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Online with Derek

Family Channel will debut its newest series Life with Derek on March 24, following a round of on-air and online sneak previews. The first ep of the 13 x 30 comedy ran over the March 10-12 weekend on www.family.ca – the first sneak peek of its kind, says Family – leading into five days of on-air promotion.

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Post houses cope with the many flavors of HD

Despite a resurgence of Super 16 capture, the HD post revolution appears to be in full swing.

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Avid’s Nitris fuelled for uncompressed HD

A year after it unveiled its Symphony Nitris HD editing platform at NAB 2005, Avid is still touting this product as its best solution for post producers working in HD, SD, or both.

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Joerin talks HD

Do you cut differently in HD versus film?

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Final Cut Pro goes to war with Jarhead

The following online article (www.apple.com/pro/film/murch2) has been edited and reprinted with permission from Apple.

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Canuck audio shops bring the scares

Classic horror films conjure up famous scenes of creatures and psychos ­- from Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man to the girl in the well in The Ring. But without subtle (and not-so-subtle) sound design behind them, the images would lose their power to scare us with those memorable ‘jump’ moments.

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Producers score with needle drops

Kelly Senecal says his CTV primetime soap Whistler needs a needle-drop soundtrack to deliver a ‘different kind of energy’ than a traditional musical score.

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Hearing the Promised Land

Daniel Pellerin is a Toronto-based Genie and Gemini Award-winning sound supervisor, rerecording mixer, music supervisor and contractor. Daniel Pellerin Digital Sound Productions recently sound designed and mixed the HD live-action and CGI documentary The Exodus Decoded for executive producers Simcha Jacobovici of Associated Producers and James Cameron.

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Stursberg fires back at critics

Ottawa: CBC’s Richard Stursberg fired back at critics at the CFTPA Prime Time conference last month, defending the performance of CBC president Robert Rabinovitch within hours of presenting his own plan to revive the pubcaster with mainstream shows looking for big audiences.

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Cronenberg making Promises

David Cronenberg has added a second feature to his already crowded dance card, and will direct Eastern Promises, from an original script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), after helming the satirical drama Maps to the Stars this fall.

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TSN preps SportsCentre for HD

TSN has announced plans to take its flagship news program SportsCentre into high definition by September, making the channel the first in Canada to provide its news in HD.

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Prime Time searches for production slump solutions

Ottawa: The state of domestic TV production provided producers with one of few sources of optimism in Profile 2006, the economic study of the Canadian film and TV industry unveiled at CFTPA’s Prime Time conference (Feb. 15-17).

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Thorne-Stone new Toronto film commish

Karen Thorne-Stone has been tapped as the new film commissioner of Toronto and, on March 20, will take the wheel of the city’s efforts to boost movie, TV and commercial productions.

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Girl power

Samantha Weinstein beams for the cameras after taking best female performance at the ACTRA Toronto awards on Feb. 24. The fifth-grade student won for her leading turn in Renuka Jeyapalan’s short, Big Girl, playing a tyke who clashes with her mom’s new boyfriend. She’ll be seen next in Ken Finkleman’s At the Hotel.

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Polley directing Pinsent, Christie

Sarah Polley has started work on her feature directing debut, and is in Hamilton, ON until next month with Away from Her – an adaptation of an Alice Munro short story starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie.