Sliding Leg C-Stand with Grip heads and Arm

Matthews C-stands have been a mainstay on sets for over 50 years. Now there’s one that literally fits in your pocket. Matthews 5” Pocket C-Stand™ offers familiar features in a super-compact form, including a rugged steel build with a double riser, sliding leg and 2 fully functional aluminum grip heads with 3/16 holes.

Matthews Studio Equipment introduces an easy, grip-compatible solution to hold the industry’s professional medium-sized dimmable LED bulbs by Aputure and Astera. The BM1 Bulb Mount™ offers a quick, versatile and inexpensive answer for mounting these battery-powered bulbs to various types of grip equipment and ¼-20 hardware.

Designed for any E26/E27 medium bulb, the Mount offers a standard lamp socket thread (1.25” OD) to accept an LED bulb. At the other end a standard ¼”-20 female threaded insert is ready to accept a Micro Grip Pin, Scissor Clamp, Micro Grip Rod and more.

With a low-profile matte black surface, the BM1 Bulb Mount is made of lightweight yet sturdy molded nylon. It measures 2.6”/66mm long and weighs just 0.8-oz/22g.

Matthews BM1 Bulb Mount is available through the company’s worldwide dealer network. For more information visit https://bit.ly/MSE_BM1 or www.msegrip.com

In a recent collaboration with Verizon and Amazon Web Services Teradek, a member of the Vitec Group’s Creative Solutions division, announced a new ultra-low latency monitoring server for their Core cloud service: Wavelength Sputnik.

SmallHD announces an upgrade to their popularCamera Control forKOMODO®software package. Now known asCamera Control for RED® RCP2™ Cameras (KOMODO, DSMC3™), the software adds support for RED’s new V-RAPTOR™ camera. This added functionality comes via a free software update for owners of the original SmallHD Camera Control for KOMODO software. The updated software also includes the increased functionality of wireless camera control via Teradek’s Bolt 4K Monitor Modules.

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Custom Consoles announces the completion of two dual-operator Module-R Lite technical control desks for a major Swiss television broadcaster. The desks have been integrated into a control room at the network's Geneva studios.

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The first resulting technology within the V-RAPTOR Camera System includes the DSMC RED Touch 7.0” LCD Monitor and V-RAPTOR Production Pack of Accessories.

Blackmagic Design announced that Creamfields, the UK's biggest dance music festival, was delivered using a live production workflow built around ATEM production switchers and HyperDeck recorders.

The four day festival held over the August bank holiday weekend welcomed around 80,000 people to Daresbury, Cheshire to see some of the biggest names in dance music.