Digital Magic News

June 2009

RED is TED.. on this Saturday, June 06, 2009

Ted of RED visiting Digital Magic, and met students of APA's School of Television and Motion Pictures, Academy of Performance Art. A mini seminar and study on RED ONE Production and Post production workflows.

Can you found RED's the Scarlet in the pictures??

Welcome and thanks to Dan,

Zach, Anna and Lik

May 2009
May 07 2009 Beijing, China

2 Presentations were made, for to launch the 1st 3D Stereoscopic musical movie "China's Idol Boys" worldwide.

3D Stereo screening to industry professionals at China Research institute of Film Science and Technology

Extensive exchange of ideas, aiming to promote Asian 3D stereo productions

Additional 3D stereo screening for the media at Beijing's UME 3D Stereo Digital Cinema

A visit to China Research institute of Film Science and Technology in Beijing,

honored to have opportunity in technical ideas exchange with research engineers

May 09 2009 Manila

400 People was gathered at SM's 3D Digital Cinema in North Edsa for our Stereoscopic vision presentation

Discussion was made for preparation of producing the 1st Filipino 3D stereo movie.

Friendly visits made to Manila leading post services, Optima and Underground Logic,

for advanced technical ideas exchange on vaious research with Film Science and 3d Stereo Technologies

March 2009
Over 200 visitors to the Vfx Summit at Filmart 2009, on the 25th March

Digital Magic has presented the current Cinema technology development, with focus on

a. Digital Intermediate

b. Digital Acquisition

c. RED ONE

d. 3D Stereoscopic Cinema

e. Digital Cinema

Workflows of various Vfx/ Visual effects productions are presented, too

Over 200 visitors to our Film show at Filmart 2009, on the 24th March

the 35mm Film show demo all form of Digital Intermediate process we offered, with over 30 movies film clip, each with their different filming, production and post-production workflows.

We also debut the 4 minutes film trailer "China Idol Boys 2009" in 3D stereo.

The 3D Stereo screening is made possible with Digital Cinema services provider, Barco DLP Cinema Projector, and Dolby Digital Cinema 3D content creator, Dolby 3D Cinema viewing system.

See you all again in 2010 in Hong Kong

Mobile phone creative content competition winners from Digital Magic

At Filmart 2009, our booths displayed

the RED ONE 3d Stereo solution.

Sony's flagship F35 Camera system

BaseLight Digital Intermediate system

Depth Q single projector active 3D display

q-Mobile and Mobile games projects

March 2009
First Chinese Musical for 3D stereo Digital Cinema

The 3D Summer Heat for China 2009, as directed by Lam Wah Chuen

See this at our Filmart 2009 Digital Magic Seminar on 24th March 10AM.

RED ONE 3D stereo movie making in China, tech supported by Digital Magic Hong Kong

shooting completed November 2008

March 2009

Sony F35 Camera system in Action, in Hong Kong

Initial test with HDCam SR HQ 880/Mbps, under Sony's S-Log imaging technology

We believe this would be the best Digital Film Making technology available for Cinematic release woks

Post processing towards Digital Cinema and Film Movie projection test in progress,

under Film Magic, Digital Magic, i-Magic and Heavy Optical

See the result at Digital Magic Film Show on 24th March 2009 at Filmart. 10AM at Theatre ONE

F35 and XDCam PDW700 Camera system display at Filmart's 2009 Digital Magic's Booth

Feb 2009
26 Feb 2009, Singapore Digital Film Making and 3D Stereo seminar

Percy, Lik and Joanne make a presentation at Shaw's Lido Cineplex to the leading Singapore film production community

Displaying the Digital Film making solution, with 35mm film screening of RED, F23 footage, along with DCI grade Digital Cinema presentation. Thanks to Lido Cineplex, we also display our Hollywood grade 3D works with their Dolby 3D Stereo Cinema outfit. Additional reviews was make on RED and 3D Stereo production and post-production know how, a strong over 30 minutes of Q n A, is the heat of the seminar. After Seminar, we have the honor to invite SFC, MDA, and many of the Singaporean directors along for an extended lunch meeting, where specific project and scenario are further discuss, and cooperation opportunity were made. We look forwards to serve the creative movie making community, and we also would look for new partners in 3D Stereo production in South Asia, which we aimed at Singapore as a technical and investment base.

Jan 2009
Advanced Film "Optical Sound" Archive work, January 2009
The New installation by Cintel, London,
The most advanced Optical sound head/readers for 16mm and 35mm datacine work,
meeting all the new demanding HD mastering and archiving standards,
and more in-depth optical audio noise control for today's mastering needs of old movies.

Jan 2009
The Gala Premiere of "Kiss of Death 2", 14th Jan 2009

Anna Kan, and Percy Fung attended the Gala, at Galaxy cinema complex in HCMC

The 1st Vietnamese movie shooting with RED ONE, with 35mm cinematic Film post finished in 2 weeks at Digital Magic, Hong Kong

40 days of shooting, with local director, cameraman, stunt and Vfx team.

A full Vietnam National release, hitting the Lunar new year box office 2009 with many full houses.

Feb 2009
2008 Hong Kong ICT Awards, suppoted by Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Best Ubiquitous Networking, Digital Media Marketing Campaign
Certificate of Merit, I- magic limited (Q - mobile)
Q-mobile, a CRM/MRM product for mobile phone developed by i-Magic Hong Kong
www.i-magic.com.hk/mobile.html

　

Dec 2008
Canon HD qaulity filming in Action

Canon 5D Mark II in Hong Kong with Film Magic Crew

Day Night Tungsten:

One of the first owners of the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II in Hong Kong

we observed..

21 mega-pixel SLR with H.264 1080P 60 capability

30P only, 25/24P is not enabled

you can't control the iris or ASA easily.
use of fully manual lenses such as those from Zeiss.
　

5D Mark II camera "burst mode" at 3.9 shots per second,

at 5616 x 3744 resolution JPEG mode,

Maximum of 310 frames
　

Nov 2008
Founder Mr. Percy Fung was presented with "Followership" by Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers, over the SMPTE 2008 annual conference in Los Angles, USA.

Mr. Percy Fung has been a 30 years member of this international renowned association, which work hard on promoting industrial standard, practice and education. Mr. Percy Fung has been a speaker offering technical seminars in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines, with technology topics on High definition TV, Digital Intermediate, Digital Cinema, Digital Cinematography and Color, 3D stereoscopic Vision, and RED ONE workflows. Research on advanced Digital Archive and mastering.