Tag Archives: Broadcast Engineering

With Sky having commissioned Shine TV to produce the latest in ground-breaking factual entertainment – The Heist – the producers were faced with a considerable production challenge and, with the help of LiveU’s UK partner Garland Partners, found LiveU to be the perfect answer. Garland Partners oversaw technology supply and provided support. The Heist, which airs on Sky One from ...

The 13 annual Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards took place tonight, honoring the accomplishments of industry luminaries, behind-the-scenes artists and outstanding engineering teams. The HPA Awards set the bar for creative and technical achievement, recognizing individuals and companies for outstanding contributions made in the creation of feature films, television, commercials, and entertainment content enjoyed around the world. Awards were given to talented ...

Fremont, CA – November 19, 2018 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Austin, Texas based full service production studio Zodiac Studios is using an ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K live production switcher and Video Assist 4K monitor/recorders for its ongoing Austin Music Live series. Cofounded by Robert Calder, owner and executive producer at Zodiac Studios, along with Producer and Creator David ...

LOS ANGELES — Nov. 19, 2018 — Broadcast’s advanced monitoring and control solutions provider, SuiteLife Systems of California, has announced a partnership with DAC System SA, the Switzerland-based manufacturer and worldwide distributor of high-quality RF signal monitoring sensors and related technologies. DAC System builds an end-to-end monitoring system with which television and radio broadcasters measure RF power and signal quality ...

Whenever two or more broadcasters get together, the topic of discussion inevitably turns to IP-based studio facilities. It seems like the whole industry is “talking IP” these days, and everyone falls into one of two camps: 1) those who already have it, and 2) those who are planning for it. Why is IP so popular? Ask an engineer, and he’ll ...

Fremont, CA – November 16, 2018 – Blackmagic Design announced today Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.21 now supports Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink 8K Pro, DeckLink Duo 2 and DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G capture and playback cards. DeckLink SDK binaries and source code from Epic will also now be available free to download on the company’s Unreal Engine Marketplace. Unreal Engine is the most ...

Vinten and Sachtler: flowtech100 Carbon-Fiber Tripod flowtech100 is the newest addition to the award-winning flowtech carbon-fiber tripod range. Compatible with all major 100mm fluid heads, flowtech100 supports a payload of up to 30 kilograms (66 pounds), making it the ideal tripod for electronic newsgathering, field production, and a wide range of commercial, educational, and documentary productions. Like its predecessor, flowtech75, ...

UK loudspeaker manufacturer PMC has appointed Boujikian Bros.Co.Ltd as its distributor in Lebanon with responsibility for handling the company’s entire range of professional studio monitors. Established in 1984 as a supplier of all kinds of Electronics accessories, Boujikian Bros. Co. Ltd. Now offers a range of products to suit the audio, lighting, rigging, staging, and AV markets. As well as ...

Online music network Mahogany and social media platform VERO are giving one talented filmmaker the chance to win a £10,000 production budget. The fund provides aspiring filmmakers with the opportunity to create original content, a unique short film, and a ‘Mahogany Session’ promoted to a dedicated audience of 6 million users per month. Commencing on Wednesday 14th November 2018 under ...

  Award recognizes outstanding contribution to the field of live transmission as Dejero turns 10   [Waterloo, Ontario, November 15, 2018] — Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has been awarded a prestigious Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for ‘excellence in engineering creativity’, honoring a decade of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Nov. 15, 2018 — BeckTV, one of the United States’ premier design-build systems integrators, served as the systems integrator for the control room build at the new University of Louisville (UofL) Athletics Broadcast Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The state-of-the-art, 7,850-square-foot television production facility, which opened its doors in September 2018, is designed to house all of the ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — Nov. 15, 2018 — VITEC, a worldwide leader in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, today announced that it has acquired Telairity, a provider of H.264 encoding workflow solutions to broadcasters worldwide. “The strategic acquisition of Telairity further strengthens VITEC‘s position in the broadcast market,” said Mark D’Addio, VITEC‘s senior vice president, sales and marketing. “VITEC‘s HEVC ...

  Grass Valley, Calif (November 15, 2018) — AJA Video Systems today released v1.1 firmware for its IPR-10G-HDMI Mini-Converter, which enablesSMPTE ST 2110 IP video/audio to HDMI. Available as a free download, the update adds support for UltraHD up to 30p and integrates new improvements for discovery, registration and control. The compact and fanless IPR-10G-HDMI Mini-Converter receives SMPTE ST 2110 ...

Fremont, CA – November 15, 2018 – Blackmagic Design announced today that more than 25 feature length and short films competing at the 2018 Austin Film Festival used Blackmagic Design digital film cameras and DaVinci Resolve Studio professional editing, grading and audio post production software. Celebrating its 25th year, the Austin Film Festival focuses on the writers’ creative contribution to the ...

SKOKIE, IL, NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – Studio Technologies, manufacturer of high-quality audio, video, and fiber-optic solutions, introduces the Model 5330 Flex-Use Dante® Audio Interface, a simple yet high-performance means of interfacing analog signals with applications that utilize Dante audio-over-Ethernet media networking technology. Four line-level analog sources can be connected to the unit and then, after conversion to digital, output by ...

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — Nov. 14, 2018 — Digital Alert Systems/Monroe Electronics, the global leader in emergency communications solutions for video services providers, today announced that it has partnered with DigIt Signage Technologies to interface the ChyTV™ HD–EAS, a version of the ChyTV video graphics system for television, information displays, and digital signage, with the DASDEC™ series of Emergency Alert System/Common ...