HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — July 16, 2008 — Andrita Media Center, the largest independent high-definition (HD) digital media facility on the West Coast, has joined the ranks of leading media and broadcasting organizations that are driving their businesses with the ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management system. At Andrita, ScheduALL provides the end-to-end solution for booking and managing all facilities, resources, and personnel, and seamlessly creates client invoices from this information. more
Iroquois, ON Canada – June 17, 2008 – Ross Video has collaborated with Autocue to create a MOS interface between OverDrive and QNews.
Autocue’s QNews is a newsroom computer system (NRCS) component, providing powerful, flexible functions for rundown management, news scripting, assignment and contact handling, wires processing and distribution, integrated prompting and playout control.
“Since collaborating with Autocue, we have successfully launched multiple systems on-air,” said Brad Rochon, OverDrive Marketing Product Manager. “Autocue have been a great company to work with, offering excellent development and end-user support. I am looking forward to further collaboration in the near future.”
“Despite the differences in location and time zone, the technical integration between QNews and OverDrive has been a smooth and straightforward exercise, evolving over time from a custom interface to the industry-standard MOS protocol,” said Neil Hutchins, Autocue Chief Technical Officer. “The products compliment each other extremely well, and together provide an elegant and comprehensive solution for fully-integrated news production.” more
Republic of Serbia — From the beginning of April 2008, the Serbian 24/7 news channel B92 has been running Octopus newsroom system successfully for 24 hours a day, which surpassed the expectations of B92 representatives. According to B92 Deputy News Director, Mr.Igor Bozic, it was impossible to start 24 hours news channel without a newsroom system and the Octopus was the ideal to start with.
Having done all the implementations in February 2008 and dealing with only small issues and details, Octopus newsroom system has been running very well and not recording any crushes during its 24/7 operation.
Although Octopus was installed as the first newsroom system of B92, it was an ideal system because the installation and hardware did not require high investments and the access to the newsroom system from any computer in the building became much easier. more
Calling it a “new generation newsroom computer system“, the Octopus Newsroom company presented its new product Octopus6 capable of using independent platforms simultaneously, reaching free operating systems. According to Octopus Newsroom company CEO, Petr Stokuc, the Octopus6 is expected to find wider use among users in broadcasting, where the independancy of platforms and the fast access to information are key issues.
Octopus 6 brings a brand new Apple FCP plug-in that gives users full access to stories and scripts while editing a video footage. With this feature the users will be able to edit both video and text at the same time on one screen.
There are many new features as well as further fine-tuning from Octopus5 that can bring even more friendly working environment, detailed customisation and improved work with media to create the workflow that best meets the user’s requirements.
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About OCTOPUS Newsroom: OCTOPUS Newsroom is European Company, established
in 1998, focused mainly on Newsroom Computer System development and providing the
support for its customers. OCTOPUS is well known for its simple, yet very intuitive and
powerful user interface based on the revolutionary ideas of their users, while
implementing all the features necessary for effective and efficient day-to-day newsroom
operation. Running in newsrooms all around the world, many of which are 24/7 news
channels OCTOPUS proves to be a possible substitute for any other NRCS system on the
market. With wires, faxes, emails, web feeds, story scripting, approval statuses,
automatic rundown scheduling and many other small, but very useful features, OCTOPUS
helps more than 1000 users daily to bring their latest news on air. OCTOPUS integrates
with all widely-known automation, asset management, graphics and prompting solutions,
supporting latest MOS specifications.
Besides OCTOPUS6, additional products are available for the market: OCTOPUS FIELD
REPORTER, a platform-independent offline client; OCTOPUS VIDEO TWISTER, a videomedia management tool;
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Major update to the leading non-proprietary news production solution in the US breaks the video format barriers of traditional file-based news systems; eliminates transcoding and intermediate formats to speed workflow
Las Vegas, NV - April 14, 2008 - Bitcentral, Inc., a leading provider of non-proprietary digital news production, archiving and distribution solutions to television stations, will demonstrate a major upgrade to their revolutionary Precis News Production System in booth SL 7720 at NAB 2008. Capped by a dramatic change to the browser-based user interface, Precis 4.0 displays significant enhancements to raw media management, format-agnostic playout and remote contribution. more
DENVER — April 14, 2008 — OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive broadcast automation and content management solutions, has seen a significant uptake of its iTX automation and playout system among broadcasters expanding into mobile TV and IPTV service provision. more
Atlanta, GA (April 10, 2008) - Video Technics, Inc. (VT) today announced that they have partnered with VCI Solutions to create an affordable bundle for the facilitation of a file-based workflow from content delivery to on-air playout. The product bundle includes full-featured automation software from VCI Solutions, Pathfire licensing for syndicated content, and the new Apella™ SDX-MX video server from Video Technics. The Apella SDX-MX is a new three channel video server specially outfitted with 6 terabytes of internal storage and the ability to directly ingest native MPEG-2 content from syndication content delivery systems. The solution provides broadcasters with cost-effective, robust automation for master control, while simplifying content delivery. more
Bitcentral‘s Prcis Digital News Production System Integrates with Matrox for Multiformat Playout
With Matrox‘s X.mio card, Bitcentral may now play to air MXF, DV, MPEG 2/4, WMV and MOV files natively without transcoding, significantly reducing time to air
Montreal, Canada, April 1, 2008 - Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Bitcentral, Inc. has integrated the Matrox X.mio card, part of the Matrox DSX™ family of developer products, as the hardware engine for Prcis, its revolutionary digital news production system. Prcis delivers a fully integrated, end-to-end, open architecture solution that eliminates videotape and dozens of costly, time-consuming steps in the news management workflow. Broadcast news stations, such as WINK-TV in Ft. Myers, FL, greatly benefit from Prcis‘ unique features.
“After a flurry of demos and presentations, we decided on the Prcis system from Bitcentral, said John Emmert, Director of Technology and Special Projects at WINK-TV. “Station management felt Prcis offered by far the best value, largest overall feature set and was easily the most adaptable system available. Prcis, combined with a leading editing system, is able to ingest and utilize just about every video format easily without users having to go through any special conversion process.” more
Digital Rapids Transcode Manager and DRC-Stream to enable NBC with top-quality encoding and streaming of online content during coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008
March 27, 2008 — Markham, Ontario and New York: Digital Rapids has been selected to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems to NBC for the network’s Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China, August 8-24. The announcement was made today by Rab Mukraj, Director of Digital Media Delivery at NBC Universal and Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation.
Digital Rapids’ DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will enable NBC Olympics’ unprecedented live and on-demand online coverage of the Beijing Olympics. 2200 hours of video will be streamed live on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, primarily encoded from video feeds into web-friendly streams through the DRC-Stream systems. Streams will be encoded in the VC-1 compression format for a viewing experience powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology. The encoded live streams will also be archived for viewers to watch on-demand. Digital Rapids Transcode Manager, the enterprise-class solution for scalable, high-volume media file transcoding, will be used to convert affiliate-provided content between compression and file formats for U.S. domestic distribution. more
BILLERICA, Mass. — March 25, 2008 — Echolab Corporation, a leading provider of professional video production switchers and broadcast tools, today announced the latest release of the Conductor™ control integration system, a touch-screen software suite that automates complex tasks and program elements to support fast, accurate, and creative production of the best programs possible. By giving users simple, centralized control over critical production systems, Conductor adds speed and power to the live production workflow. more
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