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07/03/2023

in 1928 television pioneer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission.

On this day in 1928, the television pioneer demonstrated the world's first colour transmission.

06/30/2023

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson have joined forces with Turner Classic Movies: TCM in order to guide programming decisions and curation.

After recent layoffs, three filmmaking giants are stepping in to help out the beloved network.

06/27/2023

"Protecting film, this profound analog art form, is a race against the clock" – Steven Spielberg

As Production Manager of MTI Film's Restoration & Remastering Department Bridgid O'Donnell-Farquhar has both supervised and contributed her hands-on talent as a seasoned Restoration Artist to many iconic projects including Easy Rider, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Taxi Driver, Twelve O'clock High, F

06/25/2023

We're proud of colorist Greg Strait's work on the remastering of The Celluloid Closet - Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's groundbreaking documentary about the history of Hollywood's depiction of q***r characters and story lines.

You can view the 4k version on Apple TV!

https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-celluloid-closet/umc.cmc.1sanfyk2nc1xvog2z8lsb99m

What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv…

06/22/2023

Happy one-year workiversary to Arthur Oganesyan! We love having you in the MTI Film Fam!

06/21/2023

From well-preserved camera negatives with nary a scratch, to beat-up projection prints that have seen better days – the powerful combination of our talent and tech gets the job done beautifully! Hit us up: 📧 [email protected]

This is "Restoration: Moving Scratches" by MTI Film on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

06/20/2023

06.20.74 | "Chinatown" was released. Edited by Sam O'Steen [Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby] who rightly nabbed an Oscar nomination.

Below: Bobbie O'Steen and editor Darrin Navarro, ACE discuss the specific techniques and artistry of her father's work on the . Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/z79cPJelrXY

https://www.mewshop.com/ Contact: [email protected] for information and inquiries on classes and events.Sight, Sound & Story: Live "Inside the Cutting Room of...

06/20/2023

Film preservation is always urgent. It always will be urgent. For every neglected film print or set of film elements that is not being stored under optimal conditions, that has not been checked or cleaned or scanned, the clock is ticking. - Martin Scorsese

The term “film preservation” now has an official ring to it. In one sense, that’s progress—it means that people take it seriously, which was not always the case. On the other hand, the fact that it has become official means that it has also ceased to be urgent, that the problem has been solv...

06/19/2023

Pictured: Film restoration training program at the Los Angeles Mission's Media Lab. Providing a pathway to new futures comes with a beautiful bonus: it strengthens our ability to restore even more important films.

In 2021 the Post-Production Veterans – an LA based entertainment industry professionals group called – partnered with the Los Angeles Mission to establish a training program at their LA Mission Media Lab. The program offers training, internships and job opportunities at MTI Film and at other key...

06/17/2023

in Hitchcock's Psycho opened in New York 🚿🔪

Edited by George Tomasini, Psycho is most famous for its shower sequence among others. In the same scene, Hitchcock broke conventions by not adhering to the 180-degree rule as well as using jump cuts. The mental turbulence Janet Leigh's character Marion goes through while driving to California with stolen money is shown through close-ups, crossfades with the dark road and in in the scene where she is stopped by a cop.

While the film celebrates the 58th year of its release today, here is how the film majorly influenced filmmaking as such.

06/15/2023

The Colours of Motion project explores the use of color in movies through artistic prints in which each line represents the average color of each frame in a particular frame. From to and Alice in Wonderland, films are turned into frame-by-frame bar codes that film fans and professionals in the world of color in film (like us!) can obsess over.

They make stunning art prints.

06/14/2023

A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch.

A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch

06/13/2023

Sr. Editor Kyle Gleisner is a seasoned artist and has been a valued member of the MTI Film family for nearly ten years! In this 1st edition of our Spotlight series, we shine a light on his work.

Like so many in our industry, Kyle Gleisner began his career working in the vault at MTI Film. That was 10 years ago.

06/12/2023

Films are our common cultural heritage. We need to preserve history, creativity, art, and the hard work of the people in front of and behind the camera. We know something about this work! Here's a great piece about how it's done.

Old movies need to be saved.

06/08/2023

We approach restoration with a deep love of film. Let us love your film back to life. 🎞️ [email protected]

05/26/2023

It's been a few weeks since NAB, but we love Creative COW's interview of Randy Reck, our Director of Product Development, complete with topic markers! 🐄 🎞

05/22/2023

The release of Cortex 5.5 is a major update to our widely used family of transcoding and workflow solutions.

The new version includes two groundbreaking options: MTai Frame Rate Conversion and MTai Super Resolution Uprez, which apply artificial intelligence to two common tasks, leading to dramatically improved results.

Cortex 5.5 also includes a host of new and improved features to its core software to boost productivity, support new formats and delivery requirements, and address workflow issues from the set to the screen.

Try Cortex for free for 2 weeks: https://bit.ly/2WeekDemoKey

05/09/2023

Our own Larry Chernoff is in London and will be at MPTS '23 introducing what's new with DRS™Nova v5.5. and Cortex v5.5. Stop by our partner Big Pic Media Ltd's location and see Cortex's new AI tools in action: MTai SuperRes and MTai Frame Rate Conversion. Booth G67 is where it's at!

05/09/2023

“At MTI Film, we will hunker down and try to maintain staff to the best of our ability by utilizing our talent across business lines — a difficult task at best. Our objective is to minimize the effects of the strike on the families of our employees so the anxieties produced by being in the helpless position we find ourselves in are mitigated by the full potential of help the company can provide." - Larry Chernoff

Post Magazine is dedicated to serving the most intensely dynamic segment of the entertainment industry: Post Production. Post magazine has over 25 years of experience covering this business.

04/27/2023

MTai Frame Rate Converter is a utility within our Cortex application that ensures smooth motion by synthesizing interpolated frames that are needed for, as an example, going from 30 fps to 24 fps.

MTai SuperRes is an up converter that uses AI to do a very high quality Upres without artifacts and edge problems.

Get the rest of the details: https://bit.ly/CortexV55Brochure

MTI’s Cortex v5.5 transcoding update includes MTai Frame Rate Conversion and MTai Super Resolution Uprez, applying AI processing to two common tasks for faster, accurate results.

04/22/2023

That’s a wrap! We had an incredible week of back to back demos showing what's new in both Cortex v5.5 and DRSNova v5.5.

It was fantastic seeing familiar faces and meeting so many new people too. Thank you to our hard working event team, our valued partners, and everyone who visited us in the North hall for making such a great show!

04/21/2023

We were proud to have Victor Vaile - MTI Film's Director of Engineering - at to join representatives from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud to discuss what can and cannot yet do for production and , as well as tools in the cloud, and more!

Representatives from Microsoft, AWS, Google, and MTI Film discussed what the cloud can and cannot yet do for production and post-production, as well as AI/machine learning tools in the cloud, and t…

04/13/2023

Roll Call! We'll be there - will you? 🎰

At NAB Show 2023, MTI Film (Booth N1211) will be debuting the latest versions of Cortex, its widely used family of transcoding and workflow solutions, and DRS™Nova, its industry leading digital restoration software. Cortex v5.5 includes two groundbreaking, AI-driven options, MTai Frame Rate Conver...

04/12/2023

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers - SMPTE'S Production & Post in the Multi-Cloud Universe panel at this year's NAB Show will bring together Microsoft’s Andy Beach, Google Cloud’s Buzz Hays, Amazon Web Services’s Katrina King and our own Victor Vaile for an exploration of the myriad solutions that have arisen in recent years via hyper-scalers, offerings and private clouds. Don't miss it! 📍

04/10/2023

We had an amazing night at the opening of our new Film Center. MTI Film has been involved with film restoration for 30 years and the Film Center is our way of demonstrating our continued commitment to the art.

It was wonderful to have gathered so many of the industry's great film enthusiasts in one space. It was truly an honor for us.

04/09/2023

Can't believe 2023 is less than a week away! Come say hello to us at booth # N1211! RSVP through our event link and get updates and reminders: https://fb.me/e/3lR9kNNTM

03/15/2023

9-1-1 Starring Angela Bassett, Peter Krause & more.
Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk & Tim Minear.
MTI COLORIST: Julio Giron

03/13/2023

Paul Rogers was up against some serious competition including Eddie Hamilton for Top Gun: Maverick, Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár, and Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for The Banshees of Inisherin - and WON the Oscar for Best Film Editing for his work on Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Who were you keen to see take home the iconic gold statue?

Watch Paul Rogers accept the Oscar for Film Editing for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE at Oscars 2023. See more Oscar acceptance speeches and highlights o...

03/08/2023

In 1923 Business Woman listed 29 jobs held by women including film editor, film retoucher, film splicer, director, producer & more!

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

03/08/2023

Perhaps the earliest production work available to women in the film industry was coloring work—hand-coloring dyes onto film prints frame by frame. Aesthetic assumptions also grounded this practice: females have long been assumed to be more attuned to color. Women were not only cheaper in general to employ but also were thought to be, with their supposed sensitivity and nimble fingers, innately suited to the detailed work of coloring films.

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

03/08/2023

Many incredible female editors have been instrumental in some of the biggest booms in film history. For every Martin Scorsese, there’s a Thelma Schoonmaker who’s steering the ship towards cinema greatness.

By Lucia Fox-Shapiro In the early days of cinema, it wasn’t uncommon for women to be found in the editing room. Assembling reels and cutting negatives was tedious, detail-oriented work that often fell to young working-class women. Many female “cutters” during the silent era were unacknowledged...

02/15/2023

Nothing compares to Outlander! ❤️
Final Colorist: Steve Porter

02/10/2023

Few have lived who have produced so much for so many to enjoy.

The eight-time Grammy winner and three-time Oscar recipient had a hand in such classics as "Walk on By," "The Look of Love," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "Close to You."

02/06/2023

Cortex v5.5's MTai Frame Rate Conversion represents a leap forward over conventional frame rate conversion processes that rely on duplicating or removing frames. The new tool uses machine learning to interpolate between frames, increasing or decreasing the frame rate without ghosting, stutter or distortion.

01/26/2023

History, finances and practical concerns are among the things that play a role.

History, finances and practical concerns all played a role in preserving the movies being shown at To Save and Project.

01/26/2023

Another Step Forward in Digital Film Restoration

DRS NOVA - a full suite of automated and manual tools to fix everything from common dust and dirt to catastrophic tears and warps. 👉 http://www.mtifilm.com/drs-nova-buy-rent

01/18/2023

Let us be relentless for you.

✉️ [email protected]"

01/10/2023

Our Remote Data Center has proven to be more than a passing pandemic fancy. Even as Hollywood has largely returned to “normal” use of the facility continues to grow.

We have 100+ systems in the field, supporting 16 shows.

Get in touch: (323) 465-6478

Post Magazine is dedicated to serving the most intensely dynamic segment of the entertainment industry: Post Production. Post magazine has over 25 years of experience covering this business.

01/05/2023

in Filmmaking History | FOX Fox Studios exhibits Movietone. Prior to Fox Movietone News, newsreels shown in movie theatres were all silent - moving pictures without sound. At the beginning of 1927, Fox installed Movietone in 25 of its own theaters and then officially debuting with the news story about Charles A. Lindbergh piloting the ‘Spirit of St. Louis down the runway at Roosevelt Field on his way to becoming the first person to successfully complete a transatlantic flight from New York to Paris!