The Canadian commercial industry is stepping into the world of high-definition filmmaking with Canada’s first hd-shot television commercials….

Film purists take heed. This is not a story about the preeminence of celluloid. This is the story of how digital video allowed two filmmakers and Canada’s top film studies program to take a good script and make the best movie…

Canada will be hdtv ready within a year after u.s. networks get up full-steam with their digital broadcasts, says Canada’s top digital tv expert. The problem is no one can tell for sure when that will be….

Even as industry insiders question the likelihood of u.s. broadcasters meeting a 2002 deadline to be fully operational in digital television, Canada is showing signs that it is picking up speed on the road to dtv….

If only every aspect of filmmaking in Canada was as potentially painless as adr is turning out to be. With a little help from Chris Miles and Connie McKinnon, the two players in Toronto’s Vagabond Studios, a high-quality adr studio can…

She may have lost her standing in the provincial riding of St. Paul’s last spring, but former Tory minister of citizenship, culture and recreation Isabel Bassett has reigned victorious in the turtle race to replace Peter Herrndorf as tvontario’s chair and…

Montreal: The industry as a whole is counting on the success of Laura Cadieux….la suite, the Denise Filiatrault comedy sequel being launched on 60 or more Quebec screens Dec. 3. The original, C’t’a ton tour, Laura Cadieux, adapted from the Michel…

Montreal: French overseas broadcaster RFO 1 is the first non-American foreign tv signal to become available in Canada….

The advent of high-definition television and new digital filmmaking practices is affecting not only producers and post houses, but will have a significant impact on Canada’s film conversion, transfer and duplication shops, as well….

Montreal: Digital asset management and migration standards for archives represented two key issues investigated at this month’s ‘entirely successful’ Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in Montreal. More than 550 delegates and commercial vendors joined newly elected amia president Sam Kula…

Avid Technology of Tewksbury, Mass., has announced a restructuring plan which will see the leading developer of post equipment and software cut its staff by 200 worldwide, saving the company about $20 million next year….

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