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NewYorkDVD develops Producers Guild of America New Media Council East DVD

bbrodeur — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:40:03 +0000

NEWYORKDVD DEVELOPS PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA NEW MEDIA COUNCIL EAST EVENT SERIES DISC; CAPTURES NEW MEDIA LUMINARIES

‘2006 Salon Series’ Disc Present Leading New York New Media Monthly Event Series Featuring Execs from MySpace; Brightcove; AOL; ESPN; Activision, and FremantleMedia

NEW YORK — NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it has provided the authoring and menu design services for a premium DVD for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) New Media Council (NMC) East. The ‘2006 Salon Series: From Podcasting to User-Generated Content’ disc is a compilation of the first season of the acclaimed monthly event series held in New York by the PGA NMC East. The event series presents panel events and one-one-one conversations that touch on a variety of relevant new media topics – from podcasting to mobile video to gaming and broadband production – for producers, and featuring luminaries from a broad spectrum of the new media industry.

Produced by Chris Pfaff, the co-chairman of the PGA NMC East, the ‘2006 Salon Series’ DVD is a compilation of webcasts produced by Scribe Media’s Mike Faulhaber and Peter Cervieri. Pfaff and Brian Brodeur, principal of NewYorkDVD, created the disc as a promotional tool for the PGA NMC East, and as an industry recruitment tool for PGA NMC members. Work on the disc was conducted in the winter of 2007, and was unveiled at a PGA East event at TriBeCa Studios in May, 2007, with David Picker, vice chairman of the PGA East, and Vance van Petten, executive director of the PGA.

Each of the 2006 season’s eight events is featured on the disc, in capsule form, and panelist information and PGA NMC information is included in the overall menu. Events were held at such New York venues as The New School for Social Research, The Core Club, and SoHo Cantina East and were produced by the PGA NMC East executive committee.

“The New York new media industry has enjoyed a tremendous resurgence in recent years, and the ‘2006 Salon Series’ DVD is a way to promote, in an appropriate way, the thought leadership of the PGA NMC East in its work with some of the leading creative and technical figures in this market,” said Pfaff. “We are pleased that we could capture a jewel-box snapshot of a pivotal time in the new media industry, and deliver a quality calling card for professionals who wish to join the PGA NMC and become part of the ongoing dialogue around new media production.”

The ‘2006 Salon Series’ disc replication was provided by CDS Digital, and sleeve art was provided by Matthew C. Davis.

“The definition of ‘what is a new media producer’ is constantly changing, and linear producers need to see the full spectrum of new media production options to understand where our industry is heading,” said Brodeur. “This DVD is a first-hand look at the players and the technologies involved in making today’s new media industry, and we wanted to produce this as an inside look at the industry, particularly for those who aren’t as familiar with the topics and the individuals.”

The ‘2006 Salon Series’ disc includes such panel highlights as ‘Podcasting: The Next Big Broadcast Phenomenon?,’ with Weblogs, Inc. founder Jason McCabe Calacanis and ABC ‘Guiding Light’ executive producer Ellen Wheeler; ‘Mobile Video and Photography,’ with ESPN’s Vladimir Edelman and FremantleMedia’s Keith Hindle; ‘Science in Hollywood: Content and Communication,’ featuring Neil Gershenfeld, Director for MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms; ‘Console, Internet, and Handheld Gaming: Hollywood Killer or Savior?,’ featuring Bernie Yee, from Activision, Adeo Ressi, founder and CEO Gametrust, and Mike Sepso, CEO, Major League Gaming; ‘Death of the Producer? The Rise of User Generated Content & Community,’ with Brightcove’s Jeremy Allaire and MySpace’s Shawn Gold, and ‘Internet Advertising: How Can I Advertise My Work Online?,’ with Simon Assaad, CEO of Heavy.com and Mitch Davis, CEO of Massive Incorporated. In addition, one-one-one conversations are included with Alan Patricof, technology venture capital legend (‘The Art of the Start: Funding and Launching New Media’s Next Big Thing’), and with Herb Granath, chairman emeritus of ESPN (‘Broadband Media – From Network to Networked’).

NewYorkDVD operates a turnkey studio for expert-level DVD authoring, menu design, and replication. The company offers clients “a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.” The company won the 2006 “Excellence in Music” Award from the DVD Association for its work on the Hudson Music title ‘Anatomy of a Drum Solo,’ featuring legendary drummer Neil Peart.

Under Brodeur’s leadership, NewYorkDVD has developed several innovative concepts for DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Web-connected DVD functionality.

NewYorkDVD maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions workstations, Surround-sound Pro Tools mixing and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics/editing stations.

About NewYorkDVD
NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur, has been producing music and multimedia for more than 15 years. He has created award-winning DVDs for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Columbia/Tristar, KINO International, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production; from audio/video compression to creative interactive design and stable DVD functionality programming that enhances the user experience. He is a sought-after DVD consultant for leading vendors, including Video Technologies Group and Sonic Solutions. NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translation/subtitling, DVD packaging, Adobe Flash development, and full-scale production and post-production services. NewYorkDVD provides competitively priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.
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EDITOR’s NOTE: For a color photograph of screenshots on the PGA NMC East ‘2006 Salon Series’ DVD; PGA NMC East co-chairman Chris Pfaff, or NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or c.pfaff@att.net

Brian Brodeur edits un-released footage for Zappa Plays Zappa tour

bbrodeur — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:41:21 +0000

Brian Brodeur edits un-released footage for Zappa Plays Zappa tour

Working closely with Joe Travers (the Zappa Family Trust ‘vaultmeister’) and Dweezil Zappa, Brian Brodeur completed editing of never-before-seen footage of Frank Zappa for use during the 2007-08 Zappa Plays Zappa concert tour. During the tour, Dweezil Zappa leads a band, which includes Joe Travers on drums, through a diverse catalog of Zappa music. During several song performances, the ZPZ band performs with video of Frank Zappa playing along in perfect syncronization.

Video sync is accomplished thru use of a click-track, monitored by Joe Travers on-stage, and computer playback of the NTSC footage. Songs featured include Montana, Zomby Woof, Black Napkins, Dumb All Over and Muffin Man to name a few. Along with well known footage, Brodeur worked with unseen camera angles of the well-known KCET footage from the early 70s which features George Duke, Ruth Underwood and Chester Thompson. The vintage film and video of Frank Zappa feature several of Frank’s guitar solos as well as vocal performances – all of which provide the illusion of Frank performing live with the ZPZ band.

Reviews have been very positive – especially from long-time fans. In his tour blog, Dweezil wrote: “It’s really exciting to be able to play more songs onstage with Frank on video this year. The audience reactions have been amazing.” Also, referring to the Baltimore show, DZ wrote, “Once we finished Peaches we segued into Montana, featuring Frank on video. The audience was thrilled to see him on this auspicious day.”

Fan reaction has been similar. A fan from the Paris show wrote, “The videos with Frank were so cool and moving too, my god, this solo from Muffin Man is just amazing! Gave me goose bumps!” A fan from the Boston show wrote, “ The video of Frank playing along was a spectacular new technology twist and worked flawlessly giving us a very unique opportunity to experience the master and the apprentice expressing the true merging of the generations.”

In preparation for the ZPZ editing sessions, Brodeur provided assisted in setting up a complete Final Cut Pro editing suite at the famed Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio within the Zappa house in the Hollywood Hills. Once the suite was ready, footage was digitized from DigiBeta and audio was provided from Zappa’s famed UMRK recording studio – which was one floor above the editing suite.

For a digital photos of the UMRK studio, live performances or NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

NewYorkDVD develops Frank Zappa’s “Dub Room Special” DVD

bbrodeur — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:40:32 +0000

NEWYORKDVD DEVELOPS FRANK ZAPPA’S “DUB ROOM SPECIAL” DVD: Long-Awaited Disc, Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment, Includes Rare 1974 and 1981 Performances and extensive Special Features

NewYorkDVD has announced that it completed development of the late composer and guitarist Frank Zappa’s “Dub Room Special” DVD, which is distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment.

The DVD, which has been released both in NTSC and PAL formats, features rare performances from Zappa’s 1974 and 1981 touring bands, the claymation art of Bruce Bickford, as well as video clips of Zappa in the “dub room”.

Long awaited on DVD, the “Dub Room Special”‚ was previously only available on VHS and Beta through mail order. The DVD features PCM stereo audio, motion menus, and a complete official Frank Zappa discography, as well as a “Valley Girl Documentary”‚ that features Zappa’s daughter, Moon Unit.

“Dub Room Special” offers perhaps the best visual record of any Zappa performances. The 1974 performance, originally released as “A Token of His Extreme”, was recorded at Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET-TV, and features George Duke (keyboards), Chester Thompson (drums), Napoleon Murphy Brock (woodwinds/vocals), and Ruth Underwood (mallet percussion) joining Zappa for renditions of “Montana”, “Florentine Pogen”, “Inca Roads” and others. The performance showcases Zappa’s trademark sense of humor and the remarkable complexity and avant-garde flavor of his compositions.

The 1981 performance, from Zappa’s annual New York Halloween concert, features guitar legend Steve Vai with the band. Bruce Bickford’s stop-motion claymation (also featured throughout Baby Snakes, a 2003 Zappa DVD release) is featured, as well as various bits from Italian “journalist” Massimo Bassoli.

The “Dub Room Special”‚ DVD marks NewYorkDVD’s initial collaboration with Gizmo Studios. NewYorkDVD founder and president Brian Brodeur worked with Gizmo’s multimedia team to complete production in the fall of 2005.

“The ‘Dub Room Special’ is a treasure for Zappa fans and for DVD aficionados alike. We worked closely with the Zappa family on this project, and the results should convey the value of DVD in reawakening archival music video and film performances”, said Brodeur. “The audio quality is tremendous, and the two performances, combined with the extras, offer a remarkable presentation of the Zappa experience: brilliant, unconventional, and unparalleled.”

NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translation/subtitling, DVD packaging, Adobe Flash development, and full-scale production and post-production services. NewYorkDVD provides competitively priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.

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EDITOR’s NOTE: For a color photograph of screenshots from “The Dub Room‚ DVD or NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, or shots of NewYorkDVD production suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

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NewYorkDVD authors ‘One Night Only: Rod Stewart at the Royal Albert Hall’ DVD

bbrodeur — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:34:06 +0000

NEWYORKDVD BRINGS ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY: ROD STEWART LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL’ DVD TO LIFE WITH EXPERT ENCODING & AUTHORING

DVD developed in NTSC and PAL Versions • Production Completed From Digital Betacam Master Tapes From HD Concert Shoot

FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2004

NEW YORK – NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it provided expert-level authoring, encoding, and menu design on the recently-released JRecords DVD ‘One Night Only: Rod Stewart Live at the Royal Albert Hall.’

The NewYorkDVD team worked in conjunction with Victor Campanile, associate director of DVD production for BMG, and Tom Corson, executive producer at J Records, on the 90-minute DVD, including development of DVD architecture, DVD-ROM Web links, as well as seamless motion menu design. “The team worked flawlessly, and simultaneously, on several different aspects of the DVD,” said Brian Brodeur, NewYorkDVD founder and lead producer on ‘One Night Only.’ “Prior to completing the video encoding and 5.1/2.0 mastering and encoding, we were creating all the motion menus, and seamless motion transitions. Everyone on the team knocked it out. Our motion graphic design team produced amazing menus – from scratch – in rapid succession.”

Working from Digital Betacam master tapes created from the HD concert shoot, Brodeur’s team completed an all-region DVD product – in both NTSC and PAL – in rapid fashion. The PAL version was turned around in three days, with NewYorkDVD supporting Keith Morris, coordinator of the European release of ‘One Night Only.’ The ‘One Night Only’ disc also involved collaboration between Brodeur’s team and audio mastering engineer Dave Kutch, who handled the 5.1 and stereo mastering for both NTSC and PAL versions of the title, prior to authoring.

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NewYorkDVD operates a turn-key studio for expert-level DVD encoding, authoring and menu design. Having won awards in recent years for such titles as Thomas Lang’s ‘Creative Control’ and ‘Liquid Drum Theater Featuring Mike Portnoy,’ NewYorkDVD offers record label clients – including Warner Music Group, BMG, Sony Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group, as well as leading independent labels – a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.

In addition to its acknowledged excellence in instructional and studio music titles, the company has worked on high-profile live music DVDs, including’ ‘Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Concert’ and the recently released ‘Steve Gadd Tribute Concert.’ Brodeur has developed several innovative concepts for music DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Interactual’s DVD Sync-like features. NewYorkDVD maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions Creator workstations, Avid Pro Tools 6.2.3 and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics stations.

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About NewYorkDVD

NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur, has been producing music and multimedia for more than 15 years. He has created award-winning DVDs for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Hal Leonard Publishing, KINO International, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production, from audio/video compression to creative interactive design and stable DVD functionality programming that enhances the user experience. He is a sought-after DVD consultant for leading vendors, including VCA Fusion and Sonic Solutions.

NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions Creator systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translations and recording/subtitling. NewYorkDVD provides competitively-priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: For a color photograph of NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, shots of NewYorkDVD prodution suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

Brian Brodeur & NewYorkDVD helps bring popular PBS cooking ‘CIAO ITALIA’ to DVD

bbrodeur — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:21:01 +0000

BRIAN BRODEUR & NEWYORKDVD HELPS BRINGS POPULAR PBS COOKING SHOW ‘CIAO ITALIA’ TO DVD; LONG-RUNNING SHOW TO DELIVER CATALOGUE OF PROGRAMS ON DVD:

‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Umbria’ and ‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Tuscany’ Are Initial Discs; ‘Ciao Italia’ to Create Larger Series of DVD Catalogue Discs.

FOR RELEASE, DECEMBER, 2004

NEW YORK – NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it has helped bring one of the most popular, and longest-running, PBS shows, ‘Ciao Italia,’ to DVD. ‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Umbria’ and ‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Tuscany’ are the initial discs in a projected series of titles, which will enable long-time and new fans of the show, hosted by Mary Ann Esposito, to learn some of the magic associated with Italian cuisine.

From its initial airing in 1989, ‘Ciao Italia’ – produced by Paul Lally and Mary Ann Esposito in conjunction with Rhode Island Public Television – has created more than 150 half-hour programs that demonstrate the fine art of Italian regional cooking, with accurate recipes, that delivers a breadth of information in an engaging manner.

“We are delighted to offer, for the first time, DVD versions of our shows, for those who want to learn the true way to cook Italian food. As part of our vision of creating an interactive library of cooking programs, we are very pleased with the first two discs, which leverage the capabilities of DVD to the utmost,” said Paul Lally, senior producer of ‘Ciao Italia.’ “Mary Ann Esposito provides an invaluable resource for the preservation of Italian regional cooking, and these DVDs will help introduce new audiences to our show and, we know, some fine Italian food.”

‘Ciao Italia’ is shot on MiniDV digital, with off-line editing performed by Lally in his Durham, New Hampshire studio. Pillar to Post and Rhode Island Public Television performed post-production for the DVDs, which were authored by Brian Brodeur’s team at NewYorkDVD.

“I have known of ‘Ciao Italia’ for years, and saw an opportunity to create a DVD franchise with one of the best-known properties in public television,” said Brodeur, founder and lead producer of NewYorkDVD. “This is an ideal show for DVD, and now we finally have it.”

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Brodeur has worked on numerous instructional DVD titles, mainly through his relationship with Hudson Music, including ‘Getting Started on Drums’ and ‘Getting Started on Electric Guitar.’

‘Ciao Italia’ airs on approximately 130 public television stations in the U.S. and can be seen in syndication, Monday through Friday, on most stations at 2:00 pm.
To order ‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Umbria’ and ‘The Best of Ciao Italia in Tuscany,’ visit the ‘Ciao Italia’ Web site at www.ciaoitalia.com or visit Rhode Island Public Television at www.ripbs.org/ripta.html.

NewYorkDVD, which has won awards in recent years for such titles as Thomas Lang’s ‘Creative Control’ and ‘Liquid Drum Theater Featuring Mike Portnoy,’ offers record label clients – including Warner Music Group, BMG, Sony Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group, as well as leading independent labels – a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.

Brodeur has developed several innovative concepts for music DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Interactual’s DVD Sync-Link functionality.

Brodeur plans significant expansion of multi-channel DVD production and maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions Creator workstations, Avid Pro Tools 6.2.3 and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics stations.

About NewYorkDVD

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EDITOR’S NOTE: For a color photograph of ‘Ciao Italia’ DVD titles, Mary Ann Esposito, Paul Lally, NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, or shots of NewYorkDVD production suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

MIX Magazine: New York Metro feature

bbrodeur — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:00:28 +0000

New York Metro

By David Weiss

Jul 1, 2004 12:00 PM

…A few blocks away at NYDVD (www.newyorkdvd.com), the focus is squarely on the wonders of the digital versatile disc. “I’ve always gravitated toward the role of producer,” explains Brian Brodeur, NYDVD founder, on establishing his company back in 2001. “DVD has always been thought of as the truer multimedia format, and my skill set as a musician lends itself to developing creative products. The advent of DVD and its obvious embrace by the consumer is an important point, not only for the large institutional companies, but also producers like me.”

Brodeur’s company, which is located within the large Manhattan Center Productions facility, focuses its services — DVD project management, encoding/authoring, static and motion menu design, and audio/video production — around two full-blown Sonic Solutions DVD Creator systems. “Those are desktop systems, but because of my background, I have them set up much like recording studios,” he says. “Manhattan Center is a perfect fit for us, with three complete Avid editing systems and two Neve VR recording rooms with surround capabilities. We are in a great position to provide DVD services to Manhattan Center.”

NYDVD can see how music in particular is relating to DVD. “There’s basically two products out there that are serving the music industry: the concert product and the bonus/behind-the-scenes product,” Brodeur says. “Independent artists are going to start embracing DVD because of its enormous power as a promotional tool and ability to deliver a wide variety of content, including multichannel audio and multilanguage capabilities. We’ve developed some wonderful surround mixes for the Dave Weckl Band and Steve Gadd, where we actually mix the band around the listener as if you were the drummer. There’s been no increase yet in DVD-A. That’s a function of the format wars and the installed base of players.”

DVD facilities have their own challenges with production increasingly available to in-house and home users. “People can spend very little money and have functional DVD systems — it’s only natural,” he continues. “We’ve begun shifting our business toward a service side, providing superior design and extensive quality control: making sure that discs are functionally compliant and error-free. NYDVD is not competing with the entry-level DVD producer who just hangs a shingle — we’re collaborating with clients to create content specifically for DVD.”