Archive for November 10th, 2009

SpeakeasyFX Delivers “Abby’s Flying Fairy School” Computer-Generated Series for TV and Web

For the first time, a 3D animated series is part of the “Sesame Street” television program. The program’s 40th anniversary season debuted today, including computer-generated (CG) segments delivered by SpeakeasyFX and made with Autodesk Softimage software from Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK: NASDAQ). The series features a digital version of the favorite Muppet fairy-in-training, Abby Cadabby. “Sesame Street” is the longest running children’s program on television. more

Flexible parameters of new Pan and Zoom 2 freebie enable the effortless creation of stunning photo animations inside both Apple and Adobe host applications

Boston, MA – November 10, 2009 – Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that it has released an update to its popular freebie generator plug-in, Pan and Zoom. The intuitive controls of the new Pan and Zoom 2 plug-in enables users to easily create stunning Pan and Zoom effects, a photo animation style made popular by cinematographer Ken Burns, without a single keyframe. The new release also boasts motion blur to generate the best-looking animations at any frame rate, and a bonus transition, which allows editors to use the same photo animation techniques to move between two clips. Pan and Zoom 2 is free and supports the latest versions of Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Final Cut Express®, more

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ORLANDO, FLA. — NOVEMBER 10, 2009 — TelcoTV 2009 Booth #539 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Santa Barbara Utilities (SBU) has selected Harmonic’s industry-leading digital video solutions for a new broadcast and on-demand IPTV service at the Santa Barbara Plantation Resort Community in Curaçao, the most populous island in the Netherlands Antilles. The end-to-end IPTV deployment includes Harmonic’s Ion™ AVC HD encoders, ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform, StreamLiner® video servers, Armada® intelligent asset management and NMX Digital Service Manager™. more

ORLANDO, FLA. — NOVEMBER 10, 2009 — TelcoTV 2009 Booth #539 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Falcon IP/Complete today announced that Butler-Bremer Communications, a cable and telecommunications service provider based in Iowa, has selected the IP/Complete “bird to box” video solution and Harmonic’s Direct-2 Edge™ (D2E) solution for Butler-Bremer’s new cable IPTV service. The new Harmonic/Falcon cable IPTV solution enables Butler-Bremer to offer a comprehensive and high quality service lineup to all of its customers. Butler-Bremer also operates an IPTV service over its existing telephone network infrastructure and a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 10, 2009 — Times Group of India is using the Omneon media storage and processing platform as the basis of a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion of its Mumbai facility. This state-of-the-art facility supports the post-production and broadcast of the popular 24-hour glamour and lifestyle channel, ZoOm, and playout of the leading 24-hour English news channel, Times Now and its sister channel, ET Now. more