April 2014
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A LOT has happened since last year’s NAB. We’ve seen 4K break free of the question of “how” and move resolutely into the realms of “when” and “why”. Linear TV and on-demand have gone to war like gargantuas from Pacific Rim. And increasing migration to IT workflows means the slow-to-change broadcast industry is entering the same frantic rate of change as the consumer electronics market.
Double zoom for Q3
Camera Corps CAMERA CORPShas chosen NAB 2014 as the launch venue for an advance in robotic camera technology. Developed from the Q-Ball, the new Q3 incorporates double the zoom power, a higher specification camera and an expanded feature set. It is compatible with multiple serial data formats including IP plus Camera Corps’ audio-based data system.
Cinegy in NAB giveaway Cinegy
CINEGY IS offering the first 1000 visitors to its booth at NAB a free Cinegy Player License. Cinegy Player is a new tool
for broadcast professionals working with high-end video formats. Cinegy Player includes native support for most broadcast industry standard video codecs within MOV and MXF containers. Now included is support for decoding and displaying VANC and Parental Rating values from SMPTE 436M tracks, as well as decoding and display of line 608 and 708 closed captions. Cinegy is exhibiting 4K IP-based broadcast solutions. Automation, playout and CG solutions include Cinegy Air PRO, Cinegy Studio PRO and Cinegy Type. The company’s media asset management and archive solutions Cinegy Archive and Cinegy Desktop are also on show.
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Using an integral 3GBps slip-ring, Q3 can perform an unlimited number of 360° lateral rotations. Pan and tilt speed are adjustable from 360° in 90 minutes to 90° per second. “The original Q-Ball
revolutionised the use of robotic cameras in applications such as sports and reality shows,” stated Camera Corps’ founder and managing director Laurie Frost. “Q3 feeds can be intercut seamlessly
with the output from broadcast cameras. Each Q3 head incorporates a high-precision pan/tilt/zoom/ focus mechanism in a compact unit which can be mounted at any height, indoors or outdoors, and operated under full remote control from an adjacent desk or half-way round the world. Over a hundred Q3 heads can be operated from a single joystick panel.”
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What’s on the horizon for next year is anyone’s guess. The only thing we seem to know for sure about the TV industry is
that the final product is content on a screen. But the journey it takes to get to that screen and how the consumer interacts
with it is wide, wide open. The next year promises to be unpredictable, but very exciting, and I’m counting on the discussions we have together at NAB to give us some insight and direction. TVBEuropewill be on the ground with a crack team of journos, including Holly Ashford, Russell Grute, David Kirk, Ian McMurray, and Adrian Pennington. They’ll be roaming the show floors, covering all
the releases, conferences, and announcements, and you can read their reports in our May issue NAB Wrap-up.
Here we bring you Part Two of our NAB Product Preview, a survey of NAB announcements by the big players in the industry. Along with Part One in last month’s issue, we hope it will be more than enough to get you started on your NAB journey. Neal Romanek
The new Q3 from Camera Corps
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