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DutchView OB van sports Studer console Broadcaster DutchView has outfitted its DV8 OB van with a 62-fader Studer Vista 9 console — one of three Vista consoles it plans to add to its new OB vans in the future. “Thanks to the Vista 9, the DV8 OB van is very versatile and able to cover almost all types of broadcasts, including sports, festivals, entertainment, music or even a combination of these,” said Peter Slot of DutchView. “In many cases, this will even save us from needing several OB’s on the road to do just one job.” Studer is already building a second Vista 9 for the DV9 OB van, which will be identical to the DV8.
www.harman.com
GoPro and Technicolor partner for CineStyle GoPro and Technicolor have collaborated to embed Technicolor’s CineStyle colour profile for the debut of the new GoPro Protune (a free firmware upgrade available for the HD HERO2 camera, available this summer). Certified by Technicolor, and developed by GoPro, the Protune mode offers 24fps frame rate, enabling GoPro HERO2 content to be easily intercut with other sources without a frame rate conversion. “Filmmakers are making critical decisions every day on the tools they’ll invest in for their cinematic productions, and we are confident our collaboration with Technicolor makes their decision that much easier,” said David Newman, senior director of software engineering for GoPro.
www.gopro.com www.technicolor.com
Net Insight and Miranda optimise remote workflows Net Insight has teamed up with Miranda Technologies to simplify remote workflows and centralised production for live events. As a result of this partnership, the two companies will deliver the high-quality, realtime network required to avoid quality degradation feeds, while enabling studio crews to remotely control, produce and edit media content over a virtual studio network. “Unique to the industry, our combined solution for remote
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workflow and production revolutionises video production as we know it,” said Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO, Net Insight. This partnership promises to bring cost savings to broadcasters by opening the Studio LAN to a Studio WAN environment.
www.netinsight.net www.miranda.com
MatrixStore Gorilla cluster Gorilla Group, the largest TV facilities company in Wales, has brought its third MatrixStore cluster from Object Matrix. As the Gorilla Group grows so does the requirement for more resilient storage for its Avid workflows. “With the acquisition of our third and largest MatrixStore we are excited to be able to offer the same ingest, nearline and archive solution across our three facilities,” stated Rich Moss, MD, Gorilla Group. “MatrixStore will be central to our tapeless workflow solutions for all our network drama productions this year and forms the backbone of our data handling and media security,” he added.
www.object-matrix.com
Record Q1 sales for Pebble Beach Systems Pebble Beach has announced its best ever quarter of sales, having closed a number of significant
contracts that span multiple projects across a wide geographical territory. Recent key contracts include Marina and Dolphin for AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology; Marina at Belgacom and Finland’s YLE, which adopted Marina automation. Pebble Beach Systems Sales Director Tom Gittins said: “In market conditions that remain challenging, we are delighted to have secured these and other key contracts for our automation and Channel in a Box technologies.”
www.pebble.tv
Noorsat playout expands Satellite service provider Noorsat has assigned PlayBox Technology to supply and install 15 new playout channels. The latest phase of channel expansion takes its total number of PlayBox playout channels to 120. Other PlayBox equipment includes ingest, CG and storage taking the total number of servers installed in Noorsat’s technical operations centre at Manama, Bahrain to 139. PlayBox Technology provides complete system designs including multiviewers, routers, etc. Pavlin Rahnev, PlayBox director, Solution Sales, said: “They trust us to supply and build their complete playout infrastructure,
Robe lights up Eurovision hopefuls: A rig of 70 Robe moving lights designed by Rene Jõhve and Meelis Lusmägi of Cuu Club lit up the final round of Eesti Laul, Estonia’s 2012 Eurovision national qualifying competition. The Robe fixture count was 20 x ROBIN 300 Spots, 22 x ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, 12 x ROBIN 300 LEDWashes, 12 x ColorSpot 1200E ATs and three ColorWash 1200E ATs — all specified by Jõhve. The trusses were arranged in an arc around and above the stage.
www.robe.cz
except the antennae and compression systems. We deliver everything including third-party products, audio, video, IT, cabling, installation, commissioning and training.”
www.playbox.tv
Nucoda looks in Mirror: Digital Vision’s Nucoda Film Master was used in the finishing of Relativity Media’s Mirror Mirror. The Film Master system, which included a SAN and Nucoda Fuse assist station, was installed on set in Montreal. As he did forThe Immortals, Lionel Kopp, colourist and founder of Film Factory, graded every take from the first day of dailies through completion of the DI.
www.digitalvision.se
Harris..................................OFC HHB Communications ...........54 Matrox....................................11 Mediagenix............................29 Miranda...................................7 Orad......................................44 Phabrix .................................64 Playbox.................41, 48 & OBC
Red Giant is 10 At last month’s NAB, Red Giant celebrated its 10 year anniversary with the debut of five new products, including a preview of Magic Bullet Arsenal, a new mobile portfolio app designed to connect creative professionals using Apple’s new iPad. Available in Q2 and debuted for the first time anywhere, Magic Bullet Arsenal allows any professional who uses photos and video to create rich, customised portfolios of images and movies on an iPad, and then easily share them using Dropbox, FTP or email. Magic Bullet Arsenal will work on all versions of the iPad.
www.redgiant.com
Encompass UK moves with Signiant software Encompass Digital Media has deployed Signiant software at its European playout facility in London to support significant new playout business. Encompass UK will employ Signiant Manager+Agents as
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part of an integrated workflow solution to receive secure, time- critical material from its global client base. “We involved Signiant very early in the planning stages of this expansion, initially working them on technical design. Completing this piece in advance enabled us to go forward quickly after we were able to ‘green light’ the project,” said Gary Finnerty, head of Solutions and Architecture for Encompass UK.
www.signiant.com
France 24 newsroom goes for Soft approach Digital channel France 24 is using Soft Vallee’s Teamium production newsroom software to simplify its organisation and optimise production workflow. On this same platform, the channel’s production management has access to all of its service providers. On an administrative level, all work provided by correspondents or freelance journalists are entered, allowing for an automated financial processing. The issue for France 24 was to integrate a coordinating tool between the editorial and production teams, while providing management teams with precise cost monitoring.
www.softvallee.com
Studiotech.............................46 SVP Broadcast......................42 Tedial ....................................43 TV Logic................................50 TV One..................................55 Two Four 54...........................21 WT Vision .............................27
www.tvbeurope.com May 2012
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