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Alexa goes live for studio and OB use
Arri
“The world is going IP,” declared Jay Tyler (left), pictured with Wheatstone Corp colleague Steve Dove
Next stop Europe for AoIP pioneer
Wheatstone Corp
By Anne Morris & David Davies
“We’ve conquered North America – now we’re jumping across the pond to Europe for the next phase of our development!” exclaimed Jay Tyler, director of Sales at audio over IP (AoIP)
networking specialist Wheatstone Corp. The US-based
company is using this year’s IBC as a launchpad for further expansion within the European market, initially targeting the radio broadcast sector before moving into TV later.
With AoIP currently experiencing a renewed momentum (just visit Hall 8 if you’re in any doubt!), Wheatstone’s push into Europe could hardly be more timely. Providing the core of its campaign will be WheatNet-IP, an Ethernet-based intelligent network solution that connects the audio processing software and equipment required by contemporary radio broadcasters. “The world’s going
IP,” declares Tyler. “It’s a train that is going at full-speed and if you don’t jump on it, you’ll be left behind.” At present, fewer than 20% of Wheatstone’s sales are generated in Europe, but Tyler estimates that this could rise to 40% within the next three to five years. 14.119
l to r Simon Westland, product manager, Blackmagic Design alongside the UK’s CVP CEO, Phil Baxter
Blackmagic Design By Carolyn Giardina
Blackmagic Design is previewing a second model of its Blackmagic Cinema
New teleprompter company: Vitec Videocom has launched a new business unit called You Prompt, running as a low cost plug-and-play teleprompter company. You Prompt was apparently born from a desire by Vitec Videocom to fill a gap in the market for a cost-efficient, reliable teleprompter for use in the corporate, education, government and house of worship sectors. Scott Cannon (pictured), vice president of sales at You Prompt, said IBC was the perfect platform to launch the product. “We wanted to gain some traction going into 2013 and there’s no better place than IBC to do that. We
Camera that features a passive Micro Four Thirds lens (MFT) mount, and has already garnered enough interest to sell 100 units to the UK’s CVP. The camera supports any MFT with manual iris and
By David Fox
Broadcasters who want their studio and outside broadcast productions to look more like a movie now have the option of a fibre-equipped Arri Alexa that fits into their live production chain. The new Alexa Fibre Remote Box and software upgrade allows users to control the film-like parameters of the camera from the broadcast control panel, and was developed for customers “doing high-profile music shows who wanted to have a filmic look,”
said Arri’s Director of Business Development, Milan Krsljanin. It uses a Telecast
Copperhead system for fibre output, and the Alexa and Fibre Remote Box combination costs just €40,000 (not including the Alexa SxS recording module, which can be added later). The Box itself costs €10,000 (plus the Telecast system). Arri isn’t going into the system camera business. “This is not a camera for sports. It’s for programmes that want to reach new heights in terms of quality and the look,” he added. The camera can be used with PL-
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Studio too: Milan Krsljanin demonstrates the new Alexa fibre
system
mount lenses or, via an adapter, B4 broadcast lenses (although you lose two stops – “but with the huge sensitivity of this camera it is not an issue”). Indeed, its sensitivity and dynamic range was
CVP buys Blackmagic Camera
focus, and is adaptable to other lens mounts such as PL via third party adapters. Blackmagic Cinema Camera MFT is identical to the original Blackmagic Cinema Camera model, but does not include lens communication, so manual lenses are used. The original model of Blackmagic will be renamed the Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF. The cameras include 13 stops of dynamic range, a 2.5K sensor, a built-in SSD recorder that has the bandwidth to capture open standard CinemaDNG RAW, Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD files, and built-in touch screen for direct metadata entry. Both include a copy of DaVinci Resolve for colour correction and Blackmagic UltraScope software for waveform monitoring. CVP’s CEO Phil Baxter, who placed the order via distributor
why four fibre-equipped Alexas were used on a Coldplay concert in Paris just before IBC, intercut with conventional cameras – to avoid burnout on the faces in difficult lighting. 11.F21
Holdan, commented: “We were delighted to hear the news from Blackmagic and have no doubt that it will only heighten interest in the camera system. We were among the very first to order large quantities of the original model, a decision that our customers fully endorsed. We are sure that the new mount version will be no less popular.’’
The Blackmagic Cinema Camera MFT will be available in December for $2,995, the same price of the current model. 7.H20
Conference Highlights Today at IBC
In Conversation with… David Eun
10:45 - 11:45 Forum Keynote
One Production, Two Deliverables. Call it 5D 12:30 - 13:30 Auditorium Industry Insights
The Arab Spring: A Catalyst for Driving Broadcasting Trends for the Future?
12:00 - 13:30 E102 Content Creation
Stereoscopic 3D Content and Display – Developments and Diagnoses
14:00 - 15:30 E102 Advances in Technology
Where Cloud Delivers for Media
14:00 - 15:30 Emerald Room The Business of
Broadcasting and Media
did some research and found there’s roughly a $7m piece of the pie for a cost-efficient prompter system,” he added.
“We believe we can enter the market and take a bit of that pie for ourselves.” – Monica Heck 10.F35
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