Pliant Technologies announces an upcoming free webinar series for existing and potential Pliant partners and customers to learn more about the company’s wireless intercom solutions. The first in the series will be held on Wednesday July 8, at 10 a.m. (CDT) and Thursday, July 9 at 4 p.m. (CDT), and will focus on its MicroCom M and MicroCom XR intercom. Pliant’s Vice President of global sales, Gary Rosen, along with Market Development Manager, Art Gonzales and Regional Sales Manager, Mark Rehfuss, will cover the features and benefits of these new and affordable wireless intercom solutions.

Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading media technology and engineering firm, today announced the launch of “Remote Control,” a webinar interview series for the new Silicon Valley Video (SV.V) association. The first episodes, featuring interviews with company representatives from iconik, Primestream, Qumulo, and other companies, are available on Silicon Valley Video’s YouTube channel.

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, and Smart AdServer, the fully transparent and vertically integrated ad tech platform specialized in premium video monetization, announced a webinar on "The 5 steps to best-in-class targeted TV advertising." The webinar will present attendees with impactful strategies on leveraging the recent, unprecedented viewing peaks in video consumption to boost monetization opportunities and increase revenues.

Broadcast Solutions looks back on a year’s long history of building OB vans, SNGs or fixed broadcast facilities. More than 400 projects reflect an in-depth knowledge in integrating broadcast and media systems in vehicles, studio facilities or any other environment. In this Live Talk we will show you some of our general approaches when it comes to system integration and some special measures taken due to the COVID-19 pandemic happening during our projects. We will broadcast all this live from an OB van we built for NEP Belgium and RTBF.

Bubble Agency, the global PR, marketing and events specialist for the media and entertainment technology and services sectors, today announced the appointment of Melanie Webb, as a PR and marketing consultant. Melanie brings to Bubble over 15 years of experience working in the production and distribution end of the broadcast sector at agencies including Premier PR and Franklin Rae.

Melanie has held various positions within production, including TV producer, further exemplifying her strong expertise in managing and delivering corporate publicity for TV, film, media companies and brands, as well as consumer programme publicity for a range of broadcasters, independent production companies, distributors and content providers. Her client experience includes: Rough Cut, A&E Networks, Edinburgh TV Festival, Independent Films, Women in Film & Television Awards, DRG and more.

TAG Video Systems, the world leader in 100% SW, 100% IP, 100% COTS/Cloud, Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewing solutions, has released details of its latest webinar designed to assist broadcasters as they continue to migrate to IP. The next session, which will take place on Thursday, May 14, at 11am EST, will discuss how media companies can easily adapt their architecture and workflows to maximize business opportunities. The webinar will be hosted by Paul Briscoe, chief architect; and Pini Maron, vp professional services.

The theme of the webinar, which continues the company’s popular series of online events is: Changing Your Facility Architecture on the Fly: The New IP World.

Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewing solutions, continues its popular webinar series with a session that will delve into the nuts and bolts of “Live Production Multiviewing on the Cloud”.

The Company is extending an invitation to the broadcast community to tune-in on Thursday, April 30, 2020, at 11:00 am US Eastern Time and join co-presenters Paul Briscoe, chief architect, and Ilan Torbaty, VP of global technical operations, as they explain how broadcasters are implementing cloud-based multiviewing for live production. Paul and Ilan will cover technical requirements, common challenges, and the solutions being used to take full advantage of this model, followed by a Q&A.

SMPTE®, the organization that is defining the future of storytelling, today announced changes to its educational programming designed to make it easier for industry professionals to keep up with the latest technology and to learn new skills. In addition to supporting professional development, the Society's robust array of webcasts, meetings, and online courses offers members a way to connect with colleagues and to prepare for future opportunities in a changing industry and world.

Bannister Lake is pleased to announce today that it will be presenting a series of casual, 30-minute Chameleon product education webinars over a three-week period beginning on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Each Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific, Bannister Lake will showcase Chameleon's unique feature set directed at broadcast, web, and digital signage professionals.

Chameleon is a multi-module, web-based, real-time data management solution popular in the broadcast, OTT, and signage sectors. It is used to create custom news tickers, launch automated information channels, track and visualize election results, manage snipes and branding elements, and much more.

The product also includes Chameleon Designer, a powerful template design and data connection tool. Chameleon Designer serves as a unique, single solution to build projects that can be simultaneously used on NDI, SDI, or web platforms.

ATEME, the leader in video delivery solutions for Broadcast, Cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has revealed that its live ‘24-Hours of ATEME’ webinar was a great success, reaching an audience of over 1,500 unique attendees within the broadcast industry and media over the course of 24-hours.

With the NABShow due to have taken place this week, ATEME’s 24-hour online event enabled attendees to hear from a number of ATEME’s experts on subjects including adapting to the current global situation, codecs, Kubernetes orchestration for video, using bandwidth efficiently and virtual programming. ATEME also provided information on its latest solutions and innovations to help broadcasters transform video delivery.

The “chasing the sun” webinar event sought to cater to all of ATEME’s customers in more than 100 countries with the first sessions taking place in France, before heading across the Atlantic to cater to East Coast US customers and later joining the West Coast. The session then headed over to Australia and South East Asia, and finally circled back to Europe for the finale.

Video compression experts V-Nova have collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer a contribution solution based on SMPTE VC-6 that provides an important new option for broadcasters and producers worldwide, helping to drive up quality whilst avoiding the need for costly leased connections.

The volume of premium live sport and event contribution has been growing steadily in recent years and has been primarily reliant upon dedicated dark fibre backbones. However, the bandwidth requirements of low-latency contribution encoders have meant the cost of these dedicated connections has been prohibitive for many. Lower-quality, higher-latency encoders often have to be used to mitigate against this.

The combination of V-Nova’s P.Link contribution solution based on SMPTE VC-6 compression with AWS Elemental MediaConnect and AWS Direct Connect addresses these challenges directly. P.Link offers Intra-frame low latencies and equivalent quality at up to 70% lower bitrates than JPEG 2000 solutions. Transporting these feeds with AWS enables mission-critical one-to-one or one-to-many links that are easy to set up and are available in a cost-effective on-demand basis. SMPTE VC-6 encoding also notably reduces processing power requirements providing higher-density and lower operating costs. Extensive testing conducted so far has demonstrated excellent low-latency performance for feeds including 4Kp60 transport at less than 200ms between London and Sydney.

ELEMENTS, provider of innovative, high-performance media storage and server systems for the post-production and broadcast industry, is unveiling how to make your storage work harder for a smoother and less complicated workflow through a series of webinars designed for working remotely – now and in the future.

Learn about web browser-based remote collaboration with the Media Library. How to view, edit, annotate and comment on your material, securely sharing it with your colleagues and external contributors for review and approval. Trigger custom workflows from an easy-to-use web interface that runs on-premise or on a hosted virtual ELEMENTS Gateway via your preferred cloud provider. And all this whilst preserving and securing requirements with easy VPN integrations.

Explore Proxy workflows of the future and how flexible automation features and cloud-based gateways re-define what’s possible by connecting multiple, remote editors to the cloud. Work on small, low-bandwidth media in all major NLEs and sync back project files to the main editing facility.

Following the cancellation of the 2020 NAB Show, AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, today announced that it is hosting several free live webinars to share crucial information about the company's innovative products, solutions, and technologies. The webinars are designed to help broadcasters and video professionals leverage the full power of AVIWEST's solutions, turning their live video transmission missions into success stories.

The first webinar series is as follows and cover the following topics:
• "AVIWEST NAB Updates" on Thursday, April 23 at 2:30 p.m. GMT+1
• "Turn Your Event Into a Success Story With AVIWEST Transmitters and Encoders" on Thursday, April 30 at 2:30 p.m. GMT +1
• "Live Contribution and Content Sharing With AVIWEST" on Thursday, May 7 at 2:30 p.m. GMT+1

Each webinar will last approximately 30 minutes. For more information about the webinar topics and to view the available times and register online, attendees may visit: https://www.aviwest.com/services/webinars/.

More information on AVIWEST and its products is available at www.aviwest.com.

Bannister Lake announced today that its Chameleon real-time data management product is being used to support the Global Television Network's new OTT initiatives. Chameleon is used to control and customize a variety of news, weather, and financial data feeds as well as to manage advertising and promotional content. Global News has launched one national and four regional OTT streams providing viewers with live, 24/7 news and information.

Bannister Lake provided Global Television with a suite of software products, including its Chameleon Web Player, that renders national and localized ticker content for each channel. Also included is the Chameleon Branding Player that displays ads for each channel while generating as-run logs. The project represents revolutionary new approaches that are more efficient and cost-effective when rendering HTML5 graphics for overlay in streams. Instead of rendering graphics using traditional graphic engines, costing tens of thousands of dollars, rendering is performed by inexpensive Raspberry Pi 4 computers.

The Global Television Network is a long-time client of Bannister Lake and uses Chameleon in a wide variety of ways to extend its editorial and business reach. The product is used daily to control and populate data-driven graphics for local morning shows and as an aggregator and distributor of news content for the network's digital signage initiatives. Bannister Lake also provides Global with an industry-leading election solution that allows producers to track real-time results, make race calls, build graphic playlists, and distribute custom election data to any endpoint.

TAG Video Systems, the world leader in 100% SW, 100% IP, 100% COTS/Cloud,

Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewing solutions, has released details of its continuing webinar series designed to bring real life solutions to the challenges facing broadcasters as the industry migrates to IP. The next session, scheduled for Wednesday April 15, 2020, at 11:00am US Eastern Time will tackle the business end of the IP transition delving into financial benefits and profitability, the move to OPEX, new Zer0 Friction BUSINESS model, the impact of OTT and Cloud technology and more. Abe Zerbib, TAG CEO and Kevin Joyce, TAG Zer0 Friction Officer will serve as co-hosts.

Attendees will enjoy detailed discussion focusing on: “The Business of IP: The Profit Behind Your Transition to IP”