Remote production encoder and decoder pair offers broadcasters and video professionals new multi-channel audio support and multi-camera ISO recording capabilities MONTREAL, Quebec — December 1, 2020 — Matrox® Video is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new set of features for the Monarch EDGE 4K/multi-HD encoder and decoder pair, introducing enhanced remote production (REMI) workflows. Available via the latest Matrox Monarch EDGE driver, Monarch EDGE can now encode eight channels of audio per stream from a selection of 16 embedded audio sources per SDI input, allowing users to produce content in multiple languages simultaneously. Also included in the release is the ...

  Fremont, California, USA – Tuesday, December 1, 2020 – Blackmagic Design announced today that full service facility Pace Pictures uses a wide selection of Blackmagic gear to power their expanded post production and production services, including the creation of a virtual production space within their post production facility. Reacting to modern times, both before and during the pandemic, Pace Pictures has quickly evolved past a traditional post production model into multiple service offerings, all in an effort to react to an ever changing production world. With the intent to provide a full service solution to the industry, the company now offers, in addition to ...

TAG Video Systems achieves AWS Technology Partner status, offers clients even greater accessibility and flexibility to deploy broadcast applications Tel Aviv – December 1, 2020 –TAG Video Systems, a leader in integrated software-based IP Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewer solutions, has announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Select Technology Partner status. Companies who reach AWS Select Technology Partner status have met strict technical and business criteria. The announcement was made by Kevin Joyce, TAG’s Zer0 Friction Officer, who emphasized that the relationship will help customers cut a clear and simplified path toward an IP-based workflow in the cloud. ...

Facility provides editorial and post services for video paying tribute to the greats of women’s tennis. HOLLYWOOD—Pace Pictures led the post-production effort for a new Mariah Carey video that kicked off ESPN’s coverage of the 2020 U.S. Open Women’s Singles Championship. Carey performs her song Save the Day while standing next to a classic blue Cadillac Eldorado outside the Billie Jean King Tennis Complex where the event took place. A giant video screen behind the singer displays clips of Althea Gibson, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams and other greats of the sport. Drawn from Carey’s new album Rarities¸ ...

Album features exclusive, new work from award-winning composer Frederik Wiedmann SANTA MONICA –  Universal Production Music, the world’s leading production music company, announces the release of Zenith, a bold, new album from music label ICON. The first title in ICON’s innovative “Artists Series,” the album features 13 original tracks from Emmy-winning composer and ICON co-founder Frederik Wiedmann. Combining grand orchestral arrangements — recorded with a live, symphony orchestra — powerful percussion and modern synths, Zenith delivers a majestic, transporting sound that is ideal for trailers, sports, reality TV and many other types of media. The album is available now on ...

LYNX Technik, provider of modular signal processing interfaces, announces a new 2×2 optical switch for its popular yellobrik line of “throw down” bricks. The OSW 1022 is designed to improve connectivity and security on fiber networks, serve as a fiber line emergency switch, provide restoration & reconfiguration over optical paths, route diversity as well as support a wide range of other fiber optic applications. It ensures optical network protection and flexibility in optical network connectivity for a Broadcast or Professional AV facility. This 2×2 optical switch selectively switches signals over optical fibers from one channel to another. It is data ...

StarTracker Studio delivers in time for US election coverage Mo-Sys Engineering, world leader in precision camera tracking solutions for virtual studios and augmented reality, collaborated with talkRADIO, the UK’s leading commercial radio news service, to create a turnkey virtual production environment which was first used for coverage of the US presidential election. talkRADIO, part of Wireless Group, a division of News UK, live streams twenty hours of its output every day, for those listeners using devices with screens. With the US election approaching, talkRADIO was looking for new ways to engage audiences and satisfy advertisers. Going beyond simply putting cameras ...

Affordable personal video light with smart app control improves videoconferencing for meetings and more Bridgeville, Penn. – Dec. 1, 2020 – Brightline, a leading manufacturer of video lighting systems, today unveiled ZELo, its new desktop studio light for videoconferencing. Designed for business professionals, educators, broadcasters, and social media influencers, ZELo delivers broadcast-quality results that enhance personal lighting in any workspace. With variable color temperature, ZELo delivers everything from warm light (2700 degrees) to daylight (6500 degrees), so it blends with any ambient room light environment. When paired with Brightline’s free app, iOS and Android portable devices can adjust brightness and color ...