As travel restrictions prevented ON AIR’s Netherlands-based team from traveling to oversee production on a  pay-per-view (PPV) performance from musical artist HRVY in-person, Spiritland Productions brought them to the venue virtually, using a real-time remote collaboration workflow with SRT encoding powered by AJA BRIDGE LIVE.

New family of HyperDeck Studio recorders allow broadcasters to record broadcast quality H.264, Apple ProRes and DNx video files to SD cards or SSD media! All models now support record and playback to H.264, ProRes and DNx files, as well as PCM or AAC audio. Plus the 4K model adds support for H.265 files.

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.

New family of professional all-in-one studio cameras that include advanced broadcast features in an extremely portable design. The new compact all-in-one design will help a wider range of live production customers who need cameras with professional features that are also fast to setup on location. Features include carbon fiber reinforced polycarbonate and large integrated 7" viewfinders. 

ACT Entertainment, the new entity formed by the ACT Lighting, RapcoHorizon and AC Power Distribution brands, announces the appointment of David Johnson to the new post of Senior Vice President Sales. Johnson is well known for managing the Live Design International (LDI) franchise.

As Senior Vice President Sales, Johnson will focus on several key areas. He will support the entire sales team as they integrate the multiple disciplines of the company and identify cross-sales opportunities. He will also liaise with top lighting designers to help them realize their creative visions and work with the entire ACT family to identify and execute long-term goals in order to better serve the market and grow the business.

Most recently, Johnson was Managing Director of Informa, managing multiple event/digital

brands in the entertainment technology market, including the LDI, XLive and WFX trade shows.

NUGEN Audio announces the availability of its “Focus Elements” plug-in bundle, which offers a collective of audio tools ideally suited for small/home studios. Powered by NUGEN technology, these budget-friendly, streamlined versions of the brand’s popular Focus bundle plug-ins include Stereoizer, Stereoplacer and Monofilter. 

When the fastest swimmers in the United States met last month at CHI Health Center Omaha to determine who would go on to Tokyo, Riedel's Artist and Bolero intercom systems helped Dodd Technologies orchestrate the event for broadcast and streaming to fans around the world. The Riedel systems provided flexible, reliable communications throughout the swim trials, which ran from June 4-20, as Dodd managed the in-house show and addressed the requirements of its broadcast partners and supporting production trucks.

Exclusive 10-track performance by Ed Sheeran filmed by London based production agency Electric Light Studio (ELS), using a Blackmagic RAW workflow through acquisition to post. The performance included the debut single Bad Habits from Ed Sheeran's latest album and headlined the virtual music festivals iHeartRadio Wango Tango and Pandora Live: Ed Sheeran.

Sports Video Group’s Silicon Valley Video initiative will host a free virtual tour of Advanced System Group’s new Virtual Production Control Room on Thursday, Aug. 5, at 5 p.m. PT. Powered by Google Cloud, the VPCR remote production service allows real-time, broadcast-quality coverage of live events and other programming.

GravityMedia, a leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors – has made further significant investment into its real-time communication systems for live event broadcasts.

The new equipment meets increased demand for Gravity Media’s services, particularly for live sports. It will initially support a project with long-time client, UEFA European Soccer League, before being made available to other customers worldwide.

The masters of high frame rate, slow-motion, and internet breaking viral videos, the Slow Mo Guys, today announced that they have partnered with camera robot experts MRMC [A Nikon Company] to take their slow-motion skills to the next level by introducing the Bolt™ High-Speed Camera Robot to their arsenal of content capture technology at their studios in the U.S.

IBC today announces the shortlist for the highly coveted IBC2021 Innovation Awards. This year, the awards will celebrate the spirit of collaboration within the content and technology industry, where organisations identified a market challenge and worked together to create a solution. Winners and their technology partners will be honoured at an awards ceremony at IBC2021 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3-6 December 2021).

AJA today rolled out Desktop Software v16.1 for KONA, Io, and T-TAP Pro products, alongside AJA SDK v16.1 for Developer Partners. Both releases include native support for the powerful Apple^® M1 chip, and feature enhancements that optimize audio, broadcast, and production and post workflows, and third-party tools built with AJA Developer Partner solutions.  

Live-subtitling experts MAX Live Media Access Services have invested in SubtitleNEXT to provide real-time subtitling workflows. SubtitleNEXT has already been put to work to support MAX Live’s broadcast clients with advanced subtitling services to help meet stringent media accessibility goals, provide interlingual real-time subtitling, and timed-text streaming for international events.MAX Live relies on SubtitleNEXT for projects such as interlingual subtitling for offline or livestream multilingual events. Activities also include writing audio description for the blind and visually impaired, using SubtitleNEXT to identify where they can describe what’s shown on screen by using reading speed calculations for text, to gauge voice-over timing.SubtitleNEXT is an all-in-one solution for captioning live events and offline content in real-time in multiple formats for linear broadcasting, VOD and social media.Broadcasters must ensure scheduled programmes have sufficient subtitling to meet new guidelines. Accessibility is affordable with reliable software systems like SubtitleNEXT.

MainStreaming, a leading intelligent media delivery company, has cemented its status as a lynchpin component of modern content delivery through its partnership with KevlinX, one of Europe’s most significant emerging market data centre service providers.