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Manhattan Center Studios Installs SSL C10 HD
Manhattan Center Studios in New York, recently completed a massive upgrade to its Studio 1 television production facility. The facility chose a Solid State Logic C10 HD Compact Broadcast Console to handle audio production for its TV1 Control Room. The selection of the C10 gives Manhattan Center Studios all of the improved audio quality and optimised workﬂow beneﬁts of an SSL dedicated broadcast audio console. “Before the physical upgrade to Studio 1, we were constantly struggling with a digital console that was really designed more for a music recording environment, so everyday TV items like generating a simple mix-minus were a chore,” said Marvin Williams, Director of Video Engineering and Operations, Manhattan Center Studios. “With the advent of the C10, we now enjoy pushing a button to create one or multiple mix-minus feeds, saving time and letting our engineers focus on critical mixing for live- Revamped Manhattan Center Studio 1 to-capture sessions. the future and the C10 allows us The C10 really solves our problems to do just that,” says Travis Butler, for audio production by giving us Chief Engineer, Manhattan Center great sound, ﬂexibility and features Studios. designed for TV applications.” “We really needed to move into

Vimond Team Up With Vizrt
NOR: Vimond Media Solutions will team up with partner Vizrt at the Mobile World Congress to demonstrate Vimond and Vizrt’s combined oﬀering for a complete online video solution. With Vimond Media’s integration with Vizrt’s Viz Media Engine and Escenic Content Engine, users get a complete online video platform handling live streaming from mobiles, editors’ ingest, insertion of graphics and advertisements, automatic transcoding, and multiplatform content distribution.

Third Film Master In Action At MTI
USA: MTI Film in Hollywood, California, has installed its third Nucoda Film Master into its stateof-the-art facility. Opened in 2010, MTI Film is a full service post-production facility providing high quality dailies, editorial, visual effects, colour correction and assembly for ﬁlm, television and commercial projects. MTI is currently at work on a number of projects, including AMC’s Hell on Wheels, CW’s Ringer, Good Christian Belles on ABC, and for TNT The Closer, Dallas, and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as a number of feature and restoration projects.

Sony OLED Post Monitor Wins
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Sony has announced deals for its Trimaster EL OLED monitors with leading London post-houses LipSync Post and Unit Post Production through Sony Specialist Dealer WTS. Daniel Dubreuil, Senior Product Specialist, Sony Professional, said: “We’ve seen significant uptake across the industry, and the latest ﬁgures from Futuresource confirm that OLED technology is establishing itself as a natural successor to CRT. “We expect to see continued growth in 2012 as post-houses continue to invest in the technology which delivers the highest visual performance in terms of image reproduction, colour accuracy, reliability and stability to deal with the growing trend for higher resolutions in acquisition.” LipSync Post have taken ﬁve PVM-2541 monitors which will be used throughout their HD DS suites and grading theatres for monitoring. “We’ve opted for the Trimaster EL PVM-2541’s for their performance and aﬀordability. They are a great all-round broadcast monitor and perfectly suit our needs at LipSync,” said: Peter Hampden, Managing Director LipSync Post. Unit Post Production are using six PVM-2541s and a BVM-F250 to standardise monitors across their ﬁnishing suites. Managing Director Adam Luckwell said: “After extensive research we found that OLEDs were the preeminent monitor and therefore decided to replace all our ﬁnishing monitoring on Baselight, Flame and Smokes – across the entire facility with OLED’s.” The latest figures from independent research consultants Futuresource for Q4 2011 saw the technology share for OLED double from eight per cent to 16.9 per cent.

NDTV Extends Harris Platforms
IND: New Delhi Television (NDTV) has extended its quality control, delivery and branding capabilities with digital broadcast solutions from Harris Broadcast Communications. This includes the Harris Selenio media convergence platform for its master control environment. The broadcaster has built a considerable news content archive that will be made available for its English and Hindi language news channels.

Sony PVM-2541

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