Prestigious 2012 Award Recognizes Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management Platform for Outstanding Technological Innovations
Levallois-Perret, France – May 2, 2012 – Dalet Digital Media Systems has been awarded a TV Technology 2012 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award by the editors of TV Technology magazine at the 2012 NAB convention in Las Vegas. Unveiled at this year’s broadcast show, Dalet Galaxy is the new version of the company’s enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) platform. It includes a high-value, BPMN 2.0-compliant workflow engine, specially tailored for broadcast workflows, which dramatically boosts productivity while providing operational and business visibility across the media enterprise. Dalet Galaxy also features the new Dalet One Cut video editor and a totally revamped graphical user interface.
Now celebrating its 12th anniversary, TV Technology’s STAR Award is designed to honor and showcase the outstanding technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. A more
Yo-Yo Ma’s Audio Engineer Jody Elff relies on DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headset and 4061 omnidirectional miniature microphones for the Silk Road Ensemble tour.
The Silk Road Ensemble, featuring the Grammy-winning classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, explores the intersection of a variety of musical traditions, drawing inspiration from the historic Silk Road network of trade routes, where wildly diverse cultures and ideas mingled and evolved. The tour combines Western instruments like the violin, viola, cello, and bass with such Eastern instruments as the shakuhachi, kamanchech, oud, pipa, and sheng. more
The Parlamentarium, the new visitors’ center at the European Parliament in Brussels, uses a variety of interactive multimedia exhibits to take visitors on a unique and personal journey into the heart of European Politics. Electrosonic engineered and installed the main exhibition audio-visual hardware for Stuttgart-based designer Atelier Bruckner. The Parlamentarium is the first visitors’ center fully accessible in 23 languages, and to-date has attracted over 110,000 visitors from across the globe.
Guided through state-of-the-art exhibitions by a personal electronic multimedia guide, visitors see how policy decisions are made and how they influence Europeans’ daily lives. All signage and media is presented in 23 languages, which had an enormous influence on how AV techniques were used throughout the center.
Electrosonic won the bid for the project in an open Europe-wide competitive tender; the
scope of work consisted of the detailed design, more
Vintage Effects reproduces the look of early color film techniques
Boston, MA – May 1, 2012 –Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, introduces Sheffield Softworks Vintage Effects, available now for Final Cut Pro, Motion and After Effects through FxFactory. The Vintage plug-in allows editors to give a vintage, 20th century film look to their footage by mathematically recreating the conditions of the original physical process through three different techniques: Technicolor 2 Strip, Technicolor 3 Strip and Multicolor. For each of the three processes, Vintage provides a normal and quick mode, which renders faster but doesn’t allow editors to fully customize the settings. Sheffield Vintage Effects can be purchased now through FxFactory for 19 USD.
Make your point with magnifiers, speech bubbles, animated paths and more through Callouts, exclusively for FCP X
Boston, MA – May 2, 2012 –Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, introduces Callouts by Ripple Training exclusively for Final Cut Pro X, available now through FxFactory. A set of 10 Effects, Callouts is an exciting way to highlight specific parts of footage. Editors can easily create emphasis with arrows, circles, magnifiers, text highlights, animated paths and more. Ripple Training Callouts can be purchased now through FxFactory for 49 USD.
With Ripple Training Callouts, editors can:
- Control over 30 different parameters to easily customize the look of any Callout - Move, rotate and shape Callouts using flexible on-screen controls - Mix and match multiple Callouts on a clip - Connect Callouts to hold frames using 3-point more
May 2, 2012 — Passfield, UK: Digital Rapids announced today that the company’s StreamZ Live adaptive bit rate (ABR) encoders have been chosen by Times Internet Limited (TIL) for live online streaming of the 51-day Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament through the indiatimes.com website and via YouTube. more
Prism Sound, manufacturer of premium-quality test and measurement instruments, audio interfaces and processors and for the recording and broadcast markets, has opened a European Sales and Distribution office in Munich, Germany.
Operating under the Prism Media Products Ltd banner and covering the territories of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the new office will handle all Prism Sound test and measurement, music recording and production products including the dScope Series III audio test instrument, ADA-8XR multichannel converters and the Orpheus FireWire interface.
Bernard Nocker, formerly Sales Manager for Prism Sound products at DIME Medientechnik GmbH, has been appointed to head the Munich office.
He says: “I am delighted to have the opportunity to develop Prism Sound’s business in these territories. Audio is my passion and I have hands-on experience of using Prism Sound’s products, which makes it much easier to explain their features and benefits to potential customers. more
Million-Dollar Upgrade Designed to Provide Increased Power, Flexibility in Any Production Environment
BURBANK, CA, MAY 1, 2012—Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, announced its recent acquisition of eight EVS XT3 six-channel production servers with 900GB drives, three EVS XS six-channel production servers and a host of IPDirector suites, 24×900GB SAS Expansion chassis, XStoreSE 20TB storage and support equipment. The new equipment purchase is part of Bexel’s million-dollar server upgrade, designed to meet industry demand and provide its clients with the latest and fastest platform system on the market today.
“At Bexel, we are continuing our commitment to EVS and our leadership in the live event production space,” says Tom Dickinson, chief technology officer, Bexel. “With several major events up ahead this year, we are taking the opportunity to do a major upgrade of our systems more
New from Crystal Vision is the FTX-L 3G – a fiber optic transmitter designed to transmit 3Gb/s, HD or SD signals over large distances in a robust, reliable and space-saving way and including two input loop-throughs ideal for system checking or distributing input video.
The FTX-L 3G is a dual channel device, which brings both financial and rack space savings by allowing up to 24 channels in a 2RU frame. It has two independent 3Gb/s, HD or SD inputs, each with one optical output, and can transmit a serial digital signal down a fiber optic cable – making it the perfect companion product to Crystal Vision’s FRX 3G fiber optic receiver. The FTX-L 3G meets the SMPTE 297-2006 short-haul specification, allowing operation with single-mode and multi-mode fiber and making it suitable for a wide range of applications, more
SALT LAKE CITY — April 30, 2012 — Utah Scientific, the worldwide leader in routing and master control switchers, today announced that national broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), the largest broadcaster in Macedonia, is installing a Utah Scientific digital routing switcher in its Skopje, Macedonia, facility. more
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Prestigious 2012 Award Recognizes Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management Platform for Outstanding Technological Innovations
