HITS Spring: Amazon, ICVR Explore the Evolution of Entertainment Workflows
Amid much fanfare during the pandemic with revolutionary production techniques using game engine backbones, virtual production was largely hailed as the next big thing that will im... More
HITS Spring: How Real-Time Workflows are Revolutionizing Production
Super Giant Robot Brothers is a fast-paced action-comedy show produced by Reel FX and coming soon to Netflix that uses virtual production and the Epic Games Unreal Engine from init... More
HITS Spring: NFTs Aren’t a Fad and the Tech is ‘Here to Stay,’ Lionsgate Says
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren’t a fad and media and entertainment companies should embrace them and use them to enhance the content and experiences they provide to consumers, a... More
HITS Spring: Epic’s Unreal Engine is the ‘Road to the Open Metaverse’
Epic Games is now incorporating its Unreal Engine more directly into not just post-production for visual effects but also the active filmmaking process, live broadcast and animatio... More
HITS Spring: Challenges Linger in the Voyage to the Cloud
With studios and production houses increasingly shifting to cloud-based workflows, producers have come to realize the true costs of doing business in the cloud: dollars and latency... More
HITS Spring: Genpact Explores the Possibilities for M&E Companies in the Metaverse
As technology brands start to increasingly create their own metaverses, one thing has become clear: media, publishing and entertainment companies will have a unique role to play in... More
HITS Spring: The Significant Role Played by In-House Data Center Infrastructure
In-house data center infrastructure assists producers and creatives in optimizing workflow efficiencies to maximize on-set virtual production outcomes, according to a panel of indu... More
HITS Spring: The Metaverse Presents Opportunities for Hollywood, ICVR Says
The metaverse presents significant opportunities for media and entertainment (M&E) companies, according to MESA and Sinan AlRubaye, chief experience officer at Los Angeles, Cal... More
NAB 2022: MEDCA Explores the Importance of Data Industry Standards
Advanced compute including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), broadcast, editorial, previsualization, smart stages, VFX and all data-centric workflows are, at ... More
HITS Spring: Softtek to Tackle Metaverse Experiences
At the May 19 Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS), held at the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles, and online via MESA’s virtual platform, the MESAverse, the team ... More