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Better connected: JVC’s GY-HM650 camcorder comes with Wi-Fi/FTP capability
Broadcast TECH
screens while keeping expenses in check and, in some cases, to reduce operational budgets,” says director of media enterprise marketing Alan Hoff. At NAB, Quantel previewed a new
version of its Pablo grading system and a full product launch of the “rein- vented, interactive and open” system – dubbed Pablo Rio – is slated for IBC.
Creating stickiness Kit Digital vice-president media solutions Feargal Kelly cautions broadcasters against the over-use of second-screen services. “Broadcasters need to move away from passive second-screen socialising to one that creates stickiness,” he says. At IBC, Kit Digital is launching 2Si, a second- screen app for broadcasters and net- work operators to do just that. “It’s designed to implement a red
capable of previewing 40/60 per-sec- ond frame rates, and the Dolby Digital Plus audio encoding system. The lat- ter “enables audio to be delivered in a controllable, consistent manner to all screens from mobile phones to 7:1 surround-sound home theatres”, says marketing manager James Caselton. In the technology battle between
traditional automated playout solu- tions and the cheaper, commoditised approach of so-called ‘channel in a box’ vendors, Harris will hope it has played a trump card. Its major show launch is Versio, a software product that is claimed to reduce standard channel launch costs by 40%. “We listened a lot and recognised the need for low cost of ownership and came up with a number of brand new ideas,” says vice-president of sales and service Mathias Eckert. JVC has ENG on its mind. “Work-
flow is key, but the emphasis now is on getting footage back to the studio or editing facility as quickly as pos- sible, and the demand for Wi-Fi/FTP features is increasing,” says general manager John Kelly. JVC’s new GY-HM650 camcorder
has that capability and also allows metadata to be imported and edited
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‘Emphasis now is on getting footage back to the studio or editing facility as quickly as
possible’ John Kelly, JVC
wirelessly, with live picture browsing via a PC or tablet. The company’s GY- HMQ10 4K camcorder “is proving especially popular for editing crea- tively in 2K”, says Kelly, and content can soon be previewed on a new 32-inch 4K monitor. After dominating live and fast-
turnaround sports, and latterly gain- ing ground in studio production, Bel- gium’s popular server systems vendor EVS is moving into the news produc- tion sector. Based on its XT2 servers, the Breaking News toolset is “the first and only ingest and playout infrastructure on the market that can be used across production areas from news to sport and entertainment”, claims marketing and communica- tions director Nicolas Bourdon. IBC sees the European debut of
Avid’s cloud-based remote editing software Interplay Sphere, with a beta test customer to be unveiled. Inter- play Sphere will allow field journalists to use Newscutter or Media Com- poser on their laptops and combine footage with content from another Sphere-connected location such as the newsroom, all via the cloud. “There’s a need to find a means to deliver more content to additional
button-like experience on the second screen synchronised frame accu- rately to the broadcast,” says Kelly. It combines audio watermarking with Kit’s own IP and features a ‘drag and drop’ iPad application for creation and management. It can also handle multi-lingual versions, useful in the US, says Kelly, as broadcasters look to reach the Hispanic audience. For Ross Video executive vice-pres- ident and chief marketing officer Jeff Moore “there’s nothing like the adren- aline hit of live television”. To prove it, the company is staging a live ‘news’ production on its stand every 30 min- utes. This showcases the firm’s virtual set, which combines the Furio Robot- ics system it acquired late last year (which the BBC is deploying at Broad- casting House) with Ross’s XPression graphics, OverDrive automation and Inception, a system in beta at Canada’s Rogers Media for publishing stories from the newsroom to social media. “Users can promote newscasts just
before they go live or tweet about interviews as they are going out live, or time tweets to coincide with the running order of stories,” says Moore. “There have been a number of high- profile mis-tweets recently so there’s a built in assurance check to prevent that happening.”
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