Integrating virtual machines in KVM installations and operating them remotely – with this solution, G&D's RemoteAccess-CPU impressed the jury of this year's System Contractor News Innovation Awards. The US magazine awarded the innovative KVM system as Product of the Year 2020. With their product launch, KVM experts Guntermann & Drunck GmbH (G&D) are hitting the nerve of the times by supporting cloud computing and virtualisation processes in companies in order to enable hybrid infrastructures. The new modules establish a connection between matrix systems and virtual machines, which can be accessed remotely via network protocols (RDP, VNC and SSH). This way, hybrid systems with real and virtual computer infrastructures can be optimally implemented.

Atomos is excited to be announcing that the Nikon Z 7II now shipping is readily available with output and recording of up to 4Kp30 Apple ProRes RAW files when combined with the Atomos Ninja V HDR monitor-recorder.
 

Ross Video is pleased to announce the appointment of Jared Schatz to the new role of Senior Vice President of Vertical Markets & Solutions.

Clear-Com strengthens their Military, Aerospace and Government (MAG) team with the appointment of Kevin Broce as the new Government Accounts Manager, reporting directly to Director of Government Solutions, Patricia Griffin. The MAG sales team has seen considerable growth in recent years and is excited to welcome Kevin in this key position.  
 

Like many in the lighting industry, Costa Rican lighting professional Emilio Aguilar has used the pandemic downtime to learn new competencies and better his skill set. Finding himself back home in Costa Rica last spring following Cirque du Soliel’s bankruptcy, Aguilar got in contact with longtime collaborators Luces y Sistemas, the exclusive distributor of Obsidian Control Systems products in Costa Rica. “I inquired about the NX2™ lighting console, which I thought would be the perfect console for the types of gigs I do,” he states. “They were happy to show me the console and in the end it was just what I wanted.” Luces y Sistemas provides full support for the entire Obsidian line of hardware and software lighting control solutions in Costa Rica.
 

The annual ARTE Concert Festival went virtual this year with three days of music live streamed to audiences worldwide.  Lighting Designer Pierre Claude deployed seven Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K10 fixtures, two dozen Claypaky HY B-EYE K25 LED washes and 16 ADB SVOBODA classic batten fixtures for the live musical performances shot at La Gaite Lyrique in Paris, November 13-15.

As we celebrate our 50th year in business throughout 2021, we invite you to “Find Your Next Innovation” during the year-long celebration. To better serve our customers and potential customers, we've upgraded our website, FOR-A.com, to provide easier navigation. Featured in our revamped website is our new blog series, "FOR-A Forum." The "Forum" is part of our overall mission to keep lines of communication open and accessible 24/7. We promise to keep you informed and engaged regarding the latest developments within our company, our industry and the impact of global events on both.

Luxury fashion brand Dior’s flagship London store has launched its festive Christmas display, unveiling an entirely video mapped frontage powered by a Hippotizer Nevis+ Media Server.

Sound Devices is pleased to announce firmware version 7.20 for 8-Series mixer-recorders and companion app SD-Remote. Firmware v7.20 supports the new SD-Remote for iPhone and the just-released four-instance and eight-instance versions of the NoiseAssist plugin for 8-Series.

TVU Networks, the market and technology leader in cloud and IP-based live video solutions, announces the addition of two broadcast industry sales veterans to its Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Natasha Dickson leads sales efforts in the southern and eastern part of the African continent, reporting to Sushant Rai, Vice President, Sales – South Asia, Middle East and Africa. Patrick Morel heads sales initiatives for France and the Benelux region, reporting to Rafael Castillo, Vice President and General Manager for Europe and Latin America.
 

Remote Recording Network (RRN), Riedel Communications, TV Skyline, The Black Project, and 13 other partners collaborated in the production of a landmark virtual live event on Nov. 22-23 that brought together teams working remotely across four countries and three continents. Headed by Peter Brandt, CEO of RRN, the show represented the first-ever fully decentralized production of a live, global music event.

To step up their digital footprint, American football team the Pittsburgh Steelers brought in Brooklyn, NY-based KMH Integration to consult with their production team on a major facility upgrade. The task was to evaluate the team’s TV and radio production and propose facility designs and workflow changes to improve them. According to KMH Integration President Kevin Henneman, this was a typical case of the end-user’s requirements outgrowing their current systems and workflows. “Like many organizations, the Steelers started their digital efforts in social media, connecting with their fans. But they realized that the time had come to expand their digital content capabilities,” he notes. “They had a large studio space but no control room, so they literally could not do radio and TV at the same time. It was a pretty major redesign.”

The 2020 League of Legends World Championship has a duration of 5 weeks and it is divided in 3 stages: Play-Ins Stage, Groups Stage and Knockout Stage. Only the Grand Final will be at Pudong Stadium, the rest will be held at SMT, in a studio with no audience. XR (Extended Reality) is the main focus of this event. It is known that this will be the first time using XR in competitive scene.

Sweden’s Malmo Opera presented an acclaimed production of musical classic “Funny Girl” as part of the autumn / winter repertory programme which continued to run despite the pandemic! Audience figures were dramatically reduced to 50 plus a livestream which could be enjoyed by all who had bought a ticket for each performance. Planned two years earlier and fully sold out many months in advance, Malmo Opera decided to go ahead in delivering all their dynamic seasonal main house productions as the budgets were already allocated and spent.

The arid, exquisitely cinematic beauty of the Arizona desert and the paranormal charm of the Arcosanti community united for the staging of “Existential Reckoning”, an ambitious and extraordinary site-specific streamed concert of the new album by ‘supergroup’ Puscifer initiated by Maynard James Keenan. For all the incredible works we are seeing created with VR, XR and AR … there is nothing to beat the ethereal heartbeat of nature and the concept of experimental living as a surround environment. Lighting designer Sarah Landau was thrilled and intrigued to be asked to light the concert livestream, having been fascinated with the idea of Arcosanti for some time but not yet visited. She added Robe MegaPointes and PixelPATTs to her lighting design for this intricately constructed performance movie which took place over three equally interesting locations around the site.