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Qvest Media

Qvest Media, a subsidiary of the German Wellen+Noethen group, brings quality Made in Germany to the Middle East region. The Dubai based company for professional broadcasting and media applications offers high quality Sales, System Integration and Rental solutions for common and complex broadcasting and media environments. In the field of system integration, Qvest Media considers itself as a competent systems architect and service provider for broadcasting and TV production installations. From project management to implementation: as well as the choice of high-quality components, Qvest media offers  consulting, planning, installation and training services. The integration projects are based on both standard and complex hardware, software and service components. Currently Qvest Media has an HD OBVan and HD Uplink Van and an HD FlyPack System on sale. The HD OBVan is on show at Cabsat directly at the entrance of the exhibition and Qvest Media is happy to discuss all details at stand H2 S2-D3.

HD 12 Camera OBVan       HD UpLink Van        HD FlyPack

Cobalt Digital’s Dual-Channel MPEG Encoder Delivers for IMS Productions

IMS Productions supplies a full range of media services from two state-of-the-art HD trucks and a fleet of support vehicles for every major network reporting from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. IMS has taken delivery of Cobalt Digital’s new 9223 dual-channel 3G/HD/SD MPEG-4 encoder to transport multiple feeds to various devices for Verizon IndyCar race coverage.  The 9223 will send live signals to Verizon’s IndyCar app for mobile devices such as cell phones and tablets, as well as to car cameras and to race officials’ “race control” panel on the day of the race via a live car position track map generated from timing and scoring data and audio scanner feeds.

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Sound Devices 788T Uncovers the Sounds of the Sea

First Commercial Underwater Surround Sound Film: Recorded offshore from the Caribbean island of Bonaire in November 2011, the documentary is titled The Cannon Crackers of the Pistol Shrimp. As one of the loudest animals on the planet, pistol shrimp live in colonies of up to 16,000 and snap their claws so fast together the water around them vaporizes. They also create bubbles, which implode with a loud cracking sound. The cracking noises, along with vibrant imagery of the shrimp, form the basis of this groundbreaking film. In addition to  two Sound Devices 788T recorders, a Sonar Surround RS5 underwater surround rig attached to the Sound Devices underwater 7 Series housing with four Sonar Surround DS30 directivity spheres, each equipped with an Ambient TC4042 hydrophone were used.  Three Ambient TC 4013S hydrophones were attached to one of the camera housings and one Ambient TC4032 hydrophone was used to record far-off sounds.

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Shotoku Enables HD Production Facility for Swiss Radio & Television in Zurich

tpc, a subsidiary of Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), is responsible for technology and production of television, radio and multimedia for the public broadcasting entity. The company selected three TG-18 high performance remote pan and tilt heads with multiple, distributed controls and Shotoku's full Resilient Network Interface (RNI) option for enhanced system resilience. The configuration also incorporates two Ti-11 I-Height elevator pedestals, a pair of advanced TR-8T Touch Screen control systems, plus a TR-8B basic control panel and its companion TR-HP hot panel.

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Oman TV’s New High Definition Studios with Vinten and Vinten Radamec

Sony Professional Solutions MEA (PSMEA) is implementing the system integration for Oman TV’s new $69 million broadcast complex, which launched in November 2011. The Vinten and Vinten Radamec products were selected by Oman TV as part of an international tender and are due to be delivered to the studios by the end of April 2012. The order, for a total of 100 Vinten and Vinten Radamec products, includes Vinten’s Quartz two Pedestals, Vector 750 and the Vision 100 pan and tilt heads, as well as Vinten Radamec’s FH-100 Fusion heads and FP-188 robotic pedestals. The complex, based in the country’s capital, Muscat, will include four digital production studios, a news editing hall, three radio studios and production rooms.

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Olympic Games 2012: Gymnastics - Artistic

Hugely popular with audiences all over the world, Artistic Gymnastics looks set to draw huge crowds to North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Artistic Gymnastics competition will be held at the state-of-the-art Arena on the River Thames. The grace, strength and skill of Olympic gymnasts have been astonishing audiences since the Games in Ancient Greece, where Gymnastics was regarded as the perfect symmetry between mind and body. The best known of the three Gymnastics disciplines, Artistic Gymnastics is always among the most popular competitions at the Games. The first competition to be contested in London on 28 July is the team event, which doubles as the qualification round for the individual and all-around contests.

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EVS at SVG Summit in Paris

Representing EVS at the Football Production Summit, organised by SVG Europe on 29 February at the Stade de France in Paris, Luc Doneux – Head of APAC, EMEA & Major Sporting Events – will share his insights in a discussion panel on how football broadcast production is rapidly evolving due to new technology. Luc’s deep implication in the sport’s flagship events, including the upcoming European Championship, as well as EVS’ experience in live football broadcast production for the past 17 years, are bound to stimulate engaging discussions over hot topics, such as content repurposing for the web and second screen devices, the significance of monetising archives, and the impact of increasing the number of cameras and high-speed systems in football stadiums.

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Celebration Time: grandMA2 Joins Australia Day

Celebrated annually on 26th January Australia Day (previously known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day, and ANA Day) is the official national day of Australia. The date commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the proclamation at that time of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of New Holland. Community festivals, concerts and citizenship ceremonies accompany the day in large and small communities and cities around the nation. A special event is always the celebrations in Sydney – like this year in the town’s Darling Harbour. For the show taking place there lighting designer and video content producer Paul Collison again relied on MA Lighting products. In detail he used 2 x grandMA2 light and 1 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) as well as the grandMA2 3D software for previsualisation.

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Solid State Logic Congratulates - and Thanks - this Year's Grammy Winners

The company is extremely proud that more than 80 percent of the winning projects in the categories that recognise the quality of recorded music involved artists, producers or engineers who regularly use SSL consoles. This is also the first year that a Grammy winning broadcast has been recorded using one of SSL’s broadcast consoles, which the company first launched in 2003. The Grammy for Best Opera Recording went to Metropolitan Opera (the Met) for its live HD transmission and DVD recording of Doctor Atomic by composer John Adams. This performance was part of the Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD series, in which operas are broadcast live to theatres around the world and subsequently broadcast on PBS. The music production for all of the Met’s live television and radio broadcasts is done use using SSL’s C100 HDS digital broadcast console, installed in 2008 at the Met.

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London Fashion Week Comes to Life with Blackmagic Design!

Internationally recognized as a driving force behind innovation in fashion, Vauxhall Fashion Scout actively promotes both new and seasoned designers to an international audience through catwalk shows, presentations, fashion films and exhibitions. Based during London Fashion Week at the Freemasons’ Hall in central London, Fashion Scout looked to Brightonart to produce the catwalk videos that would be uploaded to Vimeo. Brightonart used Blackmagic Design’s ATEM 1 M/E Production Switcher to cut live footage from HD-SDI video feeds shot by two Sony EX-1 cameras. Program output was then captured on two SSD recorders; a Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Studio recording uncompressed 10-bit as a rolling backup and the other using DNxHD or ProRes as the master working file.

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Harris NEXIO® Studio Suite Improves Control in File-Based Workflows

NEXIO Studio Suite is designed for live multi-camera studio productions such as news and magazine-format, entertainment and reality TV shows.  It enhances the control of video servers in production studios, offering familiar video tape recorder (VTR) functionality while adding the operational benefits of multichannel, nonlinear video servers.  The software simplifies the operation and control of many server ports over IP networks, including multichannel recording and playback within NEXIO servers. NEXIO Studio Suite customers also benefit from the true shared storage architecture of NEXIO servers, providing users of Harris® Velocity ESX™ or Apple® Final Cut Pro® editors with instant access to content.  It is ideal for enabling specific tasks commonly associated with fast, live, multi-camera studio recording and playback.

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Television Agency Australia Installs Ross Video Carbonite

Independent production house, Television Agency of South Australia recently installed a Ross Video Carbonite 2 Multi-Definition Production Switcher in their OB Van. Television Agency offers a complete range of services for the television industry. Television Agency SA has the expertise to organise complete production of  television events. From studio to outside broadcast Television Agency SA can organise complete production crews and equipment. Cameras, lighting, audio, directing, assistants and rigging are all within its field of experience. Television Agency SA can also arrange on site crew catering. The experience ranges from recording stage productions and studio through to full outside live broadcast of sporting events for commercial television networks.

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Matrox Adds Exciting New Features to Convert DVI Plus HD-SDI Scan Converter

New features make Matrox Convert DVI Plus even simpler and more convenient to use. Automatic input detection is particularly important for A/V integrators who might regularly deal with a variety of input devices in the course of their work. Now any computer running at any resolution can be connected at the input, and Matrox Convert DVI will automatically output at the desired, preprogrammed resolution. The graphic overlay feature lets users add a custom logo or graphic to Convert DVI’s output. For example, any PNG or TGA file can be displayed over a YouTube video, a Skype conversation, or a Google Earth map. Snap-to-window support enables users to automatically position the region-of-interest to output any window or element within an application or website, such as a YouTube video.

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“Skip The Use”, Latest Show of the 3D Live Project

On February 14, 3DLIVE partners were committed to generate a very strong sense of immersion through the use of new optical cameras optimized for S3D, leveraging the designs of these innovative cameras which were used on a telescopic crane and a S3D shoulder mounted rig. The setting of these camera rigs was decided by the Director and the stereograph by using Binocle’s Disparity Tagger software, ensuring visual comfort of the S3D. The quality of the S3D experience of the viewer was further increased by using new S3D graphics techniques and special effects for live broadcast.

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The 2020 3D Media Project in Berlin

For the demonstration itself a 270º screen with 16 3D-sound channels was installed. The development of the 3D sound by Barcelona Media was the work of a start-up company which is integrating its 3D solutions in cinemas around the world. Another of the start-ups from the project is Camargus, a company which sells specialised audiovisual solutions using stitching technology developed at the University of Hasselt. Another of the demonstrations in Berlin showcased the signal distribution solution created by DataSat and the Technicolor warehousing based on a 10Gb Ethernet solution. The technologies developed by the other partners (Joanneum Research, Mediapro Research, University of Reading, Digital Projection, Grass Valley and Doremi), had been exhibited in previous events.

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