Archive for December 17th, 2009

December 17, 2009 — Passfield, UK: Technology from Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — played a key role in a groundbreaking event in soccer broadcasting. The World Cup Qualifier between England and Ukraine in October became the United Kingdom’s first-ever competitive international match available for live viewing exclusively on the Internet, with no television coverage. Online streaming of the event was provided by digital sport and entertainment specialist Perform, utilizing Digital Rapids’ StreamZ encoding systems and the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager software. more

All-in-one VectorBox and New Vector Multi-Play product lines add even more control to automated content distribution.

Barcelona, Spain – December 17, 2009 – Vector 3™, a pioneer in graphics and playout solutions, announced an advanced level of integration with XenData archiving systems. Vector 3’s flexible administration now supports the automation of content to and from XenData archive systems whether Vector is ingesting content directly to the archive, staging it for playout, or migrating files for offline storage. The new capabilities provide an accelerated content distribution workflow, critical for news and sports production environments.

“XenData technology is a multi-purpose archive solution. Our systems can be configured to simultaneously support multiple workflows, including production, playout and backup. Vector connecting deeper into the XenData systems means that content utilized by multiple groups will become more readily available to the distribution chain,” said Dr. Philip Storey, CEO, XenData.

The VectorBox more

Accomplished graphic design expert joins elite staff of instructors at Future Media Concepts; enhances Adobe training repertoire

New York City, NY – December 17, 2009 – Future Media Concepts (FMC), the nation’s premier authorized digital media training center for postproduction and broadcast professionals, welcomes design veteran Katherine Houghton to the FMC team. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Houghton has degrees in both graphic and industrial design and is certified by Adobe® to teach Acrobat®, After Effects®, Director®, Fireworks®, Illustrator®, InCopy®, InDesign®, Photoshop®, and Premiere®. Houghton is also certified by Apple® to teach Aperture® and Final Cut Pro®. Possessing professional experience in both multimedia and graphic design, she joined the FMC team in October to support instruction for the Adobe curriculum. Houghton is based in Philadelphia, but delivers training courses at all six FMC locations and on the newly launched FMC|Online platform. “In order to uphold our more

EditShare Flow, Storage Series, XStream Series and Ark support new Apple release.

Boston, MA – December 17, 2009 — EditShare™, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced compatibility for the Apple® Snow Leopard® release. The award-winning EditShare multi-channel ingest, shared storage and archiving solutions offer special project sharing capabilities for Broadcast, Postproduction and DI editing workgroups. “The nature of EditShare business is creative-based with a good portion of customers using Apple hardware. Fully qualifying this popular OS release for EditShare solutions was our top priority. EditShare customers tend to push the boundaries of technologies and often embrace advancements such as the new Snow Leopard,” comments Andy Liebman, President and Founder, EditShare. “So it is with great pleasure that we officially add this new OS to the list of supported platforms.”

Thanks to EditShare’s patented bin-locking / project-locking framework, Mac-based editors using more

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (December 17, 2009) – Vaddio, the leading manufacturer and OEM distributor of specialty PTZ cameras and high-end camera control systems, partnered with Graybow Communications Group of Golden Valley, Minn. to develop the ideal high-definition audiovisual solution for Zion Lutheran Church of Albert Lea, Minn.

Prior to the renovation, Zion was using a portable video projection system that included a small video projector, contained in a roll-out cart, and a screen mounted on a hinge bracket that would expand into the Sanctuary when necessary. “They wanted to be more contemporary and offer an alternative way to capture church services, weddings, concerts and other social events,” explained Senior Design Engineer on the project, Michael Benedetti.

Benedetti chose a combination robotic pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) camera system, with an additional “remote-roving” high-definition camcorder for video capture in the Sanctuary. The HD camera system design includes Vaddio’s more

Leading Portuguese sports broadcaster chooses Enterprise sQ for HD and mixed resolution sports programming

Sport TV, Portugal’s leading subscription-based sports broadcaster, has purchased a major Quantel Enterprise sQ server-based production system upgrade to handle all of its HD production needs for its sports programming.

The new system at Sport TV includes 400+ hours of HD storage and supports a number of sQ View and sQ Cut journalist workstations as well as three eQ and sQ Edit Plus craft edit suites.

Sport TV has relied on a Quantel Enterprise sQ SD production system for a number of years to handle its rapidly growing production needs across a large range of sports that includes the channel’s exclusive coverage of Liga Sagres and Champions League soccer, Formula One motor racing, basketball, volleyball, rugby and tennis.

“This is a logical move as we launch two additional HD channels, more