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accessories for his shoot of indie thriller Brake. Since the film is shot almost entirely inside what appears to be the trunk of a moving car, Mathers chose the Red One digital cinema camera to capture the dramatic events of the film. “The Red One has a good appetite for power, especially when you’re running accessories
Prism touch for American Idol Lighting Designer Kieran Healy chose to keylight the three judges on American Idol with the RevEAL LED Profile (pictured) from Prism Projection.“I usually use a followspot as a key when people are moving around but here I had a fixed location. I am keying the judges from a 45° angle left and right.” The Prism RevEAL Profile can be used effectively in long- throw applications.
www.prismprojection.com
Anton/Bauer goes along for the ride Cinematographer James Mathers has picked Anton/Bauer batteries and
like the zoom motor and monitors,” he said, who equipped his two Red One cameras with six Anton/Bauer HyTRON 140 batteries. Using Anton/Bauer’s Gold Mount system ensured that the RED ONE camera was always securely locked to a battery despite the constant rough movement the camera endured during filming.
www.antonbauer.com
Putting a shine on the Diamond Jubilee The UK’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 60 years on the throne last month: Broadcast RF provided and engineered the majority of wireless video links on the shores of the river for the Jubilee pageant, while the on-board coverage from the
Light comedy relief: Litepanels LEDs were used for multi-camera comedy Happily Divorced,selected by Director of Photography, George Mooradian, ASC. In the past, when the “old technology was prevalent, LEDs were considered too expensive or a luxury,” he said. “But since Litepanels entered our stage and workflow, they will now forever be part of our lighting vocabulary.
They simply do things better and more efficiently for applications than past methods or current LED alternatives.”
www.litepanels.com
boats was provided by SIS Live. For the Buckingham Palace concert, Broadcast RF provided three HD wireless cameras, which were used mainly in and around the stage. SIS Live was
involved in planning for the events for almost a year and provided OB facilities from 10 sites including St Paul’s Cathedral, Epsom Racecourse and the Palace of Westminster.
www.broadcastrf.com www.sislive.tv
Technicolor keeps Fast Girls on track:Technicolor has provided on location services, including the complete set build, all archive and dailies, for British film Fast Girls. Supporting a full digital pipeline for the Fast Girls production, Technicolor captured a complete archive of R3D files on a location RAID, as well as securing the master copy and second safety copy at its post facility in Soho, London. The full dailies deliverables were provided in ProRes 422 with correction LUT and sound sync supplied to the editorial team each day for Final Cut Pro edit as required. As part of the established digital workflow by Technicolor, all rushes were stored and archived on LTO at the Soho facility.
www.technicolor.com
Strawberry Flavour DVS The DVS storage solutions DVS-SAN and SpycerBox can now be used with the project sharing and management software Strawberry from FlavourSys. The DVS systems are frequently used in the storage architecture of broadcast and post production environments, and are a guarantee of reliability. As Strawberry integrates with DVS products and is intuitive to use, users do not require lengthy training. Strawberry makes team-based project- collaboration possible allowing editing projects to be exchanged and processed securely right from the outset.
www.dvs.de
Octopus to Middle East The new Qatari channel, Al Rayyan TV, has become the first Arabic broadcast customer for Octopus Newsroom in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
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Tony Jabbour, senior broadcast engineer of Al Rayyan TV, pointed out that, “The Al Rayyan newsroom staff were experienced but had not used the Octopus newsroom system before. That proved not to be a problem as they took to Octopus very quickly and without any trouble. And when the station opened they were very happy to use it on air.”
www.octopus-news.com
TTR unveils smallest 3G Television equipment manufacturer TTR has released a new range of compact broadcast quality 3G routing matrices. The entry level router is a desk mounted 4x2 re-clocked dual output device, this was developed for use in edit suite applications where the operator has local control of a front panel mounted interface. Adding to the range is the 1u rack mounted versions in 4x2, 8x2, 8x4, 16x2 and 16x4 combinations. All routers have local front panel and RS232 control functionality. The router footprint is small measuring only 142 x 62 mm, which the company claims is the world’s smallest 3G matrix.
www.ttr.co.uk
SGL........................................21 Snell.......................................13 SVP.......................................30 Tedial ....................................34 TV Logic................................46 TV One..................................33
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