Video Europe, Europe’s largest sub-rental provider of cameras, lenses and accessories to the film, digital cinema and broadcast industry, has announced a series of repositioning actions to improve efficiency across the company while maintaining its unique capabilities to serve clients.

Wooden Camera, the Dallas-based designer and manufacturer of professional camera accessories, is now shipping theUltra QR Articulating Monitor Mount, a quick-release solution designed to support up to 45 pounds and easily integrate with select SmallHD production monitors.

New model combines all the Blackmagic Web Presenter HD features with an upgraded H.264 hardware encoder for native Ultra HD resolution streaming. The new Web Presenter 4K is a compact design that includes a 12G-SDI input with down converter, so customers can select to stream in 1080p HD or 2160p Ultra HD resolutions.

Wooden Camera, the Dallas-based designer and manufacturer of professional camera accessories, is now shipping a full range of custom kits and accessories for the Panasonic LUMIX BGH1.

Every tier of these production-ready kits features the compact, low-profile, Panasonic BGH1 Camera Cage alongside a new Mini Top Handle (3/8"-16) and LW 15mm Baseplate. Options include three new universal utility pieces that can be used on any rig: a new and improved bolt-on ARRI Rosette (3/8"-16), a compact Tilt Monitor Hinge (3/8"-16) and the Mini Top Handle (3/8"-16).

In its mission to revolutionise real-time content rendering, disguise has unveiled its new rx II hardware release, with the fastest and most powerful professional GPU available on the market. The new rendering node unlocks 40% more graphics processing power than its rx predecessor to reliably render larger and higher quality scenes in real-time engines such as Unreal Engine, on any display canvas and across any industry application.

The G&D Asia Business Group is expanding. The KVM manufacturer Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) welcomes two new employess in Shanghai and Ghouangzou. To provide customers in China with an even better local service, Julia Zhang (Shanghai) and Alex Chen (Ghouangzou) are now supporting the G&D Asia team on site. Both are control room experts with many years of KVM experience and will be able to provide G&D's customers with even closer and more individual consulting and support.

The comprehensive portfolio of the German KVM manufacturer G&D continues to grow. With its "VisionXS", the company is launching a new high-end extender product series. Following the motto "smaller, more compact, more powerful", G&D developed a new compact multi-purpose KVM tool. The main idea: a wide range of functions in the smallest possible housing. The new VisionXS systems are high-performance KVM extenders with a bandwidth of 10G and video transmission for resolutions up to 4K. Users can expect the best video quality and an even better performance.

Broadcast specialist nxtedition has formed a partnership with Singular.live, the cloud-native graphics platform. Together, users will be able to add dynamic, responsive graphics and overlays into playout timelines in an HD-SDI/IP environment, greatly adding to the operational convenience as well as connecting information and engagement into the live output.

Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in broadcast media technologies, has extended the functionality of its R&S®VENICE platform for live studio production. In particular, it has moved to support 4k Ultra HD signals, using either 12G or 2SI formats.
 
VENICE is a high-performance, high-resilience media platform designed to manage complex signal processing and storage requirements, particularly in live studio production applications. It provides uninterrupted operations including scheduled recording, clip transforms and playouts, across a network of processors and both Rohde & Schwarz storage and third-party qualified storage sub-systems. It also bridges the SDI and IP environments. VENICE servers can now be configured for multiple HD and Ultra HD signals, and units can work together as a single resource from a single user interface.