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WEB CLIENT ADDS TO OCTOPUS NEWSROOM’S FLEXIBILITY Octopus Newsroom BY KEVIN EMMOTT
Janko: ‘Customers are now looking for more simplifi ed workfl ows’
Octopus Newsroom is extending its reach at IBC with a host of new features in its Octopus 12 news production system. New features include enhanced rundown management, a redesigned UI, advanced event and story planning, integration with speech-to-text engines, automated workfl ows and a ChatGPT-based AI assistant. A key component of Octopus 12 is the Octopus Web Client, which extends Octopus Newsroom’s capabilities and fl exibility beyond the range of
BURANO OFFERS VENICE ON A BUDGET Sony
BY DAVID FOX
Sony’s Burano is a new entry- level CineAlta digital cinema camera that uses an 8.6K full-frame sensor matching the colour science of its high- end Venice 2, but is specially designed for single-camera operators and small crews. “We wanted to make a new entry- level cinema camera and I think Burano offers a good balance between weight, size and image quality,” said Tatsuhito Tabuchi, Sony’s Head of Professional Imaging. It is the fi rst digital cinema camera with a PL-Mount that includes in-body image stabilisation. It also includes a new thinner-than-before electronically variable ND fi lter system (from 0.6 to 2.1ND) alongside the stabilisation mechanism, a technical feat never achieved before. The PL lens mount can also be removed so the camera can use E-mount lenses, when it supports fast hybrid AF and subject recognition auto focus.
on-prem equipment. Providing fl exible deployment either on-prem or in the cloud, the web client and desktop client work side-by-side or on their own with the same mainframe of stability, access and features regardless of how it is accessed.
“Octopus had a web client until
around 2010, but there were so many browser limitations in those days that we developed our own client,” said Octopus COO and Sales Director Gabriel Janko. “Customers are now looking for more simplifi ed workfl ows and fl exibility, so we developed the web client to enable them to log in from a home computer.” 6.C12
PARTNERSHIP CUTS COSTS AND SAVES ENERGY
(L-R): Nobutatsu Takahashi,
Tatsuhito Tabuchi and Sebastian Leske with the Burano
“Burano is the perfect camera for both scripted and unscripted projects, creating content that has a true cinematic feel, even when working with streamlined crews,” said Sebastian Leske, Head of Business Development, Cinema, Sony Europe. “It is pushing the cinematic boundaries into new areas of production”, and in testing fi lmmakers particularly appreciated the auto-focus capabilities with E-mount lenses, said Nobutatsu Takahashi, Sony’s General Manager, Professional Imaging Technology. “It is ideal for documentary production as the focus tracks the iris of the subject.”
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Yann Vonarburg, General Manager, Aeta Audio Systems (left) with Quanteec Co-founder and CEO Daniel Négru
Aeta Audio Systems BY KEVIN EMMOTT
Aiming to provide scalable and sustainable streaming across the broadcast industry, Aeta Audio Systems is teaming up with video specialist Quanteec at IBC. Combining Quanteec’s expertise in sustainable video streaming with Aeta’s broadcast audio experience, the collaboration brings together the expertise of both companies with the aim of delivering scalability and energy effi ciency across video streaming and audio delivery. “The streaming market is growing and we can do more
with less; better streaming quality with less carbon footprint,” said Quanteec Co-founder and CEO Daniel Négru. “Quanteec’s technology creates a 24% energy saving. Aeta is well established in the broadcast market, and this partnership is to encourage more broadcasters to benefi t from Quanteec technology. Our aim is to make streaming more sustainable.”
Quanteec says its approach attempts to prioritise streaming quality, scalability and energy effi ciency, transforming every connected device into a “smart re-streamer” to reduce dependence on large, energy- intensive servers. 8.F65
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