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Betamobil HD6

Berlin based Betamobil has been offering TV services since 1994, specializing in Outside Broadcast events and particularly sports and news. Broadcasters such as ARD and ZDF use Betamobil’s DSNGs for occasional events or one off news coverage. Betamobil supports HD live production in Dolby 5.1, recording with up to 20 cameras, with provision of EVS including networked nonlinear editing positions at the production site or an EB team, as well as satellite transmissions, DVD productions and video projections. Beta Mobile has three HD OBVans and five DSNGs.

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Eurocam Live EC11

Since more than seven years Eurocam TV and its qualified team of broadcast experts has helped Czech and Slovak broadcasters and production houses to bring sports, shows, music and entertainment  live onto the TV screens. Since 2004 Eurocam TV realized hundreds of television productions and programs for various television companies. Eurocam TV’s equipment contributes to the development and enrichment of television and multimedia productions in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. EC11 is divided into three sections: control, production and audio and due to the layout of the ex-parcel-delivery-truck each section has its own entrance door.

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evp Unit-10-HD

EVP has been a leading service providerfor the Swiss market since 1996, and is today a well-respected independent production company based in Geneva. The company maintains a dynamic approach to broadcast as well as institutional video production, with services ranging from corporate communications to television programs as well as coverage of conferences, sports and cultural events, and special evenings. By combining expertise, state of the art equipment and a highly motivated team of professionals, EVP stands for a customer-oriented production company always looking to deliver the very best for every programme genre.

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Antarctic Expedition Broadcasts Live

A NewTek TriCaster 860 multi-camera production system supplied and operated by broadcast facilities and hire specialist Shift 4 is at the heart of a purpose-built studio and control room streaming live footage from the Antarctic. 19 year old adventurer Parker Liautaud is aiming to set a new world speed record for a journey from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole. The expedition will also collect snow samples and weather data for environmental studies. To tell this amazing story to the world, content marketing agency Captive Minds contracted Shift 4 to provide MCR (master control room) facilities in the studio that the agency has designed and built in the foyer of global insurance giant Willis Group’s London headquarters.

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Helimedia Reaches New Heights with AJA Ki Pro Quad

Founded in 2007 by Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Skip Margetts, Helimedia caters to the aerial filming needs of clients across Southern Africa working in live-event broadcast, film, television and advertising. To complete each aerial production, Helimedia’s two-man team counts on a strong pool of freelance talent and an arsenal of specialized filming equipment – including two AJA Ki Pro digital video recorders and a newly added AJA Ki Pro Quad supporting 4:4:4 HD/2K and UHD/4K workflows.

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‘Dans le bus’ with MaTélé

An innovative ‘Citybus’, housing a mobile studio built entirely with Blackmagic Design products is broadcasting local news and features from the heart of a community in northern France. Matélé, a local TV station launched in May 2013, broadcasts to 315,000 households in Saint Quentin, in the Aisne department in Picardy. Its daily program, Dans Le Bus, features 40 minutes of interviews and footage with local personalities, business owners and the general public, produced from a Mercedes Sprinter, which travels around the city, filming constantly for five hours a day. As well as customizing the vehicle with brightly colored outside branding, the passenger seats have been replaced with comfy leather chairs to form a mobile studio, with the back of the vehicle housing a full production gallery.

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Russia’s TTC Ostankino Upgrades TV Studios to HD with Grass Valley

In 2013, Grass Valley added 36 LDX Flex cameras to the project and installed three Karrera Video Production Centers with K-Frame™. The upgrade, which will be complete by the end of 2014, will include the installation of 26 more LDX Flex camera systems and four more Karrera Video Production Centers. This will allow TTC Ostankino to produce superior HD programming in all 13 of its studios in Moscow, Russia. Grass Valley has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with TTC Ostankino since 2005, equipping the Russian production company with a broad range of innovative solutions.

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ESPN Selects Grass Valley to Outfit new HD Broadcast Facility

ESPN has selected Grass Valley® production technologies to equip its new HD Digital Center 2 broadcast facility in Bristol, CT, which is expected to be complete in spring 2014. The deal builds upon the longstanding relationship between ESPN and Grass Valley that spans three decades while strengthening Grass Valley’s position as a leader in the sports production market. Grass Valley is supplying ESPN with three Ignite® Automated Production Systems and three Kayenne® Video Production Centers with K2 Summit® 3G servers for Digital Center 2. Additionally, 40 LDX WorldCam™ camera systems will replace the current LDK models in ESPN’s existing Digital Center 1 facility. A fourth Ignite system was also purchased for ESPN’s new SEC (Southeastern Conference) Network, a 24/7 sports network that will launch in August 2014 in Charlotte, NC.

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RBB Maximizes Routing and Switching Flexibility Across HD Studios

Snell announced that Germany's Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) Potsdam has installed a Kahuna 360 multi-format production switcher, Sirius 830 multi-format hybrid router, and IQ Modular infrastructure to achieve maximum flexibility for two studios newly upgraded to HD. With these Snell systems, RBB Potsdam can operate both studios from a single switcher mainframe and routing switcher, using dedicated control panels for each studio. "This new Snell installation gives us the flexibility to leverage our studio space and equipment to a much greater advantage, running a higher number of productions more efficiently and cost-effectively," said Wolfgang Hanke, division head of technical production at RBB Potsdam.

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Channel 10 News Becomes First Studio in Israel to Use ETC Source Four LED™

When the managers for the news studio at TV station Channel 10 in Jerusalem were looking for new lighting, they knew they would need something small but high-powered for their relatively compact studio. They invited ETC’s Israel-based dealer Danor Theatre and Studio Systems to visit and discuss a range of different products. As marketing manager Erez Hadar explains: “We talked about the pros and cons of fixtures from several different manufacturers, before it was agreed that the ETC Source Four LED would be the best tool for the job.” The managers were impressed by the white-balancing features on the Source Four LED Studio HD model, which makes it easier to balance the lighting against high-definition studio cameras.

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Transat Jacques Vabre, The Yachting Race Departs Live with TriCaster

On the weekend of November 1st, the city of Le Havre saw some big television trucks debarking for the 11th edition of the Jacques Vabre yachting race. With a fully integrated mobile studio, 2Prod was part of the production teams on site the day before the departure, to ensure 2 live shows for national television broadcasting. November marks the departure of the Transat Jacques Vabre. Also called the Coffee Road, this two-handed transatlantic race follows the historic coffee trading route between France and Brazil. The day before the departure, televisions' OB vans from all over the world parked on the harbor of Le Havre to get a front-row seat for the departure of the race.

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Optocore Keeps Nitro Circus Flying High for Capital Sound

After selling out shows across Europe last year, Travis Pastrana's Nitro Circus Live is back on tour — beginning at the brand new 40,000 capacity Tele2 Arena in Stockholm. Capital Sound provided the sonic backdrop, including their Optocore X6R-FX interface rack, as some of the world’s hottest and best extreme sports stars of freestyle motocross, BMX and skate took part. The show also featured tricks and stunts on the 15ft high Nitro ‘Gigant-A-Ramp’ where skis, tricycles, skateboards, freezers and boogie board stunts were featured.

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Scottish Football League to Enhance Viewer Experience with NewTek 3Play

ID.TV, the Glasgow-based media company, has purchased a NewTek 3Play 4800 slow motion and instant replay system to enhance multi-camera, multi-platform coverage of Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) matches from its new production truck. The 3Play system was supplied and installed by systems integrator Sat-Comm Broadcast, which is also supplying and building the compact production SNG (satellite news gathering) vehicle for the SPFL. David McNeil, Managing Director, ID.TV, said, “We looked at many of the popular instant replay systems out there but none offered the incredible price-performance of 3Play. Plus, space is at a premium in the truck and the streamlined nature of the 3Play system and controller make it an ergonomic as well as economic fit.”

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Intergalactic Trip For XL Video at the 2013 MTV EMAs

XL Video collaborated closely with Ogle Hog to supply video production equipment, expertise and crew to the spectacular 2013 MTV EMAs staged at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. XL delivered nearly 800 square metres of various LED surfaces, video projections and creative / scenic LED elements plus control and 12 crew under the Project Management of Guido Ruysschaert to help realize an ambitious production design by Wieder Design from Germany. This was based on an intergalactic theme and featured a giant UFO style structure above a spherical stage.

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Gibonni Gets The Pointe in Belgrade!

Croatian megastar Gibonni recently played a special concert in the Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia in front of 20,000 fans who all went crazy for the occasion! The lighting utilized 22 x Robe ROBIN Pointes and 36 x LEDBeam 100s which were specified by Lighting Designer Sven Kučiniċ. Kučiniċ, based in Zagreb, Croatia started working with the hugely popular singer, musician and composer this year. Kučiniċ is a well-known LD in Croatia and was offered the gig following his high profile work with famous Croatian rockers Prljavo Kazaliste plus a plethora of musicals, concerts and events.

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Clay Paky Winner at “Miss America 2014” Pageant

The Miss America pageant returned to its Atlantic City origins this year and lighting designer Allen Branton was charged with lighting the cavernous Boardwalk Hall and making sure 53 beautiful women looked their best whenever the TV camera turned their way. He was aided by Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash fixtures from Atomic Lighting in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Branton marked his sixth consecutive year lighting the pageant, which was televised on ABC-TV.  After spending a number of years in Las Vegas the show moved back to Atlantic City where “the venue, audience and scenery doubled in size,” he reports.

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Adlib Brings the Horizon and More

Liverpool UK based rental specialist Adlib is supplying Sheffield Rock band Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) with a Midas PRO2 FOH console, outboard FX, Adlib FD2 side fills and mics-and-stands audio package for the European leg of their current ‘Sempiternal’ tour. This was boosted with a full L-ACOUSTICS racks-and-stacks system for their two sold out dates at London’s Brixton Academy. FOH Engineer Phil Gornell has worked with the band for five years in which time their live productions have grown steadily together with their enthusiastic fan base. The band return to the USA for a headline tour in early 2014, on the back of the huge success of the latest album & with an ever-expanding audience stateside.

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One Big Star Invests in Vari-Lite VLX3 Washes for Sell-Out Bryan Ferry Tour

Live music lighting designer Rod Clay is making good use of the colour rendering technology of Philips Vari-Lite's VLX3 LED Wash luminaires to provide key light for Bryan Ferry during his 'An Evening with Bryan Ferry' tour. Ferry remains the ideal combination of mystery man and rock star and Clay's flattering and restrained lighting palette artfully reflects this. Conjuring up an intimate, smoky jazz club feel on the show's opening, half way through he seamlessly segues into dynamic concert style lighting backed by bright video imagery.

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Bexel is First to Take Advantage of Sony’s New HDC-3300R

Bexel, a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, is the first to take delivery of the latest HDC-3300R Super Motion Camera. Bexel currently has two cameras deployed for ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader in Sports, for NCAA football games. “Bexel has always taken a leadership position in slow-motion cameras and the new version of the HDC-3300R Super Motion Camera fosters our service capabilities in that space,” says Tom Dickinson, chief technology officer of Bexel. “We are very excited to have the new 3300R version in our rental fleet. The 1080p capability and improved sensitivity allows this camera to perform at a higher standard for indoor and outdoor applications.”

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Blackmagic Design Announces New Apple ProRes™ Formats for HyperDeck Studio!

Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of HyperDeck 4.1 software which adds three new Apple ProRes™ file formats for the HyperDeck Studio broadcast recorder. HyperDeck 4.1 update is available now free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website. HyperDeck Studio customers can already record and playback in uncompressed, or compressed ProRes 422 (HQ) and DNxHD formats. This new software update adds three additional Apple ProRes™ file formats, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes (Proxy) which provides customers with significantly reduced video file sizes while preserving full frame 10-bit 4:2:2 quality.

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3xScreen Deploys LiveU for Multi-Unit Cellular Coverage Including Live Doggie-Cam

LiveU has announced that London-based 3xScreen Media, a studio that provides live and on-demand online video services for agencies, corporates, events and sports, has deployed a wide range of LiveU technology to create innovative, live, multi-stream coverage of the Stylist Ford Fiesta 24-Hour Challenge. The star of the LiveU line-up was the live feed from the “doggie-cam”, sent using the new LU-Smart App on an iPhone 5S, mounted on the back of the adorable office dog McNulty. The Challenge was to capture and live stream the creation of an issue of Stylist Magazine over a single 24 hour period – something that normally takes a week.

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4K Live Record of Bercy Tennis Tournament

After Coldplay and Andrea Bocelli’s concerts in 2012, Muse’s concert in July 2013 4K Live records by United, a dutch subsidiary of Euro Media Group, Euro Media Group was on BNP Paribas Tennis Masters in Bercy (Paris). On the 4 Sony F55 cameras were used 2 PL mount Angénieux zoom lenses : the Optimo 28-340 and the Optimo 15-40. Ronald Meyvisch, New Technology Officer by Euro Media Group gave us his feedback. “We used the lenses on the camera 5 which was in the stand in ‘beauty’ position. We first put the 15-40 to have a ‘beauty’ shot of Bercy. Then we replaced it with the 28-340 to have better rendering from the camera at this spot. At 28mm, we still had a nice ‘beauty’ shot and the 340mm focal length allowed us to take tele shots of players. Having a wide-angle zoom lens until 340 mm increases the opportunities of a camera spot giving us much more diversity in shots."

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FOX Sports' NFL Coverage Goes 4K With EVS

FOX Sports has deployed EVS’ 4K XT3 server with Epsio Zoom for its live coverage of the National Football League’s 2013-2014 season. Its 4K ‘Super Zoom’ workflow is enabling FOX Sports to zoom in on key replays to give viewers clearer close-ups of content such as controversial calls. The system was supplied by Video Equipment Rentals (VER), which added the 4K capabilities to one of its existing EVS XT3 servers for a cost-effective upgrade to 4K. “With EVS’ 4K server, we can take advantage of the higher resolution of 4K to give viewers clearer and highly detailed close-ups of the action,” said Jerry Steinberg, senior vice president, technical operations, FOX Sports.

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United Is Introducing the iOne

It is ready for the future, innovative and equipped for (amongst other things) business to business productions, internet productions and streaming, smaller sporting events and screen recordings with a smaller crew. United distinguishes itself with the iOne by the choice of equipment and the flexibility with which the hardware and the software running on it can be used. With the iOne, television can be made in the usual way; there is simply less space in the car, and everything – audio mixer, image mixer and router – is smaller in size. The big advantage with the iOne is that a professional production can be made with less people, which could be the solution for smaller productions from industry and for local or regional broadcasts.

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