Following continued market demand Oxygen DCT has launched a new website that helps production companies, film makers, facilities and broadcasters to gain access to Cinedeck production equipment.
Cinedeck film and TV production recorders are dramatically changing the production scene and leading the way to full tapeless production for film and television projects around the world.
Steve Hathaway, Managing Director of Oxygen DCT which distributes Cinedeck in UK and parts of mainland Europe, says: “The cost savings over more traditional production kit are enormous, especially for drama, series and film work but it is the tapeless work flow and instantaneous editing that really score with post houses, allowing faster turnaround. Directors, producers and crews all over Europe are realising the benefits of Cinedeck and there is an enormous and growing demand for hire and rental.”
US national sports broadcaster chooses Enterprise sQ for new HD expansion
NE&O, which provides technology and services to USA national sports broadcaster FOX Sports Media Group (FSMG), has chosen Quantel Enterprise sQ technology to power its expansion. The new HD system will also enable FSMG to cover more events and offer new services.
The new HD system went live on Sunday, September 11 when a total of 37 major sporting events were recorded and broadcast, including 15 NFL games, and an amazing 12,000+ HD clips were created and published.
The continued expansion into HD will ultimately allow FSMG to cover most of its sports production requirements from a single integrated Quantel platform whether broadcast in SD or HD. This includes the network’s coverage of Major League Baseball, College and NFL Football as well as FSN’s (FOX Sports Net) coverage more
TIFFEN® UPDATES AWARD-WINNING DFX® VERSION 3 FILTER SUITE WITH SUPPORT FOR 64-BIT AVID SYSTEMS; EXPANDS SONY CAMERA OPTIONS
Tiffen Dfx version 3.0.5 plug-in now compatible with Avid Media Composer v6, Symphony v6, and NewsCutter v10; adds camera support for Sony DSLR, NEX, SLT, and STV Models
Hauppauge, NY – November 18, 2011 –The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of award-winning accessories for still and video imaging, motion picture, and broadcast markets today announced that its Tiffen Dfx v3 digital filter suite is now compatible with Avid 64-bit systems, Media Composer®, and Symphony™ v6.0 as well as NewsCutter® v10.0. In addition to 64-bit, the updated Dfx v3 plug-in sports enhanced filter control and adds support for 16 Sony camera models. “We are always looking for ways to enrich the Tiffen Dfx capabilities whether it is qualifying new editing system releases such more
interBee Show – Tokyo - Japan - intoPIX – the leading provider of JPEG 2000 compression solutions – announced today that NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (Japan) has adopted intoPIX JPEG 2000 4K FPGA IP-cores for developing an advanced codec system for high quality Ultra HD streaming applications.
intoPIX technology enables NTT Advanced Technology to design a 4K based JPEG2000 codec board capable to encode or decode 4K resolution up to 60 images per second. The new board will address such demanding applications as high quality archiving in JPEG 2000 or Ultra HD (4K/8K) live streaming.
“We’re really pleased to work with a flagship partner such as NTT Advanced Technology Corporation,” said intoPIX Chief Strategic Officer, Jean-François Nivart, “NTT Advanced Technology is an established expert in network communication and video transmission”.
“intoPIX JPEG 2000 high quality codecs are the perfect answer to the challenge of providing more more
Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve Lite now Includes Unlimited Color Correction Nodes!
Milpitas, CA - November 16, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve Lite 8.1, a new version of the free DaVinci Resolve that now includes unlimited color correction nodes.
Unlimited color correction nodes allow customers to use multiple color correctors for more complex and creative grading and is a dramatic boost in power over the previous version of DaVinci Resolve Lite that was limited to 2 nodes. Adding more than 2 color correction nodes was the top requested feature by DaVinci Resolve Lite colorists.
DaVinci Resolve will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design InterBEE booth.
To help promote the art of color correction, DaVinci Resolve Lite includes many powerful features found in the full version of DaVinci Resolve for an extremely powerful toolset that anyone can download free of charge.
Blackmagic Design adds Avid DNxHD Recording and Playback to HyperDeck Studio
Milpitas, CA - November 16, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced HyperDeck Software Update 2.0, a new software update for it’s popular HyperDeck Studio that adds broadcast quality compressed 10 bit recording and playback to the Avid® DNxHD® format.
DNxHD is a broadcast industry standard for media files and adding native support for this compressed video format into HyperDeck Studio will allow dramatically longer recording times, lower media storage costs, and full file format compatibility with Avid Media Composer® systems. All media is recorded in MXF format, so it’s immediately available in Media Composer without any time consuming file copying or import processing.
HyperDeck Software Update 2.0 will be available at the end of November 2011 free of charge for all HyperDeck Studio customers.
HyperDeck Studio still includes support for perfect quality uncompressed 10 bit more
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - intoPIX – the leading provider of JPEG 2000 compression solutions – announced today that Astrodesign (Japan) has licensed and integrated intoPIX JPEG 2000 IP-cores into their new 4K Codec, called “HC7504”.
The intoPIX technology enables Astrodesign to support higher-definition video and increased recording by the combination of the 4K JPEG 2000 based codec system with the uncompressed 2K SSD recorder “HR-7502A”.
“We’re extremely pleased to work with a partner such as Astrodesign, Inc,” said intoPIX Chief Strategic Officer, Jean-François Nivart. “The JPEG 2000 compression allows them to significantly increase their storage capacity and record 4K image with a visually lossless quality.”
The new 4K Codec system will be presented at the Astrodesign booth at InterBEE 2011, Japan’s premier broadcast exhibition, held at Makuhari Messe, November 16th to 18th.
With upwards of 20 Mac-based workstations handling projects simultaneously from major clients such as iTunes, Netflix and Hulu, the decision to shift to Ethernet shared storage technology from Small Tree to replace the endless array of independent drives throughout their facility was an easy one for Premiere Digital Services (PDS).
Located in the heart of Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile, PDS is a digital distribution and encoding facility that can deliver media anywhere in the world. The company’s talented staff of post-production artists and technologists ingest, quality control (QC), fix, encode, package, transcode, store and distribute digital content - including movies, television, music videos and songs - to online retailers and end users around the world and across all platforms.
Before installing three of Small Tree’s robust GraniteSTOR ST-RAID II systems to help facilitate workflow by connecting all of the facility’s users, PDS worked more
Manchester, UK - 3 November 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced Desktop Video 9.0, a major new software update with advanced capture and playback for the Avid® Media Composer® 6 family of software including Avid Symphony® and Avid NewsCutter™, for both Windows 7™ and Mac OS X™.
Desktop Video 9.0 is available for download now and free of charge for all Blackmagic Design customers. This update includes support for all current DeckLink, Multibridge, Intensity and UltraStudio models.
Avid Media Composer has long been respected by the broadcast and film industry. For the first time, Avid customers can use Blackmagic Design’s latest Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and PCI Express video capture and playback devices.
Professionals demand frame accuracy and flexible workflows. The combination of Blackmagic Design hardware and the flexibility of Avid Media Composer lets you work with virtually any media format including Uncompressed 10 bit YUV and more
Reno, USA : Bright Technologies Inc., developer of advanced technology for shared media, has announced that SGO, provider of high-end solutions for the post-production and broadcast industries, has made an agreement to support the Company’s BrightClip® intelligent data recording technology on Mistika - SGO’s powerful post-production system. The integration enables customers to benefit from Mistika’s sophisticated feature-set combined with BrightDrive’s unique tools and functionalities for a robust post-production workflow.
Implementing BrightClip will enable Mistika to function seamlessly with BrightDrive media file server, the only file server developed specifically for media and entertainment. BrightClip provides superior disk recording and playback of media within the digital post-production environment by overcoming the need for data optimization. As media is moved between the different processes of a post-production workflow, BrightClip employs advanced, highly more
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