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A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. enjoyed a busy turnout to its recent ‘Video and Lighting Convergence’ UK open days, which showcased the latest products and innovations available from Green Hippo and PixelRange.

Staged at both AC-ET’s southern HQ in High Wycombe and northern office in Leeds, a good mix of people from many different industry sectors took up the opportunity to visit – including schools and educational establishments, theatres, venues, individuals working in broadcast and a cross-section of freelancers.

In a fast-moving industry constantly demanding quicker and more flexible control of multiple video sources and playback surfaces, the events emphasised the on-going creative and technical fusion between lighting, LED sources, ‘pixels’ and video technologies as a complete visual environment.

Attendees were able to delve deeper into the award-winning Hippotizer range of Green Hippo media servers. Product demos highlighted inventive new features of the latest v3 software like UberPan, for the control of multiple Hippotizer media servers as a single canvas, and VideoMapper, to fit and shape content across different scenic surfaces.

Visitors had the chance to discover why PixelRange are one of the industry’s most innovative providers of LED lighting solutions, with demos of the SmartLine versatile and powerful battens range, the QPar high output Par fixture and PixelSmart Par, which combines a vast colour palette with warm white LEDs for a brilliantly bright white.

To showcase today’s seamless convergence of lighting and visual elements, Green Hippo Hippotizer media server content was ‘pixelmapped’ onto the PixelRange SmartLine battens.

The format consisted of two sessions – morning and afternoon – separated by lunch and refreshments throughout the day. This casual format provided an ideal networking opportunity for guests to meet and discuss ideas with each other, as well as representatives from AC-ET, Green Hippo and PixelRange.

“Everyone was really impressed with the open days” reports A.C. Video’s Peter Butler. “The attendees really appreciated the chance to get hands-on with the products, and took the opportunity to discuss any inquiries directly with the manufacturers and AC-ET.”

Tom Warden from Milton Keynes based Impact Production Services comments that the events were “really useful”. He took the opportunity to quiz the Green Hippo representatives about the full product range, and take a close look at PixelRange’s newest LED technologies.

Eddie Stephens from the BBC comments on how “interesting and useful” the day was, adding that there was “a very pleasant lunch”.

AC-ET is the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for Green Hippo and master European distributor for PixelRange.

Please visit the AC-ET website and Facebook pages for more information on future events.

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For more press information on A.C. Entertainment Technologies, please contact Louise Stickland on +44 7831 329888 or +44 1865 202679 or EMail; louise@loosplat.com.

For more information from AC-ET direct, please contact:
A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd.
+44(0)1494446000
sales@ac-et.com
www.ac-et.com

BRIGHTCLIP SA ENSURES LONG-TERM HIGH-PERFORMANCE FOR ALL STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURES

Reno, USA– Bright Technologies, Inc., developer of advanced technology for shared media, has announced the availability of BrightClip® – their core technology – as a standalone solution. BrightClip SA (Stand Alone) will be launched officially at NAB 2012 in Bright’s Booth SL 8410.

BrightClip®The breakthrough development presents the media & entertainment industry, including the post-production community, video integrators, solution providers, and storage vendors/manufacturers, with the opportunity to incorporate Bright’s astonishing patent-pending advanced recording technology into every Meta Data Controller (MDC) ensuring that the underlying storage subsystem doesn’t lose performance due to scattered file layout!

Field-proven BrightClip is engineered specifically to eliminate the most disruptive and productivity-damaging factors for a studio workflow process, including high latencies, dropped frames, and stuttering video. The technology maximizes data storage performance and reliability, stability, and predictability in every SAN environment allowing the facility to focus on their creative processes, reducing downtime and maintenance, and increasing profitability.

BrightClip handles large streaming file formats and file-based clip sequences – without fragmentation, sequence randomization, or interleaving by eliminating all root causes. It proactively creates and maintains optimal file layout on the storage at all times – and in real-time.

“BrightClip is the key component that makes our BrightDrive SAN Servers for Media the most reliable high-performance MDC in the field, with the highest level of operational stability and predictable performance,” stated Shawn Clark, Bright’s director of sales. “Releasing BrightClip as an independent technology is a big step for Bright Technologies as now every MDC can leverage the outstanding functionality of BrightClip. The impressive ROI of BrightClip shows that with a rather small investment customers can gain tremendous benefits – both in terms of workflow enhancement and even financially.”

Added Roger Beck, chief technology officer, “From the technical perspective, BrightClip stands unique as no other vendor in the field has accomplished anything similar. BrightClip is an outstanding technology and the only proactive solution to create and maintain proper file recording for high-performance shared disk SANs in real-time and in the long term. With minimal technical requirements to hardware, BrightClip ensures sequential file allocation without the need to worry about fragmentation, randomization, or inter-leaved files. It’s truly revolutionary!”

BrightClip will still be included as standard with BrightDrive SAN Servers for Media.

About Bright
Bright Technologies develops highly specialized technology for shared media environments. In the mid-1990s, Bright’s core team began the development of the first file system for shared media and by 1999, Bright was the first company to address the core issues and challenges of file handling in media. Over the past 12 years, Bright has earned a reputation as an innovative, collaborative, problem solving media software and technology developer. Based on this level of experience and vision for what’s possible, Bright has developed its current product line. Today, Bright Technologies provides the most advanced media file servers in the industry, featuring low-latency, high performance, and best possible predictability and reliability, specifically designed to meet the needs of media file-based workflows. Bright Technologies, Inc., head office: 10405 Double R Blvd, Reno, Nevada, USA. t: +1 775 823 9002 www.4bright.com

Contacts:
Bright Technologies Inc.
Catrin Beck, Marketing Director
catrin.beck@4Bright.com
P +1 775.823.9002

Desert Moon Communications
Harriet Diener (PR)
harriet@desertmooncomm.com
P: +1 845 512 8283

Watch our new BrightDrive Movie!!
Learn how File Fragmentation steals System Performance in our “Transparent Disk Drive Demo”!!

Latest versions of the breakthrough Singular Software Presto and PluralEyes software on display at the broadcasters’ big show
 
Vancouver, British Columbia — March 15, 2012 — Singular Software™, a developer of workflow automation applications for video production, has announced its plans to exhibit at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2012 show, held in Las Vegas, NV from April 16 – 19. Located in the Plug-in Pavilion (booth SL2426), Singular will be showcasing its multi-award winning PluralEyes and Singular Software Presto, as well as the popular DualEyes synchronization applications. “Since our last visit to Las Vegas, we have been hard at work in the R&D lab making our Singular products better and faster, and we’re eager to show off the results to attending video professionals,” says Bruce Sharpe, CEO, Singular Software.
 
DualEyes and PluralEyes Multi-Camera and Dual-System Audio Workflow Timesaver
PluralEyes dramatically accelerates the workflow for multi-camera, multi-take and dual-system audio productions. By analyzing audio information, PluralEyes synchronizes audio and video clips automatically, without the need for timecode, clappers or other special preparation. The one-click ‘sync video clips’ and ‘replace audio’ capabilities provide simple and accurate synchronization of media regardless of project type or size. DualEyes provides the same core automation and sync capabilities in a stand-alone application.
 
Singular Software Presto is Live Event Magic
Singular Software Presto incorporates sophisticated visual tracking and image-matching technology to simplify the entire editing process for creating presentation videos. Presto’s automation magic creates a precisely timed slide track by replacing the presentation slides captured on video with the original high-quality presentation slides. The advanced tracking technology keeps the presenter in view, alongside the slides, in appealing two-up layouts. The resulting video can be used as is or further customized with Presto presentation templates.
 
Free Singular Software Training at the MEWshop Edit House (booth SL12805)
The MEWShop Edit House will feature Singular Software products as part of its FREE hands-on training sessions offered throughout NAB. Attendees can pre-register here. In addition to the training sessions, Singular Software founder Bruce Sharpe will present a special workshop on multi-camera workflows on Monday, April 16, from 3:30pm to 4:00pm.
 
For more information about Singular Software, please go to http://www.singularsoftware.com or visit them at booth SL2426 in the Plug-in Pavilion.
 
Can’t make the Singular Software group briefing at the MEWshop Edit House and need to schedule a private briefing? Please contact Anya Oskolkova at anya(at)zazilmediagroup(dot)com.
 
About Singular Software
Established in 2008, Singular Software pioneers the development of workflow automation applications for audio and video professionals. Its breakthrough solution, PluralEyes, offers innovative technology to automate and simplify multi-camera, multi-take and dual-system audio workflows. Singular Software products support industry leading non-linear editing products. For more information about Singular Software, please visit: http://www.singularsoftware.com.
 
Singular Software PluralEyes is a trademark of Singular Software Inc. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
 
Press Contact
Zazil Media Group
Anya Oskolkova
(p) +1 617 817 6559
(email) anya(at)zazilmediagroup(dot)com

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Morgan Hill, Calif., March 14, 2012 – Cache-A Corporation has announced that it has collaborated with Marquis Broadcast, a specialist in content workflows and media integration software, to create a complete Avid archive and retrieval solution. Cache-A’s archive appliances have been qualified with Marquis’ Project Parking to allow the easy archiving of digital source media. Project Parking offers a fast and cost-effective archive and restore process by creating a complete copy of any Avid project and media onto any storage device.

“We are very pleased to work with Marquis Broadcast to provide its customers an easy, yet robust archive component to their total solution,“ said Mark Ostlund, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Cache-A. “By working closely with our partners, we are able to extend and enhance Cache-A’s ‘Archiving Made Easy’ approach for today’s digital media professionals.”

“Marquis’ Project Parking finds media, and Cache-A’s products transfer and archive content to secure, portable, exchangeable LTO tape cartridges,” explained Chris Steele, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. “In addition to freeing-up expensive shared storage by taking media off-line, the portable nature of parked projects makes them ideal for disaster recovery procedures, business continuity and inter-site workflows.”

“The combination of Marquis’ Project Parking and Cache-A’s archive appliances now provide the most integrated networked archiving solution in post,” said Steele. “The complete solution solves a critical need in the media and entertainment industry by providing an economical answer to archiving and storing file-based content in a portable format. Because Cache-A’s tools allow content to be retrieved regardless of the application or software environment that recorded it, it also ensures the media will be accessible even 30 years from now, future-proofing the digital content creation process.”

The complete archive and retrieval solution is available now.

About Marquis Broadcast
Founded in 1998, Marquis Broadcast provides a range of media integration products designed for the data-intensive and challenging requirements of today’s fast-paced broadcasting environments, enabling broadcasters and other users of digital media to achieve maximum efficiencies from their workflow processes. Marquis has supplied solutions to many of the major broadcasters, including the BBC, Discovery, ITV, PBS, Technicolor Network Services and Turner Broadcasting. www.marquisbroadcast.com

About Cache-A Corporation
The expert in LTFS applications and the winner of Creative Cow’s Blue Ribbon Award for NAB 2011 for “Best Archiving System,” Cache-A is a leading supplier of network-attached archive appliances for the media and entertainment industry. Cache-A’s archive appliances can easily archive source masters for production or entire projects for post-production using the secure, portable, interchangeable, industry standard LTFS or tar format on LTO-5 media. www.Cache-A.com

Contact:
Randy Savicky
Strategy+Communications
(203) 226-6156
randy@strategypluscommunications.com

Continuing its trend of being first to market to support new RED technology, ASSIMILATE (www.assimilateinc.com) today announced both SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab support for REDgamma3 and REDcolor3, the latest advancements in RED’s Color Science. With RED’s latest color science update, SCRATCH and Lab artists – DITs, video engineers and DI artists — will see dramatically improved image quality in the monitoring path, and a richer environment for color grading, even when using older REDCODE RAW images.

As RED’s first partner for 4K and 5K post workflows, ASSIMILATE set the post-production standard with SCRATCH for the needed real-time digital workflows – simplified ingest of native REDCODE RAW files, streamlined end-to-end workflow, conform, color grading, finishing and mastering. “SCRATCH artists have always loved that ASSIMILATE has been first to support every RED innovation from the original RED ONE camera to 48 FPS EPIC stereo playback, and this color science update is no exception,” said Steve Bannerman, VP of Marketing at ASSIMILATE. “REDgamma3 will significantly enhance the SCRATCH Lab dailies workflow by offering DITs and DPs a better gamma curve for monitoring images. Meanwhile, the pairing of REDcolor3 with REDlogFilm provides SCRATCH DI artists the ultimate combination for color grading and finishing.”

SCRATCH Digital Workflow Tools

ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab deliver the industry’s most comprehensive toolset for data-centric digital cinema and episodic television productions for 2D and 3D stereo projects at up to 5K resolution and beyond. New 6.1 versions of SCRATCH software, running on Mac OS X and Windows 7, feature SDI output via AJA Kona 3G graphics cards, wicked-fast dailies rendering, improved metadata and timecode handling, and enhanced RED workflow support.

About ASSIMILATE

ASSIMILATE is the premier provider of digital workflow and post-production tools, that have proven essential to the successful creation of thousands of studio and independent features, television shows, music videos and corporate video productions. The company’s SCRATCH products, running on Windows and Mac OSX, are the heartbeat of today’s most demanding digital post-production and dailies workflows for 2D and stereo 3D productions. They equip directors, DPs and artists with the state-of-the-art, intuitive, data-centric solutions they need to meet the continual challenges of increased creativity and productivity amid ever-shrinking budgets. ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH data-centric DI system, is the most comprehensive, end-to-end cinema and broadcast imaging tool for dailies, playback, conform, editing, color grading, compositing and finishing of RED and other digital workflows. SCRATCH Lab delivers a comprehensive toolset for dailies, review, versioning, color correction, conform and output of on-set or VFX dailies. ASSIMILATE a privately held company, with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA, offices in London, UK, Groningen, NL and Beijing City, CN markets its products worldwide via a global reseller network. To learn more please visit www.assimilateinc.com.

Systems integrator Dega Broadcast Systems is installing 130 Crystal Vision up and down converters and other interface modules into BBC North’s new buildings at MediaCityUK, with the modules purchased as part of Dega’s contract won through competitive tender.

With over 2000 BBC staff already based on the site, the BBC’s three buildings – Bridge House, Dock House and Quay House – form a new creative hub for the BBC in the North of England for production, technology development, training and digital media. The divisions that are based in Salford include BBC Children’s, BBC Sport, BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Learning as well as the BBC’s regional and local programming for the North West and departments from BBC Drama, BBC Entertainment and Comedy and Future Media & Technology. BBC Breakfast will arrive onsite by April 2012. MediaCityUK is owned and managed by The Peel Group.

130 Crystal Vision up and down converters – mainly the Up-Down-ATX 3G – are being used in the installation, both for up and down conversion as required and fixed as either up or down converters. Featuring both motion adaptive video de-interlacing and Crystal Vision’s proprietary down conversion, Up-Down-ATX 3G can convert 3Gb/s, HD and SD sources, handles up to four groups of embedded audio with audio routing, and can perform two different conversions at the same time and provide co-timed dual outputs. It includes extensive data handling features including timecode, teletext and closed captions, with the timecode handling required for this installation. The Up-Down-AS 3G synchronizing up/down/converter is being used for any sources that are timed to a different reference or have processing delays that need correcting, and includes two synchronizers downstream of the converter to give a continuous clean output in the two formats, even if the input format changes. Also in use is the Q-Down123 short-delay broadcast down converter and distribution amplifier, selected for being a cost-effective way to down convert while giving out PAL, with the flexible outputs configurable as mixtures of SDI, composite, Y/C, YUV and RGB.

AVDELAY 3G audio/video delays are being used to correct incoming circuits which have A/V delay errors. AVDELAY 3G allows the relative audio/video timing to be changed by several seconds in either direction by providing up to ten seconds of video delay in SD, five seconds in HD and two seconds in 3Gb/s along with ten seconds of audio delay, and therefore allows the correction of large lip-sync errors. Reference distribution is done using VDA110M HD analogue video distribution amplifiers.

Crystal Vision boards are additionally being used in two “flight case systems” which can be plugged up round the whole site to wallboxes, and are connected to the central systems by a fiber infrastructure. ADCA412 analog to digital audio converters are being used to get analog audio into TANDEM 3G four group audio embedders/de-embedders with integrated fiber output connectivity. Also in the flight case are FRX 3G dual channel fiber optic receivers which meet the SMPTE 297-2006 short-haul specification and use a Class I laser.

The Crystal Vision boards are housed in 21 Indigo 2SE 2RU frames – each holding up to 12 boards – with the boards controlled via SNMP. In addition to the two flight cases, the frames are distributed through a number of apparatus rooms in all three buildings.

Based at Whittlesford near Cambridge in the UK and with an office in the USA, Crystal Vision provides digital keyers, picture storage modules and a full range of interface equipment including converters, synchronizers, distribution amplifiers and audio embedders to the professional broadcasting industry worldwide.

www.crystalvision.tv

HUDSON, MA – The Facilis TerraBlock 5.5 Shared Storage Solution with the Facilis Shared File System for Linux is now available. New features such as integrated server spanning and mirroring, Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 project sharing and the TX16 capacity expansion product offer post production, broadcast and content creation professionals expanded capabilities and scalability, in addition to enhanced value and performance.

TerraBlock 5.5, which debuted at Broadcast Video Expo last month, is the latest version of Facilis’ multiplatform, high-capacity shared storage solution supporting 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre channel, and 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet. New features include:
• Linux Shared File System Support – Mount Multi-user Write volumes on Linux workstations connected via Fibre channel or Ethernet
• TX16 Expansion – Cost-effective capacity expansion of 32TB per unit
• Integrated Server Spanning and Mirroring – Create volumes that span across multiple TerraBlock servers or mirror to another server
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 Project Sharing – Avoid costly overwrites while sharing both Apple® Final Cut Pro® 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro projects on Multi-user Write volumes through the Facilis Project Manager Application
• Support for Avid® Media Composer® 6.0 and Symphony® 6.0 – Qualification of the latest Avid applications on Windows 7 and OS X Lion
• Recovery (Rebuild) Priority – Control the speed of recovery, or pause recovery when bandwidth-intensive work is required during the recovery process

TerraBlock 5.5 is now available free of charge for customers holding a current support contract. These customers may contact license@facilis.com for their free upgrade. Support contracts may be purchased through Facilis directly or the worldwide reseller channel. For more information and a full list of features, please visit: http://www.facilis.com/products.html

About Facilis Technology
Facilis Technology, Inc. was founded in 2003 to bring advanced shared storage to television and film post production at a reasonable price. The company designs and builds high-capacity, turnkey solutions that are open, flexible and scalable; enabling content creators to collaborate and work more efficiently. www.facilis.com

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Orad, leader in broadcast graphics solutions, announced the release of the latest version of the Maestro enterprise graphics solution.
 
Maestro addresses all of broadcasters’ graphic needs for real time, pre and post production environments. The new version of Maestro introduces many interesting features that improve usability in a studio environment and the connection to external systems and data sources.
 
Orad has developed an iPad application specifically designed to enable television anchors to control Maestro graphics from the studio itself. The OradControl iPad application allows the presenter to directly play graphics on air at any moment, making the relevant graphics follow the flow of the show.
 
Also new to Maestro is the use of Facebook and Twitter as data sources. Data received from them can be filtered and connected to any object (including tickers), like any other data source. In the case of tickers, the user (journalist, editor, Maestro operator) can manually filter the entries that should be displayed on air.
 
Maestro 6.1 supports interactivity even more by being able to receive callbacks from the RenderEngine, allowing Maestro to react to user actions in the interactive device.
 
With Maestro’s support for Avid Command, users can now control from a single interface video and graphic items. In addition, Maestro 6.1 offers a new NLE plugin for Adobe’s Premiere, further expanding Maestro’s extensive list of supported NLE systems.
 
For more information about Maestro, please visit us at NAB (booth SL4524).
 
About Orad Hi-Tec Systems
Orad Hi-Tec Systems is a world-leading provider of real-time 3D broadcast graphic, video server, and media asset management solutions including news, channel branding, sports production and enhancement, elections and special events, virtual studios, and virtual advertisement. Orad’s compelling solutions streamline production workflow, enhance viewer experience, and improve production value. Founded in 1993, Orad is a public company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (OHT).
 
For more information, please visit www.orad.tv or contact us at: info(at)orad(dot)tv.
 
For further information contact:
ORAD Hi-Tec Systems Ltd
Ofir Benovici
Vice President Marketing
ofirb(at)orad(dot)tv

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BERGEN, Norway — March 6, 2012 — Mosart Medialab today announced that NRK, Norway’s largest media company, has installed a second license of the Mosart(R) newscast automation solution and ordered a third following the success of its existing Mosart systems in Studio 7. more

Booth # SL5624
Digital Rapids is bringing our complete range of media transformation and workflow technologies and solutions to the 2012 NAB Show, in booth number SL5624 (Lower South Hall).

Digital Rapids connects content to opportunity, providing innovative solutions, technology and expertise that enable media organizations and professionals to bring live and on-demand video to wider audiences more efficiently, more effectively and more profitably. more