Archive for March 29th, 2011

The Hollywood Post Alliance Takes Center Stage Wednesday, April 13th, Announces 2011 Call for Entries

(Los Angeles, CA) Winners of special honors from the 2010 Hollywood Post Alliance(r) Awards, and highlights from the HPA’s renowned Tech Retreat, will be featured in NAB’s Post Pit on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production, the Engineering Excellence Award and “Best of Tech Retreat” winners will all be featured from 10:00am to 4:00pm, at the Post Pit in the South Hall, booth number SL12205.

The National Association of Broadcasters joined forces with the Hollywood Post Alliance to sponsor the 2010 Engineering Excellence Award and other initiatives of the Los Angeles-based group. The Hollywood Post Alliance supports a global network of post production companies and individual members, and the HPA Awards(tm) were designed to foster awareness of post production, promote creative more

West London based lighting and sound rental house Entec is supplying lighting, rigging and part of the visuals package, including a new – and the first in the UK – Green Hippo Grasshopper HD media server – to the current Australian Pink Floyd Show tour.

The band’s lighting designer is Phil White and the show is considered to be the definitive tribute show to the legends of progressive/psychedelic rock. Entec has been involved with supplying the band since 2004.

Says Entec’s Noreen O’Riordan, “We are very pleased with the evolving 7 year relationship we’ve had with the band and crew on this show. Every night each department delivers a high quality, faultless performance with a consistency that is very hard to beat ….. no wonder they have stolen the hearts of “Pink Floydâ€? fans worldwide. more

Southpaw Technology (makers of the production asset management solution TACTIC) recently posted a case study on its website about Legend3D’s conversion pipeline. Legend 3D states that they’ve seen a 10-fold increase in productivity as a result of process improvements and the use of TACTIC.

The full story can be found here: http://bit.ly/gwEZPU

Looking to strengthen its service leadership around the world, Grass Valleyâ„¢ has appointed broadcast industry veteran Charles Cataldo to the newly created position of Vice President of Global Solutions. Cataldo brings extensive knowledge and experience in developing and implementing media-centric solutions for Fortune 500 companies.

In this new position, Cataldo will play a key role in the Global Services team assisting in the plans to strengthen efforts to build the services and solutions that will make Grass Valley the leading provider of best-in-class video technology solutions.

Cataldo joins Grass Valley from Hewlett-Packard, where he most recently served as a General Manager in the Communications and Media division and helped grow the digital media solutions business in the Americas. Prior roles include Senior Vice President of Broadcast & Studio Operations at HBO, including overseeing all of the HBO Communication Center activities in Hauppauge, New York, and the Studio and Post Production Operations facilities in Manhattan.

Before joining HBO, in 1982, Cataldo was an engineer for Suburban Cable Television for five years—which later became part of Comcast Cable.

“We’re lucky to have a person with Charles’ experience and industry stature joining our organization and helping to grow our business globally,� said Aengus Linehan, Senior Vice President of Global Services. “Grass Valley is focused on building a services capability to support our move to become the leading provider of Video Technology Solutions. We welcome Charles’ industry and technical knowledge in deploying new digital infrastructures and look forward to his working with customers to achieve their goals in the most cost-effective way.�

Cataldo will report directly to Aengus Linehan and will be based in San Francisco, Calif.

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Datastor to leverage XenData award-winning technology to launch own branded LTO-5 digital video archive system in Australia

WALNUT CREEK, CA – March 29, 2011 – XenData (www.xendata.com), the leading provider of digital video archiving and storage solutions for the media and entertainment industry, today announces Datastor (www.datastor.com.au), a leading distributor of data solutions in Australia, has chosen XenData6 Workstation to power its new LTO-5 Digital Video Archive System, the Datastor X1500.

Available in May 2011, the Datastor X1500 Digital Video Archive System will provide users with an intuitive and economical way to archive digital video files to LTO data tape. The Datastor X1500 will include XenData6 Workstation software, a Tandberg Data LTO-5 external tape drive, a PCIe card and cable for connection to a Windows 7 workstation. Key features and benefits include:

• Archive and Restore via ‘drag and drop’ – Archives to and restores from LTO more

Following his 3D video for Bon Jovi and a series of the 2011 Oscar promos featuring James Franco and Anne Hathaway, the ever-versatile Director Wayne Isham is back with a welcome-to-the-city tale for “Hollywood Tonight.” Returning to the same location where he directed Michael Jackson’s 1995 hit “You Are Not Alone,” Isham comes full circle with the most recent release from the late icon.

The smooth storyline follows the arc of an eager girl stepping off the bus in Hollywood, hitting the auditions, perfecting her dance moves, and running the LA streets, all the while being inspired by the King of Pop’s spirit. While our emerging starlet does pass her time as a waitress and swinging around a stripper pole, the video has a happy ending, as she leads a flash mob in a choreographed routine in front of the more

– Company Announces New Wrangler FlexVTRâ„¢ Disk and LTO-5 Archive Recorder with Sony SRW Emulator and the latest Wrangler Mini3D DDR/Viewer for HD-SDI –

Somerville, MA, March 28th 2011 —1 Beyond™, Inc., a leading provider of high performance video production and post production systems, today announced it will unveil new archiving products based on the LTO-5 Linear Tape File System (LTFS) standard at NAB (Las Vegas Convention Center, April 9-14, booth # SL10420). 1 Beyond will also demonstrate the latest members of its Wrangler line and, together with leading industry partners, show how its innovative portfolio encompasses all phases the 2D/3D digital workflow for production and post-production, now including camera setup, record, video assist, backup/archive, review, graded dailies, edit and finish, and final archive.

New Wrangler FlexVTRâ„¢ Disk and LTO-5 Tape Archive Recorder:
First demonstrated at the Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat and awarded a “Best Innovative more

Enlarged team to make its debut at PALME tradeshow in Dubai.

Ingar Sundholm, Regional Director

Global projection and display leader, projectiondesign® is putting the emphasis firmly on regional support as it returns to the PALME show in Dubai with a diverse range of visual display solutions. The company’s existing local team of Regional Director Ingar Sundholm and Tim Wood, Regional Manager, will be joined by more

The latest version of the PVPProHD-IW can extract left and right projector images from all mandatory HDMI 1.4 3D formats, while alignment of pre-separated left and right eye content provided over DVI or HDSDI from media servers is also supported.

See Calibre at NAB, Booth # N3512, 11-14 April, Las Vegas Convention Center

Being shown for the first time at NAB 2011 is the latest version of Calibre UK’s PVProHD-IW Image Warping video processor/scaler – a product destined to improve the technical and commercial prospects for dual-projector passive 3D in cinema, themed attraction, and post- production applications.
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The 3-DZ chart rapidly identifies setup errors in 3D production — potentially diminishing eyestrain, headaches and nausea associated with viewing inaccurately aligned 3D images

Toronto, Canada – March 29, 2011 – DSC Labs, an eco-friendly developer of innovative products for image quality improvement, is pleased to introduce its new 3D camera test chart — the 3-DZ. Initially announced as the prototype “Pilot 3D Chart,â€? the 3-DZ is engineered to quickly pinpoint imprecision in subjective and inefficient setup procedures, resulting in the possible reduction of “3D headaches.â€? “3D viewing can be an exciting and pleasurable experience when cameras and projection systems are set up accurately. However, misaligned rigs could be responsible not only for contributing to health issues, but also for giving 3D a bad image,â€? comments DSC Labs President David Corley. “While DSC’s ChromaDuMonde and other charts enable precision alignment of color, grayscale and resolution in the X/Y more