Tech notes from across the biz

London vfx house Cinesite is accepting programs due to its annual internship program, Inspire, now within the third year. Program now includes a new technical effects strand that particularly targets graduates by having an intention in computer-programming or technical effects. Antony Search, controlling director, added the track to encourage a completely new-generation of designers to consider the vfx industry just as one option for capabilities also to help budding effects artists demonstrate their technical ability. Cinesite internships are six-week paid out summer time season positions. "I'm always bowled over by the amount of distribution we receive for Inspire, and every year the conventional of records keeps enhancing," mentioned Search. Previous Inspire individuals who win did "Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "John Carter" and "World War Z ." Since finishing their positions, all six individuals who win have guaranteed positions at Cinesite. * * * Bunim/Murray Productions selected Passionate technology for individuals its editorial work beginning early this year, shifting from Apple's Final Cut Professional software. Incorporated within the switch, B/M will deploy Passionate Media Composer 6, Passionate Symphony plus an Passionate ISIS 500 shared-storage system. Customers are credited with aiding to create the truth television genre having its series "The Actual Existence." Its work includes such shows as "Maintaining while using Kardashians," "Kourtney & Kim Take NY" and "Project Runway." "Due to the large quantity of media created by our reality shows, we needed to re-evaluate our editing and storage solutions," mentioned Mark Raudonis, senior V . p . of publish-production. Working carefully with Passionate which is merchant Key Code Media, B/M ultimately selected Passionate for having the ability to integrate Media Composer 6 and Symphony 6 into its existing infrastructure. "We won't need to change the hardware out of your editing stations," Raudonis added. "It's just a credit card applicatoin install." * * * Editorial house and opulent subsidiary Animal has completed pointing and editorial use Western Union, via agency 180 Amsterdam , to market "Arena of Betters," a six-week viral campaign that asks "how does one interact with $1,000 to produce someone's day better?" Western Union became a member of together with your stars as Alicia Secrets, John Legend, K'naan, Sunidhi Chauhan and Pitbull to host "live-better occasions" around the globe featuring how Western Union moves money. Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com