Riedel Communications and Remote Recording Network (RRN) today announced their collaboration on a unique remote mastering service for a live-streamed concert performed by Peter Maffay and local musicians from Steintor-Varietè in Halle, Germany.

PHABRIX is pleased to announce that its Qx rasterizer and handheld Sx TAG were successfully self-tested against the criteria for AMWA NMOS TR-1001-1 and SMPTE 2110 at the recent JT-NM Spring 2020 self-test.

CampusLore, a platform for a pro-players’ take on the US College game that creates original video content with professional athletes, has adopted the Quicklink for NFL and NBA athlete content creation.
 

EVS, the leading provider of live video technology for broadcast and new media productions, today announces the launch of LSM-VIA. Based on its iconic LSM live slow motion control panel, the new IP-based replay and highlights solution gives production facilities and service providers the tools they need to tell the live stories they want with amazing flexibility, greater functionality and fewer keystrokes. Developed in close collaboration with EVS’ community of highly skilled operators, it meets today’s and tomorrow’s industry demands while maintaining EVS’ trademark speed and reliability, empowering users to address all live production expectations.

Commissioned by the Qiddiya Investment Company (Q.I.C.) and with phase one planned to open in 2023, the highly ambitious Qiddiya project is destined to be the upcoming capital for arts, entertainment and sports in Saudi Arabia. The immense 334km2 site will be built from a focus on the tourism and recreation industries, as highlighted in the Saudi Vision 2030 expansion plan by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, His Royal Highness Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud. The destination includes plans for expansive water and theme parks as well as a community of 5,000 residents, all within a 40-minute journey of the Riyadh capital. The destination, currently an expansive, vast land with hundreds of miles of potential, will be surrounded by immense 200 metre cliffs. Phase one of the project will feature “Six Flags Qiddiya” as a family attraction, providing visitors with endless entertainment and attractions to explore which take into consideration the cultural and natural aspects of the area, including the mountains.

The Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus theatre has extended its long relationship with Optocore, in order to keep pace with evolving technology. In the case of such a formidable, multi-space complex as this, an agile digital infrastructure, with multiple routing options and interconnectivity, is essential. To maintain this, the theatre has upgraded the original Optocore analogue network, installed in 2011, to an advanced and future-proof system.

Grass Valley continues to support collaboration across the media production chain to strengthen deliverables for customers by welcoming several new members to the Grass Valley Technology Alliance (GVTA). Launched in April 2019, the certification program delivers key benefits to customers, such as improved purchasing confidence and access to a wide range of systems and solutions that are interoperable with Grass Valley platforms and workflow components. EcoDigital, Haivision, Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC) and Vitec Group’s  Vinten and Autoscript join the five existing companies already part of the GVTA.

Tallinn, Estonia-based technical production and rental company Strikken has been doing its bit to support the nation’s fight against coronavirus by voluntarily assisting the Synlab Eesti OU laboratory in collecting and transporting Covid-19 test samples gathered from all around the country. This is tied into research being conducted by the University of Tartu, including a three-month study on the prevalence of coronavirus among both symptomatic and asymptomatic people. At least 16,000 residents – based on a random statistical sample – will be interviewed and invited to be tested for coronavirus.

Following the announcement that IBC2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus, IBC chief executive Michael Crimp speaks to IBC365 about the decision to cancel, and plans for going virtual. Michael Crimp: Chief executive of IBC discusses hard decision to cancel IBC2020

Tellyo, leading developers of a cloud-based live video editing, clipping, and stream production suite, today announced that they produced the Crufts Young Kennel Club event, the world’s greatest dog show, with Sunset+Vine, for livestreams of the four-day event. The show, held March 5-8, 2020 at the NEC, in Birmingham, England, is organized by the Kennel Club and the Young Kennel Club Ring functions as an all-day, every day program.

Ekstraklasa, the company managing the top-class football competitions in Poland, is selling international broadcasting rights to the league matches, restarted after the pandemic. It has already signed agreements regarding broadcasts in Great Britain and Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Israel. Moreover, the contract regarding Germany, Austria and Switzerland has been expanded to include the broadcasting of up to 10 more matches. Further negotiations with the partners from Europe are ongoing. The Polish league is to be restarted on 29 May.

MultiCAM Systems, founded in 2003, is a French company that offers video production services and builds easy-to-use video production systems shipped throughout the world. I had a conversation with co-founders Stan Walbert and Prasad Ramassamy, both of whom are now self-isolating: Prasad in his apartment in Paris and Stan in a country house out of town. Stan, who is also a world-class VJ, had his performance at the Dubai Expo cancelled, which now leaves him with more time to do marketing and product development for MultiCAM, as well as to discuss how a Medialooks Video SDK and hardware by Blackmagic Design have helped develop their business.

Join Elation National Sales Manager John Dunn and Global Product Manager Matthias Hinrichs on the May 27^th Elation Hour as they discuss trade show, corporate and special event design with John Featherstone, Chris Medvitz and Ignacio Rosenberg of lighting design group LightSwitch.

As an audio professional with experience stretching from the Paleo festival in the 1970s, through working with many of the world’s highest profile artists, to his current role of designing high end audio installations for events and venues, Pierre-André Aebischer knows a thing or two about sound. This experience is why he chose Yamaha’s STAGEPAS 1K all-in-one portable PA systems to demonstrate the advantages of multi-channel, immersive live audio.

Philip French of UK technical production company Peachy Productions has just relocated to Wiltshire after being based in the Surrey city of Guildford for 8 years, however, during the coronavirus crisis he is making the journey back twice a week to volunteer for the Surrey Drive Campaign … This is a locally-based crowd-funded initiative that delivers around 2,500 delicious and nutritious cooked meals – with locally sourced ingredients – each week for hardworking staff at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust hospital.