Pond5 Gives Away $25,000 in Stock Footage and Audio, and a 27″ iMac

Pond5.com, the web-based marketplace for stock footage and audio, turns 4 this month and is celebrating with a major promotion all throughout April. $25,000 in credit will be given away in daily drawings to users who log into the site or stop by one of Pond5’s booths at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas […]

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HaiVision Announces Makito AIR™, Ruggedized HD H.264 for Airborne Video and Metadata Applications

HaiVision Network Video today announced the availability of the Makito AIR™, a compact, ruggedized version of its commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Makito™ technology that also includes metadata capability. Meeting stringent DO-160 specifications and with MIL-STD connectors, the Makito AIR delivers HD H.264 encoding at up to 1080p60 resolution. This new encoder is ideal for all military, […]

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S-0808 Battery-Powered Digital Snake and S-4000M REAC Merge Unit Now Available

S-0808 Battery-Powered Digital Snake and S-4000M REAC Merge Unit Now Available 1

The RSS S-0808 8×8 Digital Snake and RSS S-4000M REAC Merge Unit is now shipping and is available through authorized Roland Systems Group Resellers. The S-0808 Digital Snake is an 8in/8out compact, lightweight digital snake that supports multiple power options including battery-power, embedded-powered over REAC and power over Ethernet (PoE). The inputs offer remote controllable […]

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PENTA Studiotech to Introduce ‘World’s Smallest HD Camera’ at NAB

PENTA Studiotech today announced that it will introduce the Lux Media Plan (LMP) HD1200 micro camera system to the North American market at the 2010 NAB Show. The ultra-compact HD 1200 offers remote-controlled, high-quality HD video capture for a range of specialized broadcast and production environments. “LMP and the HD1200 are well-known to European broadcasters, […]

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Calrec Audio Launches Modular I/O Box for Hydra2 Network at 2010 NAB Show

Calrec Audio today announced that a fully customizable 3U I/O interface box that fits into its Hydra2 Network system will debut at the 2010 NAB Show. The new modular I/O box, designed to meet the rigors of live production whether in an OB truck or on a studio floor, contributes to fast, easy signal routing […]

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Autodesk Integrates Craft Director Studio into 2011 Versions of its 3ds Max and Softimage Software

Craft Animations™ and Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the integration of certain Craft Director Studio™ plug-ins within the 2011 versions of Autodesk® 3ds Max® , Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design and Autodesk® Softimage® software. Based on cutting-edge research in autonomous control systems, Craft Director Studio provides interactive control and simulation of cameras and vehicles, which […]

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CNN, ESPN and Adobe Discuss Broadcasting’s New Realities

If you’re going to NAB, check out the super session where Adobe’s John Loiacono, CNN’s Michael Koetter, and ESPN’s Damon Phillips are talking about how they are changing business practices and production pipelines to stay profitable in today’s evolving media landscape. The session is on Monday, April 12th from 11:00am – 11:30am in room S222 […]

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SpeakerText – Read my clips

SpeakerText – Read my clips | SpeakerText. SpeakerText is an easy-to-use tool that lets you find, read and share what people are saying inside of videos. SpeakerText takes a regular YouTube video like this one, of Marc Andreessen…and turns it into this. With SpeakerText, the transcript becomes part of the video itself. You can use […]

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Federated search: closing in on the speed gap

Federated search: closing in on the speed gap Federated Search Blog. [ Editor’s note: This article first appeared in theOSTI Blog. Dr. Walt Warnick, Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, part of DOE, and I co-authored the article. This is a visionary piece. It addresses the question of what it would take […]

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Taxonomy and Classification resources should sit on development teams

Wendi Pohs: Semantics in practice: Taxonomy and Classification resources should sit on development teams. Little bursts of controversy seem to occasionally erupt in the blog-o-sphere that ignite the debate about the “worth’” of taxonomy, and by extension, of taxonomists. But the debate tends to focus on defining a taxonomist’s job. I think that we have […]

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