Archive for January 19th, 2011

Trendsetting Event for Digital Asset Management Set for Universal City on March 2nd and 3rd

Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference and Expo, the leading industry event catering directly to the digital asset management community, will take place this year on March 2nd and 3rd at the Universal Hilton. This premier conference focuses on digital asset management trends and developments in this important field, as well as the urgent global issues facing digital asset management in the entertainment and media sectors.

The Digital Asset Management Conference is two-day, professional gathering comprised of top-notch keynote presentations, expert-driven seminars and informative sessions from technology and industry leaders and insiders. It is a must attend for those that are responsible for the creation, handling, security or underwriting of entertainment and media digital assets.

The esteemed speakers joining the conference this year are from many aspects more

Hollywood, CA, Jan. 20, 2011 –Jay Silverman Productions and its founder Jay Silverman, one of the preeminent commercial directors of advertising campaigns across the television, interactive, and print media in Hollywood today, have signed for representation with Char And Associates in the territories of the West Coast and Texas. Jay Silverman and Char Noonan made the announcement.

Recent projects from Jay Silverman Productions include commercial campaigns for “Rent-A-Center,� starring Troy Aikman and Hulk Hogan, a television special for FOX’s coverage of Superbowl XLV, a one hour special with Snoop Dogg, an entire multi-media campaign for Merillat Kitchen Cabinets, starring TV chef Curtis Stone, a television pilot with Mike Ditka, along with broadcast and cable on-air marketing campaigns for ABC, CBS, and TV One.

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Woodland Park, NJ (January 14 , 2010) — FSR’s new Flex-LT self-contained control system is providing significant flexibility for Victory World Church located in Norcross, GA. The unit is enabling the Church to multipurpose three recently installed monitor walls by allowing users to easily toggle between static functions, such as announcements, and video presentations.

db Audio & Video, a Georgia-based provider of audio, video, control and acoustic design services, served as the systems integrator for the project. “The Flex is fantastic,� states Ron Stanford, db Audio & Video’s sales/audio/video specialist. “It allows the user to easily choose and change the source, whether the wall is to be used for digital signage or as a single source presentation display. It’s so simple, yet fills an incredible need and replaces the traditional video projector with an elegant, unobtrusive solution.�

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Northampton, MA (January 13, 2011) – Myers Information Systems – a leading developer of broadcast traffic, business, and content management software – today announced that all eight television stations that make up the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS) alliance are now using its exclusive ProLink Service to distribute and share broadcast schedules, program offers and related metadata. Using ProTrack’s ProLink platform provides a single station the ability to centrally manage and schedule time slots for the recently launched Indiana Channel.

“Our public television members, with the support of CPB, worked together to create a statewide channel focused exclusively on Indiana-centric interests, history, business, tourism, government, arts and culture,” said IPBS executive director Roger Rhodes. “We needed a way to connect them all seamlessly; Myers ProLink was the natural solution, since all but two stations already use their more

Avid Automation Archive Manager now supports XenData LTO Video Archives

WALNUT CREEK, CA – January 19, 2011 – XenData, leading provider of digital video archiving solutions tailored specifically to serve the media and entertainment industry, today announced its recent successful collaboration with Avid®. Avid and XenData have teamed up to develop a new interface for Avid’s FastBreak® automation solutions. FastBreak automates workflows for broadcast operations and is capable of fully automating daily master control playout functions as well as facilitating ingest, archiving, media management and traffic system interoperability.

The new interface has been developed for time and resource-strapped operators nationwide to combine Avid’s Automation Archive Manager with XenData digital video archives, running XenData’s X64 Edition software. This creates a new cost-effective, standards-based archive solution for FastBreak Automation users.

XenData’s archiving solution enables reliable archiving of video assets to high-performance LTO-5 data tape. XenData’s LTO-5 archive also more

SEATTLE, WA – Premier systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) is a Platinum Sponsor of the Broadcast Engineering Conference at the 2011 NAB Show, which runs April 9-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. This is the second consecutive year ABS has sponsored the conference, which addresses recent broadcast technology developments and provides networking opportunities for engineers, consultants, and equipment manufacturers.

“With technology changing and evolving so rapidly, education is vital for engineers and technicians in our industry. Supporting this conference and other educational events throughout the year is an important part of the value ABS brings to our customers and potential customers,� said Mark Siegel, President of ABS. “We consider education to be a critical investment in our business. The Broadcast Engineering Conference is one of the most important events at NAB, and we are proud to not only continue but upgrade our more

Boinx Software Announces Mouseposé for the Mac App Store

Puchheim, Germany – January 19, 2011 – Boinx Software today announced the availability of Mouseposé, the essential mouse pointer-highlighting tool for presentations, screencasts or demos, at the Mac App Store. Mouseposé, which helps to capture, hold and guide your audience’s attention, is available now for $16.99 US.

“We are thrilled to have Mouseposé available in the Mac App Store,� comments Oliver Breidenbach, CEO, Boinx Software. “Mouseposé is the perfect tool to grab your audiences’ attention and keep them focused throughout your presentation. Our fifth app to hit the Mac App Store, we are thrilled with the reception we are receiving from customers and proud to be a part of this new purchase and download platform. We are working hard to make sure that all of our apps are available in the Mac App Store soon.�

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Introducing the Technologies that are Transforming Film and Broadcast Production

London: Jan. 19, 2011…Big Pic Media, a worldwide resource for industry-leading postproduction products and services will be exhibiting at the BVE Expo in London on Feb. 15-17 (Stand L.52). BVE is Britain’s largest film and broadcast tradeshow. In 2010, BVE drew well over 12,000 visitors and nearly 250 distributors, manufacturers and resellers. At this year’s event, Big Pic Media will present an exclusive selection of postproduction technologies, including YoYotta’s YoYo software suite, the Pandora Revolution colour corrector, Pandora Pluto colour management, the Cintel ImageMill grain and noise reducer and Cine-tal calibrated displays. In addition, the company will introduce the new MARVIN system for managing and distributing camera data on set. For visitors to BVE, this represents a unique opportunity to meet and explore the state of the art in film and broadcast production tools.

“After decades of transitioning more

Leading Commercial Post House Leverages Versatile Workflow Management System

London: Jan. 19, 2011… Award-winning commercial visual-effects facility, Smoke & Mirrors NY recently implemented YoYotta’s YoYo workflow management system to accommodate the wide variety of camera formats in use today. In mid-2010, the facility opened a new colour grading suite built around a da Vinci Resolve system, and found that they needed an efficient system for creating DPX files for grading. With YoYo, Smoke & Mirrors can now ingest, transcode, conform, and also output any standard video- or data-based file format without tying up the resources of the grading suite or the colourists.

“Clients were coming in with footage shot on Canon 5D, 7D, or ProRes and we couldn’t easily get them into the Resolve,� explained Simon Hester, Head Engineer at Smoke & Mirrors NY. “It was a growing problem, and we realized we needed a comprehensive solution fast more

ANAHEIM, CA, JANUARY 19, 2011 — Aviom, the exclusive developer of the world’s most powerful audio transport protocol, A-Net®, is pleased to announce the appointment of Studiotec as the company’s new distributor in Finland, beginning January 2011. more