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THEBVEDAILYBROADCAST & PRODUCTION: FROM CREATION TO CONSUMPTION
Thursday 25 February, 2016
Snell Advanced Media (SAM)
Stand: M16
By Neal Romanek
BVE 2016 is the first major broadcast tradeshow held since the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) was formed at the end of last year, and one of its founding members, Snell Advanced Media (SAM), has found that the new trade organisation has ignited customer interest.
AIMS was formed by Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, Nevion and SAM to promote open standards and
interoperability in the transition to IP. Mark Gardner, SAM sales director for Northern Europe and Africa, said that BVE delegates have been enquiring about the AIMS agenda and expressing appreciation that their concerns about interoperability are finally being addressed.
“A lot of the customers are very happy to see the industry is pulling together. With AIMS, there’s now a formal way for manufacturers to talk to each other. If we all disappear in different directions and do our own things around IP, then the customers are going to suffer.”
Gardner cautioned that AIMS’ work is just beginning: “But even though customers are
happy that we’re working on the interoperability of the format, they want to see interoperability in the control layer too.”
Gardner said that the show of solidarity by manufacturers and
vendors, with AIMS acquiring new members regularly, bodes well for business.
“With the risk being lowered, people will be more willing now to invest in new technologies.”
SAM SEES POSITIVE AIMS RESPONSE INSIDENFL: Digital “superior to TV”Shannon Rutherford, the
NFL’s director of digital
operations, discusses the
company’s digitally
delivered fan experience, at
BVE’s Streaming Forum p3
We are the LiveXpertsNewTek reseller 3D Storm
is at BVE 2016 to promote
its own brand of live
production equipment p4
The Wild West Gold Rush era is overRosco Laboratories’ David
Amphlett shares his views
on the polarised broadcast
lighting market p10
Carry-on RAID storageG-Technology debuts
two new eight-bay RAID
storage solutions, designed
with portability in mind p29
FBI investigates industry assumptionsTrade organisation Females
in the Broadcast Industry
hosted a panel discussion
with figures from a cross
section of the media
industry, as part of its
official launch event p30
PLAYING TOGETHER IN THE CLOUDAvid
Stand: M60
By Michael Burns
Visitors to the Avid stand can see the newly released version 8.5 of Media Composer in action and a demo of the forthcoming Cloud Collaboration feature for audio suite Pro Tools 12.5.
Danny Hollingsworth, solutions specialist at Avid, was demonstrating the new release of Avid’s venerable NLE. “Media Composer 8.5 has had its biggest interface change for years,” he said. “The aim was to simplify some of our menus, such as providing an input and output section, so people coming fresh to Media Composer will see right away how to get media in and
get footage out, or how to do a mixdown on the timeline.”
He continued, “We also have live timeline dragging, allowing you to move clips around and see it update live. You can move audio around in the same fashion, and see the waveform to help line things up.” The new version of Media Composer also supports HDR workflows and enables
editors to work up to 64 audio tracks. Editing is boosted by the ability to group clips and sync them automatically based on the audio waveform, while effects work will be aided by the new ability to cache all played frames, and all effects applied to those clips, in RAM.
With Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools, professionals
can work together on the same project anywhere in the world because revisions and files are synchronised automatically. They can then compose, record, edit, and mix tracks collaboratively with other Pro Tools users.
Two Pro Tools systems were sharing and mixing tracks over the internet on the Avid stand, in the first such demo of the collaboration system in Europe.
“We’re showing a pre-release version here at BVE,” said Dave Tyler, audio solutions specialist manager for Avid. “People from all areas of the industry have been interested in this at the show. It’s got a very broad appeal, as it enables remote workflows directly from within your Pro Tools session.”
Visitors to the Avid stand are also able to get a closer look at PlayMaker, one of the fruits of
SAM’s Tim Felstead is on hand at BVE to discuss the aims of AIMS
With Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools, artists and audio professionals can work together
on the same project anywhere in the world
the Orad acquisition which Avid completed last year.
Ofir Benofici, senior director, Broadcast Products, Avid, said of the sports replay server: “We’re bringing PlayMaker closer to the Avid portfolio, integrating it with Media Composer, ISIS or Interplay. Collectively we are providing a much more elaborate workflow. This is gaining a lot of interest from Avid customers and others.”
“It’s an evolution, not a revolution,” continued Benofici. “You’ll see us bring more enhancements to PlayMaker, including 4K, as this is where the market is going.”
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BAFTA’s prestigious premises on London’s Piccadilly will play host to this year’s TVBEurope 2020 conference, the second annual one-day strategy summit hosted by TVBEurope. The centrepiece of TVBEurope Strategy Week, TVBEurope 2020 brings together some of the leading authorities from in and around the industry to provide unique analysis and instructive debate on the key areas of challenge and opportunity facing businesses in the media and entertainment space in the run up to 2020.
Joining the dots between the convergent worlds of UHD and IT/IP infrastructures; assessing the shifting business landscape for broadcasters and content providers; and dissecting the impact of the coming technologies of the connected world, this year’s agenda promises to be the most forward looking TVBEurope event to date. Last year’s delegate list included senior representatives from the BBC, ITV, Netfl ix, Sky, ITN, Rovi, BT Sport, Channel 4, Viacom, CNBC Europe, Al Jazeera, Fox International, NBC Universal, Discovery, Reuters TV, Modern Times Group, Bloomberg, BT Media and Broadcast, PwC, Ernst and Young, SNL Kagan, KPMG, and more…
Book now and be a part of the discussion on the industry’s future.
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NFL: DIGITAL “SUPERIOR” TO TVBy Adrian Pennington
The NFL is creating a digitally delivered fan experience that will be “superior” to its own TV presentation and soon worth over $1 billion a year to the League, according to the executive in charge.
“There are a wealth of opportunities to create a superior product online which will make NFL digital far more potent than TV,” said Shannon Rutherford, director of digital media video operations, NFL. “We have 360-degree immersive video and virtual reality. We can personalise it. We can create our own content and we can distribute through multiple digital channels including social media.”
Keynoting BVE 2016 and the Streaming Forum, Rutherford said, “Our product will become a daily habit for our fans.” With broadcast deals locked up with Fox, CBS and NBC until 2022 the NFL has recently dabbled in live streaming. Notably, it sold exclusive rights worth around $20 million to Yahoo! to live stream an in season game from London last year.
All bets are off post-2022 with Rutherford hinting that OTT will form a central part of NFL strategy. “Digital rights expansion is crucial to the NFL’s long term success,” he said. Until then the sport has to find other ways to reach fans on digital platforms.
This includes NFL mobile; premium subscription product NFL Gamepass, which permits
live streaming of all games internationally; and social media reach. In 2014 the NFL kicked off a series of original programming which was ramped up from four shows to ten shows in 2015.
“TV viewing has flatlined in the US since 2010 while digital consumption has gone through the roof,” he said. “The TV audience is also ageing. Younger audiences are more engaged. All of this puts a lot of pressure on ad revenue, and makes digital more attractive to reach key demographics. The question is: what does the NFL do about it?”
One solution is NFL Now, a digital-only fan destination which is presented as a TV-like linear lean back experience with on-demand game highlights, studio shows and talent-led analysis. Ironically, to create this with high production values, the NFL is reliant on broadcast kit like video switchers, routers and orchestration hubs.
“We are using a traditional broadcast mentality to create a linear experience using the same gear as broadcast itself but delivering it digitally and adding interactivity,” said Rutherford.
The digital team takes the same live linear feed as broadcast, and clips into highlights in as near real time as they can get. “NFL is like a news organisation in that our highlights are perishable,” he said. “It’s not going to be evergreen content so the primary use case is for fans who want to see what happened that day. The faster we can get it out the more opportunities we have to maximise
revenue.” There were some essential marks that Rutherford felt the League’s digital operation had to hit when delivering live content.
“You have to have 100 per cent uptime while the game is playing. The stream should be smooth with no more than a one per cent buffer and the time to enter the stream should be less than a second.”
He added, “Success often means money so for us that means revenue over a billion dollars per year from digital delivery.”
Attaining that means ensuring that its digital ad inventory is always (100 per cent) fufilled, he said.
However, if the League is banking on taking control of creating and distributing its own content in house it has some way to go to match the staggering current TV deals worth at least $3 billion a year (2013 to 2022) cut with US broadcasters.
ROVOCAM MAKES BROADCAST DEBUTAJA
Stand: L19
By Michael Burns
AJA has announced RovoCam, the company’s first compact block camera for industrial, corporate, security, pro AV and broadcast applications. It’s capable of capturing Ultra HD and HD imagery with built-in 12x optical and up to 20x zoom with Sony Super Resolution Zoom. It offers an integrated HDBaseT interface, supporting uncompressed video, power, stereo audio and RS-232 control over a single CAT 5e/6 cable running at lengths of up to 100m.
Nick Rashby, president of AJA, said BVE 2016 marked the first time RovoCam had been seen in a broadcast environment.
“We’ve branched out and come up with something that
we think is fairly unique,” he added. “HDBaseT is super common in the Pro AV market, but you can barely find it in the broadcast world. However, you can get 100m of uncompressed 4K on Cat6 cable. Our sports broadcast customers in particular have been very interested, looking at it for maybe goal-line cameras or arenas.”
RovoCam is built around Sony’s 4K FCB-ER8300 Functional Camera Block, featuring back-illuminated CMOS sensor technology and Sony image processing. The small aluminium unit allows for simple mounting in a wide range of scenarios.
RovoRx-HDMI, the companion receiver unit, offers simple integration for RovoCam with an HDMI output, and all video/audio signals, power, and control over HDBaseT. Shipping soon through AJA’s resellers, RovoCam is also compatible with some third party receivers.
Rutherford: targeting $1billion in revenue
The RovoCam sports an integrated HDBaseT interface to carry uncompressed video, power, stereo audio and RS-232 control
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INBRIEFManaging content from 80km awayroot6 Stand: J15 By Neal Romanek
That single cable dangling down the Excel wall near the S5 entrance isn’t a mistake of the BVE maintenance crew, it’s part of a demo by root6 and Barnfind Technologies. The companies are showing off remote 4K production capabilities which, given the globalisation of the industry, and the rising rents in Soho, are becoming increasingly appealing.
“Our monitor is connected with an output from the Barnfind booth by a single strand of fibre from across the hall, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be 80 kilometers away,” said root6 managing director Marcus Hume-Humphreys.
The company is also showcasing version 3.5 of its Content Agent software.
JVC Kenwood
Stand: M40
By Michael Burns
The GY-LS300 4KCAM handheld Super 35 camcorder is to receive a boost in the form of a new slow motion recording feature. Available via a free firmware upgrade in April, it brings the ability to record HD footage at up to 120fps. The technology also drives the Prime Zoom feature, which enables fixed-focal (prime) lenses to zoom in and out without losing resolution or depth of field. Other features include a J-Log gamma
setting, which expands dynamic range by 800 per cent with film-like latitude. There’s also a built-in HD streaming engine with Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity for live transmission to hardware decoders or content delivery networks (CDNs). The camera records 4K, HD and SD footage in a variety of formats to dual SDHC/SDXC card slots.
John Kelly, general manager, Professional Division at JVC, said, “The new upgrade is ideal for really creative slow motion type of effects. The camera has a very wide range of interest. It encompasses everything from corporates to guys doing short-form film work, music videos
and concerts − anywhere that you need that creative shallow depth of field cine-style look.”
“It’s been a good show, with really strong days,” added Kelly. “What’s interesting is that
we’re having a lot of people specifically saying they have money to spend, which is not something I was expecting to hear this year to be honest. So it’s been really positive.”
3D Storm
Stand: N20
By Adrian Pennington
While 3D Storm is better known as a reseller, principally of NewTek equipment, it is here at BVE 2016 to promote its own brand of live production equipment.
“Our focus is to select cost effective and very easy to use tools for production of news and sports,” explains Bruno Lesté, LiveXpert product manager. “We want products with a very short learning curve so that people can use them immediately in the field.”
Its LiveXpert solutions fall into three categories: turnkey solutions for sports broadcasters and stadiums, graphics tools, and automation In the latter camp falls Audio Mixer, a new product for automated radio programme production.
“It is a combination of our software tools and a NewTek TriCaster mini which can automate a radio show just by monitoring microphone activity,” explains Lesté. The LiveMedia
Server is a multichannel and multiformat player and recorder available as dual channel in a 1RU unit and as a four-channel version in a 4RU unit. The selection of inputs and outputs is flexible, allowing configuration of any channel as recorder or playout. “LiveTally Air is the simplest solution you could imagine for fitting Tally lights.” The latest version of LiveTally Air, showcased at BVE, supports up to 16 receivers and connects over a distance up to 2km.
LiveCG Election, also in the LiveXpert range, is a solution for turning complex data from election results into full 3D animated graphs in real time.
FIRMWARE STEP UP FOR SLO MO
WE ARE THE LIVEXPERTS
Kelly: “the new upgrade is ideal for really creative slow motion type of effects”
LiveXpert’s Bruno Lesté: “Automated radio production made easy”
BASE Media Cloud adds SaaSAspera Stand: F20
Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Aspera, and Ben Foakes, founder and managing director of BASE Media Cloud, celebrate the news that BASE Media Cloud has launched a fast, secure media storage and distribution service for its global media clients, notably sports broadcasters, with Aspera Files SaaS platform.
EBU APPROVAL SETS C300 MARK II ON BROADCAST TRACKCanon
Stand: L30
By Michael Burns
Canon’s bike-shop themed stand was packed out at BVE 2016 as the company showed off its EOS-1D X Mark II DSLR camera, the Canon XEED 4K500ST UHD multimedia projector and the latest in 4K camera systems, lenses and displays. The company was also celebrating the news that the EOS C300 Mark II had met HD and UHD classification from the EBU. This report recognises image capture of up to 15 stops of dynamic range using Canon Log2 and qualifies the EOS C300 Mark II for R.118 Tier 1 in HD and Tier 2 in UHD.
James Burwood, digital video product manager, Canon, said the award was “a very good endorsement for the broadcast industry. It substantiates a lot of the key features of the product,
such as the high dynamic range measurements.”
BVE 2016 has also witnessed the UK’s first presentation of the new compact and lightweight handheld video cameras, the XA35 and XA30, both featuring a newly-developed HD CMOS Pro sensor. Also on show is the ME20F-SH, a camera which boasts an extended ISO of four million.
“We’ve seen a lot of interest in the ME20, our super low light camera, and our new broadcast lens, the HD DIGISUPER 90. This is the first in the series of a 4K lenses for broadcast use.”
Burwood: “EBU classification makes the C300 Mk II a ‘go-to camera’ for broadcast work”
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LaCie
Stand: E25
OOONA’S WEB-BASED SUBTITLING TOOLKIT Screen SubtitlingSystems
Stand: C20
CHROMÉ STANDS UP FOR FAST LUXURY STORAGEThe OOONA dashboard
Designer Neil Poulton:
“The LaCie Chromé is
a concept reduced to
its essence: a rectangle
tilted onto its corner,
melting into its base
like quicksilver”
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iZotope
Stand: L45
ROBOTS ARE ALIVE AND WELLMRMC
Stand: L20
VINYL IS BACK THEBVEDAILY
The lo-fi sound plug-in is re-released with new spin down feature and AAX/VST3 support
The MRMC AFC 100 head
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www.asperasoft.commoving the world’s data at maximum speed
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Neutrik
Stand: D24
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Imago ScanSource
Stand: C28
THE IPTV STREAMING SOURCE
X MARKS THE SPOT
Neutrik’s etherCON CAT line
Unique insulator design
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Guntermann& Drunck
Stand: G09
HIGHER, FASTER, FURTHER
The DL-Vision transmits
uncompressed resolutions
up to 4K at 60Hz via fibre
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Rosco Laboratories
Stand: R16
OPINION
By David Amphlett, product development manager, broadcast lighting
THE WILD WEST GOLD RUSH ERA IS OVER
Artel VideoSystems
Stand: F07
DIGILINK FOR RELIABLE IP TRANSPORT
David Amphlett
Artel’s DigiLink
media transport
platform
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ATG Danmon is one of the world’s most innovative broadcast systems integrators.
Embracing tomorrow’s technology, ATG Danmon delivers maximum value through close co-operation with customers, leading to mutually beneficial long-term relationships.
ATG Danmon is part of Dan Technologies Group, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of audio, video, transmission products and digital media solutions.
The Dan Technologies Group operates from offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Vietnam, Spain, Portugal and Dubai.
Workflow Design
Project Planning
Equipment Installation
Software Configuration
Commissioning
Documentation
On-site Training
After Sales Support
WE THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCALLY
Visit us at Stand H52ATG Danmon Ltd. | Unit 1 Iceni Court | Icknield Way | Letchworth | Herts | SG6 1TN | UKTel: +44 (0) 1462 485 444 | Email: sales@atgdanmon.co.uk | www.atgdanmon.co.uk
I M P L E M E N T I N G M E D I A T E C H N O L O G Y
LEMO
Stand: R36
CONNECTORS FOR EVERY OCCASION
Rare metals from LEMO
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Quicklink
Stand: P20
PNY Technologies
Stand: J26
Quicklink is releasing a Skype update at BVE2016
POWER TOOLS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
SKYPE TRANSCEIVER NOW 4K READY
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NTP Technology
Stand: L45
MEDIACENTO IPX WITH 4KBlack Box
Stand: C24
www.izotope.com
The professional’s choice for rescuing audio
Repair, enhance, and restore problematic production audio—from plosives to microphone bumps to inconsistent levels—and dramatically improve sound quality and clarity.
Get your free 30-day trial at www.izotope.com/rx
VERSATILE MONITOR CONTROL ON SHOW
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INBRIEFHeroic EncodersMedia Excel
By Adrian Pennington
Tiffen International
Aspera
Stand: F20
IDX
Stand: G20
FILE TRANSPORT SORTED
BATTERIES TO SUPPORT PANASONIC AG-DVX200
Aspera Orchestrator includes new third-party plug-ins
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Arogsy
Stand: H43
ARGOSY UNDERLINES THE TRANSITION FROM SDI TO IP
Chris Smeeton,
sales director of Argosy
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Archiware
Stand: G26
SNAPSHOTS FOR STORAGE SECURITY
Quantum
Stand: G11
OPINION
By Christo Conidaris, UK country manager
THE ALWAYS-ON, ADAPTIVE CONTENT PARADIGM
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Lorensbergs
Stand: Q64
Bryant Unlimited
Stand: D44
FROM FIBRE OPTICS TO CUSTOM METALWORK
HELPING INVESTMENT IN THE NEXT GENERATION
Connect2 booking system
improves equipment ROI
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The professional LED Luminaire offering uncompromising colour quality, output and effi ciency.
Come by booth R16 to see the Silk 210, and get a chance to preview one of the next models in the growing line of Silk LED fi xtures.
ROSCOPROUDLY INTRODUCES
pure, soft white light
www.rosco.com
EVS
Stand: J05
EVS SHOWCASES IT SWITCHER
EVS’ IT-based switcher DYVI is on display at BVE
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Stirlitz Media
Stand: N21
OPINION
By Greg Podsiadlo, president and CEO
JUST SOFTWARE: THAT IS THE WAY FORWARD
Hawk-Woods
Stand: Q15
FAULT-SOLVING TO A FAULT
Greg Podsiadlo
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RTW
Stand: L45
CLOUD-BASED ENGINEERINGArrow
Stand: K20
PRIMED FOR REMOTE CONTROL
The USB Connect Tool enables TM3-Primus to be used as a plug-in within a DAW environment
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INBRIEFMozarts for Mötley CrüeTMB
By Adrian Pennington
IP Performance
Stand: E48
Bluebell Opticom
Stand: G49
IP PERFORMANCE AT PINEWOOD
STANDALONE CONVERTERS
BC323 throw-down
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Pond5
Stand: R30
INBRIEFFibre and fibre connectivity
Communications
By Adrian Pennington
GROWING THE POOL OF ROYALTY-FREE VIDEO
Maser
IDX
By Adrian Pennington
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Aspen Media
Stand: G30
LYNX Technik
Stand: Q01
NO MANUAL REQUIRED
ASPEN MEDIA GETS FIT FOR BVE
Follow the Yellobriks
The DIO provides a host of interfaces and conversion choices
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Suitcase TV
Stand: F34
DMG Lumière
Stand: Q40
LIGHT RELIEF
AWARD WINNING REMOTE PRODUCTION FOR LIVE EVENTS
The system allows remote operators to switch between streams instantly
DMG Lumière’s super thin,
lightweight LED fixture
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Ncam
Stand: H10
ULTIMATE VIDEO PROCESSING TOOLBOX
Analog Way
Stand: C39
VIO 4K
multi-format
converter
LIVE AUGMENTED REALITY
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4K UHD Rental Partner
Special Guest:
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G-Technology
Stand: K30
By Michael Burns
Two new transportable eight-bay RAID storage solutions have been announced at BVE 2016. The G-Speed Shuttle XL is an eight-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID solution providing up to 64TB of storage. It features eight enterprise-class hard drives and can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and 5. It features transfer rates up to 1,350Mbps, so is capable of supporting 4K workflows. The G-SPEED Shuttle XL is priced at £2,449 for 24TB, £3,149 for 32TB, £4,199 for 48TB and £5,599
for 64TB, and comes with a three-year limited warranty. The G-Speed Shuttle XL with ev Series Bay Adapters is an eight-bay, transportable, hardware RAID, Thunderbolt 2 solution offering content creators up to 48TB. Designed to support multi-stream 4K workflows and beyond, this solution can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and features transfer rates up to 1,200Mbps. It also comes with six enterprise-class hard drives and a three-year limited warranty.
Two of the eight bays in this model feature the company’s ev Series Bay Adapters, which are compatible with any of the portable G-Drive ev external drives, including the G-Drive ev
RaW, G-Drive ev 220, G-DriveE ev RaW SSD and ev Series Reader RED MINI-MAG Edition.
Available now, the G-Speed Shuttle XL with ev Series Bay Adapters is £2,299 for 18TB,
£2,449 for 24TB, £3,499 for 36TB and £4,199 for 48TB. Portability is a key theme, with the products being designed with an integrated handle to easily move the enclosure, while the unit is small enough to fit in an overhead locker on an aircraft.
Greg Crosby, worldwide senior product line manager, G-Technology said: “You can use the G-Speed Shuttles on location and then come back to your studio or office environment and go straight to the edit. The unit weighs around 10kg and can fit into a standard protective case.
It operates not only vertically, but horizontally too, so you can place a laptop on top of it and connect to the storage, like a mini DIT station.”
VENDORS CELEBRATE HHB’S 40TH BIRTHDAYHHB
Stand: L45
By Neal Romanek
Audio tech supplier HHB Technologies celebrated its 40th year in the business with a champagne press event at BVE 2016. While happy attendees
had their flutes refilled, HHB’s partner vendors presented their highlights of the show. Genelec introduced its new 8430 monitor, which had its world premiere only weeks ago at Amsterdam’s ISE show. The 8430 claims to be the world’s first commercially-ready AoIP studio monitor. A new addition to Genelec’s Smart Active Monitor (SAM) range of
products, the 8430 features several connectivity options, including an AES67 signal via the XLR-housed RJ45 connector, as well as a standard analogue signal via a balanced XLR connector. Other companies showing off at the HHB stand were Avid, Nugen, DAD, Source Distribution, NTP Technology, and String and Tins.
CARRY-ON RAID STORAGE
GOING INTERNATIONAL WITH LOCALaQ Broadcast
Stand: Q12
By Neal Romanek
aQ Broadcast is yet another company using BVE 2016 to make its UK trade show debut. Despite its new footprint at BVE, the company has been
doing a thriving domestic and international business since its split from Autocue in 2013.
“We’ve continued to develop our hardware and software ranges over the past two years. We’ve done IBC and NAB, but this is our first proper UK show,” said CEO Neil Hutchins.The company is showing off its latest Video Server product
at BVE. Hutchins notes the product’s capabilities have ballooned. “When it was first developed, it was a video server, but now we’re describing it as a broadcast engine, because it has such a wide range of functions. It can literally be a one-stop-shop.” aQ Broadcast has a presence in North America, particularly in Canada,
and has been a favourite of local and regional broadcasters. In the UK, the company has been heavily involved in the local TV rollout, supplying ten of the new local TV stations.
“Our involvement with local broadcasters has ranged from just providing a simple newsroom system for one of the sites to providing a complete
technical solution, where we provide all their transmission playout and other functions, including uploading their content to YouTube or transcoding to different formats.”
Hutchins says that aQ’s appeal to local broadcasters is that it is the only company that can offer the entire range of services in one package.
Visitor’s to HHB’s press event were welcomed with champagne
Crosby: “use the G-Speed Shuttles on location and then come back to your studio and go straight to the edit”
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By Neal Romanek
On Tuesday evening, Females in the Broadcast Industry (FBI) used BVE 2016 as the platform for its official launch. The trade organisation, which was formed to support and facilitate the networking of women in non-craft roles in the broadcast industry, is free to join and open to both men and women.
The launch featured a panel discussion among six women working in diverse sectors of the media industry: Molly Connolly, WW strategist for media and entertainment at Dell; Natascha Cadle, facility director and founder of Envy Post; Rowan Bray, general manager of operations at Molinare; Pam Smith, sound engineer, NEP Visions; and Ilona Valent, EMEA systems engineer at Ross Video.
Moderated by Bubble and Squeak managing director and FBI founder, Sadie Groom, the panel offered advice on battling the workplace’s proverbial “glass ceiling”, which was reframed in a more positive light as the “glass ladder”.
“In fact, it’s not a glass ladder, its more like a tree,” said Rowan Bray, general manager of operations at Molinaire. “You can climb it in all kinds of different ways. There are more opportunities for women now than ever before.” Molly Connolly offered a David
Letterman-style ‘Top 10 List’ of steps to take, to make the best of your career. Her running theme was enthusiasm and service, a motif picked up by other panel members. “Trust your gut instinct,” added Envy’s Natascha Cadle. “No one in the world knows you like you
know yourself. And don’t give up. It’s easy to get knocked down. Opportunities will happen for you.” NEP Visions’ Pam Smith said that enthusiasm and following her passion paid off, “All I ever wanted to do was sound. If you’re passionate about what you do and you enjoy it, it’s fun.
And you can put up with quite a lot.”
Smith also believes that encouraging women to enter male-dominated industries shouldn’t be left until the time when women are embarking on a career. “I think you have to go back to school level.”
Ncam
Stand: H10
By Adrian Pennington
There’s only one place you can find the Eiffel Tower on the BVE showfloor, and it’s on the stand of a good old British company, too.
Exhibiting with Vitec Videocom, camera tracking specialist Ncam is demonstrating the power of augmented reality (AR) technology by overlaying the iconic building onto a neighbouring stand. This all sounds like good fun, but broadcasters are increasingly turning to AR to jazz up their live news and sports coverage.
“A lot of broadcasters like the idea of not fixing AR in one room but having the freedom to move between different studios and even outdoors,” says Richard Hingley, Ncam account manager. “This also enables them to use AR in a more innovative fashion.
There are more than 50 Ncam systems installed worldwide, among them new sales to Major League Baseball (MLB) and CNN, which is using the system on its US election coverage.
“The versatility to move the system between cameras is also very attractive to broadcasters,” adds Hingley.
Among users is BT Sport, which is utilising the tech to augment its UEFA Champions
League coverage. The broadcaster is using three cameras – variously on a rolling jib, a Steadicam, and a robotic dolly – to deliver informative, entertaining and immersive graphics.
While the kit at BVE is the latest 2016 model, with refinements to the graphic interface among enhancements, the company is reserving major developments for later in the year. It will, for example, have another graphics partner on board and has something else up its sleeve too.
“Because of Ncam’s stereoscopic approach we know the distance of points and therefore depth,” was all Hingley would be drawn on. The tease.
CAN YOU FIND THE EIFFEL TOWER?
FBI INVESTIGATES INDUSTRY ASSUMPTIONS
Ncam’s Richard Hingley: “versatility and freedom”
Dell’s Molly Connolly takes part in a panel discussion at the FBI launch event
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