Burbank, California: Matthews, known for their go-everywhere C-stands and other grip gear now has a more efficient way to transport them to a set or location. The C-Stand Shoulder Kitbag takes the awkwardness out of carrying up to two fixed or turtle-based C-stands in either 20″ or 40″ sizes.

Iraq’s leading commercial broadcaster, Al Sharqiya Group, has implemented a comprehensive playout system built around Imagine Communications’ Versio™ integrated playout platform at its London-based facility. Replacing a traditional infrastructure, the fully integrated playout system helps Al Sharqiya to streamline its master control workflows, providing improved operational and cost efficiencies, and offering the flexibility to expand and change the system as business needs evolve.

Cloud-based live production specialist MAVIS Broadcast has announced a partnership with ES Broadcast that will see the systems integrator offer the MAVIS Live SaaS-based production platform to clients.

Under the agreement, ES Broadcast will be able to propose MAVIS Live, an ultra-low latency, cloud-based production platform, as part of its systems integration solutions.

MAVIS Live enables remote production for live events and provides the user with a suite of professional virtualised production tools including vision and audio mixing, instant replay, talkback, commentary, VT and graphics. Both progressive and interlaced workflows are supported.

MAVIS Live delivers increased fan engagement and commercial benefits

The platform is designed to help rights holders generate expanded commercial value and fan engagement thanks to its ability to publish live content direct to high-engagement channels including social, OTT, web and VOD.  and OTT, social and web.

Announcing the partnership, Patrick Holroyd, CEO for MAVIS Broadcast, said: “We are delighted to partner with a leading name in the broadcast space. ES Broadcast’s ability to supply cutting-edge hardware as well as high-quality system design provides a perfect platform from which our MAVIS Live software can enable a flexible remote production environment.

“With audience engagement high on the agenda, not to mention sustainability and reducing carbon footprints, it’s a great time to be able to roll out our solutions to ES Broadcast’s client base.”

Expanded remote production solutions

Jonathan Lyth, Group CTO for ES Broadcast, said: “it was important to us to expand our array of SaaS-based solutions – similar to the range of hardware options we offer. MAVIS Live is a highly capable remote production solution especially for mid-market applications and means we can cater for a much broader range of clients and budgets as remote workflows become more prevalent.

“Especially with remote production, it’s about making sure the end user gets the best fit and gives them the flexibility they need to handle different elements of a production from a range of locations.”

New at IBC this year will be the first two introductions in a new product category from FOR-A – the SOAR-A series. The name stands for Software Optimized Appliance Revolutionized by FOR-A and marks the company’s direction toward a software-based strategy for a variety of applications.

Amsterdam-based content services provider NOMOBO has chosen Hitomi Broadcast’s MatchBox Latency to ensure complete timing quality control assurance during remote production of live events for its corporate and entertainment clients. NOMOBO relies on this latest feature of the MatchBox product range, the industry’s premier audio video alignment toolbox, to ensure a fast and precise measurement of latency and lip-sync timing alignment across live feeds coming in simultaneously from multiple locations to its master control room (MCR) in Amsterdam. The system was supplied by Hitomi’s Belgian distributor DigiNet. 

A comprehensive suite of innovative tools that are designed to simplify remote productions and content transport will be on show from Evertz at IBC 2022.

Creating content and stories from live events has typically been limited by the network connectivity and reach. Evertz is showing products on stand 1.F76 in Hall 1 that are designed to help broadcasters create and deliver meaningful content from anywhere and across any network.

At IBC this year, TVU Networks will demonstrate exciting updates and new partner integrations to its cloud-based remote production ecosystem. New to the TVU cloud production solution is TVU RPS (Remote Production System) Link Encoder which allows multi-channel REMI production over 5G cellular networks. Another new module is TVU Replay, a multi-camera control sports app. TVU Replay enables officials to instantly review play during games and for producers to include that live video within their coverage. TVU will also announce an integration with Stream Deck from Elgato. Stream Deck is a physical control interface device popular with gamers streaming on Twitch and YouTube. Using Stream Deck to control live production from the TVU Producer platform makes seamless production easy for a new generation of content creators.

The new V-Series IrisX™ IP Panel from Clear-Com® expands the capabilities of the original V-Series Iris™ Panel, delivering new thin-film-transistor (TFT) displays for increased brightness and better resolution combined with the V-Series Iris’ lower latency and increased port capacity.  Truly a modern panel, IrisX fits naturally into IP-based productions with AES67 connectivity and dual NIC connections. Along with all V-Series Panels, IrisX will take advantage of key new features found in Eclipse HX software including role-based workflows and several redundancy measures, including N+1 card redundancy and network redundancy. Additional benefits of IrisX include capacity for three concurrent full duplex uncompressed audio streams and backward compatibility with MVX-A16 and IVC-32 cards.

Mo-Sys Engineering (www.mo-sys.com), world leader in precision camera tracking solutions for Virtual Production (VP), announces the launch of its new high-performance motorized rail, MoRail, which enables cost-effective creative pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) and ENG camera movement within newsroom environments. 

Magewell is poised to unveil a powerful new flagship model in its Ultra Encode family of universal live media encoders for applications ranging from live streaming to IP-based production and AV-over-IP. The Ultra Encode AIO builds on the flexibility of the company’s original Ultra Encode models with expanded features including HDMI and SDI input connectivity in a single unit; 4K encoding and streaming from the HDMI input; simultaneous multi-protocol streaming; higher streaming bitrates; file recording; and much more. 

The single-channel Ultra Encode AIO can encode one live input source – either HDMI or SDI – or mix video from the HDMI and SDI inputs into a combined output. Ultra Encode AIO supports multiple video encoding formats – including H.264, H.265, NDI^®|HX 2, and the new NDI^®|HX 3 – and a wide array of delivery protocols including RTMP, SRT, HLS, and TVU’s ISSP technology.

Magewell will debut the new encoder in stand 7.A40 at IBC2022.