Archive for May 6th, 2009

Affordable and portable system delivers exceptional sound quality, more creative mixing options and compatibility with leading third-party tools

Tewksbury, MA, May 6, 2009 – Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today introduced Digidesign® VENUE SC48: a fully-integrated audio and processing live sound solution developed for small to mid-sized houses of worship, clubs, and corporate A/V companies, as well as touring customers. As a cost-effective and compact system, this solution delivers exceptional sound quality and compatibility with industry standard professional audio and video systems. VENUE SC48 also combines I/O, digital signal processing and tactile control and offers built-in support for a number of professional audio plug-ins that provide customers with more creative mixing options. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — May 5, 2009 — Omneon Inc. today announced that Prof-Media Business Solutions (PMBS), a major Russian-based diversified media holding group, has consolidated playout for four television broadcasters — TV3, 2×2, MTV Russia, and VH1 Russia — into a single, fully automated facility that relies on an Omneon digital platform. PMBS’ new Moscow facility is one of the first in Russia to implement a file-based, fully tapeless workflow. TV3 and 2×2 began broadcasting last December while MTV and VH1 are scheduled to start broadcasting from the new complex in May. more

Breakout stock footage marketplace is now the fastest growing collection of inexpensive royalty-free footage on the web.

New York, NY, May 5, 2009 – Stock footage marketplace Pond5.com (http://www.pond5.com) announced today that it has marked a significant new milestone: it now offers video producers over 150,000 broadcast quality, royalty-free HD and SD stock video clips available for instant download. Its collection has been doubling in size every 6 months since opening for business in early 2006. The site is now the fastest growing collection of stock video on the web, with an enthusiastic global following at all production levels. more

Groundbreaking Application Suite Flies First with Aerospace Giant

May 6, 2009 (Burbank, CA) Xytech Systems Corporation, a leading provider of media business software and services for workflow management, resource scheduling, and media asset management, has announced that the first installation of its new product, MediaPulse(tm), is complete at the Boeing Company, the aerospace corporation headquartered in Chicago. MediaPulse, a groundbreaking application suite, has been successfully implemented in the company’s Creative Services division. Boeing Creative Services manages extensive and dynamic inventories of video, graphics, and photography across a global network of external and internal users. more

MUNICH, GERMANY – MAY 2009: Today Metric Halo launched its much-anticipated ULN-8 – an industry-changing audio processing converter and interface. Featuring archival-grade converters, enhanced digitally controlled ULN (ultra low-noise, high-headroom) preamps, dedicated analog-domain sends and returns, analog domain 7.1 monitor controller, AES interfacing, extensive front panel control with excellent front panel metering all built atop Metric Halo’s renowned fifth generation 2d Processing, mixing and FireWire interfacing platform, the ULN-8 establishes a new competitive standard for professional audio. more

The Brief:

Bicoastal Tool of North America’s Erich Joiner puts an end to mob protection in the latest campaign for Miller Lite via DraftFCB.

In Protection C-Store two wise guys approach a store clerk stocking the refrigerators with cans of Miller Lite. When the mobsters offer to provide the store with protection, they are rebuffed by a clerk who explains that Miller Lite’s cans have a new Taste Protector lid and that’s all that is needed to lock in Miller Lite’s great pilsner taste. more

Cavers, local environmentalists, media specialists, US government officials and academia are teaming together for a special documentary presentation on cave and bat preservation entitled “BATS: THE LAST FLIGHT�.

A group of cavers from the Tri-State Speleological Society, Inc, a non-profit caving club participated as well in the film scheduled for release later this year into 2010. GALILEO PRODUCTIONS, a multi media firm will produce a one hour special for cable television on the concert and the caver’s efforts to stop the spread of WHITE NOSE SYNDROME, a killer fungus destroying close to 90% of many bat populations in caves and mines throughout New York State and the Tri-State area. more

May 6, 2009 – Political leaders and news anchors feel very comfortable using a teleprompter, and now any professional or broadcast HD camera user can feel confident they are choosing the right one. more

Lighting designer Leggy (Jonathan Armstrong) upped his count of i-Pix BB7 LED wash lights from 19 to 35 for Bloc Party’s 2 sold out shows at London Olympia, the latest on a world tour that kicked off in January.

Bloc Party’s “Intimacy� tour is the first time that Leggy had incorporated BB7s into his rig – a move prompted by wanting a very bright, soft edged source with fabulously smooth colour mixing to produce the main over-stage washes. more

Students Produce Daily Live Programming from Upgraded Facility

BILLERICA, Massachusetts (May 5, 2009) After a tornado severely damaged their broadcast facility last year, Union University students are back in business with a newly rebuilt HD studio that features a Broadcast Pix Slate 3016 live video production system. more