Stephen Price has officially left his position as executive producer at Toronto's C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures to join partner Chris Wallace in Red Giant, the pair's television development company.

* TAG out

Toronto new media technology and communications company Digital Renaissance has announced the availability of its TAG 1.0 media-linking system for networked media like audio, video and animation.

tag allows multimedia developers to create tags within an application that link users to additional media sources. The system is comprised of the TAG Player, which allows users to interact with tag-ged material; the TAG Editor, used by producers to add links to content; and the TAG Server, which allows producers to track use of the links.

The TAG Player can be downloaded free from the Digital Renaissance Website (http://tag.digital-ren.com); the Editor and Server can be had for $225 and $700, respectively.

* Henry and Lee at Soho

Toronto's Soho Post and Graphics has upgraded its high-end visual effects capabilities with the addition of a Quantel Henry V6. In addition to the new gear the shop has added Henry artist Lee Maund, formerly of Command Post/Toy Box, to work on the system.

The facility also recently upgraded its Hal video suite with the Transform fx package which allows more creative control over brushes and tools used within the system.

The new purchase was precipitated by a changing client base, says Soho's Doug Morris, "to deliver the best services and best product to high-end clients."

* Money talks at ITS

The International Teleproduction Society is sponsoring a bean-counter confab Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 in Phoenix, Arizona. The event will feature seminars, roundtables and speakers, and is directed at chief financial officers, chief operating officers and anyone else involved in the financial side of the post business.

Seminar topics include how to build the market value of a company, funding sources and the Karrass Negotiating Seminar; roundtables will include compensation, insurance issues, business banking, the Internet and women in post.

More info is available by calling the its at (703) 641-8770.

* Java anonymous

At siggraph, Quantel announced the launch of its Quantel Developers Program to support the Java on Quantel initiative announced at nab in April and set to be released next year. The Developers Program will support users producing Java applications on Quantel's application-specific hardware.

Developers will have access to technical information, a dedicated Website and specialist training.

Quantel has also launched Quicksilver, a system which allows the company's Domino film compositor to join a digital film network or work with other digital film systems. Dealing with the problems of image transfer bottlenecks and differing file format conversion, Quicksilver provides a transparent interchange medium.

* Ciprico adds to its array