Archive of the HD/HDV Category

High Five Entertainment chooses TNDV’s “Aspiration” multi-camera SD/HD/3D truck for production services

NASHVILLE, October 11, 2011 – Two Emmy-award winning production companies have joined forces to help bring live performances from the venerable Grand Ole Opry performance stage to televisions around the country.

Through the fall, the Scripps-owned country music entertainment network Great American Country (GAC) will broadcast six “Opry Live” episodes featuring live performances from country music stars. Nashville-based production companies High Five Entertainment and TNDV will come together for the project.

The Grand Ole Opry contracted High Five Entertainment, the Emmy-award winning entertainment production company, to produce the live shows. High Five Entertainment has contracted mobile production company TNDV, owned by Nic Dugger, to provide the HD mobile production systems and technical crew needed to produce the events. The SD shows will go more

Key staff, reseller and training centre additions deliver dedicated SCRATCH Six And SCRATCH Lab sales and support

ASSIMILATE (www.assimilateinc.com), the leading provider of powerful post-production tools for digital workflows, has established a sales and technical support division in India. The company has also extended its reseller network and appointed new Authorised Training Centres covering key filmmaking and broadcast markets across the country for its SCRATCH Six and SCRATCH Lab file-based workflow products. This initiative, prompted by increasing sales success, underscores ASSIMILATE’s commitment to supporting the burgeoning broadcast and Bollywood filmmaking industries in India.

ASSIMILATE’s new division is led by Prasenjit Sengupta, who joined recently as director of sales for India. Sengupta’s role is to oversee the expansion of the company’s sales channels, and to strengthen customer services across the country. ASSIMILATE has also recruited Arun Kumar, who will provide training and technical support services in conjunction more

Building on Company’s 3D Synching Technology, GoPro Array Defines New Level of Camera Versatility

HALF MOON BAY, CA (October 10, 2011) – GoPro, the world’s leading activity image capture company, today released a new video for international surf brand, Rip Curl, that uses the first ever mobile, waterproof 48 camera array to capture never-before-seen perspectives of two time world champion surfer, Mick Fanning, doing what he does best in the warm waters of the South Pacific. The video highlights the capabilities of the GoPro Camera Array that was used for Rip Curl’s upcoming marketing campaign for its Mirage Boardshort and was shot in conjunction with the pioneers of camera array photography, Tim and Callum Macmillan. Additional videos for the Rip Curl campaign featuring this new GoPro Array technology will showcase Rip Curl surfers Owen Wright, Matt Wilkinson, Dillon Perillo and Dean Brady.

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DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of high-end film and digital post production solutions that preserve, manage, and deliver your pictures, will be demonstrating FLEXXITY V1.0, its specialized software suite for a number of applications including; Dailies, Archive & Restoration, and Playout & Mastering at CAPER 2011, Stand I-10 /2.

CAPER 2011 runs from October 26-28, 2011 at Centro Costa Salguero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CAPER is an international event that brings together more than 6,000 managers, professionals, technicians and students involved in the media industry.

The Latin American film market is both rich and diverse and DFT has a long-standing history in the region with a large installed base of Spirit Telecines, Datacines and Scanners. At CAPER, post production facilities, film labs, and archive facilities will be able to experience hands-on, the feature-rich software tools that FLEXXITY offers. more

Media Links Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Global Links will demonstrate a tightly integrated video & data delivery and transport solution with software provider, Dimetis at HD World, Booth 1018.

Broadcasters and network service providers will have the opportunity to review an example of a fully managed video & data transport solution that is currently being deployed by a large-scale Telco in various broadcasting facilities and sporting venues throughout the United States. The demonstrations will illustrate an adaptable, affordable and flexible solution for transporting uncompressed or JPEG2000 compressed HD-SDI, SD-SDI and DVB-ASI video protocols, as well as providing dedicated native Ethernet services. It will reflect an efficient and robust transport offering that can be deployed in a variety of network applications that require high quality pixel-perfect content delivery. more

Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS) selected LYNX Technik modular solutions to boost its coverage of the 2011 IAAF World Championship in Daegu, Korea. Broadcast Solutions managed the project as systems integrator and general contractor alongside its local partner, Dong Yang Digital Co., Ltd in Seoul, Korea.

To meet the growing demand for HD entertainment and sports programming, Broadcast solutions was brought on board to aid KBS with the design and development of the new 16-camera high definition OB van. The project was completed over an eight month period. The new truck has been partitioned into four production rooms – video, audio, camera control / shading room, and equipment and was delivered to KBS on June 30th 2011. Its inaugural production was for the 2011 IAAF World Championship.

The World Championship in Athletics is a bi-annual event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). This year it was held from August 27 – September 4, 2011 and Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS) served as the events host broadcaster.

In order to meet the challenges posed by this broadcast event, KBS along with Broadcast Solutions selected a number of broadcast technologies, and among them was a range of the LYNX Technik Series 5000, card-and-rack-based glue products. A full complement of LYNX Technik Series 5000 interface and signal processing solutions, in seventeen 2RU frames were installed in the OB Van and include; 3G / HD-SDI , frame synchronizers, up/cross/down-converters, distribution amplifiers, as well as control and monitoring. more

Audiences become engaged with your story while choosing their own adventures

Tablet App MOA

Touchscreens displaying 3D content and dimensional worlds result in immersive experiences
Interactive demos on iPhone and iPad make complicated information approachable and understandable

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Mechanism Digital
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Mobile Tablet MOA

Draw attention to details with digital enhancement

“Catching Hell” Before

“Catching Hell” After

Triple Threat TV constructed vivid imagery by isolating the infamous Steve Bartman incident – blamed for keeping the Cubs out of the 2003 World Series

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NewTek LightWave Delivers Final Pixels Onscreen in Hundreds of VFX Shots for Spielberg’s “Terra Nova”

The two-hour premiere of Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated “Terra Nova” television series, which aired Monday September 26, 2011 on Fox Television, brings visually astounding science-fiction to prime time television once again—and NewTek LightWave™ software played a key role in the delivery.

In “Terra Nova,” which takes place in the year 2149, scientists discover a rift in time and space that allows humans to time travel some 85 million years into the past, in an attempt to save humanity. But bringing 85 million years of history to life, in a believable world for broadcast, requires powerful vision, artistry, and computer graphics software. To make the vision a reality, the team at Burbank-based Pixomondo, which produced all the visual effects for the premiere episode of “Terra Nova,” turned to LightWave more

September 29, 2011 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids announced today that the upcoming version 2.0 of the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager high-volume, automated media processing software has been honored with two prestigious industry awards following the 2011 IBC Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam. Transcode Manager 2.0 received a TV Technology Europe STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award and a TVBEurope “Best of IBC2011″ Editors’ Award.

Powered by Digital Rapids’ groundbreaking Kayak application platform, Transcode Manager 2.0 builds on the proven quality, format flexibility and performance that have made Transcode Manager the preferred choice of leading media organizations for applications from post production and archive to broadcast and multi-screen distribution. New features in version 2.0 include intelligent, logic-driven workflow automation; dynamic licensing; and elastic scalability with support for both on-premises and external clouds. more