2011 MTV EMAs Broadcast Live with Blackmagic Design ATEM Production Switcher
Manchester, UK - December 21, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced that MTV, a division of Viacom International Media Networks, used Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Production Switcher to help broadcast the 2011 MTV EMAs.
The 2011 MTV EMA show is the brand’s largest international music property, hosted in a different city each year. This year’s show was hosted by Selena Gomez live from Belfast, and featured ‘A-list performers’ such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Snow Patrol and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
MTV used Blackmagic Design technology for live video switching and graphics for production of daily news content for their international TV channels, as well as with MTV’s digital media group to produce online content and live webcasts on the night of the awards. To accomplish this MTV used Blackmagic Design’s ATEM 1 M/E Production more
Blackmagic Design Releases Avid DNxHD Public Beta Update for HyperDeck Studio
Milpitas, CA - December 21, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of HyperDeck Software Update 2.0 Public Beta, a new software update for its 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 available in Media Composer without any time consuming import processing.
HyperDeck Software Update 2.0 public beta is available now, and will allow customers to update their HyperDeck Studio free of charge simply by connecting to their Mac OS X or Windows more
Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve for Windows™ Public Beta
Milpitas, USA - December 15, 2011 - Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Microsoft Windows™ public beta is now available for download. DaVinci Resolve for Windows public beta is available in both the full featured DaVinci Resolve 8.2 and free DaVinci Resolve Lite versions. The DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Windows license is included with the Mac OS X version, so all current Mac OS X customers automatically get a license for the Windows version, and can download it now to use in their facility.
This new DaVinci Resolve for Windows beta will allow customers to use a wide range of hardware for building color correction systems with the advantage of a wider selection of GPU processing options with support for up to 4 GPU’s per system.
When the public beta program is complete, and DaVinci Resolve for more
DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of high-end film and digital post production solutions that preserve, manage, and deliver your pictures, announces that Spice Shop, Bangkok, Thailand, is the first commercial post facility in Southeast Asia to install a SCANITY film scanner.
In addition to providing a full range of post production services for the local and international television and cinema commercial markets, Spice Shop has recently unveiled it’s newly renovated facility which enhances its service offerings to support feature film post production including on-set and post grading, 3D DCI mastering, as well as archive & restoration work. The SCANITY high-speed 4K/2K film scanner complements Spice Shop’s existing and upgraded data infrastructure and supports the overall non-linear system of solutions that allows Spice Shop to have a smooth and efficient online and offline workflow. more
The Award-winning Cinedeck Extreme cinema grade monitoring, recording and playback device is delivering great results for digital facilities company Filmscape, which recently supplied units to a variety of clients including a major feature film production and a pilot for a new television sitcom.
Established in 2005 by two independent filmmakers, West London-based Filmscape is passionate about the latest digital technology. As one of the major UK suppliers of film and television equipment, Filmscape’s customers include most of the UK’s top TV networks, production companies and indie producers, as well as major universities and UK film schools.
Anthony Holt, Filmscape’s Operations Director, says: “We are passionate about the latest digital technology and continually invest in new equipment. We have always been at the forefront of 35mm replacement cameras, pioneering the Red One in this country and growing today to include RED Epics, Arri more
Digital Film Tools Helps Photographers and Videographers ‘reFine’ Images
New photo and video/film plug-in delivers professional edge-aware sharpening and smoothing effects
Los Angeles, CA – December 12, 2011 - Digital Film Tools, developer of visual effects software, today announced the release of reFine with plug-in support for Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop® Elements, Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom, Apple® Aperture®, Adobe® After Effects® CS5 and up, Adobe Premiere Pro® CS5 and up, Apple Final Cut Pro® 6, 7 and X, Apple Motion® 5 and Avid® editing systems. reFine offers artists a new tool and technique for performing selective sharpening, detail enhancement, edge-aware smoothing as well as creating cartoon, pencil and pastel effects. Delivering high-quality, edge-preserving filtering of still and moving images, reFine uses less memory and offers faster processing than existing methods. “Our new reFine plug-in re-invents the way you sharpen and smooth still and moving more
MANHATTAN EDIT WORKSHOP PARTNERS WITH ABELCINE; CONNECTS PRODUCTION TO POST
Educational developments teach filmmakers and videographers end-to-end production to post workflows and techniques
New York, New York – December 12, 2011 –Manhattan Edit Workshop (Mewshop), the cutting-edge authorized digital training destination, is pleased to announce a training partnership with industry leading film and digital media equipment supplier AbelCine. Their first collaboration, ‘Hands On: From the Camera to the Cutting Room,’ is a two-day intensive workshop in the art of shooting and editing narrative and documentary film.
“This partnership leverages the expertise of our respective training organizations to produce educational programs that approach training from the artistic workflow as opposed to teaching specific buttons and dials,” comments Josh Apter, Founder and President, Manhattan Edit Workshop. “I am very excited to get people working on all the latest tools and more
HD News station Puthiya Thalaimurai leads the way in Indian broadcasting with Quantel’s Enterprise sQ system
Newbury, UK, 29th November 2011: Quantel is proud to be associated with the amazing success of India’s newest HD News Channel, Puthiya Thalaimurai.
Within three months of launch on August 24th 2011, the first independent news channel in the state of Tamil Nadu has been rated as number one in the market, according to figures released by AC Nielson.
The channel is based in the capital of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, home to 74 million people, where Tamil is their first language. The state is India’s seventh most populous but with its highly urbanised population is the fourth largest contributor to India’s GDP.
The station motto is ‘unmai udanuk udan’, or ‘truth as it happens’. News Director, Mr S more
SINGULAR SOFTWARE PRESTO FOR OS X WITH SUPPORT FOR ADOBE PREMIERE PRO MAKES ITS OFFICIAL DEBUT
Presentation video software hits the streets just in time for the holidays; special offers include a 20% discount and significant product cross-grade savings.
Vancouver, British Columbia, November 29, 2011 —Singular Software™, a developer of workflow automation applications for digital media, is pleased to announce the availability of Singular Software Presto™ for OS X (v2.0) with support for Adobe® Premiere Pro®. Singular Software Presto automates the tedious task of editing video presentations. Simple to use, Presto’s underlying visual tracking and image-tracking technology works alongside the non-linear editing application to automatically synchronize the footage of the presenter and the presentation slides, using a video taken of the screen. The end result is an engaging, polished video of the presentation prepared in just minutes instead of hours.
Leading systems integrator and multiscreen platform provider Visual Unity has enabled Czech TV to enhance its production capabilities by delivering the broadcaster’s fully High Definition-equipped Outside Broadcast vehicle.
Designed to capture mainly sporting and cultural events, the new vehicle is based on a 26 ton MAN chassis with a single expanding side. At 12 meters long and nearly four meters high, it is the second completely HD equipped vehicle in Czech TV’s fleet and provides the entire technical infrastructure needed to deliver Outside Broadcast content in full HD.
Visual Unity was commissioned to handle this prestigious project on the basis of its extensive experience of designing, delivering and integrating turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions. Borne out of respected international SI Visual Connection (latterly KIT digital Czech), Visual Unity offers an in depth understanding of the complexities of the more
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