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EKT joins DTVKit
DTVKit, the not-for- profit organisation whose aim is to provide the core building blocks of a broadcast DVB stack, has announced that EKT has joined as a member. EKT, an STB developer and manufacturer, is said to have been one of the first companies to deliver set-top box solutions in the field of IPTV/OTT and hybrid. Early on, EKT and its solidTV group identified the need for a pan- European and global DVB solution that is maintained and updated to the latest standard: DTVKit says that membership provides this and will enable EKT to further accelerate the time-to-market for its customers. 4.A61c
Plug-in power- up ensures compliance Eyeheight
By Michael Burns
A major update to the BroadcastSafe compliance plug-ins for Avid's Media Composer and Adobe's Premiere Pro post production software has been released. The BroadcastSafe plug-in
offers a complete legaliser, safe-area generator and graphic measurement toolset. Version 1.5 of
BroadcastSafeMC (for Media Composer) and BroadcastSafePP (for Premiere Pro) both incorporate a new Broadcast Evaluate display indicating which parts of a video image require adjustment in order to be fully broadcast compliant. Non-compliant areas of content are displayed in a user-definable colour with the option of manual or automatic correction, giving editors greater choice in the way they work. Previously, this was an auto-only function. BroadcastEvaluate supports all common compliance standards. Users can alternatively define their own
RBB plans file- based transition
Wellen+Noethen By Will Strauss
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) will move to a completely file-based TV production set-up in 2015 after signing a deal with Cologne-based systems integrator Wellen+Noethen. Following a EU-wide tender, the German multi-platform broadcaster has commissioned a 14-month long project that will see Wellen+Noethen take responsibility for planning, realisation of the overall technical concept, installation and integration, launch and monitoring of the initial operational phase.
RBB chief engineer and head of systems planning, Wolfram Klemmer said: “The installation of an entirely file-based TV production [set-up] is one of the biggest technology projects in the history of RBB. We defined a
compliance standard as an XML file.
Also new for
BroadcastSafeMC and BroadcastSafePP is BroadcastSafeArea. This allows a wide range of safe- area markers to be superimposed over the video monitor display. BroadcastSafeArea supports a multitude of standards including SMPTE, EBU and DPP, in 525/625 standard definition, 720/1080 high definition and 2K line formats. Also included is a centre marker plus a measurement utility to ensure minimum text height conformance in commercials. Any marker colour can be assigned by the operator. BroadcastSafe allows users
to verify and conform content prior to submission to any file- based quality control system. It can perform composite, RGB, RGB-plus-Y and simultaneous composite-plus- RGB legalising, all with user- adjustable soft clipping at high and low thresholds. Editors can select from an
extensive range of presets, or work in custom mode which gives full access to 15 configurable parameters. Precise chroma-space conversion and accurate limiting ensure compliance while keeping the full gamut available for creative use. 8.B97
ZX 14: Cinedeck ZX comes in three models and with a range of options.
range of criteria that are particularly important for the infrastructure, such as uniformity and speed of workflows and production processes, high accessibility of the overall system and a coherent redundancy concept. Wellen+Noethen combined these and also other aspects in a technically compelling and at the same time economically viable concept.”
Implementation of the new
AVC-Intra based infrastructure will take place at RBB’s current building in Potsdam while broadcasting duties continue. The project will be divided into the areas of ingest, media asset management (MAM), production, “outgest”, editorial and network technology. A central MAM will be installed to aid collaborative workflows and production processes. A second stage of the contract will see centralised ingest and outgest, central
Klemmer: file-based move is one of the biggest technology projects in RBB’s history
archiving and video and audio post merged into a single file- based infrastructure. A six-year service agreement is also included. Wellen+Noethen general manager Daniel Url added: “It will be our job to optimise the workflows to be implemented
for the bandwidth of AVC-Intra and integrate the interfaces in close collaboration with the involved vendors and manufacturers.”
Installation should be
completed by the second half of 2015. 3.B40
Camera to post workflow Cinedeck By
Carolyn.Giardina
The new Cinedeck ZX, a modular 4K/UHDTV-1/HD/SD platform for camera to post workflows, is debuting at IBC. This latest addition to the Cinedeck family of record, ingest and transcode systems has three hardware options to which a range of Cinedeck-developed plug-in workflow packages can be added, enabling the custom-building of pipeline capabilities. The idea is to avoid “forklift” upgrades and the financial outlay on unused functions, but to have the advantage of being able to add extra
capabilities when workflows change.
Starting at $21,995, the base level Cinedeck ZX20 provides two channels of 2K, HD or SD, with optional 4K playback. The mid-level Cinedeck ZX40 supports four channels of 2K, HD or SD, and, when fully-loaded with plug-in packages, is equivalent to the 4K-capable Cinedeck MX, according to the company. The Cinedeck ZX45 adds even greater processing power to support 4K and UHDTV-1 at 60P and four channels of 2K, HD or SD at 60P, including visually lossless JPEG2000, Cinedeck reported. Workflow packages can be added to each of the three models; and additional plug-in
packages cover options including formats, networking and connectivity, codecs and wrappers, deck and telecine control. Pricing on these options have not yet been announced.
For networking and connectivity, Cinedeck ZX systems can be fitted with either 10Gb Ethernet or 8Gb Fibre networking, or custom adapters for high-bandwidth local storage. Customers can also choose a package to support many media environments, including editorial platforms from Avid, Apple and Adobe. Cinedeck ZX systems, scheduled to ship in Q4, will feature Cinedeck’s v5 64-bit native software. 7.J07
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