June 6, 2011 — Sydney, Australia: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — announced today that Stellar Inflight, the world’s longest running in-flight entertainment company, is using the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software to transform high volumes of video and audio for both new and traditional in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems and viewing platforms. more
For many post-production teams, shifting to a shared storage workflow system is a result of growing tired of dealing with the limitations of portable hard drive solutions, otherwise known as “sneaker-net.” Not so for Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minn., that operates four digital television channels. Happy with what its existing sneaker-net solution provides to its 30 editors, TPT only decided to turn to Small Tree’s GraniteSTOR ST-RAID II Ethernet-based shared storage system for Mac users when a new project required that multiple producers and editors have simultaneous access to content files.
MN Original, TPT’s weekly celebration of Minnesota artists, recently concluded its first season. Responsible for producing a 30-minute show each week, TPT could no longer rely on its traditional editing approach to meet the production deadline for its popular new program. Given the workflow requirements for the five-person more
Global leader in family home entertainment benefits from market’s most reliable, compact and cost-effective recording technology
Leading Spanish television facilities company, Telson, which transmits many headline digital TV channels across Europe from its base in Madrid has selected Axon to provide its TRACS multichannel compliance recording units. The equipment, which is supplied by Axon’s Spanish dealer, Promovisa, is being used to support Telson’s operations for one of the three biggest global family home entertainment companies.
Telson, also a user of Axon’s Synapse modular signal processing system, operates Spain’s leading post-production facility and transmission center in Spain. Its clients include many Spanish and global media companies and corporations with broadcast operations across Europe.
Dalet’s Media Asset Management solution with story-centric newsroom production tools unify Milan, Rome, 10 regional sites and new 24/7 channel
Levallois-Perret, France - Mediaset, the largest commercial broadcaster in Italy, has selected Dalet Enterprise Edition to centralize and streamline all of the company’s TV news operations, including a 24/7 news channel which launches later this year. Mediaset journalists throughout Italy and in-the-field will use the end-to-end newsroom functionality of Dalet Enterprise Edition to browse wires, prepare text, edit video, and create voiceovers and packages - all from the Dalet’s desktop. The Dalet platform combines state-of-the-art production tools with strong metadata management and media automation capabilities. A single Dalet Media Asset Management (MAM) platform will manage the entire news organization, improving the production process, and facilitating sharing, cataloging and preparation of content for multiple outlets. The rollout of the Dalet more
It is every small business owner’s worst nightmare - not meeting your customer’s expectations and then losing that customer as a result. For Artsis Media, the nightmare almost became a reality as the full-service production company was crippled with a crashing editing system that nearly prevented the completion of a critical project.
Unfortunately for Michael Artsis, founder and owner of Artsis Media, system difficulties are nothing new. In fact, his latest series of system failures fell on the heels of having to come up with a solution to finish a video project for the Darryl Strawberry Foundation; having recently completed a rough cut of the video, Artsis’ hard drive crashed when he went to render the video. In light of this unfortunate development, Artsis turned to four Drobo drives as a band-aid to complete the project in time.
ULTRA-AFFORDABLE, PORTABLE DIGITAL MIGRATION SYSTEM CAPTURES HONORS AT NAB 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 20, 2011) – ViTaDi Digikit, the new ultra-affordable, portable plug-and-play desktop media migration solution manufactured by Alteran Technologies, is the recipient of the 2011 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award presented by the editorial staff of TV Technology magazine at the 2011 NAB Show.
Now celebrating its 11th anniversary, TV Technology’s STAR Award is designed to honor and showcase the outstanding technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. A panel of judges consisting of TV Technology editors and columnists reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then submitted their award nominees.
The ViTaDi Digikit won acclaim for its ability to combine robust performance with an appealing price point. Utilizing standard computer components and connections, the more
Discovery Communications Inc. has adopted a new high efficiency workflow at its global headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, using the AmberFin iCR Ingest, Transcoding and Review tools. The new workflow entails DNxHD ingest and Review controlled via TMD’s asset management system Mediaflex.
By deploying the extended toolset of iCR as the first step in the ingest process, rather than using an intermediate server solution, Discovery is looking to combine ingest and technical evaluation of growing files as a single task.
Bruce Devlin, AmberFin CTO comments:
“Discovery have cleverly implemented a ‘media factory’ approach to their ingest requirements by eliminating additional media movement and by unifying QC and review into the ingest application. This project is a great example of what can be achieved by architecting workflows along service lines, rather than focusing on point solutions”.
At NAB 2011, AmberFin announced that its multiple award-winning iCR product family now adds native support for the Apple ProRes codec. This gives AmberFin iCR users a new high-quality, 10-bit HD codec option for Automated Ingest and Quality Control for Final Cut Pro workflows and for exporting to iTunes.
AmberFin CTO Bruce Devlin said, “The iCR platform now gives customers a new level of efficiency for their workflows that require ProRes, when they create multiple high quality versions of content from a single tape or a stream source.”
ProRes will be an option available as part of the forthcoming iCR V7.00 release programme.
AmberFin is a company at the heart of solving file based workflow problems for content owners, broadcasters, sports organizations and post-production houses. AmberFin’s Scalable Media Factory, based on the iCR family of modular software more
April 12, 2011 — NAB Show, Las Vegas, Booth SL6010: Digital Rapids — the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — is offering attendees of the 2011 NAB Show a preview of a powerful new extension to the award-winning MediaMesh business-to-business content delivery system. The new MediaMesh TX content contribution appliance provides flexible, easy-to-use content packaging and sending capabilities mirroring the robust features of the proven MediaMesh RX receiving appliance. more
Atlanta, GA (April 12, 2011) – Video Technics Inc., a leading provider of IT-based broadcast solutions, today announced Ramar Communications selected the NewsFlow™ solution to initiate the next-generation digital transition for their stations based out of Lubbock, Texas. RAMAR is the parent company of FOX 34, FOX 34 NewsNOW, the FOX AccuWeather Channel, My Lubbock TV, the Lubbock CW, and Telemundo Lubbock.
When their older broadcast equipment began to fail, Ramar Communications asked Video Technics to ship a demo Apella server to their facility, have it remotely configured and get them up and running in record time. Exceptionally pleased with the responsiveness of the organization and how well the NewsFlow solution met their needs, Ramar purchased an end-to-end solution from Video Technics. With this new solution, the team at Ramar can now use their existing Avid and Adobe NLEs with the VT more
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June 6, 2011 — Sydney, Australia: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — announced today that Stellar Inflight, the world’s longest running in-flight entertainment company, is using the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software to transform high volumes of video and audio for both new and traditional in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems and viewing platforms. more
