The 2015 Amsterdam IBC Show’s first day (second if you include Thursday’s conference-only day) was kicked-off with a huge helping of information and fun at the Amsterdam RAI Congress and Exhibition Center. Hail, hail the gang’s all here! The big players and the up-and-comers are here to ply their wares for their friends in media: Arri, Audio Network, CueScript, Forbidden ...

Blackmagic Design one of the most innovated manufacturers in our industry today, announced that it will make the optical fiber connections on both the HD and Ultra HD studio cameras a user installed option which allows for the company to drop pricing for their award winning studio camera models! Many customers provided feedback as to if this extra cost option ...

The Broadcast Beat Magazine story just continues to get bigger, better, and faster in providing cutting edge information that puts the reader and professional ahead of the learning curve! The BEAT has morphed into not only a leading digital trade magazine that provides industry news, technical white papers, industry related articles, and a directory of over 40,000 professionals, but now it ...

Don’t miss out on all the action that is going to be taking place at Adobe MAX2015 Conference on October 3rd-7th in Los Angeles, CA! The speaker line up is sure to “spark” interest with a long list of presenters including Actor, Writer Nick Offerman and Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann! There are literally hundreds of sessions, labs, and creativity workshops being ...

Canon Live Learning is presenting an EOS Destination Workshop entitled: The Art of Dramatic Landscape and Action Photography with Canon Explorer of Light Tyler Stableford who is world renowned for his adventure and commercial photography! The workshop will be held at the Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO on September 30 through October 1st! The Art of Dramatic Landscape and Action ...

Adobe Anywhere in the Cloud delivered by Aframe is remarkable workflow platform that enables your teams to work together no matter which locations they are “camping out” at, just as long as there is network connectivity. The unveiling of the Aframe cloud platform hosting Adobe Anywhere took place at NAB2015 and was one of the show’s big hits! Now Aframe will showcase the ...

The Canon 4K Cine-Servo  line of lenses is quite impressive and they’re coming to IBC2015! Here’s a quick rundown of what Canon has to offer in the CINE-SERVO lens line! The CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9 PL or EF provides 4K performance for the Super35mm large format sensor cameras and can accommodate either broadcast or cinema-style production due to its removable Digital ...

LA-based Premier Digital, one of the largest encoding and distribution service companies in the world, has purchased multiple Telestream Vantage media-processing systems which are running on GPU-accelerated Lightspeed Servers  that creates a future-proof workflow! “Typically, we receive masters from our customers, encode the files into our house format, store them into our digital asset management system, and on request from ...

RED Digital Cinema has created it’s most intuitive camera to date with the introduction of the smallest and incredibly  lightweight RED BRAIN ever in WEAPON. The improvements and updated features that include but not limited to it’s workflow, cable-free and intuitive peripherals, the awesome mounting points are just a few highlights to this cutting edge performing camera! The simplicity of ...

will feature the impressive  688 12-track portable mixer/recorder with the new SL-6 powering and wireless system at IBC2015! The pairing of these two products will certainly streamline and will give the operator the ability to control and monitor an entire audio system from one wireless location! The 688 (the newest member of the hard hitting 6-Series design family) incorporates a ...

RED Digital Cinema and FilmLight are hosting a sure to be interesting 4K Color Grading Event featuring colorist Laura Jans-Fazio and producer Hameed Shakat from the Emmy-winning Netflix series ‘House of Cards’ on August 20, 2015 at RED Studios Hollywood, 848 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angles, CA. There will be two showing one at 4pm and 7:00pm! The exclusive presentation ...

So the next generation of virtual tracking systems by Shotoku will debut @IBC2015! The Free-d2 brings a new generation of tracking systems which do not require physical encoder devices attached to the camera support’s moving axis! The smart system is based on advanced algorithms developed within the BBC’s world-renowned Research and Development center. The Free-d2 uses simple ceiling markers that precisely ...

SONY has certainly hit another milestone in their revolutionary camera designs throughout the years. Introducing the new HDC-4300! The worlds first 4K system camera to use three 2/3-inch 4K image sensors. The HDC series camera technology provides the ability to use the high magnification wide zoom range lenses (which support the B4-mount) while maintaining proper field of depth for live ...

The BBC Natural History Unit once again chooses the Panasonic VariCam 35 and VariCam HS after a three month test shoot, which was supported directly by Panasonic and Films@59! The Panasonic Varicam series cameras is no stranger to the Bristol based Natural History Unit. The VariCam has been the camera of choice for NHU, with nearly 30 of the second ...

Cinegy will be showcasing version 10 on its complete product line at stand 7.A30 and 7.A41 @IBC2015! Visitors at IBC will be able to see the first hand benefits and new features that this robust version upgrade has on 4K Workflow Solutions, Cloud Multi-Channel Playout Solutions, Enterprise Production and Archive Solutions, IP Based Broadcast Solutions and News, Studio & Live ...

The Chinese based broadcast and media giant Jiangsu Broadcast Corporation has launched it’s new 24 camera, double-side expansion OB van which offers an amazing 29 workplaces within the confines of an 18-wheeler! The 4K OB Van works with 16 HD cameras, 4-4K cameras plus the added luxury of  4 wireless cameras. L-S-B Broadcast Technologies worked along side local partner NDT ...