Chelmsford, Mass. – Oct. 15, 2018 – Broadcast Pix™ today announced Broadcast Pix Commander™ has been upgraded to allow remote switching on mobile devices using Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or other web browsers. The touchscreen control platform for BPswitch™ integrated production switchers now offers full-motion viewing of all cameras and production elements, as well as access to all workflow tools, through a standard internet connection. The company will demonstrate Commander at the 2018 NAB Show New York (Booth N354), which runs Oct. 17-18 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. “Video production workflows are changing. The traditional control ...

NEW YORK, OCTOBER 15, 2018 – NUGEN Audio debuts its latest Loudness Toolkit updates for the first time in the U.S. at AES NY 2018 (Booth 5041). Loudness Toolkit 2.8 provides a new loudness parameter, Dialogue LRA as well as new flexibility to simultaneously monitor multiple integrated measures. These updates help facilitate an efficient workflow when working with the recent loudness guidelines, such as the new Netflix best practice document. “We recently previewed the Loudness Toolkit updates at IBC and received tremendous feedback and interest in the upgraded bundle from both existing and potential customers,” says Jon Schorah, founder and ...

  Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD channel, has announced the launch of its brand solutions and media sales department. By creating this consolidated offering, Insight is now able to offer brands fully integrated partnerships with bespoke solutions and the flexibility to pick and choose genres and formats. Through unique content production and amplification services, all within Insight TV’s owned media infrastructure, Insight TV enables brands to deepen their engagement, increase their reach and deliver compelling marketing strategies via its linear and SVOD platform. Offerings include long and short-form content, active and passive product integration, global influencer talent access, ...

  Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced that it is building on its successful production partnership with South Korea’s largest media conglomerate CJ ENM at MIPCOM 2018, with the co-production of a new 3×60-minute show The Story of Masters. This highly anticipated new show is supported by the Korea Radio Promotion Association (RAPA). Hosted by Hollywood actor Dan Fogler, who stars in the new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Story of Masters will examine the roots of martial arts and ...

Insight TV, the world’s leading UHD 4K broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced exciting new cast updates to its social influencer adventure show, Urban Explorers. Insight TV has secured YouTube sensations and professional urban explorers Josh and Cody as the show’s team leaders. Scheduled to premiere on Insight TV and Insight.TV in 2019, the show has 10×44-minute episodes. Having made an exclusive selection of 20 of the most spectacular abandoned locations on the planet, Josh and Cody and their teams will visit them and will rank them based on four criteria of urban exploring. In each episode ...

North Hollywood, Calif. (October 15, 2018) – Manios Digital and Film, the exclusive US distributor of premium solutions for the broadcast, film and pro-video industries, is set to make their debut at this year’s NAB Show New York on Wednesday, October 17 and 18 at Booth N335. The US distributor will showcase the latest from premium brands Cartoni, Hawk-Woods, and Kinotehnik, and feature unique packages and amazing new technology from partner brands that can only be seen on the booth, including the Sony VTK-Z280 and Venice Extension. Each unique camera package will cater to specific markets and demonstrate how the ...

Oslo, Norway, 15 October 2018 – Nevion, the award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that technical broadcast production service provider Streamteam Nordic Oy, has deployed Nevion Virtuoso to help the IP-based remote production (aka REMI in North America) of the Finnish Elite ice-hockey league, SM-liiga.  Nevion’s flagship software defined media nodes are used to transport feeds in real-time from the ice-hockey arenas across the country to the central production facility in Helsinki. Nevion also provided professional services for the network architecture design for the project, as well as for the deployment. Streamteam was commissioned in December 2017 ...

For its live game day production, NHL team Vancouver Canucks is relying on the aVS video server from aQ Broadcast to serve fans with a full range of match day programming. The aVS, at the Vancouver Canucks’ Rogers Arena, is used primarily for playback during games, with its output appearing on the ‘jumbotron’ screen in the centre of the stadium. The Vancouver Canucks create, shoot and package a range of material at every home game, including sequences of commercials during interval periods as well as short programmes, promos, bumpers and interviews. These are played out using the ad-hoc playlist function ...

“She called me when she got back here. She could hear the engine coming down the street.” – Wade Parent, “The Car,” Universal Pictures, 1977   The era of the importance of the personal vehicle – car and truck – is coming to an end, so it’s time for people to get over it and get on with it. Karl Benz started the now huge automotive industry back in 1885 when he built his first car in Mannheim, Germany. Basically, it hasn’t changed much in 130+ years … a symbol of personal affluence, individual expression, and freedom with a trusty ...

  “You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you’re not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don’t.” – Michael Oher, “The Blind Side,” Alcon Productions, 009     The recent IBC was more exciting and uncertain than it has been in years.   It was exciting because the industry is moving at breakneck speed with new ideas, new enthusiasm and new opportunities in every hall; now that everyone seems to have accepted that all things are IP.   The ...

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Nevada City, California, October 12th, 2018 – Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools, quality monitoring and workflow solutions, today announced that on its NAB NY booth (N.325), the company will showcase new updates to its end-to-end ABR video monitoring and analytics solutions which include iQ Inspector, Surveyor, and iVMS ASM (intelligent video management system for adaptive streaming). The updates include significant enhancements to the iQ management solution enabling content producers and distributors to discern the status of their video encoding and distribution infrastructure faster than ever before, thus reducing the risk of revenue loss from poor subscriber QoE. Available in ...

Creative content company Alkemy X has expanded its directorial roster with the additions of Robert Boocheck and Jordan Fein. At Alkemy X, Boocheck has already wrapped a campaign for event-driven messaging platform Solace via The Barbarian Group while Fein recently shot a commercial for Penn State Health. The two will be based out of the company’s New York office. “Through these new partnerships with Rob and Jordan, we’re building on our creative capabilities in comedy and documentary storytelling, two categories that are hugely important to us,” says Jim Huie, Alkemy X Director of Production. “Rob has extensive experience as a ...

WAYNE, NJ (Oct. 11, 2018) – JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, today announced the GY-HC900ST, a new CONNECTED CAM designed specifically for studio and multi-camera EFP use. With an advanced communications engine that optimizes both image processing and IP performance, the GY-HC900ST brings new levels of connectivity to studio cameras. JVC will demonstrate the full line of CONNECTED CAM products at the 2018 NAB Show New York (Booth N333), which runs Oct. 17-18 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. Based on the new GY-HC900 CONNECTED CAM model, the GY-HC900ST features three 2/3-inch ...

Former RSP instructor Jeremy Kelly-Bakker hires six RSP Education grads for production of 8-episode series to debut in January. Adelaide, South Australia—Former Rising Sun Pictures artist Jeremy Kelly-Bakker has received investment funding from Screen Australia to develop his short film, Lucy and DiC, into a web series through We Made a Thing Studios, the production company he formed with partner Tom Phillips. Kelly-Bakker directed the film, about a girl and her overly solicitous robot helper, while teaching a course in RSP’s Graduate Certificate program (which is delivered in partnership with UniSA) and employed students from the program to create its ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Oct. 11, 2018 — VidOvation today announced that a major U.S. sports network used VidOvation and AVIWEST technology late last month for international coverage of the annual professional golf tournament between U.S. and European teams. VidOvation supplied AVIWEST gear equipped with unique SafeStreams technology, which allowed the network to use IP to contribute and transport all video over the public internet between the event at Le Golf National Golf Course in Paris and the studio control room in Atlanta. “The main challenge for this company was to backhaul live, multicamera, multisource audio and video reliably over ...

Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer Steve “Major” Giammaria mixes thrills and comedy for indie release. NEW YORK— Slice, currently in international release from A24, is a quirky comedy/horror tale centering on a neighborhood pizza parlor that doubles as “a gateway to hell.” Helmed by noted music video director Austin Vesely in his feature debut, the film has a cast of ghosts, witches and werewolves—as well as one very unlucky pizza deliveryman—and serves up a string of grisly murders with fiendishly tongue-in-cheek charm. For Steve “Major” Giammaria, of Sound Lounge’s Film + Television division, who acted as both Supervising Sound Editor ...

TORONTO — Oct. 11, 2018 — The International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) today announced that Grammy-winning producer Ken Lewis will present the keynote at IMSTA FESTA Toronto, which will take place Oct. 13 at the Ryerson RTA School of Media. This celebration of music technology is a free event open to registered attendees from across the music-making community — professional and semi-professional musicians, songwriters, music producers, and audio engineers, as well as music students and educators. “It’s always exciting when IMSTA FESTA comes to Toronto, home to IMSTA and a rich culture of music-making,” said Ray Williams, managing director ...