Archive for May, 2011

AJA Video Systems’ Ki Pro tapeless recorder played a key role at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, handling digital playback of trailers and pre-show content for all 400 screenings in the festival’s 18 theatres. Host to 430,000 attendees, the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) was held April 20 through May 1 in New York City.

TFF Technical Director Karl Mehrer and his team were responsible for the receipt and QC of festival films (on film or in HDCAM format), coordinating technical upgrades and load-ins for the participating theatres, and the smooth operation of all screenings. Mehrer also coordinated the playback of pre-show content and trailers — reels that contained one 32-minute clip that played while audiences were seated and as many as 30 different clips used for trailers and screen backgrounds during panel discussions.

In past years this content was projected from film, DVD, HDCAM and other formats. more

Dalet’s Media Asset Management solution with story-centric newsroom production tools unify Milan, Rome, 10 regional sites and new 24/7 channel

Levallois-Perret, France – Mediaset, the largest commercial broadcaster in Italy, has selected Dalet Enterprise Edition to centralize and streamline all of the company’s TV news operations, including a 24/7 news channel which launches later this year. Mediaset journalists throughout Italy and in-the-field will use the end-to-end newsroom functionality of Dalet Enterprise Edition to browse wires, prepare text, edit video, and create voiceovers and packages – all from the Dalet’s desktop. The Dalet platform combines state-of-the-art production tools with strong metadata management and media automation capabilities. A single Dalet Media Asset Management (MAM) platform will manage the entire news organization, improving the production process, and facilitating sharing, cataloging and preparation of content for multiple outlets. The rollout of the Dalet more

Christie® strikes gold again, with Walt Disney Studios selecting the acclaimed Christie Solaria™ Series CP2230 projectors to screen the highly anticipated World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” in Disney Digital 3D™. The studio’s first 3D outdoor premiere, takes place at Disneyland® Park in Anaheim, California, May 7, with Disney donating 100 percent of the proceeds from this star-studded event to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, of which they are a long-time supporter.

Heralded by elite filmmakers and supported by major Hollywood studios, the Christie Solaria Series projectors are renowned for their reliability and stake claim to a treasure trove of features – including Brilliant 3D technology and the highest, proven brightness levels to meet the demands of the largest screen, indoors and out. They are trusted by Disney to provide unmatched contrast and stunning colors necessary to deliver more

Clarkson University, New York State’s highest-ranked small university, is using Christie® MicroTiles™ for a unique, digital display wall that is quickly becoming the hub of campus life.
With the concept developed by Christie partner Video Visions, Inc., the video wall is the centerpiece of the amphitheater in the school’s new Student Center, which opened in September 2010. Students voted to increase their own activity fees to help fund the center, and wanted to make it both welcoming and technologically advanced. The wall combines an array of 80 Christie MicroTiles arranged in a 10 wide by 8 high configuration, media servers, Crestron touch panel and 12 inputs (with expansion potential for 15), delivering a rich, vibrant audio/video experience that gives students information about campus events, sports feeds such as hockey games, live music from the campus radio station, and four HD television feeds. The installation is also used by students more

Clarkson University, New York State’s highest-ranked small university, is using Christie® MicroTiles™ for a unique, digital display wall that is quickly becoming the hub of campus life.
With the concept developed by Christie partner Video Visions, Inc., the video wall is the centerpiece of the amphitheater in the school’s new Student Center, which opened in September 2010. Students voted to increase their own activity fees to help fund the center, and wanted to make it both welcoming and technologically advanced. The wall combines an array of 80 Christie MicroTiles arranged in a 10 wide by 8 high configuration, media servers, Crestron touch panel and 12 inputs (with expansion potential for 15), delivering a rich, vibrant audio/video experience that gives students information about campus events, sports feeds such as hockey games, live music from the campus radio station, and four HD television feeds. The installation is also used by students more

Students find fun way to share class notes, assignments, portfolios & résumés

PALO ALTO, CA– May 10, 2011 – Gogobeans is shaking things up on college campuses as their new Shake to Bounce application gets students sharing notes, assignments, photos, apps, music and more with a simple flick of the wrist. Shake to Bounce is a free application that enables users to share any content of any size with friends, family or colleagues simply by shaking their mobile handset. Gogobeans works across devices, operating systems and networks. The app is currently available for iPhone, iPad and Android users with Blackberry and Windows apps due for release later this year.

“We’ve been noticing that an overwhelming majority of our new subscribers are signing up with university email addresses,” explains COO Robert Hayden. “We knew college students would find Shake to Bounce a fun way to share their digital more

Students find fun way to share class notes, assignments, portfolios & résumés

PALO ALTO, CA– May 10, 2011 – Gogobeans is shaking things up on college campuses as their new Shake to Bounce application gets students sharing notes, assignments, photos, apps, music and more with a simple flick of the wrist. Shake to Bounce is a free application that enables users to share any content of any size with friends, family or colleagues simply by shaking their mobile handset. Gogobeans works across devices, operating systems and networks. The app is currently available for iPhone, iPad and Android users with Blackberry and Windows apps due for release later this year.

“We’ve been noticing that an overwhelming majority of our new subscribers are signing up with university email addresses,” explains COO Robert Hayden. “We knew college students would find Shake to Bounce a fun way to share their digital more

– Uniquely Combining Benefits of LTFS with Convenience of Cache-A’s Archive Appliance –

Morgan Hill, Calif., May 10, 2011 – One of the first companies to demonstrate the new LTFS (Linear Tape Film System) format in product form last year, Cache-A is announcing that all of its LTO-5 based products will include LTFS capability. These include the company’s flagship product — Pro-Cache5 — and the new high-performance Power-Cache and the cost-effective Prime-Cache5.

Based on open source software, LTFS enables digital media professionals to interchange content across different operating systems, software applications and physical locations. It combines the economy, robustness, high density and low power of tape with much of the functionality and usability of a hard drive.

“Through our collaboration with HP, Pro-Cache5 and our other new LTO-5 based products now combine the benefits of LTFS, which makes tape look like disk, with the more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 10, 2011 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that its Omneon MediaGrid(TM) active storage system is being integrated by BBC Sport into a new file-based production system designed to enable instant highlights creation and fast-turnaround edits. The Omneon MediaGrid, which is being installed along with EVS live production systems at the broadcaster’s new facility in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, will provide central storage for up to 1,500 hours of HD content and support a fast edit-in-place workflow for the facility’s Final Cut Pro(R) editors. more