Archive for October 13th, 2009

Companies provide cross-representation in key territories

DENVER, Oct. 13, 2009—BBC Motion Gallery, the stock footage arm of BBC Worldwide, and Thought Equity Motion, a leading provider of motion content worldwide, have entered into a strategic relationship under which Thought Equity Motion will provide access to its advanced technology platform to BBC Motion Gallery. Under the agreement, Thought Equity Motion will have the right to sell BBC Motion Gallery stock footage content in North America, Asia and Australasia. Additionally, BBC Motion Gallery will have the right to sell certain Thought Equity Motion content in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. more

National radio broadcaster implements the media asset management-based Dalet solution to facilitate an integrated enterprise production workflow across multiple sites.

Paris, France – October 13, 2009 – Dalet Digital Media Systems today announced that RTP has successfully deployed Dalet Radio Suite HD to facilitate news and music program production at the main facility in Lisbon Portugal and their regional locations; Porto, Faro, Coimbra, Funchal, and Ponta Delgada. Dalet Radio Suite HD integrates the news and music production workflow across the six RTP locations; enabling all sites to better share content and produce programs. The Dalet enterprise media asset management (MAM) infrastructure with built-in audio production tools consistently tracks metadata across the entire digital workflow. With metadata embedded across production and playout, RTP can easily re-purposes content for distribution to any number of platforms including web and more. more

Provide DCP Services for Todd Solondz’s “Life During Wartime�

Final Frame, a New York City based post production service provider announced today that it has expanded their services for the Digital Cinema post production market. Final Frame’s new DCP (Digital Cinema Package) services provide a complete solution for the encoding, secure key embedding, encryption, storing, decoding, viewing, and packaging of digital cinema content for delivery to digital cinemas and digital festivals / screenings. more

XenData and Qualstar Collaborate to Streamline Digital Video Archive Deployment
Costs are Cut by Delivering Turnkey Digital Video Archives Straight from the Factory

Walnut Creek, CA – October 13, 2009 – XenData®, the leading provider of digital video archive software to the media and entertainment industry, today announces its initiative with Qualstar® Corporation (Nasdaq: QBAK), an innovator in automated data tape storage solutions. Through their collaboration, Qualstar and XenData are greatly simplifying the deployment of digital video archives by delivering turnkey data storage solutions that run XenData software on Qualstar’s BQ Series Video Archive Systems. To complete the offering, XenData provides web based training after the system is installed on the end-user’s site. more

London-based operation puts Vectorbox at the core of their multi-channel playout operation.

Barcelona, Spain – October 13, 2009 – Vector 3â„¢, a pioneer in graphics and playout solutions, announced that Islam Channel has installed 2 Vectorbox 8000 HD systems and Vector configured NAS system to manage automated, multi-channel playout and production storage of three Islam Channel signature channels; Islam Channel, Islam Channel Urdu, and Noor TV. With headquarters in Central London, Islam Channel provides alternative news, current affairs and entertainment programming from an Islamic perspective. A popular and well respected channel, Islam Channel has a global viewership with simultaneous transmission to studios in South, West, and East Africa. “Our broadcast facilities will support up to 20 channels,” comments Mr Kiarash Bodouhi, Head of IT, Islam Channel. more

Industry Experts Explore the Process

October 13, 2009 (Burbank, CA) REDucation, the only RED sponsored, immersive production and postproduction training that focuses on the RED camera, returns October 12-18, 2009 to the LA Center Studios in downtown Los Angeles. On October 15, 2009, REDucation’s Community Day, a panel of leading post production experts will participate in a highly informational discussion, “The Real Deal: RED Post.” Presented by the companies and experts who have forged functional and powerful RED post production processes with credits and history to support the discussion, experts include Mike Brodersen from Fotokem NEXTLab, Michael Cioni from Lightiron, Dave Register from LaserPacific, and Jeff Brue from Tunnel Post. The panel will be moderated by POST Magazine’s West Coast Editor, Dan Restuccio. more

NEW YORK, NY – RF Central, part of The Vitec Group’s RF Extreme business unit, and a leading provider of digital and analog microwave systems for the Broadcast market, as well as the Sports & Entertainment, Government, Military and International marketplace, is featuring its RFX-PHT-II HD upgradeable portable 2 GHz digital transmitter at HD World 2009 (Booth 1008). Utilizing RF Central’s signature RFX-CMT-II camera-mounted transmitter, the PHT-II is designed to turn any “news car” into a “live broadcast vehicle” and transform any “run and shoot” car into a “run and transmit” vehicle. more

New generation Bonita camera is small, powerful and cost-effective

Vicon, developer of motion capture products, today launched Bonita, a small, affordable optical capture camera for tracking and analyzing motion. Bonita is capable of capturing 240FPS while being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Vicon has also announced the launch of Tracker, a robust object tracking software providing unparalleled data accuracy for integration in 3D applications. more

Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 2009– Buster Design, the motion graphics and animation division of award winning marketing and production agency Stun Creative, has rebranded DirecTV’s pay-per-view movie service, which is now known as “DIRECTV CINEMA.� Stun Creative Co-Presidents Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth made the announcement. more

NEW YORK, NY – Nucomm, part of The Vitec Group’s RF Extreme business unit, and a leading provider of digital and analog microwave systems for the Broadcast market, as well as the Sports & Entertainment, Government, Military and International marketplace, is showcasing its ProQ Digital IFB (Interruptible Feedback) System at HD World 2009 (Booth 1008). more