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Ross Video Acquires FX-Motion
Ross Video has announced the acquisition of FX-Motion, a robotic camera systems company based in Brussels, Belgium, Ross Robotics. “We are super excited about adding robotics to our product portfolio,” said David Ross, CEO Ross Video. “There is a very close link between the OverDrive Automated Production Control System, Production Switchers, XPression Graphics and now our Furio Robotic Camera Systems. We are able to oﬀer some great integrated production solutions to our clients and really push the state of live production technology.” Commenting on the acquisition, that was sparked by a meeting CEO of FX-Motion and now President of Ross Robotics Stijn Vanorbeek said: “There is a great ﬁt with FX-Motion both from a technology at IBC, he added: and corporate culture “We already had a point of view.” mutual customer, FX-Motion, founded which was one 10 years ago by of the things that Stijn Vanorbeek and triggered it.” Roberto Gaziano, is He pointed to best known for bringing the close tie-in film-style motion with XPression control technology and the virtual set to television remote and augmented control and robotics reality environment systems. and that Ross The FX-Motion Furio p r o d u c t i o n Furio Robotic Camera system has been switchers, from used on productions such as the Carbonite to the top-of-the-range Eurovision Song Contest and So Vision, were already capable of You Think You Can Dance. remote controlling robotic cameras.

Global Summit Gathers Pace
GBR: The first Global Broadcast Summit will be held in London in November 2012. Over 30 CEOs of broadcasters from around the world have expressed their intent to attend, and both Harris Corporation and Sony have been conﬁrmed as GBS partners. The invitation only Summit will bring together the heads of the world’s leading broadcasters. A number of key issues facing conventional over the air broadcasters in today’s multiplatform industry will be addressed

Signiant & Xytech Integrate Solution
USA: Signiant and Xytech have announced the integration of their ﬂagship products for Improved Schedule-to-Air Workflow Eﬃciency. The joint solution, which makes the secure digital media transfer capabilities of the Signiant Media Manager™ software available from within the Xytech’s MediaPulse facility and operations management system, was demonstrated at the 2012 Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) Technology Retreat.

Picture Head Embraces DVS Fuze
Hollywood-based post-production facility, Picture Head has broadened its service portfolio to include stereoscopic work and DCI Mastering. Tasked with ﬁnding the most eﬃcient solution to enable these workflows within their existing infrastructure, the result of their search was the DVS Fuze. In accordance with DCI speciﬁcations, Fuze creates fast and secure 3D DCPs. An integrated wizard guides the user through each required step of the stereoscopic DCI Mastering process – including interleaving, encoding, encryption, and wrapping into MXF ﬁles. DVS’s hardware accelerator accomplishes this whole process in real-time. Matthew Flint, Vice President of Picture Head, said: “We are impressed by what Fuze can do. The DVS solution does not just integrate perfectly into our workﬂows; it also increases their eﬃciency by a considerable degree. With its versatility, Fuze helps us exceed our customers’ requirements.” With Fuze, the editors at Picture Head have the control to perform precise quality checks at any stage of the workﬂow. In addition, the DVS system features a ﬂexible cinema reel editing tool and enables scaling, colour space conversion and encoding into various compressed

formats. The facility services the motion picture, television and cross-platform markets. An early adopter of non-linear solutions, Picture Head utilises state-of-the-art equipment for SD, HD, 2K and 4K editing, 3D, visual eﬀects, graphics, audio mixing, sweetening, duplication and digital media distribution.

Hugo Oscar Nomination
CAN: Matrox® Video Products Group have congratulated Matrox MXO2™ MAX™ user Rob Legato, and the VFX team of Hugo, on their 2012 Oscar® nomination, awarded by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mr. Legato said: “The MXO2, when it’s coupled with Premiere, it actually can play just about any medium… so it becomes a huge asset in my editing room.”

DVS Fuze

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