On June 6, 2008 VH1 Soul will premiere the latest music video we produced for Island Def Jam, Chrisette Michele's newest video, "Love is You" every hour on the hour. 

More details to come!         

In November, Tom Strodel from 24fps Productions, directed season three of the home arts television series, “The Katie Brown Workshop.”

In each episode, Katie prepares a simple and enjoyable meal, works her magic in the garden and transforms ordinary items into ornate gifts, festive holiday flourishes and helpful home organizers. From her real-life workshop, Katie and her fellow workshop experts tackle recipes and projects in each episode's "Cook," "Grow," and "Nest" segments.

The series, carried by PBS, will debut in April of 2008.               

It seems like the last few updates featured news about Croatia. We can’t help it!

World Monuments Fund

On September 27th the World Monument Fund, the foremost private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of endangered architectural and cultural sites, was host to a spectacular exhibition showcasing World Heritage sites in Croatia captured by renown Croatian photographers. 24fps Productions lend its in hand in support of the event.

The WMF Gallery, located in New York City was truly the ideal venue for this premier event, which featured Croatian wine, food and a special visit from the President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic.

Click here to find out more about the World Monuments Fund Gallery

Visit the Croatia National Tourist Board

Croatian Food Festival

This year from October 8th-11th, the Croatian Food Festival presented a diverse array of Croatian flavors at the United Nation’s Delegate’s Dining Room.  The menu was absolutely exquisite, with a team of renowned Croatian chefs exuding true culinary excellence offering up samplings of award-winning olive oil, great seafood, tender meat dishes, unique Strukli and Pastlcada, rich Croatian chocolate and much more.

A truly unique feature of the event was the venue. The Delegates Dining Room is set-up within the kitchen of the United Nations – a food lovers dream. If you live in New York City, I’d highly recommend this dining experience, whose theme changes all the time.

Click here to learn more about the Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations World Headquarters in New York City.

In June, we were honored with the Golden Pen “Top Journalist” award for the Croatia episode of our travel series, Any Given Latitude.

The award, which recognizes the best in journalism supporting Croatian tourism, was presented in a gala three-day event held in Rovinj, Croatia.

The episode is one of a thirteen-part series that is shown on the FINE LIVING TV Network, in more than 46 million-homes.
              

We just announced an alliance with Diverwire, the news outlet of the SCUBA diving industry, for cross promotion of our instructional DVD title, Underwater Video Basics.

Diverwire’s market reach will allow Underwater Video Basics to be promoted to a much wider audience.

Shot in high definition, Underwater Video Basics provides step-by-step instruction on how to create better-looking videos underwater. Hosted by award winning cinematographer Steve Miller, the DVD provides insight on selection and maintenance of camera equipment, lens and video technology, dive skills and safety tips, communicating underwater, camera shots and moves, storytelling techniques, and tips for interacting with sea life.

Underwater Video Basics DVD retails for $29.95, and can be purchased directly from the web site: www.underwatervideobasics.com. Special discounts are offered to retailers and wholesalers.

If you’re active in the dive industry, we would encourage you to sign-up for the Diverwire news service.

A popular trend with music videos shot in HDCAM is to dub the HDCAM tapes directly to digital DVCPRO-HD files. These smaller HD files are easier to edit on regular edit systems.

Over the past few months, we’ve processed over 15 music videos this way, and have since added a new dubbing package to our HD Edit Facility offerings, the HDCAM to DVCPRO-HD digital file transfer package. Just bring in your HDCAM master tapes, and FireWire hard drive, and we'll convert the tapes to DVCPRO-HD files, ready for your edit system!

We can also edit, conform, and finish programs at multiple uncompressed HDTV formats, including 720p, 720/60p HD, 1080PsF and 1080i as well as PAL and NTSC standard-definition formats at 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97 and 30 fps.

In the August edition of Studio Monthly magazine, you can see an article we wrote detailing a recent project we completed for the permanent Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History here in New York City.

The article describes our work on the La Micoque diorama pairing an 19th century illusionist's trick with the latest in high definition technology.

We're happy to announce that our popular t3-part travel series, "Any Given Latitude," is currently airing on Scripps Networks' new high definition HGTV-HD network, launched on April 10, 2006. The program currently airs on Scripps’ FINE LIVING TV NETWORK.

The series can be seen in standard definition on FINE LIVING Monday through Wednesday nights at 10:30 p.m. ET and in high definition on HGTV-HD. For complete programming schedule information, please visit: www.FineLiving.com and www.hgtv.com