Archive for September, 2009

SSL MORSE Router Interconnects Control Room One and Two for Embedded Audio

ORLANDO, FL – Golf Channel, the definitive distributor of golf-related programming to over 100 million households world wide, recently upgraded Control Room Two with a 32-fader Solid State Logic C100 HD-S Broadcast Console. Joining the existing C100 HD in Control Room One, the new console presents session engineers with consistent console topology and functionality between the two rooms. An SSL MORSE Router was installed to interconnect both control rooms, delivering embedding and de-embedding options to both consoles. more

Today Avid announced that its new editing products – Media Composer (4.0), Symphony (4.0) and NewsCutter (8.0) – are now shipping, as announced at IBC 2009. These new offerings enable broadcast and post production professionals to lower production costs and enhance their productivity.<777>

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For more information, please visit www.avid.com.

Award-winning, on-demand training courses now available in Portuguese; company increases customer base by expanding training options to Brazilian market

Hoffman Estates, IL – September 30, 2009 - Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, announced that they are working alongside Brazil-based CAD Technology Sistemas to offer a variety of their award-winning training titles in Brazilian Portuguese. CAD Technology Sistemas is a leading provider of Portuguese-language training products for production and postproduction in Brazil and South America. Class on Demand training titles are translated into Brazilian Portuguese with each course dubbed and narrated by a professional voiceover talent. “We are very pleased to be working with CAD Technology Sistemas to translate and distribute our on-demand training for Portuguese-speaking video professionals,” says Paul Holtz, CEO and Founder, Class on Demand. “The postproduction market in Brazil is very large and so is the need for our type more

Most of us tend to think of England’s King Henry VIII as a rotund monarch with a fondness for food and a habit of doing away with his wives. But in “Dressed To Kill,” a remarkable new exhibition at The Tower of London with AV support from Electrosonic, the public is introduced to a virile young Henry who’s the action hero of his day.

Part propaganda, part fashion, the exhibition conveys the power, majesty, wealth and psychology of the man, the icon and the king - who always ensured he was “Dressed to Kill.” Marking the 500th anniversary of Henry’s accession to the throne, “Dressed To Kill” presents the most extensive gathering of the king’s arms and armor ever held in the UK. Assembled from major collections around the world, some of the artifacts have never been displayed in the UK before. The more

Telestream and Class on Demand to pioneer new instruction technique; users have instant access to video-based support.

Hoffman Estates, IL – September 29, 2009 - Class on Demand®, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, announced a new training initiative with Telestream. Episode Encoder and Episode Encoder Pro customers will now have immediate access to video-based support with “Complete Training for Episode Encoder and Episode Encoder Pro.” Known for advanced encoding capabilities for multiple platforms, both Episode Encoder and Episode Encoder Pro desktop applications deliver high quality, lightening fast video encoding across a variety of mediums. Class on Demand will provide a link within the Episode software that will direct users to a sampling of their in-depth, self-paced instruction for a unique approach to immediate customer support. “Complete Training for Episode Encoder and Episode Encoder Pro” follows Class on Demand’s award-winning training methodology and offers expert instruction more

NEW YORK – Tim Carroll, president and founder of Linear Acoustic, the leading authority in loudness control and upmixing solutions for digital television, will share his industry expertise during two panels at AES 2009, October 9-12 in New York, NY. Carroll will address the audio issues facing broadcasters today in panels titled, “Listener Fatigue and Longevity” and “Loudness Processing and Broadcast.”

“It is an honor to be asked to return to participate in the AES Broadcast Sessions organized by David Bialik,” says Carroll. “With the recent transition to digital, digital television loudness and surround sound issues are more complex than ever – but the solutions don’t have to be. The ongoing dialogue about these issues that comes out of AES each year continues to drive innovation in the industry, convincing broadcasters that controlling broadcast audio is best accomplished at each stage of the more

Commemorates Over a Decade of Product Innovation

REEDSBURG, WISCONSIN — Sound Devices celebrates its eleventh year as one of the industry’s leading manufacturers of portable audio mixers, digital recorders and related audio equipment for production sound.

Founded by Jon Tatooles, Jim Koomar and Matt Anderson in 1998, Sound Devices’ focus has been on building relationships with its users and developing technologies tailored to their specific needs. Since its inception, the company has revolutionized field production with the introduction of the industry’s first compact, full-featured field mixer, the 422, and the digital replacement to the DAT recorder, the 7-Series of digital recorders — 702, 702T, 722, 744T and 788T. more

Flexible parameters of new LiveToon plug-in allows for easy and fast generation of cartoon and comic book looks for Final Cut, Motion and After Effects.

Boston, MA – September 29, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced the release of the LiveToon plug-in from development partner DVShade. FxFactory® powered plug-ins are designed by Noise Industries and their development partners to extend the visual effects capabilities of Adobe® After Effects® versions CS3 and CS4, Apple® Final Cut Studio®, and Apple Final Cut® Express applications.

Using LiveToon’s built-in presets editors and compositors can quickly create and add professional looking cartoon, graphic novel, and sketch effects to footage. Extensive controls enable users to utilize their creative instincts and explore LiveToon’s capabilities. Parameters include posterization, saturation, cartoon edge lines and a variety of screen effects ranging from dots and lines to hash and more

German public broadcaster ZDF has bought seven SADiE PCM-H8 studio workstations for its in-house trailer production department. The new units, which ZDF purchased to replace existing PCM8 systems and take advantage of the additional DSP power in the SADiE 5.5 software environment, were sold by German distributor, For-Tune.

ZDF has been using SADiE systems for 14 years. “The systems are sited at ZDF’s main headquarters in Mainz in two different buildings,” explains For-Tune’s Stefan Mayer. “ZDF was the first German broadcaster to use the SADiENet network via Fibre Optic ATM and, as a result, audio files can be easily transferred between the two buildings. The audio networking is now a lot easier with the H8 systems and their open architecture.”

Mayer adds that ZDF returned to SADiE because the system gives it the speed (fast bouncing, fast and easy networking) and all the functions it requires. “This includes more

A recent shared storage installation at Tempe 11, a government access station operated by the City of Tempe, illustrated once again that it’s either Ethernet or it’s EtherNOT, as an Ethernet-based solution from Small Tree has enabled the full-service production team to substantially increase its workflow without crippling its bottom line.

“We recently added a third editing suite and we needed a solution that would allow us to share resources between the suites,” stated Greg Wolfe, media services producer for Tempe 11. “Originally, we were looking at a 6TB Fibre Channel system, but the pricing we received was between $25,000 and $40,000. With Small Tree’s shared storage and networking technology, we were able to double our storage capacity to 12TB for about half the price of a typical Fibre Channel system.”

“Working for a municipality, keeping expenditures low is always a priority,” Wolfe continued. “This more