post-production

APB+

Work/life balance: Remote post-production advances save costs, ‘more hours editing, less behind the wheel’

By Shaun Lim Among the many technology firsts displayed at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, OBS Cloud, a collaboration between Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and Alibaba Cloud, could prove to be the most instructive in predicting how media production teams will operate in a world that continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Post Production

Netflix carries out pledge to upskill creative professionals

In partnership with the Government of Maharashtra and Amsterdam Post Lab, APostLab, the program trains producers and post-production supervisors on the tools, techniques, systems and skills to specialise in complex episodic storytelling.

Management

Switch TV goes live in HD

German systems integrator Broadcast Solutions designed and supplied equipment for Switch TV’s new HD TV station Located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, Switch TV is a new HD TV station wholly-owned by the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).

Camera

Grass Valley heads to Inter BEE with end-to-end solutions

Rio and Edius editing software family, as well as LDX 86N cameras, are some of the solutions on display Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, will be exhibiting a suite of solutions at Inter BEE 2018.

Camera

Five Peas taps Videocraft’s expertise for MTV project

Videocraft supplied equipment from Sony, AJA Video Systems and Ross Video to support Five Peas’ production of MTV Unplugged When chosen to produce an entire series of MTV Unplugged, Five Peas, a video production house based in Australia, approached Videocraft as its technology partner to manage all aspects of the event and shoot, in addition to providing post production for broadcast.

Creation

EditShare releases Lightworks 14.5

The latest version of the Lightworks non-linear editor includes over 70 new features and 500 improvements, and is integrated with support for smartphone and tablet formats and variable frame rates EditShare has released version 14.

Management

GB Labs brings FastNAS NitroMAX to NAB Show New York

Following a successful IBC2018 last September, the FastNAS NitroMAX storage solution will travel with GB Labs to 2018 NAB Show New York As a solutions provider for media storage and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered workflows, GB Labs has been supporting the media industry with its solutions ranging from ingest and 4K/Ultra HD (UHD) and 8K video editing to post production and archive.

Creation

A vibrant new era of storytelling

More editors are leveraging 4K/Ultra HD and HDR technologies to bring their stories to life It is no secret that HD has become a norm for filmmaking, regardless if the final content is being distributed onto linear or online platforms, or a combination of both.

Creation

Blackmagic Design is newest member of Netflix Post Technology Alliance

The company’s DaVinci Resolve post-production software and URSA Mini cameras are now certified with the Post Technology Alliance logo Blackmagic Design has added its support to the Netflix Post Technology Alliance, with the URSA Mini 4.

Management

EditShare’s EFS platform manages post workflows for redchillies.vfx

Core to redchillies.

BroadcastAsia2018

Sennheiser and partners resolve complex RF challenges

The demands on audio professionals are constantly evolving, bringing forth more channels, bigger stages and more complex radio frequency (RF) conditions.

BroadcastAsia2018

AJA’s KONA accelerates productivity in multi-format environments

AJA Video Systems will be showcasing the KONA series of capture cards, including KONA HDMI, an eight-lane PCIe 2.

Creation

NewTek brings new approach to real-time motion graphics creation

LiveGraphics allows broadcasters to go directly to air with 10 channels of real-time animated graphics NewTek has introduced LiveGraphics, which allows content authored in Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe After Effects CC to be available for live output from NewTek’s TriCaster TC1 and NewTek IP series, with fully replaceable text and images that can be driven by live data and Web content.

Management

EditShare enhances workflow efficiency for Element

To better manage its growing business workload, the Dublin-based post-production house has installed a series of EditShare’s solutions, such as the XStream EFS 300 storage server and AirFlow for remote production Element, a Dublin, Ireland-based post-production facility, has implemented a variety of solutions from EditShare, including an XStream EFS 300 scale-out storage server, Ark archiving solution, Flow media asset management (MAM), and AirFlow for remote collaboration applications in order to better manage the growing business workload.