Newsletter from 02/09/2014
IBC2014 Conference Topics
MOBILE PRODUCTION
ACTA MEDYA Made Its Mark On Presidential Handover Ceremony
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sworn in as Turkey’s 12th President on Aug. 28, after 12 years of prime ministry, further strengthening his position as the most powerful leader of the country. Erdoğan read the presidential oath before the Turkish Parliament before taking his seat from Abdullah Gül, in a splendid handover ceremony with the participation of leaders from more than 90 countries. The ceremony was broadcast live during the day by TRT and ACTA Medya made its mark on the 7 hours live broadcast that was produced with helicopter and motorcycles.
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DiGiCo Monty Python
Forty five years after they first hit our television screens, a comedy super group reunited. Monty Python Live (mostly) brought together five of the six original Pythons – John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - for ten sell out dates at London’s O2 arena this summer. DiGiCo consoles were deployed at both FOH and monitor positions for something completely different… With an audience of Python aficionados requiring that every word be heard, the challenge of delivering perfect audio for this full-on theatre show in just two weeks was taken on by sound designer Rory Madden and a crack crew. “They’re the best I’ve ever had in 40 years working in the business” he says.
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Early Music with Modern Audio Technology: La Folia in Dresden’s Great Garden
At the beginning of August 2014, the La Folia Baroque Orchestra made recordings on several days in the historic setting of the Palais in Dresden‘s Great Garden. Experienced recording professionals used carefully selected audio technology components to capture all of the sound nuances at the highest quality level. Microphones from audio specialist Sennheiser played a decisive role as the first links in the recording chain. “For these recordings, we are using the best equipment available on the planet!” said Günter Pauler who, as mastermind of Stockfisch Records, was primarily responsible for the technical aspects of the recording, leaving the musical management to his colleagues Jakob Händel and Hans-Jörg Maucksch.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
The New Brilliance of the Tagesschau
This year, Germany’s most traditional news program Tagesschau was able to celebrate moving into their new TV-studio. What attracts attention beside its new trailer and modified design is the 18 meter long, curved media wall in the background. It offers rear projection possibilities in its entire width. Apart from this central element, the 320 square meters large TV-studio comes up with the latest camera- and lighting technology. Everything was accurately attuned, so that a news studio could be created which pursues a completely new approach: the presenter leads through the whole program in front of a real projected background.
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EMPC Goes Tapeless with Imagine Communications
Imagine Communications, a market leader of media software and video infrastructure solutions serving the global broadcast, multichannel video programming distributor and enterprise markets, today announced that Egyptian Media and Production City (EMPC) has selected Imagine Communications’ Nexio AMP® video servers to update six of its studios. Replacing EMPC’s existing bank of video tape recorders, the new installation is a key facet of the company’s initiative to upgrade its studios to high definition, file-based operations. EMPC has dozens of production studios and is a major hub for satellite channels in the region. Following the installation, each of the six modernised studios will have a dedicated Nexio AMP server with integrated storage, which will provide recording functionality as well as playback into EMPC’s production environment.
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deltatre Expands in Asia with FOX International Channels
During one of its busiest years to date, deltatre is excited to announce the provision of a range of graphic services to FOX International Channels (FIC) for their launch of the all-new FOX Sports network in Asia. With significant experience in delivering solutions to broadcasters from its Onstage business line, deltatre has implemented a range of graphics services, including: Augmented Reality, On-screen Presentation Graphics and a Multi-sport Touchscreen in FOX Sports’ new studios. To cope with an ever-expanding broadcast schedule, deltatre has also replicated the physical set in the virtual world, giving FOX Sports enormous production flexibility.
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SHOWS
World’s Biggest and Best Dance Events Take Advantage of wysiwyg R33
Creating new and breath taking lighting designs, enjoyed by audiences of hundreds of thousands attending the world’s biggest and best dance events including Sensation, Tomorrowland and Tomorrowworld is by no means a small challenge for any lighting design company. Dutch lighting designer, SDO Design uses none other than wysiwyg R33 from CAST Software, believed to be the world’s most advanced and most realistic previsualization software, to design and to previsualize lighting for all their global events including the upcoming Tomorrowworld event in Atlanta, GA from 26-28 September 2014 and Sensation in Dubai on 31 October 2014.
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XL Video Supplies 2200 Square Metres of LED Screen to Creamfields
XL Video continued its record breaking summer streak supplying over 2000 square metres of LED screen plus control and crew across eight stages and arenas at the UK’s biggest and highest profile EDM event, Creamfields, staged on Daresbusy Estate near Warrington over the August Bank holiday weekend. It was the largest amount of screen supplied to date to the festival with which XL has been involved for the last five years via creative and technical production specialists, LarMac LIVE. The production values for this year’s event were significantly increased following excellent results last year and to keep at the forefront of the vibrant European festival scene.
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Elation Platinum Series Lights Tennessee’s High-Energy Smoky Mountain Opry
The demands that a large musical variety show can place on a lighting rig are great so when Smoky Mountain Opry in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, sought to replace their aging lighting rig they turned to the versatility and reliability of Elation Platinum Spot 15R Pro and Platinum Wash ZFX Pro luminaires to provide the dynamic color and effect needed to support the high-energy 2-hour spectacle. A good variety show includes a little bit of everything. Featuring a variety of music that spans from rock n’ roll to gospel, as well as dancing, aerialists, comedy, magic and more, Smoky Mountain Opry includes something for everybody and the lighting system needs to be able to keep up and transition accordingly.
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PRODUCTS
IHSE Introduces the Switching of USB 3.0 and SDI
IHSE announced the release of Draco tera cpmpact models comprising new I/O ports for the switching of USB 3.0 signals up to 5 GBit/s and 3G-SDI with resolutions up to 1080p. The highly successful Draco tera compact KVM matrix switch series, designed for space-constrained installations such as OB vans and small studios, is now available in new models capable of switching SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and 3G-SDI. The series incorporates IHSE-developed universal I/O cards which can be individually loaded with SFP modules for coax and fiber connections, allowing users to choose and mix transmission formats to suit their requirements.
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slomoRental Extends Range of EVS Products
“The purchase meets the growing demand for tapeless solutions by our clients.”, states BartMeeus, managing director slomoRental, “We extend our rental product family with EVSXFile, EVS XTAccess and EVS IPDirector. These new products allow us way more flexiblity todevelop new creative tapeless production workflows for our clients.” With the purchase of these EVS products slomoRental is now ready to accelerate with acomplete range of products which are needed for complicated tapeless productionworkflows involving playout, recording, streaming, ingest and outgest. slomoRentalcontinues to search for new technologies to bring greater production value and innovation toits clients.
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Miller Camera Equipment Stands Sturdy Amongst TV Azteca Station Upgrade
When one of Mexico’s major commercial broadcast television networks, TV Azteca, began to undergo multiple station renovations, Moises Perez Trevino, the network’s Project 40 operations director, was tasked with the challenge of refurbishing Project 40’s newsroom with new ENG equipment. He chose to rely on Miller Camera Support Equipment, a leader in the production of innovating camera support solutions, to supply him with more than ten DS20 2-Stage Alloy Tripod, with ground spreader, systems to best fulfill his news reporters’ broadcast equipment needs.
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3D/4K ARISING
Editec Takes Delivery of Revolutionary New I-MOVIX X10 UHD 4K High Speed Camera
This purchase continues the long term relationship between Editec and I-MOVIX and further demonstrates a continued determination to offer clients the very latest technology in the field of ultra slow-motion. This hi tech new product offers Editec customers a Ultra Slow Motion capability at 4K - up to 1000fps using the easy-to-use I-MOVIX control panel or with an XT3 server direct streaming at 100fps. This latest purchase enables Editec to offer its clients the entire range of I-MOVIX products.
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NanoTech’s 4K Studios Brings Original Series to UltraFlix
NanoTech Entertainment announced that its 4K Studios Division will be releasing monthly episodes of new original series featuring comedy, sports, fashion and music. All of the original series content has been shot, mastered and delivered in 4K Ultra HD. NanoTech’s UltraFlix subscribers will have exclusive access to the series. Several events have already been captured and will start appearing on UltraFlix in September. The series will kick off with the recent Allure Fashion show; a one-of-a-kind, high-end fashion event bringing dozens of boutiques and designers under one roof. The combined fashion show and musical experience features a specially choreographed runway fashion shows integrated with a high-energy music.
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