Tyrell, the leading broadcast, professional video and audio solutions provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has announced the expansion of the UK sales team, with the appointment of Chris Luff and Chris McClure. The appointment of these two account managers reflects Tyrell’s continued investment in the UK market.

The sixth and final Emmy award winning series of The Americans, a period spy thriller set in the 1980s during the Cold War, was recently finished in HDR and 4K Ultra HD at Technicolor PostWorks in New York. Since series two, the look of the finished series has been the responsibility of John Crowley, Senior Digital Colourist, working on the Baselight colour grading system from FilmLight.

Tony Gill has been appointed the new Managing Director of Altered Images, taking over the position from David Johnson. Tony has been working at Altered Images for the past four years and has been instrumental in many of the company’s largest and most complex projects. He will take over this role with immediate effect.

With an increasing industry need to operate UHD and HDR workflows alongside conventional HD operations, workflows have become much more complex. To streamline this complexity Marquis have added native HDR processing, UHD support and high quality de-interlace to Medway. Meaning Medway can now automatically translate and convert between 4K and other resolutions, HDR and SDR colour space and seamlessly use both interlaced and progressive scanning.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, is collaborating with partners Microsoft Azure, Avid, Haivision, Hiscale, Make.TV and Signiant at IBC2018 to showcase how live production workflows in the cloud can deliver greater flexibility, scalability and budget efficiencies to broadcasters.

Jigsaw24, the Avid Elite reseller for Storage, Video and Audio solutions, today announced it has signed a volume purchase agreement with Avid. Under the terms of the agreement, Jigsaw24 has committed to carry an increased level of Avid stock to provide its customers with easier and quicker access to a wider range of Avid solutions, at competitive rates.

At IBC, FilmLight will be showing the new features of Baselight v5 for Avid and NUKE, along with BLG for Flame, the latest product in the Baselight Editions range. The popular plugins bring sophisticated colour control and creativity to Avid editors, NUKE compositors and Flame artists.

Edit Bridge is successfully used worldwide in production companies, broadcasters and post houses to integrate non-Avid editors and artists with an Avid Interplay PAM or Media Central Production Management environments. It enables the attachment of many more non-Avid creative applications to the Avid environment, such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, Apple FCP X, GVG Edius or other desktop applications. The latest release of the software includes a new search panel, which gives users the freedom to build flexible searches across the entire Interplay database. The search panel will operate in addition to the current browse panel, giving users greater flexibility in how they access Avid assets.

Marquis Broadcast will showcase its world-class disaster recovery and business continuity tools at IBC (stand 7.D39) this September, including the new Fotonflite™ secure transfer system. The company will also showcase its Interplay Metadata Export Tool (IMET) in Europe for the first time, which enables customers to take an Avid® Interplay® project and media metadata and export it, along with developments in its Project Parking, Medway and Edit Bridge solutions. In addition to the Marquis stand, visitors to IBC will be able to explore Marquis Broadcast’s products on the nearby IBM stand (7.B25), with Medway media integrations between Avid and IBM Cloud Object Storage and Fotonflite based project workflows within Marquis’s Avid-certified Workspace Tools suite.

Marquis Broadcast’s Avid Platform Certified Project Parking tool is the industry gold-standard for Avid storage management and project portability, providing project analytics, visualisation, management and archiving. It has been updated with a new dashboard feature, enabling usage tracking for Marquis Workspace Tools and Project Parking systems, which is especially useful for multi-site companies, helping to monitor their data usage. Project Parking has also enabled server-side encryption for AWS S3 and provided support for retrieval from Amazon Glacier cloud storage.

Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID), the leading technology provider of software tools and platforms that power the media and entertainment industry, today announced that European Athletics is relying on the award-winning Avid Maestro™ | Designer for advanced 3D graphic design and branding in the international television broadcasts of the European Athletics Championships. The European Athletics Championships is part of the inaugural European Championships, a major new multi-sport event hosted in Glasgow and Berlin from August 2-12.