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Red TX Coldplay
SPAIN: Broadcast sound specialist Red TX has helped mega band Coldplay reach out to the band’s fans around the world. Red TX captured the broadcast audio for Coldplay’s recent album launch at the Plaza de Toros Stadium in Madrid where 17,000 fans in the stadium were joined by 44 million other fans around the world to watch the show on You Tube. Coldplay’s set included hits such as Yellow, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face and Fix You, as well as the singles Paradise and Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall from their new album Mylo Xyloto. The concert was mixed on board Red TX’s new truck, Red II, by live sound engineer and Red TX director Tim Summerhayes. He provided a live stereo audio feed to the Visions mobile, which was capturing the video in HD and providing onward broadcast to You Tube. Red TX was commissioned to handle the broadcast audio for the Amex sponsored concert by Live Nation.

Avid Editing Upgrades
Avid® has released new versions of its flagship video editing systems – Media Composer® version 6, NewsCutter® version 10 and Symphony® version 6. Rebuilt around a 64-bit core, the new versions promise improved for performance, flexibility and productivity. Avid has also introduced a sleek, new User Interface – designed to speed workflows while simultaneously preserving functionality. Significantly for many users, the latest software versions include support for third-party hardware, AVCHD and Red Epic support with Avid Media Access (AMA), an Avid DNxHD® 444 codec, and support for Avid Artist Color. AMA now offers native support for AVCHD and RED Epic as well as the ability to encode Apple ProRes on Mac OS-based systems. “Time and creativity is money for our customers, and they are looking for solutions that can help them continue to advance the art of creative storytelling without adding technological complexity,” said Chris Gahagan, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions at Avid. Leverage existing hardware investments, Avid claims the solutions will integrate more fully with workflow configurations thanks to the new Avid Open I/O, which enables support for popular video and audio cards from AJA Video Systems, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish444, Matrox and MOTU. Avid’s Nitris ® DX – the video hardware system optimised for Avid editing systems – will be available as a standalone hardware purchase at a reduced price. Nitris DX is available with one or two Avid DNxHD or AVC-Intra chips and supports full resolution and full frame stereoscopic workflows. Symphony software is now available as a software-only solution.
Avid’s Editing solutions get 64-bit

RBC-TV To Expand Artist Intercom And RockNet
Russian business TV network RBCTV has expanded its existing thirdparty intercom system with an Artist digital matrix intercom solution from Riedel Communications. An additional Riedel RockNet digital audio network provides additional audio routing capabilities at the RBC-TV studios. To expand their comms infrastructure RBC-TV installed an Artist system comprising an Artist 64 mainframe and Artist control panels from 2100 and 3000 series. Connection between the existing third party intercom and the Riedel system is via four-wire. The Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom is a modular intercom solution that allows systems to be adapted to the individual needs of an installation. Artist Client cards provide the connection for various different signal types such as audio signals or GPIOs. Artist Matrices can easily be expanded to form systems with up to 1,024x1,024 non-blocking ports. “For our new studio, we chose Riedel Intercom, because it manages all tasks just the way we want and need it. We will also exchange the remaining Drake System in our old facility with a Riedel Artist mainframe. Those two frames will be forming one integrated system,” said Mikhail
RBC-TV Business Studio

SeeSense Meuser
SLOVAKIA: SeeSense has added the new Meuser Optik 3.5mm (69° FOV) 1/3” prism compatible HD lens to their armoury of compatible lenses for the Toshiba IK-HD1 camera system. The new improved optics offer vastly superior resolution with lower image distortion performance to any 3-CCD 1/3” C-mount prism camera including those from Toshiba, Iconix, Panasonic, Ikegami and Hitachi, claim SeeSense. Meuser Optik recently announced a new 2.8mm 81° FOV version of the lens. The range of MP lens solutions – with FOV capabilities up to 180° and with apertures down to F1.0 – enhance the camera’s capability in low light as well as expanding suitability for special POV, sports, in-car and other speciality uses.

Terezchenko, Director Technical Development at RBC-TV. Furthermore, RBC-TV uses a RockNet digital audio network installation to distribute the audio signals on-site. The system comprises RockNet 100 and RockNet 300 input and output modules. RockNet MADI interfaces provide the connection to the studio’s audio mixing console.

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