Archive for July 11th, 2011

AJA’s Ki Pro family of digital recorders can be found in many places — on sets, at live events, playing out entries in film festivals and dailies in screening rooms. At the largest visual effects company in Sweden, The Chimney Pot, AJA’s Ki Pro Mini portable flash disk recorder can be found in a rack in the machine room. The company uses it as a fast and easy solution to handle high demand for Apple ProRes 422 logging and QuickTime file output.

“People come in with HDCam and SR tapes every day and there was always a huge queue at the logging station,” said Hans Crispin, technical engineer and machine room manager at The Chimney Pot. “Ki Pro Mini is a perfect solution. It’s switched in as a VTR with a router. We access it, put a tape in and walk away, more

XenData archive server systems now certified for use with EVS Media Archive Director

WALNUT CREEK, CA / BELGIUM – July 11, 2011 – XenData, the leading provider of digital video archiving and storage solutions for the media and entertainment industry, announces today a new partnership with EVS, the leader in professional digital video applications for live and studio TV production. Under the partnership, XenData’s range of digital video archive servers is now certified for use with EVS’ Media Archive Director (MAD) and available for EVS to provide to its global customer base.

Launched at IBC last year, EVS’ MAD solution offers a set of software tools to centrally manage a range of archive digitization and content delivery platforms, including formats which allow intelligent media browsing based on metadata and logging.

XenData archive server systems allow video assets to be stored on near-line RAID and LTO robotic more

“Aspiration” supports professional, multi-camera SD/HD/3D productions for a multitude of events

NASHVILLE, July 11, 2011 – The mobile production world for broadcast television, live entertainment and professional AV just got a new set of wheels.

TNDV: Television introduces “Aspiration,” its new 40-foot expanding-side mobile production truck. Aspiration is built to support premium remote video production services for broadcast TV, worship events and corporate video projects; as well as concerts, ceremonies and other live events. Aspiration will cross the country with its advanced SD/HD/3D production workflow featuring up to 12 cameras, a large routing system, a feature-rich production switcher and a comprehensive audio suite among other capabilities.

TNDV built its first truck seven years ago on a shoestring budget, producing mainly worship and corporate projects in the southeastern United States. TNDV gradually upgraded its first truck to an more

Three Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-ins To Be Won

OXFORD, UK: To mark the introduction of its new Fraunhofer Pro-Codec plug-in, Sonnox

has announced a fun competition on Facebook, where three Pro-Codec’s will be awarded on September 1st !

Following a lengthy collaboration with mp3 creator Fraunhofer IIS, the resulting Pro-Codec software introduces real-time auditioning, encoding and decoding of audio, using Fraunhofer’s professional codecs, within a DAW environment.

“The Pro-Codec represents a huge advance in enabling engineers to precisely audition codecs in real time,” explains Sonnox Sales & Marketing Manager, Nathan Eames. “It’s now possible to make highly informed mix decisions with the knowledge of exactly how it will sound when encoded to various different formats.”

To aid contestants in answering the three basic questions posed on their Facebook page, Sonnox has hinted that all answers are included more

Buena Park, CA – July 2011… Hosa Technology, the leading innovator of analog and digital connectivity solutions for the modern musician, is pleased to announce the promotion of Kyle Lassegard to the position of Marketing Coordinator. With a background that encompasses studio recording, information technology, sales, and marketing communications, Lassegard’s experience makes him an ideal choice for his new position with the company. He is stationed at Hosa’s headquarters in Buena Park and commenced work in early 2011. more

Northside Church

From its start in the basement of a house to using the Vista Spyder X20 0808 digital media processor for audiences up to 6,000 every weekend, New Albany, Indiana’s, Northside Christian Church has come a long way in spreading the gospel. And experience told Ted W. Roberts, director of communications for the church, that the Spyder was the best choice.

“Having owned an event production company, I was familiar with Vista and used some of its earlier products,” said Roberts. “When I came here, the church leadership gave me the latitude to evaluate the equipment we had, what we were trying to achieve, and to make sure we had the right tools for the job. The equipment also had to be user-friendly because we have a lot of non-technical people using it. more

(LONDON) Sohonet, the leading expert in connectivity and data management for the media and entertainment industry, is delighted to announce the Board appointment of highly respected business leader, Margaret Craig, to help steer the company through an exciting period of rapid global expansion.

Margaret Craig has achieved a wealth of business leadership experience in the media technology space and has held executive positions in various parts of the digital supply chain. Her previous roles include COO of Ascent Media Network Services, CEO of Leitch Technology, and President of Snell & Wilcox Inc.

Dave Scammell, CEO, Sohonet, said: “Margaret’s commercial savvy and operational expertise regarding file-based workflows and cross-platform distribution systems are second to none. She is a key thought-leader and respected strategist within the IT media industry and we are pleased to have her on board to help more

A specialist team from XL Video was dispatched to the 2011 Glastonbury Festival to co-ordinate the first ever ‘mapped projection’ onto 3 sides of the legendary Pyramid Stage structure. The visual spectacular took place whilst Coldplay performed their latest release, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” as the finale to their Saturday night headline set.
The feat of technical engineering was project managed by XL Events’ Robin Evans working with technical director David Mulcahy and XL’s IT expert Ian Woodall. more

Legend Films Makes Significant Investment in Stereo Conversion Pipeline, Adds 8 SpeedGrade NX Suites, 8 FrameCycler DDS Review Systems and over 500 Seats of FrameCycler PRO Company Wide

Munich, DE (July 11, 2011) — IRIDAS (www.iridas.com) announced today that Legend Films (www.legend3d.com), an industry-leading 2D-to-3D conversion studio based in San Diego, CA, has made a significant investment in its stereo conversion pipeline with a major deployment of IRIDAS SpeedGrade NX, FrameCycler DDS and FrameCycler PRO systems. With this announcement, Legend has upgraded its stereo conversion pipeline to include 8 SpeedGrade NX suites, 8 FrameCycler DDS review systems, and has deployed over 500 seats of FrameCycler PRO to ensure every employee, company-wide, has access to stereoscopic review on their desktops.

Legend Films is credited with the highly acclaimed stereo 3D experience on such Hollywood blockbuster films as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Green Hornet and Alice In more

Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD Now Optimized for iPhone, iPad and iPad2; Includes All 40 Look Effects from its Library of Professional Effects

Portland, OR (July 11, 2011) – Red Giant (http://www.redgiant.com) today announced a significant upgrade to its family of professional-caliber mobile apps with the release of Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD. With the release of Movie Looks HD, Red Giant is adding more features to the product, making the app easier to use, and is bringing full support to the iPad.

Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD was designed by filmmakers and industry experts with a decade of experience developing industry popular looks and color correction applications for professional editors and VFX artists worldwide. Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD leverages this expertise and delivers sophisticated, professional looks tools in a mobile-optimized engine. The Movie Looks HD mobile engine exploits the Apple A4 and A5 more