Archive for April 6th, 2012

Over 30,000 News and Archival Clips from News Leader NBC News Now Accessible for Screening on Footage.net. Total Clips on Footage.net Surpass 1.8 Million.

New York – April 3, 2012 – Footage.net, the stock, archival and news footage search engine announced today that over 30,000 preview clips from the archives of NBC News, the world leader in news content, are now available for viewing through Footage.net’s stock footage search platform. The addition of NBC News Archives’ clips brings the total number of clips available through Footage.net’s stock footage search platform to over 1.8 million.

Through this developing alliance, Footage.net users will be able to screen preview clips from NBCUniversalArchives.com stock footage collection, and NBC News will reach a new and growing user base worldwide for its stock footage licensing business.

“Our goal is to share historical and current news footage shot by NBC News with new audiences and new markets,” said Clara Fon-Sing, VP & General Manager of NBC News Archives Sales and Strategy. "We are opening our archives giving producers access to content never seen before to tell their stories. At the same time, we are making large amounts of video from our archives available online on multiple platforms to optimize the reach of our archival clips. We are excited to partner with Footage.net and further expose the quality and breadth of our content to creative professionals worldwide.”

“NBC News Archives is a leader in the stock footage business,” said David Seevers, Footage.net’s Chief Marketing Officer. “Under Clara’s leadership, they’ve improved the quality of their content and services, released previously unexploited material and tapped content from other brands in the NBCUniversal family such as Telemundo, The Weather Channel and local TV stations. They’re leveraging technology to reach new customers, introducing new business models and entering new markets, and we’re thrilled to be a part of their growth strategy and really excited about bringing their outstanding content to our user base.”

NBC News Archives is distributing its content more widely and launched one of the first news archives fully e-commerce enabled websites (nbcuniversalarchives.com) in 2011. “While our content is more readily available online today for professionals to search, screen and select clips, our team in New York remains focused on working with clients to deliver highly customized service and expert research to exploit over 70 years of content from one of the world’s most respected news collection”, added Clara Fon-Sing.

Footage.net has grown rapidly over the last several years to become one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive online stock footage databases. NBC News Archives’ clips will be available for screening through Footage.net alongside motion content from some of the world’s most prestigious footage companies, including Getty Images, FootageBank, Framepool, and CNN ImageSource.

About Footage.net
Footage.net is the world’s premier online footage search engine, providing creative professionals with the tools they need to discover and obtain the best motion content from the world’s top footage companies quickly and easily from a single site. At Footage.net, researchers can search over 38 footage collections simultaneously, view over 1.8 million clips, communicate instantly with our content partners and download over 250,000 world-class stock footage clips.

About NBCUniversal Archive
NBC News has been a leading source of global news and information for more than 75 years and is the only broadcast news division with an affiliated cable channel, MSNBC, which provides 24-hour-a-day coverage of news events around the globe. Online, MSNBC.com is the number one video news site. NBC News Archives is one of the world's largest and oldest broadcast libraries with award winning programs including "Meet The Press" (since 1947) the longest running show on network TV, "Today" (since 1952) the first TV morning news program, America’s No.1 evening newscast, “Nightly News with Brian Williams”, and the newest news magazine "Rock Center" launched in October 2011.

Press Contacts:

Footage.net
David Seevers
Chief Marketing Officer
Footage.net
(415) 609-7642
davidseevers@yahoo.com

NBC News
Meghan Pianta
Press Manager
NBC News
212-664-2364
Meghan.pianta@nbcuni.com

NAB Booth SL6310

Digital Vision has unveiled a unique, powerful, single restoration system at NAB 2012, answering the needs of content owners housing millions of hours of material stored in videotape archives. Solely targeted at the video restoration market, Phoenix Video provides broadcasters and archive owners with a highly cost-effective image restoration software solution that allows content stored on videotape to be fully restored ready for distribution across multiple platforms.

Phoenix Video is an end-to-end solution that includes Digital Vision’s leading image manipulation DVO software toolset for highly automated restoration and enhancement of video content stored on various tape formats, such as 1″, U-Matic and Betacam SP, or later transferred to digital tape formats. The system handles image defects such as drop-outs, severe noise, cross color artifacting, line sync problems (shifts/stretching) and more. Additional features include motion compensated frame rate conversion and high-quality upscaling as well as full support for common broadcast codecs.

These new video restoration tools have also been added to Digital Vision’s high-end restoration offering Phoenix Finish. The system can now restore material from analogue videotape archives up to 4K film restoration handling a combination of video and film related issues. With the new video restoration toolset included, Phoenix Finish now provides users with a unique system that fulfils all requirements regardless of acquisition format or quality of original material.

Torbjörn Dyrvold, Phoenix & DVO Product Manager says, “We are delighted to introduce this new integrated video restoration toolset at NAB. Phoenix is the only high-end restoration and mastering solution that provides both film and video restoration capabilities. The addition of the video tools enables our customers to expand their services and bring new life to valuable content stored on tape. For the first time this allows users to fully correct and deliver projects of mixed film and video media with related artifacts, within a single timeline using state-of-the-art tools.”

The first user of Phoenix video will be Deluxe 142 in Soho, London who will add the system to its full range of digital restoration services.

Phoenix Video is available as a standalone product or integrated with Phoenix Finish the company’s flagship restoration system, which combines the power of film and video restoration in one system. Phoenix combines the best in automated, semi-automated and manual restoration tools, with strong editorial and mastering features providing ingest, conform, editing, color grading and a comprehensive set of delivery formats.

About Digital Vision
Digital Vision was founded in 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden. With offices in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, and Linkoping in Sweden, Digital Vision has developed Emmy award winning technology for the Broadcast and Post Production marketplace. In 2005, Digital Vision acquired Nucoda Ltd and integrated its technology into the Nucoda product line. This has resulted in the leading colour grading, finishing and mastering solutions that are used to create much of the world’s high profile television, film and commercials media broadcast today. The Phoenix restoration software solutions and Golden Eye range of scanners – in addition to the Nucoda range – provide innovative tools to create the industry recognized highest quality HD, 2K/4K and stereoscopic 3D images. In April 2011 Digital Vision acquired Image Systems and is now a division of the Image Systems group of companies.

All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

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Image Systems Marketing Contact:
Alexa Maza | alexa.maza@digitalvision.se | Tel: +1 (818) 769-8111
Ulrika Liiv | ulrika.liiv@digitalvision.se | 46 (0) 8 546 18232

Image Systems USA PR Contact:
Ignite | Christine Purse | chris@ignite.bz | Tel: +1 818 303 8088 | Mobile: +1 323 806 9696

Image Systems EMEA & Asia PR Contact:
Jump PR | Kate Ford | kate@jumppr.tv | Tel: +44 (0) 1932 240001 | Mobile: +44 (0) 7740 948 065

NAB Booth SL6310

Digital Vision has announced significant enhancements to its Nucoda color grading platform, providing increased workflow capabilities and additional tools for grading, pre-grading and stereoscopic projects. At NAB the company will unveil the Nucoda Film Master ACES workflow, a new end-to-end solution developed by the Science and Technology Council (STC) of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).

Today’s post production environment has seen an explosion in the number of cameras, file formats and distribution channels required for many projects. These new formats also need to coexist and stay compatible with older formats and assets, which can result in much greater project complexity and data management headaches for the production. ACES solves this problem by delivering a single post production workflow that keeps all production assets at their maximum possible quality and providing the full benefit of High Dynamic Range (HDR) production pipelines. The upcoming version of Nucoda Film Master comes with ACES support and a full HDR grading capability, including a rich toolset for dealing with color critical workflows such as HDR capture from ARRI and RED cameras.

In addition to ACES, Digital Vision will also highlight its new DVO video restoration toolset, answering the needs of content owners housing millions of hours of material stored in video tape archives.

For stereoscopic projects Digital Vision will demonstrate its new automated Auto Color & Align tools, a key element of Nucoda’s respected stereoscopic workflow. Colorists can now automatically match 3D cameras using advanced geometry technology providing morphing and color matching capabilities.

The company will unveil its Deformable Shape Tracker for Nucoda providing a totally unique advanced shape tracking concept. Instead of tracking and then moving a shape the new tracker tool deforms the shape to perfectly match the changes occurring to the object underneath.

Nucoda also has a number of other key enhancements including: Support for the latest RED Epic HDRx, ARRI Alexa range of cameras and the Sony F65 CineAlta camera (SRMASTER(tm) format); 64 bit application providing increased performance and stability when using large format digital cameras and image manipulation at 4K; and updated features for the latest Avid and Apple FCP editorial workflows. The next-generation Precision grading panel launched last year is now available in curved and straight configuration and will be demonstrated on the booth.

NAB will provide a platform for Digital Vision to launch Nucoda Look, the latest addition to its grading and finishing platform. Nucoda Look is a pre-grade assist station and deliverables platform with LUT export; these LUTs are now importable into the 42-inch Grade 1 Dolby PRM-4200 Professional Reference Monitor.

The company will also announce enhanced grading features for Nucoda Fuse including full Base layer grading, a replace function to quickly change color tools and LUT creation and export.

Nigel Hadley, Digital Vision Product Manager says, “We’re committed to answering the needs of our customers by continuing to improve our core grading technology and adding new innovations to the grading arena. Already this season over 40 network and cable hits including: CSI (CBS), New Girl (Fox), Homeland (Showtime), Downton Abbey (ITV) and Great Expectations (BBC) were graded using Nucoda.”

Kelvin Bolah, President of Digital Vision, adds, “We’re delighted to make these announcements at NAB. Used to grade and finish some of the most popular episodic television, film, commercials, documentaries and music video releases, Nucoda continues to be the system of choice for top colorists worldwide. As well as the television projects Nucoda has contributed to a number of major feature films including: Film Factory’s Mirror Mirror, Aardman’s The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists and the upcoming Pixar Animation Studios’ Brave and Walden Media’s Of Men and Mavericks.”

About Digital Vision
Digital Vision was founded in 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden. With offices in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, and Linkoping in Sweden, Digital Vision has developed Emmy award winning technology for the Broadcast and Post Production marketplace. In 2005, Digital Vision acquired Nucoda Ltd and integrated its technology into the Nucoda product line. This has resulted in the leading colour grading, finishing and mastering solutions that are used to create much of the world’s high profile television, film and commercials media broadcast today. The Phoenix restoration software solutions and Golden Eye range of scanners – in addition to the Nucoda range – provide innovative tools to create the industry recognized highest quality HD, 2K/4K and stereoscopic 3D images. In April 2011 Digital Vision acquired Image Systems and is now a division of the Image Systems group of companies.

All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

# # #

Image Systems Marketing Contact:
Alexa Maza | alexa.maza@digitalvision.se | Tel: +1 (818) 769-8111
Ulrika Liiv | ulrika.liiv@digitalvision.se | 46 (0) 8 546 18232

Image Systems USA PR Contact:
Ignite | Christine Purse | chris@ignite.bz | Tel: +1 818 303 8088 | Mobile: +1 323 806 9696

Image Systems EMEA & Asia PR Contact:
Jump PR | Kate Ford | kate@jumppr.tv | Tel: +44 (0) 1932 240001 | Mobile: +44 (0) 7740 948 065