DAY FOUR and the last day of the 2016 NAB Show!!!  It’s been a wonderful ride!!!  Our Live Blog continues today…  Don’t forget – if you’re hungry, Ryan’s top places to eat in #Vegas during the show can be found here: www.broadcastbeat.com/nab-show-foodies/  -Afterward, our very last #NABShow Party is today, Thursday, April 21 @6:00pm – it’s the End of Show ...

DAY THREE and the last big full day of the 2016 NAB Show!!!  It’s GREAT to have you back – there’s SO MUCH MORE today!!!  Our Live Blog continues to post the information and many of the “stops” of our various crews out on the floor!  Don’t forget – you can catch #NABShow LIVE online at nabshow.com  or broadcastbeat.com  9am ...

Hey!  We made it to DAY TWO of the 2016 NAB Show!!!  Glad you’re sticking with us – there’s SO MUCH MORE today!!!  Our Live Blog continues to post the information and many of the “stops” of our various crews out on the floor!  Don’t forget – you can catch #NABShow LIVE online at nabshow.com  or broadcastbeat.com  9am PST / ...

LIVE BLOG – UPDATED CONSTANTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS THE SHOW PROGRESSES!!! Can anything be more exciting than the first day of the 2016 NAB Show?  I doubt it!!!  The Broadcast Beat Crews are up and rip – raring to go!!! First things first however – let’s fiddle with these knobs and switches and see what we can get to ...

…And away we go! Our Fort Lauderdale crew is now thirty-thousand feet up in the air and we’re on our way to “Sin City” – Las Vegas, Nevada! NAB Show HERE WE COME! (Daniel – those are Nikki’s nachos!!!) As usual, my level of excitement won’t let me settle-down, so I’ve started blogging while on the plane! (This is DEFINITELY a bad ...

OK – so you’re using the latest and greatest video editing software: Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Colorfront OSD, Assimilate Scratch, Joust, or any other popular editing and finishing software… You do a lot of editing, you have numerous digital content assets, creating many more each day, and you need a ...

TransferSoft® Inc., a provider of efficient data transfer software to OEMs in the M&E, Enterprise IT, Cloud, Big Data, Research and Disaster Recovery markets recently announced the appointments of industry veterans Erik Hovland to Director of Engineering and Gwang-Ho Kim to Senior Software Engineer. The new appointments, along with the hiring of an additional Technical Support Engineer, were part of a planned progression ...

The Christmas Season puts everyone in holiday-cheer mode! Even us techy-geeks from the broadcast and post-production realm! So, in keeping with the holiday tradition (and instead of getting all those drummers drumming and maids-a-milking), Broadcast Beat Magazine asked people on many of our social media channels: “If you could get a cool production toy for Christmas, what would it be?” ...

JMR’s new Thunderbolt® 2 products now fully Intel and Apple approved and Thunderbolt certified for Mac and Windows*   JMR Electronics, Inc. a leading manufacturer and systems integrator of scalable storage solutions located in Chatsworth, CA, recently announced the general availability of their new LightningTM series of Thunderbolt 2 certified storage and expansion products – which are now ready for prime time. ...

    In the endless quest for perfection combined with each production facility’s own unique situation, what needs tweaking at your studio will evolve. As my own skill-sets grow, my perception of what needs changing grows as well. I find my eye for issues has expanded beyond my broadcast engineering roots and spread into management and editorial concerns, as well. ...

JMR’s among the first to ship new portable, ultra-compact Thunderbolt 2 equipped SSD Flash Drive JMR Electronics, Inc. a leading manufacturer and systems integrator of scalable storage solutions this week announced the general availability of their new LightningTM LTNG-XTD portable ThunderboltTM SSD Flash Drive. The ultra-compact PCIe Flash Drive with Thunderbolt 2 interface is a portable bus-powered drive requiring no external power source, and ...

  New Lightning storage products certified by Intel and Apple to work with Thunderbolt compatible devices   JMR Electronics, Inc. a leading manufacturer and systems integrator of scalable storage solutions has announced the general availability of their new line of Lightning Thunderbolt 2 to PCIe equipped storage products. Of the new Lightning product family, the LTNG-XQ and LTNG-XQ-8 Thunderbolt 2 ...

With the KH 805, Neumann.Berlin [AES booth 527] has adding a new active subwoofer to its string of acclaimed studio monitoring products. Based on the excellent acoustical performance of the KH 810 subwoofer, the KH 805 is the optimal choice for stereo set-ups in combination with the KH 120 or KH 310. As Wolfgang Fraissinet, President of Neumann, pointed out, “The KH 805 is the answer ...

Although the show doesn’t officially end until tomorrow, this (essentially) is the LAST DAY of one of the most awesome media conventions around!  Sure, perhaps NAB (usually held in Las Vegas) is bigger, but the true internationals travel to Amsterdam every year for THIS particular showing!  There has been many opportunities for video interviews with those who make things happen, ...

Day THREE of the IBC 2015 Show! Three down, two to go! And they saved the best for today!  Sunday is always the day that the industry creatives can “hang loose” and let loose with more secrets and tidbits they’ve been holding back on… and today had no shortage! Since the mid-80’s, ACCESS has been making a name for itself ...

Day 2 at IBC 2015 was a busy day – at least for our own Janet West!  As you can see from the following, she was all around the Show Floor today… it’s all about Janet today! Avid brought some special guests along with their impressive products. Emmy-Award-winning sound editor James Mather (the supervising sound editor of Mission Impossible 3), ...