When Adobe doesn’t debut new products at NAB, they tend to offer interesting and often far reaching product “previews.� This year, it was Adobe Story, a new online/offline program for collaborative scriptwriting that will debut in “CSNext,� no date announced or implied during our interview with Simon Hayhurst.
Why a screenwriting program? Because most serious productions have a screenplay that contains the dialog and descriptive information about scene location and the associated action. Scripts in Adobe Story get converted to metadata that Adobe can use all the way through to the Flash Player. In online productions, advertisers can buy ads in just the right locations, like auto insurance during chase scenes, or a Bombay Sapphire Gin advert when Bond orders his martini, shaken, not stirred. Basically, Adobe has staked a long term claim on the over-arching value of metadata, and Adobe Story is their latest investment. more…
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Inlet Technologies, a leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced at NAB 2009 that it is supporting ZillionTV Corporation’s distribution of high-quality personalized television. The ZillionTV Service utilizes Inlet’s Armada automated encoding workflow management platform as its backend encoding infrastructure to support the encoding handled by ZillionTV’s third-party encoding company partners. Read on at The Briefing Room
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Thomson Grass Valley‘s Kayenne video production center is a new family of switchers that integrates features of the company’s Kalypso and Kayak models and adds new advances that help to streamline production workflow for HD projects. Watch the video.
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At NAB (Booth N4031), world-leading media technology innovator Solid State Logic (SSL) will announce a partnership with Ross Video to fully integrate the Ross OverDrive Production Control System, used to control video and audio components in a broadcast environment, with the C10 Digital Broadcast Audio Console. This strategic integration delivers essential control of the C10 fader, channel on/off and pan operations to the OverDrive system, increasing production workflow through pre-programmed automation functions, resulting in reduced engineering time on task. Read on at The Briefing Room
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Sony’s HSC-300 HD studio camera is designed to provide broadcasters a high-quality, yet accessible entry into HD production. Watch the video.
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Blackmagic Design announced two new audio Mini Converters with innovative features and technologies. Mini Converter SDI to Audio de-embeds audio from the SDI input out to either 4 channels of balanced analog audio or 8 channels of AES/EBU digital audio. Audio can be switched between analog and digital audio. SDI input video features a loop-thru output for connection to other SDI devices. Read on at The Briefing Room
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Let’s be honest; when I saw my appointment with Avocent (who?), I found their web site, saw that they produced KVM switches (what?) and immediately penciled in a (yawn). I couldn’t have been more wrong—just got back from the meet, and I’m jazzed.
Avocent is shipping KVM over a network, and I want one. In case you don’t know, KVM technology stands for keyboard, video and mouse, and desktop units, like the four-port unit that I currently have, let you control multiple computers from one keyboard, mouse and monitor. While I couldn’t live without mine, it’s not the sexiest piece of hardware in my office. more…
Focus Enhancements sells an assortment of products in multiple markets, so it’s always a fun visit at NAB. The coolest item this year was an upgrade of the company’s popular FS-5 DTE recorder, which includes the ability to create MPEG-4 proxy files after recording for preview on the FS-5′s color LCD. MPEG-4 is a good choice, since you can obviously play the clips on a computer, upload them to a video sharing site or display them on most mobile devices.
Also new is the ability to wirelessly log clip metadata using any WiFi capable device like an iPod. You can even link multiple FS-5 units together and add the same metadata to all units simultaneously. FS-5 version 2.0 should ship in May and will be free to all customers who purchased the FS-5 between February 2009 and June 30, 2009. Otherwise, the upgrade will cost $39. more…
Pansonic’s new AG-HPX300 is a full 10-bit, 4:2:2 professional HD camcorder with a 17X interchangeable lens, three 1/3in 2.2-megapixel 3-CMOS imagers and full 1920×1080, 10-bit 4:2:2 AVC-Intra recording. Watch the video.
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When Adobe doesn’t debut new products at NAB, they tend to offer interesting and often far reaching product “previews.� This year, it was Adobe Story, a new online/offline program for collaborative scriptwriting that will debut in “CSNext,� no date announced or implied during our interview with Simon Hayhurst.
