Blackmagic Design Announces OpenGear Converters

Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced support for the OpenGear standard for rack mount converters and processing products with the introduction of 8 new OpenGear converters. These converters are virtually identical to Blackmagic Design’s popular Mini Converter range, and the new OpenGear Converter range include models for analog video, HDMI, audio and optical fiber to and […]

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Triveni Digital Joins Harris Corporation, LG Electronics, MobiTV®, and Roundbox™

Triveni Digital today announced that it will join Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), LG Electronics Inc., Zenith Electronics, MobiTV® Inc., and Roundbox™ Inc. to provide a demonstration of ATSC Mobile TV, including single-frequency network (SFN) capabilities, at the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Show. Operating in conjunction with Harris encoding, muxing, SFN, and transmitter systems, the Triveni […]

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Ross Video Demonstrates A.I. Memory Recall at NAB

Iroquois, ON Canada – April 20, 2009 – Ross Video will demonstrate a revolutionary new memory recall feature that will enhance the way their production switchers function at NAB 2009. A.I. Memory Recalls allow a memory to be recalled to preview without affecting the MLE Program output. This doubles the power of a single MLE, […]

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Partial File Restore Engine (PFRE) Speeds Access to Specific Content for Production or Sale

SAN Solutions, a leading architect of enterprise-class network storage infrastructures for the media and entertainment markets, is showcasing its new Partial File Restore Engine (PFRE) this week during the 2009 NAB Show. The PFRE leverages centrally stored metadata to simplify the identification and extraction of specific footage from archives, in turn giving content owners significantly […]

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Sonnet Fusion™ R400P Four-Drive SATA Storage System Offers High Performance, Flexibility, Value

Sonnet Technologies today announced the Fusion™ R400P four-drive RAID SATA rackmount storage system, an economical and easy-to-deploy solution for flexible, high-performance storage in studio, control room, and mobile installations. Available in configurations from 0TB to 6TB, Fusion R400P features a fast eSATA interface with an integrated port multiplier for single cable to host connectivity, and […]

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Matrox CompressHD – New Product Announcement

For the Mac: Matrox CompressHD™ is the first implementation of Matrox MAX™ technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs […]

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NVIDIA UNVIELS INDUSTRY’S FIRST INTEGRATED GPU PLATFORM FOR BROADCAST PRODUCTION

NAB 2009, LAS VEGAS-April 20, 2009- NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the NVIDIA®® Quadro®® Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters to acquire, process and deliver virtual effects to video. The solution offers the fastest graphics computation engine for broadcast production, in a flexible, reliable and cost-effective PC-based platform. By providing a […]

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Tip: Monkey Extract Painlessly Converts R3D to QuickTime or Sequences

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I have advocated that – in most cases – when working with R3D files you should convert them to another format instead of attempting to preserve the R3D as long as possible. How exactly to optimally adjust footage in REDAlert and output it is the subject for a longer article that will have to wait […]

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