Venice, CA— 3rd October, 2009—Lightcraft Technology has announced the successful long term rental of a Previzion® realtime on-set VFX compositing and tracking system by Zoic Studios. The time and money-saving system is being used in Zoic’s on set and post work with profoundly beneficial results to VFX aesthetics and budgets.

“Lightcraft Technology’s Previzion system is a critical component of Zoic’s on stage and post production pipeline called Z.E.U.S. (Zoic Environmental Unification System,)” says Mike Romey, Pipeline Supervisor for Zoic Studios. “The system binds pre-production digital assets with on-set visualization and post production effects and compositing. On stage, the system allows us to interact with digital sets in real time with a live more

Matrox MXO2 LE I/O Device

Portable, Professional I/O for the Mac with Matrox MAX Technology for Faster Than Realtime H.264 Encoding

Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 LE, an HDMI, SDI, and analog I/O device for the Mac, is now available from authorized dealers worldwide. Matrox MXO2 LE streamlines editing with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros and MacBook Pros. It provides all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy, portable breakout box with professional audio and video connectivity. Matrox MXO2 LE is also available with Matrox MAX technology for faster than realtime H.264 file creation using professional application such as Apple Compressor and Telestream Episode. more

Award-winning Matrox CompressHD card and Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O device speed up HD H.264 file creation for Blu-ray, Flash, YouTube, and the web

Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Windows drivers for Matrox CompressHD and Matrox MXO2 Mini with the MAX option are now available as a free download from the Matrox website for registered owners. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of HD H.264 files for Blu-ray, Flash, YouTube, and the web. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro on the PC. more

Northern Lights’ Ted Gannon composed and performed the music for Hilary Duff’s web video mini-series featured on Youtube called THE CHASE to promote her new clothing line for DKNY, “Femme”.

The first episode of THE CHASE, “Chapter One: The Beginning”, brought in over 350,000 views in its first week and became one of Youtube’s most watched videos. more

DV Expo evening session to feature expert commentary on production and post workflows using Canon’s 5D and new 7D and the Panasonic Lumix GH1 hybrid—new gear intros from Zeiss Optics and Redrock Micro

Los Angeles, CA—14th September 2009 — The Digital Cinema Society (DCS), an international nonprofit educational cooperative invites the professional production community to Seminars 2 & 3 in its September educational series. The September 23rd seminar offers expert advice on using the Canon 5D and new 7D and Panasonic’s Lumix GH1 hybrid digital still cameras in production. An up close look at Element Technica’s new camera/lens agnostic 3D rigs is featured on September 29th. more

IBC 2009 – Amsterdam - Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Softron Media Services’ MovieRecorder ingest application and OnTheAir Video playout application with the Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac. Softron’s products provide all the functionality needed to run a TV station on a Mac. They are in use at news and sports broadcasters, educational institutions, religious broadcasters, and postproduction facilities around the world. Matrox MXO2 provides all the features of an I/O card and breakout box with the added advantage of portability. It can be easily moved among Mac Pros in the studio and taken on the road with a MacBook Pro. more

September 10, 2009 — IBC 2009, Amsterdam, Stand 7.G41: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — is demonstrating new enhancements for the award-winning TouchStream live video streaming appliance at the 2009 IBC Conference and Exhibition, September 11-15 in Amsterdam.

Digital Rapids TouchStream

TouchStream delivers Digital Rapids’ renowned streaming video quality and reliability in a fully self-contained, portable appliance with unparalleled ease of use. Software controls are accessed through an intuitive touch-screen interface with integrated video monitoring, eliminating the need for laptops, keyboards, mice and separate monitors. Flexible features allow refinement of the incoming source and the addition of branding to the outgoing stream, while models supporting multiple formats — including VC-1 and H.264 compression formats for Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash technologies — more

Drivers now available for Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices and Matrox CompressHD H.264 encoder card

Matrox Video Products Group today announced that release 1.6 for Matrox MXO2, Matrox MXO2 Rack, Matrox MXO2 Mini, and Matrox CompressHD is now available as a free download from the Matrox website to all registered users. The Matrox products will be demonstrated at IBC 2009 on stand 7.B29. This release implements support for the new Final Cut Studio including Final Cut Pro 7 with Apple’s new ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) formats and Compressor 3.5.

“We strive to continually add value to our product line by providing customers with the features they need to support today’s most popular workflows,” said Wayne Andrews, product manager at Matrox. “This new release adds important options to our users’ creativity tool sets.”

Support for new Apple ProRes 422 formats:

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IBC 2009 Press Announcement

Spain’s largest broadcaster implements progressive MAM solution to facilitate total content exchange among main and regional locations.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – September 8, 2009 – Dalet Digital Media Systems announced at the IBC 2009 Exhibition (stand 8.B77) the deployment of Dalet Enterprise Edition at the Antena 3 Television main operation in Madrid and two regional locations on the Islas Canarias (Canary Islands); Las Palmas and Tenerife. Antena 3 uses the new Dalet system to create and air all news programs, as well as sporting event highlights and top-rated magazine programs such as Espejo Publico and ¿Que Me Pasa Doctor?. The ultra-modern workflow leverages the full production and playout capabilities of Dalet enterprise media asset management technology. Ingest, newsroom computer systems, desktop editing, scheduling and playout tools are fully integrated within the Dalet highly interoperable media asset management framework. User workspaces are constructed in more

Owlesbury, Hampshire (3 September 2009) – Julian Hiorns, managing director of Brick House Video, has announced plans to demonstrate SIS LIVE’s new compact Flyaway kit – RouteCase - at IBC 09 on Stand 8.B61. Built around Brick House Video’s broadcast specification Callisto Micro vision mixer, RouteCase packs a powerful and affordable unit into a carry-on flight case with the capabilities to support the production needs of live event staging, sporting events, business seminars and presentations, and news-gathering. more