Mindstar Productions Announces Strategic Partnership With StageTools.GREAT FALLS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1999-- Mindstar Productions, creators of Cinergy2000 Motion Picture Production System (Cinergy MPPS MPPS Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud (Venezuela Ministry of Health) MPPS Modality Performed Procedure Step (medical imaging) MPPS Most Penetrating Particle Size Mpps Millions of Packets Per Second ) has announced its strategic alliance with StageTools. The companies are seamlessly integrating the Cinergy MPPS and StageTools' OnStage! Idea Editor. StageTools' pre-visualization software is like a storyboard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. . OnStage! creates 3-D visual scene representations. The virtual scenes produced by OnStage! validate ideas and communicate the director's or producer's vision to the crew. According to StageTools' President Bill Ferster, "The benefits of offering a total round-trip solution to production management for feature films from pre-production to post-production are tremendous. The ability to make changes in Cinergy or OnStage!, and have those changes reflected in both applications is truly unique." The Cinergy MPPS and OnStage! Idea Editor combination is representative of Mindstar's success with integrating and transporting information between all phases of production. The Cinergy MPPS contains an embedded visual scene viewer that allows users to view OnStages!'s pre-visualization shows. Cinergy 2000 will be shown along with the OnStage! Idea Editor at ShowBiz Expo West '99 at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. June 25-27 -- Booth No. 1720. About Mindstar Productions, Inc. Mindstar Productions, Inc., originally a production company providing film and video services in the Washington DC area, created the Cinergy MPPS internally to address its own computing needs. The value of the product was quickly realized, so the product was streamlined and marketed. Mindstar's president Stasi Poulos, with over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of filmmaking experience, lead the company on to create the film industry's first integrated production management system. About StageTools StageTools (www.stagetools.com) headed by Bill Fester fester /fes·ter/ (fes´ter) to suppurate superficially. fes·ter v. 1. To ulcerate. 2. To form pus; putrefy. n. An ulcer. is dedicated to providing high productivity design tools to the professional creative community. Bill is the founder of West End Film and Editing Machines Corporation. EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. developed the first digital nonlinear editing See nonlinear video editing. system and received an Emmy Award for pioneering a technology that has revolutionized the way films and videos are edited. |
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