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Vizrt Works With Premiere Pro CS6
NED: At IBC 2012, Vizrt displayed new tools to show the integration between Viz Media Engine and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. At NAB, Vizrt announced integration that allows editors to search and select source material from Viz Media Engine within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. This has been further enhanced to allow Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 access to EDLs in Viz Media Engine as well as the capability to stage offline media.

Astro Flies With HD OB Truck From KIT digital
KIT digital has announced that its Broadcast System Integration business (formerly Megahertz Broadcast Systems) has delivered the ﬁrst HD OB production trailer to Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad. The trailer has been designed to cover live sport and entertainment production throughout Malaysia. Astro, with its signiﬁcant presence in Direct-To-Home (DTH) TV services, commercial radio and TV programming engaged KIT digital BSI to build this 13.5 metre trailer as part of the company’s ﬁrst steps to migrate its mobile operations to HD. The single-sided expandable trailer is equipped with 20 cameras, ideal for the coverage of live sporting events. The trailer includes facilities to house four EVS XT SD/HD video servers, up to six VTRs, a Final Cut Pro editor as well as two Yamaha
Astro’s ﬁrst HD OB truck is destined for sports and entertainment production

LiveU Teams With TriCaster
DM2000 audio mixers. It is expected that this capsule list of equipment will be standardised across all future Astro OB vehicles to ensure familiarity and ease of use for the operational teams in the field. Before being acquired by KIT digital, Megahertz had worked with Astro to provide two smaller HD Production trucks for the broadcaster in 2010 at the start of the company’s HD roll out plans. This latest trailer offers a combination of flexibility and reliability essential for any missioncritical live production application. The second Astro HD production OB vehicle was showcased by KIT digital at IBC. U S A : L i v e U a n d N e w Te k demonstrated their integrated l i v e v i d e o s t re a m i n g a n d production solution at IBC. LiveU VP of Marketing Ronen Artman said: “The live studio at IBC is just the beginning of our collaboration with NewTek.” Franck Lafage, Managing Director of 3D Storm, said that “LiveU’s bonded cellular uplink solutions complement perfectly TriCaster’s offering”. Technology publication, The Next Web, produced a live broadcast of news from the show.

Visual Unity’s 4K Video Streaming Gateway
At IBC 2012 Visual Unity launched its 4K Gateway, a portable device for real-time low-latency video streaming up to 3D 4K. Hailed as the latest step in the evolution of online video, 4K digital video offers approximately four times the resolution of the most widely-used HD television format, and 24 times that of a standard broadcast TV signal. It allows ﬁlm, post-production and visualisation companies to harness the power of 4K over unlimited bandwidth/distance in collaborative environments. “As 4K comes of age, media organisations face the challenge of efﬁciently and cost-effectively delivering a more immersive and engaging visual experience to their demanding audiences,” said Tomas Petru, President of Visual Unity. “4K Gateway is an elegant solution to this challenge as it addresses the need for high quality and reliable transmission of high resolution content, whether it be for collaborative ﬁlm post-production, the streaming of live events in digital cinemas or e-Learning in medical and educational establishments.” Operating over dedicated photonic networks or shared Internet, 4K Gateway offers very low latency of less than 1ms plus networking delay, thus ensuring a truly interactive experience. Higher buffering can be optionally selected to compensate for high network jitter or for special applications. Visual Unity and its development partners have already put 4K Gateway through its paces on a series of projects including a collaboration on colour grading of 4K video content over a distance of more than 6,200 miles.

EVS Premiere Open Workﬂow
BEL: At IBC, EVS highlighted its open workﬂow collaboration with Adobe. The integration will enable users to exchange media recorded on EVS servers and send Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 edits back for instant playout. Using OP1a MXF or QuickTime Movies file exchange format, Premiere Pro users will be able to edit content while it is being transferred as a background task via EVS’ XT/ XS media production servers.

Visual Unity’s 4K Gateway can stream 3D 4K

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