theibcdaily Upgraded production trailer showcase Gearhouse Broadcast By Heather McLean
An updated model of its fully equipped, live production OBLite HD trailer will be shown by Gearhouse Broadcast at IBC2014. Building on the success of its launch at last year’s show, the trailer has been refined in terms of both build and production workflow. OBLite features eight of the
latest Hitachi Z-HD6000 camera channels. The main operational upgrade sees the trailer’s production workflow redesigned using Ross Video’s new openTruck blueprint, ensuring increased efficiency, video quality, and the ability to quickly reconfigure the trailer for different events. Ross Video’s Carbonite vision mixer, NK Series routing system and glue have been implemented from its openGear platform, as well as the powerful and compact
LAWO V_pro8 1U video processor. Structural updates to OBLite include a lighter chassis, built-in retractable door steps, a load-bearing roof with operator safety harness and anti-slip surface, waterproof mouse holes for cable runs, stabilisation jacks and flush door locking mechanisms. All external units have been encased and a new internal cooling system has been installed.
Clipster certified for Atmos mastering Rohde & Schwarz DVS By Carolyn Giardina
The Clipster mastering system is now certified to enable users to create DCPs with a Dolby Atmos mix. Dolby Atmos is an “object- based” immersive sound format, and recent films including Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy and Transformers: Age of Extinction were given Atmos mixes for supported
cinema theatres. A beta version of Clipster with Atmos was used last year for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Clipster can generate compliant DCPs in realtime – no matter if the material is in 2D, 3D, 4K or high
framerates. By using Rohde & Schwarz DVS's JPEG2000 encoding hardware, 96 frames can be converted per second.
Now, Dolby Atmos mixes can additionally be integrated in the mastering process for the DCP. “Dolby Laboratories always delivers exceptional technology that has and will transform the entertainment and cinema industry,” said Bernhard Reitz, head of product management at Rohde & Schwarz DVS. “Combining our technological know-how in past projects has shown us what we can achieve for the cinemagoers. We are delighted that the audience will benefit from our
OBLite now includes a new LED lighting array as well as ECE 104 compliant reflective tape and ‘On Air’ lights.
Changes to the interior layout also allow for two six-channel HD EVS XT server positions. 10.B39
At a good clip: Clipster generates Digital Cinema Packages
joint expertise and have an outstanding audio-visual experience.” Atmos was launched in the spring of 2012. At press time
roughly 650 Dolby Atmos screens have been installed or committed to in more than 40 countries. 7.E25
Script Extractor speeds subtitling productivity Screen By Ian McMurray
Scripts come in a variety of different layouts and anyone wishing to make use of such content in a machine-readable form can waste a lot of time trying to isolate just the material they need to use, according to exhibitor Screen.
For subtitling or dubbing customers who rely on using scripts to increase their
productivity, Screen says that it recognised the need to speed up the process of extracting useful payload as quickly as possible from any script layout. Faced with the challenge of identifying and isolating the required information from a range of script layouts, and discarding unwanted material, Screen developed the Script Extractor.
Script Extractor is an assistive tool, designed to enable a user to quickly identify examples of the material of interest, and to
automate the task of retrieving all similar instances from the script. The user highlights one or two items of each of the content types they are interested in on the uploaded script — for instance, speaker label and dialogue — and using a sophisticated pattern matching algorithm, the Script Extractor then picks out similar content to be preserved, and ignores the other items. A process which used to take 20 minutes or more can now be completed within a minute or two, claims Screen.
If a series of scripts is received
from the same production company, all in the same layout, then a “‘template’ can easily be saved so that the “training” provided in one session can be retrieved and used again. The output may then be imported into Screen’s WinCAPS Qu4ntum subtitling software where speaker labels can be used for automatic subtitle colouring and where the dialogue and timecodes are used to create subtitles. 1.C49
Script prescription: Script Extractor is an assistive tool and reduces a 20 minute task to two minutes
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