MHD NEWS
2008


May 5, 2008
New RF Collections are added to the Health/Medical Gallery. Art Levy's Open Heart: Valve Replacement Surgery and Emergency Response: Ambulance Vol.1 and 2 and Wombat Studio's 3D Animation of the Heart. In the General Libraries another 9 RF Collections have been added - Paul Ambrose's Winter Winds, Snow Blower, Time Vol.1 Icicle Cave, Airports Vol.1 & 2, Planes Vol.1, Winter Train and Faces Vol.1. Added to the Z1/HDV Galleries are Christin Bolewski's travel series with Southern France - Cassis, Marseille Vol.1, 2, 3 and London Vol.4, 5 and 6.

April 16, 2008
Mammoth HD's Demo Reels are featured at NAB/2008 in Las Vegas. MHD's Demo reels in HD and RED originated footage reels were featured at the NAB Theater and in exhibitors booths ranging from RED, AJA, G-Tech, Promise Technology, Ambric, 2S2, Tiger, Quantum, B&H Studio and more.....

March 31, 2008
MHD posts RED Reel#2 to the MHD Online Demos - featuring new 4K, 3K and 2K originating formats from around the world including aerials of Hawaii and Landmarks of Italy, Lifestyles and Culture of Africa and Sports in Slo-Motion.

Mar. 17,2008
Mammoth HD adds 13 new RF Collections with Cities - Boston, Chicago and Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Watershed, Snow Geese-Migration and Pertoglyphs

Feb. 27, 2008
Apple's Quicktime HD Gallery features Mammoth HD's MHD/RED Reel#1. "Mammoth HD moves into the world of “Beyond HD....” with the new MHD/RED 4K Libraries." with the reel featured in 3 sizes (720x360, 1260x640 abd 1920x960) for viewing online and on Apple TV.

Feb. 25, 2008
Mammoth HD expands the MHD/RED Libraries with Hawaii, Switzerland, St.Louis and Timelapse subjects.

Feb. 14, 2008
Mammoth HD launches the MHD/RED Libraries featuring footage shot on the RED One Digital Cinema Camera System. Image acquisition is shot at mind boggling 4K (4096x2304 or over 4X the resolution of HD) The RED One camera also shoots in 3K and 2K with the ability to ulitize faster frame rates for digital show motion in camera. Initial material includes, Scenics, Sports, Wildlife, Underwater, Nature and Lifestyle.The new MHD/RED Reel-1 Demo reel is now online featuring the unique look of the RED.

Jan. 30, 2008
Mammoth HD expands the Animal/Wildlife Gallery with 9 new RF Collections. Costa Rica features Ants, Birds, Butterflies, Hermit Crabs, Insects and Mammals Collections, The new Galapagos sets feature Birds, Pelican Feeding Frenzy and Sea Lions.

Jan. 25, 2008
Extreme Weather screener added to the RightsManaged Library - featuring 39 minutes of Lightning, Tornados, Water Spouts, Hurricane Dean in Jamaica, wind, rain and flooding.

Jan. 22, 2008
Mammoth HD releases 20 new Royalty-Free Collections featuring Christin Bolewski's Travel series on China's Beijing with Tiananmen Square and The Forbidden City. Re:Source Media's Shanghai adds to the China mix with cityscapes, Tea and Silk markets and the night lights of China's largest city. Also added this month are featured collections on Florida and a new set of Vertical HD by J. Michael Media

Jan. 3, 2008
Mammoth HD starts the new year with 15 New Royalty-Free Collections and additional RF Single-Clip Verticals. New RF Collections include the initial Motion Graphic collection sets from Collider, Inc. (and MHD's new 3D / Motion Graphic Gallery Portal page), TimeLapse sets from Eli Jarra - including the dramatic FireStorm (Southern California's Wildlifes), South West and California Timelaspe Scenics, the Agricullture library grew with 2 collections of Wheat and more Wildlife from the Galapagos with Flamingos, Blue Footed Boobies and Crabs and South Africa with Birds and Scenics of South Africa.



2007

Dec. 17, 2007
Mammoth HD Releases 15 New Royalty-Free Collections. Featuring Jonathan Whittle-Utter's Galapagos Wildlife - this initial set includes the Galapagos Tortoises, Marine Iguanas and the Land Iguana. Christin Bolewski's Travel Series kicks off with Tibet - featuring the Potala Palace, Himalayas and more. Paul Ambrose's Kayak Extreme - features Kayakers paddling over Colorado Rocky Mountain Waterfalls.


Nov.11, 2007
Added a 4K to SD Format Comparison Chart featuring formats from RED 4K in 16x9, 2:1, 2K in 16x9, 2:1, HD 1080, HD 720, SD and HD Verticals in 1080 and 720.


Nov.8, 2007
RED Spoken Here. Mammoth HD updates the RED 4K Gallery. The "Sneak Peek' Preview Reel is now online. Gallery pages have been updated with frame grabs from the RED production footage and the MHD/RED Gallery will open in Janurary 2008


Nov.7, 2007
MHD's 2007 Demo Reel is now featured at Apple's Quicktime HD Gallery


Oct.23, 2007
Mammoth HD adds 6 hours of new screeners to the MHD RM Landscape and Scenics Gallery. Expansion of the online screeners feature Agriculture Vol.2 A & B, Misc.7 and Grand Canyon Vols 3, 4 and 5, and TimeLapse Vol.6 reels.


Oct. 5,2007
Mammoth HD shoots RED 4K in Jackson Hole while attending the 2007 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival


Sept. 10, 2007
MHD releases 21 new Royalty-Free Collections. New titles include: Dogs Riding in Cars, Yellowstone Vol.1-6, Giraffes Vol.1-2, Zebras Vol.1-2, Mountain Goats Vol.2., Dam and more...... MHD Royalty-Free Collections now consist of 520 collection titles and growing..


Sept. 5, 2007
Mammoth HD is please to announce the addition of NuVision (www.nuvision.com) to our MHD Production Partners. NuVision is a HDTV and monitor company specializing in large LED/LCD 1080p display panels. MHD is using 2 NuVision 1080P LCD's (47" and 42" models) in our edit suite and confernece room for footage review.


August 28, 2007
Mammoth HD adds 7 new Vertical Collections. The incredible Firestorm set from Eli Jarra - a time-lapse series of the LA wildfires.. also added to the Vertical Collections are the Fireworks and Sunrise series from Art Levy and a new series of Colorado's Rocky Mountain - Mountain Goats.


August 14, 2007
MHD adds Vertical Timelapse clips to the RightsManaged SingleClips/Vertical Galleries. New clips include the Matterhorn, Alps, Ocean Sunsets, Grand Canyon, Empire State Building/New York and more. The MHD Royalty-Free Vertical Time-Lapse SingleClips has also been expanded with new sunrise/sunsets and cloud clips.


August 13, 2007
Mammoth HD expands the 4K Timelapse Gallery - with new additions and Galleries. New material includes the Alps/Europe, Oceans/Coasts and more in the Scenics, Moon Lite and Cities Galleries.


July 20, 2007
Mammoth HD adds new UPDATE page to feature news, releases and additions to the MHD Talentbase......here's the July'07 Updates


July 19, 2007
Mammoth HD's ad runs in POST MAGAZINE (July Issue), the MHD 2007 Demo Reel is featured on Digital Content Producer's Reel-Exchange and HighDefinition Magazine's Website.


July 16, 2007
Mammoth HD Opens the 4K Time-Lapse/ Rights-Managed Single Clip Galleries. Originals shot in 4K (4096x2160) and available in 4K, 2K and HD. Subjects range from traffic in New York City's Times Square to Moon lite cactus and sunsets in the Grand Canyon.


July 12, 2007
Mammoth HD releases the new 2007 Demo Reel, edited by Jerry Hofmann (award winning Final Cut Pro/Avid Editor, Author, Educator, Creative Cow Forum FCP Leader, etc)/Denver. This year's reel is available in 3 sizes 720x405, 360x202 and an iPod download. Featured footage includes the MHD library of scenics, locations, sports, cities, lifestyle, aerials, wildlife and time-lapse in HD and 4K.


July 10, 2007
Mammoth HD signs Wink, Inc, EyeReach Productions, Christin Boleski and Acentric Video to the MHD Talentbase. Adding Extreme sports, Chicago, Tibet, China and Cars footage to the MHD library. Wink's initial xSports footage is now online for review and purchase in the Rights-Managed Sports Gallery, the Tibet, China, Chicago and Cars will be added soon.


June 19, 2007
Mammoth HD goes VERTICAL. MHD releases 16 new collections and single-clips for the digital signage, display and exhibit industry - with HD footage shot for vertical presentation. The initial launch of collections and single clips include Cities - New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and Hong Kong. Scenics, Industry, Time-Lapse, Nature, Water and Wheat Farming. Direct links to the new Vertical Gallery/Library Portals - Vertical Collections, Vertical SingleClip and the Rights Managed Vertical SingleClips with more material being added soon. The new MHD Vertical Demo Reel is online.


June 5, 2007
Mammoth HD launches the Medical/Healthcare Gallery with the initial series on Open Heart Surgery - By Pass Volumes 1-6 - detailed footage of a Cardiopulmonary Bypass surgery by Art Levy. MHD also releases new collections featuring Jessica Waters and Art Levy - Vietnam, Burma/Myanmar, Canola Fields, Irrigation: Centerpivot, Aspen Grove Vol.1 and 2 and Florida: River Float.


June 1, 2007
MHD announces the new delivery option of Apple's ProRes 4.2.2 codec for production on dvd media, harddrive and online/ftp. The new codec by Apple that was released with Final Cut Pro 6 and Final Cut Studio 2 is a fantastic high quality and low size codec for production.
For more information on the codec - check out the Apple white paper (http://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf)


May 17, 2007
Mammoth HD releases 10 new royalty free collections with the additions of western National Parks and Florida. Art Levy's Gators and Flordia Beach joins the new collections of J Micheal Media's Canyonlands, Glacier, Golden Gate, Grand Tetons and Mt. Rainier National Parks.


May, 14, 2007
a pre-print version of an article for Digital Content Producer by Paul Ambrose. HERE


May 11, 2007
MHD expands our talentbase with the signings of new talent/contributors around the world. Eli Jarra/Think Pictures, Gary Morris/SaltAire Cinema Productions, Jessica Waters, Jay Kruntz from across the US and Jochen Schmidt-Hambreck from Germany, Olafur Rognvaldsson of Iceland and Wes Greene from Australia. Eli, Jochen, Olafur and Wes will also be producing RED 4K footage for MHD's Red 4K Library.


Apr.3,2007
Mammoth HD releases 22 new royalty-free collections featuring the works of J.Michael Media, Art Levy and Wayne Crawford. The new collections cover the autumn landscapes of The Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Arches National Park in Utah. The Wildlife Gallery is expanded with Art Levy's Moose Collection and Wayne Crawford's South African Wildlife Series with Elephants, Rhinos, Cape Buffalo and Leopards.


Mar.23,2007
Grizzly and Black Bears of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska are added to the MHD RightsManaged Gallery. Bears fishing, foraging and eating salmon are featured in the 1 hour of footage previews added, along with the garbage dump bears foraging in a burning dump.


Mar.5,2007
Mammoth HD relesases two new Cities Collections. Cities: New York 2 and Cities: Orlando


Mar.2,2007
Updated the Mammoth HD website - with new naviagation bars and new gallery portals. The new gallery portals include the specialzied galleries for Sports, Ocean Life, Animals/Wildlife, Cities and Aerial Collections in addition to the HD-1, HD-2 and Z1 Galleries in the RF Collections Portal, in the RF SingleClip Portal there are the *Special SingleClip, 'Long Clip' Single Clip and TimeLapse Single Clip Galleries and in the RM SingleClip Portal - Lava/Volcano, Landsacpe/Scenics and Cities, Alaska Wildlife and Antarctica Portals. Also added is the "Coming Soon' 4K footage library -> MHD/RED 4K Gallery Pre-Launch Gallery.


Feb.27,2007
Mammoth HD releases 11 new RF Collections. Wayne Crawford's Salem Creek Productions South African Wildlife Series starts with Lions Vol.1 and Vol.2 and Elephants. Paul Ambrose's Radio Telescope - Very Large Array Vol.1 and 2, Re:Source Media's South East Asia series - Laos Vol.1, 2 and 3 featuring monks, temples and Luang Prabang the world hertitage site and Bangkok. Also added this month are Bridges in HD (small foot bridges to the Brooklyn and Golden Gate) and Death Valley.


Feb.22,2007
Mammoth HD expands the Rights-Managed Library with 50 hours of 1080i HD Landscapes and Scenics of the western US. Locations range from Arches National Park and the Big Sur coastline to Hawaii and the Candian Rockies. Also in the gallery are US cities, nature details, agriculture and time-laspe footage. Grouped in online screeners - each screener averages 1 hour of material for selection by time-code.


Feb.20,2007
MHD adds 100+ Time-Lapse clips to the MHD Single-Clip Time-Lapse Library/Gallery. New clips feature scenics, cities, traffic, nature, night skies, moon lit scenes, weather and more - all in 1080.


Feb.14,2007
The Antarctica RM Footage Library is now online with 3 hours of previews. Subjects include the Wildlife and Scenics - ranging from the King Penguins, Minke Whales to South Georgia Island, Deception Island and the Tourists touring the ice.

Feb.5,2007
MHD posts the Bald Eagle Footage Reel in the Rights-Managed Gallery.

Jan. 29, 2006
Mammoth HD releases 9 new collections, bringing the MHD Library to 425 collections with over 5000 clips. New collections this month include: Campfire, Cities: Chicago2, Oregon: Coast, Oregon: Forest and the Oregon Scenic Collections Vol.1-5.

Jan.26, 2006
MHD expands the talent-base with the signings of Wayne Crawford (African Wildlife), Ed Mellnik (Oregon subjects) and Cary Anderson (Bald Eagles and Alaska Wildlife).

Jan.15,2007
MHD adds SingleClip Time-Lapse Library/Gallery. Initial clips include city lights, traffic POV driving, shadows, and a new category of 'Vertical Clips' for vertical displays.

Jan.5, 2007
Rights Managed Lava Footage added, two hours of new HD1080i footage of the Kilauea Volcano have been added to the RM SingleClip Library - Lava10, Lava11 and Lava12

Jan.4, 2006
MHD adds a new 'SneakPeek' reel - Africa:Wildlife
see it here.

Jan.2, 2007
MHD adds more "Long" Single-Clips - featuring icicles, and snow storm clips.




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