Duality Provides Significant Workflow Efficiency and Changes Approach to Production
TORONTO – BoomBox Sound, a Toronto-based music and sound design production company, recently installed a Solid State Logic Duality console, supported by Alpha-Link converters, as a major studio upgrade. Replacing working in the box with a controller and outboard mic pres, dynamics and EQs, Duality delivers an analogue signal path combined with DAW control, automation and Total Recall™ that gathers all studio elements together into one efficient system with a high level sonic signature. more
High Resolution Systems LLC has announced UDC 3.2.3, a major new release for the UDC-400, the company’s software-based Universal Device Controller, which has quickly become the product of choice for the live event, staging and rental, worship, corporate industrial and broadcast markets.
The new software upgrade offers additional support for a wide array of devices from monitors and routers to projectors and lighting consoles; improvements to a number of existing features; plus expanded functionality. Beta versions of UDC 3.2.3 are available now with the official release expected this fall.
Support for new devices leads the extensive list of selling points for UDC 3.2.3. “It marks a pretty big expansion of the roster,” says sales engineer Drew Taylor. “It’s been almost entirely driven by customers who want specific device control and by the need to support additional types of control protocols, more
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (September 29, 2011) — On Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, at The Recording Academy® headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., the Academy’s Producers & Engineers Wing® and Los Angeles Chapter presented Up Close & Personal with Alex da Kid and Skylar Grey. Moderated by on-air personality, artist and cultural curator DJ Skee, this engaging Q&A explored the careers, inspirations and creative collaboration of GRAMMY®-nominated producer Alex da Kid and GRAMMY®-nominated singer/songwriter Skylar Grey. After working on her album in an artist retreat in the woods of Oregon, Grey, in need of a great producer, reached out to her publisher in New York. After a few email exchanges, Alex sent her a beat, to which Grey came up with the hook for “Love The Way You Lie,” and a creative more
Empowering partners with better access to 4:3 format imaging
Cooperating closely with partners in key markets and application areas, projectiondesign® has worked hard to meet product needs and requirements.
A result of closer partner cooperation is a resolution and electronics upgrade to encompass SXGA+ resolution in the flagship F82 series three-chip DLP® projector. The model is already available in WUXGA and 1080p resolutions, meeting the requirements for widescreen video, computer and data centric imaging, but adding SXGA+ has been a specific requirement for some key application areas.
“By introducing the SXGA+ resolution users of systems that require 4:3 or closer to 1:1 aspect ratios optimizes the usage of pixels. SXGA+ resolution has traditionally been hard to find in 3-chip more
Deal Merges Expertise of Two Industry Leaders to Provide a Better Way for TV Stations to Position Themselves to Their Viewers and Advertisers
MELBOURNE, FL/PORTLAND, OR – September 29, 2011 – Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in multi-screen measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, today announced an agreement with Harris Corporation to integrate Rentrak’s StationView Essentials TV ratings data into a broad range of Harris media software solutions.
Experiencing rapid growth, boutique production company LionStar Films required an affordable workflow system that would enable the Atlanta-based company’s editing team to work simultaneously on the same projects without the headache of copying and transferring content. To meet its growing project demands, LionStar installed a GraniteSTOR ST-RAID with 8 1TB drives, an Ethernet-based shared storage solution from Small Tree.
Specializing in broadcast programming and corporate communications production, LionStar Films’ client roster includes heavyweights such as HBO, NFL Network, Comcast, TaylorMade Golf and UPS. As project deadlines tightened, the company’s editing team understandably became increasingly frustrated with their previous setup. Today, all five of the agency’s workstations, including four iMac core i7 systems running Final Cup Pro 7, are connected to the ST-RAID and are running without issue, according to Ryan Seger, LionStar Films’ founder and owner.
SALT LAKE CITY — Sept. 28, 2011 — NVerzion, a leading provider of cutting-edge tools for digital broadcasting and television station automation, today announced that the company will be exhibiting at Content & Communications World (CCW)/HD World on Oct. 12-13 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. NVerzion will showcase its latest automation technology solutions in booth 957. more
VERONA, New York – HARMAN’s Studer Broadcast Academy rolls into October as its demo truck will be onsite at the Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 22 Broadcast and Technology Exposition at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York on October 5, 2011. Studer will be hosting an open house session for SBE 22 Expo attendees.
The 73-foot Studer truck is outfitted front-to-back with state-of-the-art Studer digital mixing consoles and broadcast products, along with a selection of HARMAN gear from Soundcraft, JBL, AKG and others.
“Our Studer Broadcast Academy open house will give attendees an opportunity to get some hands-on time with the latest broadcast equipment from Studer,” said Katy Templeman-Holmes, Studer Broadcast Academy. “We’ll have the Studer team onsite to give walk-through demonstrations on Studer’s entire range of products for the broadcast market.”
LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — Sept. 28, 2011 — Digital Alert Systems (DAS), a division of Monroe Electronics and a leading innovator of next-generation Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Alert Systems (EAS), today announced that Sinclair Broadcast Group is standardizing on DASDEC(TM)-II digital EAS/CAP encoder/decoder systems across all of its U.S. stations. Optimized for each station, the DAS emergency messaging systems are being rolled out in conjunction with Sinclair’s group-wide HD master control rebuild to ensure compliance with any future CAP mandates. more
Northampton, MA – Myers Information Systems – a leading developer of broadcast traffic, business, and content management software – today announced a successful implementation of the company’s flagship ProTrack suite by The Vacation Channel. Based in Branson, Missouri, TVC offers a mix of news, weather and information focused on the lifestyle and rich variety of entertainment options available in and around Branson with coverage to some 50,000 in-home and hotel/motel room viewers.
“For the last couple years, we’ve searched for a traffic system that would provide the right kind of tools,” said Gary Leach, the channel’s director of operations. “We have very specific and unique operating needs; the more we saw of ProTrack’s diversity and flexibility, the more we knew we’d found the right system. Its more
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