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The editing evolution

Alex Eaton is owner/editor at Stealing Time in Toronto….

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Spots still priority at JMB Post

Jayne Morris-Berry’s JMB Post Production has been operating out of Vancouver for nine years. With a very loyal client list from both Canada and the u.s., the New Jersey-born Morris-Berry has one of the busiest post facilities in town….

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Bowes making a place for clay

David Bowes wants to make one thing clear – he’s not anti-cgi. Bowes, the president and senior creative director at Vancouver stop-motion/claymation studio Bowes Productions, believes puppets and models can co-exist quite nicely with digital creations….

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Calibre launches matte department

Calibre Digital Pictures, the Toronto-based effects and animation house, is up and running with its new matte department. According to Mark Fordham, head of the four-member division, this expansion ‘meets the needs of the new digital environment for more and more…

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Stock footage finds a niche in Canadian spots

Stock is the answer to a cash-strapped spot producer’s dream – but commercials are by no means a big part of the business pie for Canadian suppliers….

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A great illusion within budget

The camera pans a packed stadium from above – and the crowd goes wild. Is this the kind of shot you can reasonably expect a spot budget to stretch to? Andrew Schulze, manager of broadcast product at Palmer Jarvis ddb, charged…

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Salter posts new 24p LEXX

LEXX is the latest tv series to switch to Sony 24p hdcam origination, and Halifax’s Salter Street Digital, a full-service audio and video post-production facility, reports it’s ready to post in the show’s new format….

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Petro ad averts budget wipeout

Like so many other producers utilizing stock footage, Brian Howlett of Axmith McIntyre Wicht Advertising in Toronto was motivated by budget….

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Stock makes NGC campaign a work of art

Getting lost in a work of art is a wonderful moment. And it was this experience that General Assembly Production Centre was attempting to bring to life in the ‘Your Art, Your Gallery’ campaign for the National Gallery of Canada….

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Comeau enjoys Villeneuve collaboration

Montreal editor Richard Comeau finds himself up for his second Genie Award nomination, this time for his work on the feature Maelstrom, Canada’s hope for Oscar consideration as best foreign film….

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Transcending TV

CanWest Global is no longer merely a broadcaster. After last summer’s $3.2-billion (us$2.3-billion) takeover of newspaper mega-chain Hollinger Inc., the company now has more than 100 Internet properties….

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Inspired, intelligent, ingenious: an iTV model to shoot for

For years at Christmastide, Canada’s CBC Radio called round to Canadian peacekeeping forces based in various war-torn or contentious spots, like Cypress or the Middle East or Africa. The hosts of the internationally distributed program As It Happens got the soldiers on the phone to sing carols and pass messages to partners and children back home. Sweet, warm and frequently funny it was, but only what you might call interactive in a limited way; for instance, you could hear people’s reactions the following night when they’d play back phoned-in comments.