COVID-19 has made video conferencing a necessity. Thanks to social distancing, Zoom, Skype, and other video chat programs are now essential for work and team communication. The problem is, most people haven’t had to use video conferencing tools so frequently to communicate with team members and coworkers. The struggle to effectively communicate online makes it difficult to connect with people and feel like your message is being received. The Presence Summit can help with that by teaching you how to be a better online communicator. Below are a few reasons why you should attend the Presence Summit as well as ...

MONTREAL – July 2, 2020 – Grass Valley announces the completion of its acquisition by private equity firm, Black Dragon Capital, from Belden Inc. The completion of the transaction, announced earlier this year, puts Grass Valley in an ideal position to continue driving innovation as it leads the media and entertainment industry’s transition to a cloud-based future and pay-as-you-go business models. As noted in the original transaction press release, Black Dragon Capital assumes full control of Grass Valley and all of its assets. Belden will maintain a financial interest in Grass Valley and has entered into a multi-year Transition Services ...

Australian-based systems integrator, Techtel, is a leading independent broadcast technology systems specialist, providing hardware and software industry solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Techtel recently worked with the Tasmanian Parliament to develop an integrated recording solution to manage their seven HD-SDI camera video feeds from their House of Assembly, Legislative Council, and smaller committee meeting rooms. The main requirements were to have ingest centralised in a single location connected to network-attached storage and for the recording process to be controlled remotely from a network. The solution that Techtel integrated was the Bluefish444 IngeSTore Server to record simultaneously from four of their ...

  DejaSoft supports in-house hosted S3 server in DejaEdit 3.1 For Immediate Release, 2 July 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden – Hot on the heels of the launch of DejaEdit 3, and in direct response to client requests, DejaSoft announces the release of version 3.1 to support private cloud environments using the open source MinIO object storage solution. DejaEdit allows multiple, remote Avid editors to work together by mirroring their locally stored media and edit assets to the local storage of other connected systems, using secure, background transfers across the internet. It can also be used to exchange media with on-location DITs ...

Arkansas broadcaster continues operations without limitation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Novi, MI, July 2, 2020 – Already at the forefront of enabling remote broadcast operations, ENCO‘s browser-based WebDAD radio automation control solution is proving ideal for broadcasters who have been forced to transition to remote production models during the COVID-19 pandemic. Baker Broadcasting, based in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is one such broadcaster to embrace WebDAD’s powerful capabilities. Its adoption of WebDAD has allowed flagship station KISR(FM) and KREU(FM) – the only Spanish-language station in Northwest Arkansas – to continue on-air operations without interruption or limits. WebDAD represents ENCO’s “studio in ...

June 30, 2019 (Burbank,CA) – The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), the trade organization serving the professional community that provides expertise, support, tools and infrastructure for the creation and finishing of media content, announced today that industry leader and former HPA president Leon Silverman will lead the HPA Industry Recovery Task Force (IRTF). Regarded as one of the most respected experts in production and post, Silverman is a founder of HPA and continues to serve on its Board. Over the course of his decades long career, he has held executive roles at major studios and entertainment companies including Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, ...

* Content owners now have an added level of security in the processing of their pre-release and early-release workflows using AWS Elemental MediaConvert * API integration allows for the seamless cloud deployment of NexGuard watermarking technologies for file transcoding and OTT content preparation * For OTT streaming, customers can combine the NexGuard watermarking in AWS Elemental MediaConvert with pre-existing integration of NexGuard in Amazon CloudFront Cheseaux, Switzerland, and Phoenix, AZ – June 30, 2020 – NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, today announced API integration of NexGuard forensic ...

  * The NAGRA Security Service Platform and NAGRA Connect content protection technology will secure the operator’s new hybrid Android TV offer * New service will enable a fast time-to-market solution and new revenue streams through Android TV based 4K Ultra HD content, OTT and premium interactive services * Solution leverages a comprehensive portfolio of technologies offered by the NAGRA Android Fast Track Program Cheseaux, Switzerland, and Phoenix, AZ – June 17, 2020 – NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, announced today that Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC), one of Taiwan’s ...