Finesse Services has selected the OOONA Integrated platform. Finesse is entering the next phase of its growth by expanding its services to include translation work in multiple Asian and European languages. The company delivers diversified media services that enable content owners, content creators and service providers to produce, manage and repurpose media with increased efficiency and at lower cost. “It is a great time to be in the video localization market, as audiovisual content is expanding globally,” says Rajnish Babbar, CEO of Finesse. “The security OOONA Integrated offers has been indispensable to our growth as we target some of the largest content owners and language service providers globally. In the last few months we have transitioned our workflows and processes to the OOONA platform which has quickly become the backbone of our operations.”

Following a highly successful mid-April NAB Show in Las Vegas and mid-May CABSAT in Dubai, PlayBox Neo heads to Singapore for Broadcast Asia. Exhibiting on stand 5F2-01 in the ASME Pavilion, the PlayBox Neo will demonstrate its latest channel branding and playout systems and services including enhancements to the industry-leading Cloud2TV UHD/HD/SD playout system.

Ikegami will promote the latest additions to its range of broadcast production camera systems and monitors at Hamburg Open 2022. The show will be held Wednesday June 1st (10:00 - 18.00) through Thursday 2nd (10.00 - 16:00) in Hall B6 of the Congress Center Hamburg. Representatives on the company's stand 535 will include Ikegami Electronics (Europe) Broadcast & Professional Video Division Manager Michael Lätzsch and Sales Engineer David Lieven. On demonstration will be the UHK-X700 4K-UHD camera, UHL-43 compact 4K camera, BSX-100 base station, HQLM-3125X master grade 4K monitor and HLM series HD monitors.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that UK-based start-up FooEngine has integrated the OOONA Convert API into its media processing platform.

FooEngine is a media logistics company that provides cloud-based audio/video processing and digital packaging, tailored for the media and entertainment industry.

PlayBox Neo reports a successful April 2022 NAB Show with strong interest in the company's latest-generation television playout systems and services. Centers of attention in the PlayBox Neo customer demonstrations were the subscription based Cloud2TV service, the latest generation AirBox Neo-20 series playout system, the newly enhanced Multi Playout Manager and the new Capture Suite network-based multi-channel ingest controller.

Shadok AV Group, one of Poland's leading broadcast media service providers, has invested in four Ikegami UHK-X700 4K-UHD HDR camera systems. Each system comprises a complete chain including an Ikegami BSX-100 base station, OCP-300 Ethernet-compatible control panel and viewfinders. They will be operated as part of Shadok's outside broadcast service based on a UHD-grade mobile production system.

CuttingRoom – an innovative company providing a new SaaS video editing solution – announces today the release of its browser-based video editing and publishing tool, designed as the world’s first cloud-native solution for professional editors in the broadcast and AV industries.

OOONA has formed a technology partnership with PBT EU. The latter specializes in the broadcast and media market with a host of hardware and software product solutions for broadcast playout and localization services.

The two companies acknowledge the complementary nature of their solutions for the media localization market and will now be offering some of each other’s products. OOONA’s suite of web-based Tools for subtitling and captioning will be integrated in PBT EU’s NEXT-TT management platform and SubtitleNEXT Live, a state-of-the-art desktop software for the creation and delivery of live subtitles and captions, will be made available to OOONA’s customers.

Matthews Studio Equipment, known for standard-setting grip gear for location and studio work, introduces the first off-the-shelf, modular grip and lighting stand that reaches 25 feet/7.62 meters. Air Climber™ uses pneumatics to be safely raised and lowered via a regulator switch and air compressor.

Vietnamese broadcaster Hau Giang Province Radio & Television (HGTV) has chosen Ikegami cameras for deployment in a 4K-UHD OB vehicle. The project forms part of the station's new HD terrestrial digital television service which was launched at the beginning of this year. 

HGTV transitioned from SD analog to HD digital terrestrial television broadcasting on January 1st, 2022. Progressing from SD to HD to on all its platforms, it is now gearing for the anticipated 4K-UHD future by upgrading its technical resources to provide full support for 4K-UHD content creation.

HGTV has operated Ikegami HD cameras in its OB workflow since 2012. Acknowledging the high picture quality and long term reliability of Ikegami equipment, it has now invested in six UHK-430 4K/HD portable camera systems plus a UHL-43 multi-purpose UHD/HD digital camera. These will be operated as a fully integrated facility from the newly equipped vehicle.