When the coronavirus shut down in-person gatherings, many houses of worship were forced to shut their doors. Wanting to achieve the next best thing to in-person worship, Reverend David Jones, pastor at Newnan Presbyterian Church in Georgia, called upon custom audio, video and lighting solutions provider STRATA to provide a reliable live streaming solution. STRATA found the camera upgrade the church was looking for with the CV730 30X UHD60 IP (HEVC) PTZ Camera from Marshall Electronics.

Mo-Sys Engineering, world leader in precision camera tracking solutions for virtual production, has solved a major creative limitation when using an LED volume for virtual production. Cinematographers who needed to pull focus between real foreground objects – such as actors – and virtual objects displayed on an LED wall – such as a car - have been unable to do this as the lens focal plane stops at the LED wall, meaning the car always remains out of focus.

OWNZONES™ Entertainment Technologies, the leading cloud-based video supply chain company, is delighted to announce the appointment of Rick Capstraw in the key position of Chief Revenue Officer.

As the CRO, Capstraw will take an important role in leading the global sales organization of the company and accelerating the department’s contribution to OWNZONES’ already-impressive worldwide growth. With a proven track record of leadership and success, Capstraw has built a career in delivering technology solutions in global markets that help to transform the way we use and consume media in our lives and brings an impressive amount of experience to his new position with the company.

AVer Europe, leading developer and manufacturer of education technology and visual collaboration solutions, has announced that its product content is now available to channel partners via the Icecat platform.

Through its partnership with Icecat, a leading publisher and syndicator of product information worldwide, retailers and partners of AVer Europe are now able to freely access product datasheets, marketing materials and rich media assets. The content is easy to access, standardised and available in a range of languages via the Icecat catalogue.

Creative Solutions, a Division of The Vitec Group plc (LSE: VTC), is pleased to announce the acquisition of Lightstream, a US-based tech company that builds a cloud-native live video platform, broadcast software, and creator tools with specialization in the video game live streaming industry.

FOR-A Corporation of America today announced that industry veteran Satoshi Kanemura has been appointed president of the company, effective April 1. Mr. Kanemura joins FOR-A America from Sony Electronics where he was Vice President of Professional Products and Solutions. Former FOR-A America President, Ken Truong, has become Chief Technology Officer of FOR-A America.

RGBlink, well known for innovative high-performance video processing solutions today announced a new partnership with DigiBox in the UK and Ireland.

RGBlink has more than 10 years’ experience of manufacturing professional video processing, scaling, presentation and seamless switching solutions. Dedicated to developing and building quality video products for professional av applications, delivering advanced video solutions for a broad range of visual markets, RGBlink’s comprehensive range of devices suit applications ranging from entertainment and broadcast to control rooms, conference spaces and digital signage.

Frame.io, the world’s leading video review and approval platform, today released Frame.io Camera to Cloud (C2C), a secure cloud-based workflow that lets customers instantly upload and stream images from on-set cameras to creative post-production teams anywhere in the world.

Camera to Cloud is now shipping and included with all paid Frame.io plans at no additional cost.

SDVI, the leading supplier of cloud-native media supply chain solutions, today announced that its Rally Media Supply Chain Platform integrates and manages Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media Intelligence (MI) solutions. AWS MI solutions allow organizations to analyze their media content, discover new insights and opportunities, and increase the lifetime value of the content. These solutions make it easy to add machine learning (ML) to media content workflows and enable customers to deploy smarter and more efficient supply chains. As part of the AWS MI solutions launch today, SDVI is highlighting the use of AWS ML services to optimize media supply chains with enhanced content search and discovery, captioning and localization, compliance and brand safety, and content monetization, all managed and tracked by the Rally platform.

LiveU, the leader in live video streaming and remote production solutions, announced today that the Middle East’s leading news network, ABS Network (ABSN), has selected its live video solutions for live newsgathering across the Middle East and from its Washington DC news bureau. ABSN chose LiveU’s technology as it sought to enhance its news reporting capabilities with cost-effective, reliable 4K/full HD live streaming solutions, enabling its teams to be much freer to move around. LiveU units have already been used to cover the US Election, the inauguration of President Joe Biden, and other events in the Middle East, as well as in its live studio.