For More Than 20 Years the Directors Lab Has Relied on Anton/Bauer Battery Power
PARK CITY, UT - Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, is delighted to call the prominent Sundance Institute’s Directors Lab a satisfied customer for more than 20 years. more
This October, Small Tree will present its 2TB GraniteSTOR ST-RAID direct attached shared storage system at Content & Communications World 2010 in New York (Booth 962).
Offering real time editing for Final Cut users while supporting 12 streams of ProRes 422HQ with no dropped frames, ST-RAID provides consistent performance over Ethernet networks. The 2TB system is available in 8-, 12- or 16-drive configurations and can be expanded to a second chassis to double the capacity at a much lower cost.
“GraniteSTOR ST-RAID is ideal for creative facilities requiring affordable, high-performance storage technology to maximize workflow,” stated Dale Bradshaw, director of communications for Management & Training Corporation, which installed the storage system to eliminate having to copy production files from one desktop to another. “The performance the system achieves over Gigabit Ethernet has enabled our team to more
Broadcaster Relied on Bexel for Equipment and Services at Popular 4th of July Concert in the Nation’s Capital
Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, rocked this past July 4th at PBS’s 30th Anniversary of its “A Capitol Fourth” concert spectacular, which took place in and around the Washington, D.C. area. With Bexel’s help, PBS captured the celebration from 18 TV cameras stationed around the city, bringing the action in the nation’s capital to viewers at home. more
Industry’s most versatile encoder powers live and file-based production and publishing workflows for one of the league’s hottest teams
August 17, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids announced today that The HEAT Group, owners of the Miami HEAT National Basketball Association (NBA) team and operators of Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, are using Digital Rapids’ StreamZ encoding system to speed the production of high-quality live and on-demand video content for the HEAT.com website and internal production workflows. Most recently, StreamZ was used for live streaming of events leading up to and following the signings of high-profile free agent players Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh. more
BURLINGTON, MA—August 16, 2010— Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with an Engineering Plaque for Avid Media Access (AMA) for its role in dramatically improving the process of working with tapeless media – by eliminating time-consuming transcoding processes and saving time and money in the production process.
The Engineering Plaque is presented to those achievements that exhibit a high level of engineering expertise and are important to the progress of the industry. This year, Avid’s AMA architecture was awarded the plaque. AMA has advanced the state of the art of television production by providing customers with a faster, more reliable and cost-efficient way to work with tapeless media more
Church Uses Eclipse and Tempest2400 to Reorganize Communications Across Multi-Building Complex
FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA - Clear-Com, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, is helping Eastside Christian Church deliver the message of faith to the thousands of congregants attending its services each weekend. The production staff members rely on a 16-port Clear-Com Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom frame and Tempest2400 four-channel wireless intercom system for reliable, high-quality and readily accessible communications across disparately located production areas, ensuring the flawless delivery of audio and video for every service.
Walnut Creek, CA – August 16, 2010 – XenData® (www.xendata.com), the leading provider of digital video archive software to the media and entertainment industry, will be unveiling their new X1500 archiving system at IBC this year on booth H47 in Hall 7. The X1500 system has an external 1.5 TB LTO-5 tape drive that connects to a Windows7 desktop or tower computer. The key to the solution is XenData’s new XenData6 software which provides easy to use archive, restore and tape management functionality, making archiving to and restoring from LTO tape as easy as dragging and dropping files and folders using Windows Explorer.
XenData X1500 functionality and benefits include:
-Support for LTO-5 tape cartridges and Fast File Transfers – LTO-5 provides 1.5 TB per tape which represents about 65 hours at DV50; a long archival life of 30 years; and provides excellent performance delivering archive and restore more
Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that its SpinnakerTM family of live streaming appliances is powering BBC’s simulcast expansion plans for a number of channels, as well as premier sporting events, including FIFA World Cup 2010, Wimbledon and F1 Grand Prix.
Inlet’s SpinnakerTM family of encoding solutions is uniquely suited for simulcast and live sports as it provides broadcast-quality streams over any IP network to multiple screens and devices. Spinnaker simultaneously supports SD/HD video inputs as well as multiple codec support for web and mobile based video services, making it an ideal choice for the broadcaster’s expansion plans. The Spinnaker encoder also has a robust 24/7 capability to support the BBC’s operations and commitment to its high availability service.
“I am delighted that we have this privileged and exciting opportunity to support the more
Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that its SpinnakerTM family of live streaming appliances is powering BBC’s simulcast expansion plans for a number of channels, as well as premier sporting events, including FIFA World Cup 2010, Wimbledon and F1 Grand Prix.
Inlet’s SpinnakerTM family of encoding solutions is uniquely suited for simulcast and live sports as it provides broadcast-quality streams over any IP network to multiple screens and devices. Spinnaker simultaneously supports SD/HD video inputs as well as multiple codec support for web and mobile based video services, making it an ideal choice for the broadcaster’s expansion plans. The Spinnaker encoder also has a robust 24/7 capability to support the BBC’s operations and commitment to its high availability service.
“I am delighted that we have this privileged and exciting opportunity to support the more
Toronto, Ontario, Canada – August 13, 2010… A division of CTV Limited, MuchMusic is Canada’s music station—dedicated to providing an entertaining, informative, and engaging look at popular music as it happens. Broadcast across North America and around the world, MuchMusic provides a platform for the voices of several generations of music makers and their fans. The 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVA), which aired live on Sunday, June 20th at 9 p.m. ET, was a star-packed red carpet show that included appearances by Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, Miley Cyrus, and others. For a music show of this magnitude, sound quality is critical, and to ensure the very best production quality, many of the show’s numerous audio signals were routed and mixed using equipment from Rastatt, Germany-based Lawo. more
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