Ever wondered how quickly digital technology is transforming content creation and delivery? Well wonder no more. Come along to the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel on Thursday July 24th and enjoy a day of unbridled geek speak and fun filled TLAs.
At the Burbank Marriot on Thursday July 24 from 11am to 7pm, Blackmagic Design and its strategic partners will be hosting an event highlighting the convergence of digital and broadcast technologies and their impact on the Media & Entertainment (M&E) Industry. This is your chance to catch up on the latest developments in M&E technology and see the complete range of Blackmagic Design solutions for broadcast, post-production and live events.
Among the many vendors demonstrating their products and services at the Blackmagic Design M&E Solutions Day will be AMD and LumaForge showing the new AMD FirePro™ range of professional graphic cards powering DaVinci Resolve 11. If you work with video files of any resolution, frame rate or codec, these graphic cards are a must. Designed to meet the challenges of modern digital acquisition and file-based workflows, the AMD FirePro GPUs deliver tremendous power at a great price. And combined with the rich functionality of the latest version of DaVinci Resolve they provide the basis for the most cost-effective color correction and finishing system on the market today. The LumaZAN AMD/DaVinci Resolve finishing workstation easily handles HD, 2K, 4K and even 6K workflows.
If you’re interested in collaborative workflow and harnessing the combined power of DaVinci Resolve and AMD FirePro come along and see the LumaZAN finishing workstation in action. Neil Smith, CEO of LumaForge will be on hand to answer any of your questions and explain any mysterious TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms)!
Details of the Los Angeles Blackmagic Design M&E Solutions Day:
Thursday 24 July : 11 am – 7 pm
Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, Academy Ballroom 1
2500 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
There is also a follow-up two hour workshop on the new DaVinci Resolve collaboration workflow features on the Lot in West Hollywood on Saturday July 26th from 10am to 12 noon.
Contact:Kahlani Leon
Events Manager
LumaForge
P: 323-850-3550
Contact Kahlani via email
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