Archive of the Automation Category

PORTLAND, OREGON, FEBRUARY 8, 2012—Autoscript, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and the world’s leading teleprompting company, will showcase its latest prompting innovations at the annual Professional Video & Tape Cascade Mountain Video Show (CMVS) in Portland. more

TORONTO, FEBRUARY 8, 2012—Autoscript, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and the world’s leading teleprompting company, will be in attendance at the 10th annual February Freeze, hosted by William F. White International in conjunction with CinequipWhite, Inc. on February 8. more

Pan-European Standardization Will Improve Control and Understanding of Local and Regional Ad Sales Activities more

Atlanta, GA (February 3 , 2011) – NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) will always be recognized as the center that tested and proved flight-worthy the rocket engines and boosters that were safely used on the lunar space mission that brought “a giant leap for mankind.” For over forty years, SSC has been involved in testing rocket engines and parts for various missions such as those for the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs. Having been involved in testing for such a long period, the space center recently began updating much of its rocket engine test equipment, including its video systems. This includes the Apella™ video recording system that NASA acquired from Video Technics, Inc.

The decision was made to move into digital recording where cameras in blast resistant housings film the testing of rockets to provide a record of the more

SALT LAKE CITY — Jan. 30, 2012 — NVerzion, a leading provider of cutting-edge tools for digital broadcasting and television station automation, today announced that KAIL-TV in Fresno, Calif., has upgraded its facilities to include the latest NCompass software platform to complement the station’s NVerzion playout automation software system. The upgrade allows KAIL-TV to manage automatically the processing and playout of file-based content received through content delivery systems like Pitch Blue and Pathfire(TM). The expansion, which also included upgrading the existing Harmonic video server for added storage, was performed by NVerzion without disrupting KAIL-TV’s normal, day-to-day operations. more

BERGEN, Norway — Jan. 25, 2012 — TV2 Hungary, one of Hungary’s top-rated television networks, is placing Mosart(R) Newscast Automation at the heart of its new broadcast studio. The studio is being implemented by Somos Broadcast Media, a systems integrator and reseller serving the Hungarian broadcast market. more

New release lets Final Cut Pro X editors better manage dual-system audio and multi-camera productions; sophisticated automation technology accurately syncs video and audio

Vancouver, British Columbia, January 25, 2012 — Singular Software™, a developer of workflow automation applications for video production, is pleased to announce the availability of PluralEyes® for Apple® Final Cut Pro® X (FCP X). The multi-award winning PluralEyes technology works alongside FCP X to quickly and accurately sync video and audio clips for dual-system audio and multi-camera productions, saving hours of tedious manual syncing during post-production.

“The auto sync function that is built into Final Cut Pro X is a start, but most professional editors will want more. They want to be able to sync many clips at once, see the results right away, and be confident that the sync will work across a broad range of real-world video projects,” says Bruce more

HARRISBURG, PA, JANUARY 20, 2012—When Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s local ABC-TV affiliate, WHTM, made the transition to HD last year, the station also upgraded its existing teleprompting gear used in the studio. To help ensure its on-air talent could deliver more than six hours of local news clearly each day, it selected teleprompters from Autoscript, the world’s leading teleprompting company and a Vitec Group brand. more

Atlanta, GA (January 9, 2011) – Having made the decision to convert from their tape-based Master Control operations to a file-based HD system, Citadel Communications Ltd., headquartered in Bronxville, NY sought a company-wide solution to meet the needs of all of their stations in different markets. KLKN 8, in Lincoln, Nebraska; WOI-TV-5, in Des Moines, Iowa; and KCAU TV-9 in Sioux City Iowa are ABC affiliates; and WHBF-TV 4 in Rock Island, Illinois is their CBS affiliate. Earlier this year WLNE 6, an ABC affiliate in the New Bedford, Massachusetts market was purchased by Citadel Communications bringing the group total to five stations.

Dan Ackerman, Vice President of Engineering, and his team started investigating different servers, automation solutions, and methods to convert their master control studios into HD and automate them as much as possible. After inviting several different server more

The Spanish company will show new versions of all the solutions included in its ‘Spider’ platform. The innovative VSN’s broadcast architecture allows working in a distributed, multi-site environment, cloud computing, multiplatform distribution and seamless integration among multiple areas.

VSN will be present in the next edition of CABSAT that will take place next February 28th – March 1st in Dubai. Promoting its new generation of broadcast software solutions, the company will showcase new versions of its products in the areas of News Production, Content Management and Distribution and Advanced Graphics. All the new releases will be available at the booth S1-G21.

Included in the Spider platform, the new VSN’s Workflow Manager allows full customization of a TV Channel’s different workflows, thus generating a fully automated production operative. The seamless integration with VSNIPTRANSFER to work in a distributed environment (WAN), and the combination of Web architecture with Windows and more