Eventlive-Group, a leading AV equipment and service supplier in Biarritz, France, has added a complement of Claypaky Mini-B fixtures to its extensive lighting inventory.
 

The latest System T broadcast platform release from Solid State Logic addresses many of the ongoing IP and security challenges within modern audio production. With expanded AoIP integration providing direct console routing control for ST2110-30 and AES67 streams, and a major embedded operating system upgrade, broadcasters can embrace remote production and increased IP expansion and connectivity with confidence.

About the Summer Sessions:

New Summer Sessions presentations are being released every Friday until September. Led by industry experts, presentations focus on media-over-IP workflows as well as use cases and supporting technologies.

The Summer Sessions series is endorsed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES), AIMS, Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers^® (SMPTE^®), Ultra HD Forum, and VSF.

• IBC Showcase to take place from 8-11 September, with registration open now
• Showcase will feature three Programmes: Exhibitor Showcase, Content Programme, and Product news and launches
• IBC Accelerators will also be showcased as part of virtual show

Shanghai Media Tech together with CBN empowered innovation at the Cloud Summit of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), provided integrated technical solutions for this international conference, which perfectly presented the exciting moments of the opening ceremony of the main venue, themed forums, and featured events, guaranteed 3×24-hour content output in the live broadcast room, meanwhile showed the achievements of SMT cloud + AI + virtual + 5G science and technology , and brought smart application scenarios such as "virtual cloud audiences".

Despite current lockdown restrictions still in place in many countries, disguise xR technology has enabled partner XR Studios to create a limitless performance environment for Grammy award winning hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas to promote their new album on primetime TV shows across the world. Black Eyed Peas recorded performances of four new songs with XR Studios, which have since been distributed in ‘promotion packages’ to seven primetime shows across the world, including Good Morning America and The Late Late Show with James Corden in the US, Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer in the UK and even more across Europe. These packages are combined with a band interview with the host of the show, and the recorded performances are played out, dazzling millions of viewers.

Each year, WinShape Camps attracts over 30,000 students to its Christian-led summer camps across the U.S. but like most outdoor camps were forced to cancel in-person events this year due to the Covid pandemic. In order to relieve the disappointment and give kids a fun and engaging experience anyway, WinShape has been working with Stacked Hearts Productions to create an engaging virtual experience that brings the fun of summer camp directly into homes. Through a combination of engaging video content and home-delivered packages, the virtual experience ON offers kids K-12 something new to explore every week.

Because of the numerous tradeshows and industry events cancelled around the globe and current travel restrictions, Claypaky has not able to present their new products in person. To supplement these opportunities, the company has created a virtual booth to introduce and showcase their latest product innovations to the industry.

MA Lighting launches a new member of its grandMA3 onPC solutions range: the grandMA3 onPC command wing XT. It is the grandMA3 onPC console solution. With the grandMA3 onPC software pre-installed on a built-in MA motherboard, the grandMA3 onPC command wing XT offers 4,096 parameters – just add one to four touchscreen monitors, and it´s ready to go!  grandMA3 onPC command wing XT is an extremely versatile solution for smaller and mid-sized installations and shows, streaming studios as well as a powerful preprogramming and backup tool on the road. It is built to the same highest standards of quality in software and hardware that are applied to the entire grandMA3 product range ensuring that users will benefit from this MA DNA. grandMA3 onPC command wing XT is the perfect option for new MA users as well as MA veterans. 

The wonderful world of entertainment technology is renowned for those who can think out-of-the-box … and this pandemic is seeing no end of creative and imaginative ways in which people and companies are trying to boost morale and support the soul of live performance! Seattle, USA-based Joe Cole, owner of lighting rental company R90, was savoring some good conversation and a whisky-on-the-rocks over Zoom with his friend, attorney Neil Juneja of Gleam Law one Wednesday evening, and like most of us, missing shows, music and the incredible buzz and camaraderie of live events that has temporarily evaporated under lockdowns worldwide.

RUSHWORKS, provider of cool technology for production, playback and streaming since 2001, today announced the release of the RESIDENTIAL PROMPTER KIT, a small desktop teleprompting kit that uses your webcam to capture home-based presentations. It’s an inexpensive complement for the company’s RUSHPROMPTER software for Windows applications that’s available for download, trial and purchase from the RUSHWORKS website for $99. Rush Beesley, RUSHWORKS founder and president, provided details about the kit from company headquarters in Flower Mound, Texas.
 

ChyronHego today announced the appointment of Michael Harris as senior director of sales, strategic accounts. Harris comes to ChyronHego with decades of experience in broadcast technology sales. He will be responsible for managing and growing strategic accounts in the U.S. with a focus on major networks.

The next version of Grass Valley’s award-winning editing solution, EDIUS X, will be released  in September 2020. Prior to release, the expert EDIUS teams from Grass Valley and EDIUS.NET are highlighting its top features and enhanced capabilities in three online events. The first session,  presenting the new core of EDIUS, took place mid-June 2020. The recorded livestream, with more than 10,000 views, is available at www.edius.net/x. The video is in English with subtitles in Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.

As one of Italy’s most respected film composers, Federico De Robertis has spent more than three decades working in the world’s leading post production studios. Now, Florence-based acoustic design specialist Studio Sound Service has dramatically transformed De Robertis’ personal studio, assisted by a Genelec monitoring system which the composer describes as “simply perfect”.Perhaps best-known for his long-term, award-winning collaboration with celebrated filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores, De Robertis began working in his current studio space after relocating to the countryside near the Italian town of Lucca. His twin passions of cinema and music come together within the studio, where he works with Fede e gli Infedeli, the eclectic group of musicians with whom he collaborates for film scores, and the Underground Supporters, a collective of young and talented DJs and electronic music producers from Lucca, who also organize the afterparty for the famous Notte Bianca all-night summer festival.Until recently, however, the studio was extremely humble.

In April and June 2020, RTBF, Belgium’s public broadcaster for the country’s French-speaking community, took delivery of two ground-breaking and identical full-IP OB trucks, with equipment of DirectOut playing a mayor role. The two trucks were built at the German headquarters of system integrator Broadcast Solutions. The OBs are a joint development by the customer, Broadcast Solutions and NEP Belgium, who will lease the vehicles to RTBF. Both units make extensive use of DirectOut equipment for audio signal conversion, transmission and signal monitoring.