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Industry Ready Broadcasting Students

Cardiff Metropolitan University traces its roots back to 1865, when they opened their first school in an old library. Now Cardiff Met is a global, practice-focused and professionally oriented institution, committed to ensure every student fulfills their potential to make outstanding contributions in their future industries. Cardiff Met is also one...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 16 July 2019

Multi-camera fly-away for live music production

A specialist in multi-camera concert films and music documentaries, Toward Infinity began working with Trickbox TV around 18 months ago. Run by Producer, Director and Editor Tim Sidwell and Producer and DP Jeremy Mason, Toward Infinity is a creative collaboration that works with top flight venues including: Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, the O2...

Submitted by Aaron Dunleavy

Published 19 October 2017

SiS Live

Issue 99 - March 2015SIS LIVE is well-established as Europe\'s largest supplier of satellite uplinks, but considerable investment in a wide-ranging fibre network is positioning it as a major connectivity provider to UK Live events. Many major broadcasters now have resilient fibre links to broadcast teleports at SIS LIVE\'s headquarters in MediaCity...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 April 2015

BroadcastShow Tour October 2013

Issue 82 - October 2013 October heralds the second tour of 2013 for BroadcastShow. The travelling road show of exhibiting manufacturers and seminars visited London, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol earlier this year with well over 1000 visitors through the doors. For the autumn leg the first stop will be the Europa Hotel in Belfast on 16th...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 November 2013

TV-Bay takes BroadcastShow on tour!

TV-Bay’s BroadcastShow goes on tour... Where & When?London (Pinewood Studios) 9th May 2013Glasgow 14th May 2013Manchester 16th May 2013Cardiff 21st May 2013Bristol 23rd May 2013Who’s exhibiting?A growing band of leading manufacuters and distributors are coming on the tour and (at time of going to print) we are pleased to say Panasonic, NewTek, Blac...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 May 2013

Managing Media

Looking after the media for a television production used to be a relatively simple task. The footage would be shot and captured on tape. The tapes would be delivered to the post-production facility for editing. They would be ingested into the edit system, the editor would construct the final program and it would be recorded back to tape. All the ta...

Submitted by Bob Pank#

Published 01 February 2012

Avid solutions create a stellar workflow for Mwnci Post P...

The ChallengeTo ensure that the thousands of hours of HD footage which pass through busy Welsh post-production house, Mwnci, each year are efficiently managed, stored and archived. The SolutionTo implement Avid ISIS 5000, a scalable shared storage system that collaborates with third-party applications, as the backbone of the facility to manage digi...

Submitted by Bob Pank#

Published 01 October 2011

AdVision TV: Editing... Live

Glastonbury - it's on TV. Premier League Football? On TV. Not subscribing to the right satellite channel? Worried about missing a big event? Try Googling it, try YouTube. You would have thought that live events would struggle to survive in the face of this wall of media coverage. But rock concerts, sports matches, conferences and venues across the...

Submitted by Kieron Seth#

Published 01 May 2011

GSOH

This will come as no surprise to anyone who has met me, but I like a laugh. After a hard day at the coal face of incisive insights into the technology of our industry, nothing chills me out quicker than a good comedy. There is a channel on my personal EPG to which I return regularly. I will not mention it by name because I am about to be rude about...

Submitted by Bob Pank#

Published 01 September 2010

Calzaghe Fight with Input Media

Sports production company Input Media faced a series of technical, logistical and creative challenges when they were commissioned by fast rising broadcaster Setanta Sports to cover one of the biggest live Boxing events ever staged in the UK. The main fight during the 8-hour long broadcast was the world unification fight between WBO/IBF Super Middle...

Submitted by Dennis Lennie

Published 01 July 2008