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I N T E R N A T I O N A L WWW.INBROADCAST.COM | ISSUE 29 - MARCH 2014 N E W S InNEWS Post House Films at 59 Adopts Avid S6 Console F ilms at 59 is the UK's first postproduction house to adopt Avid's S6 future-ready control surface for the most demanding production environments. Based in Bristol, Films at 59 provides location kit hire, workflow support and post for a variety of independent producers and broadcasters. Its investment in Avid S6 will see the company switch to a fully integrated Avid content creation infrastructure, enabling it to benefit from greater operational efficiencies and seamless, faster collaboration across its television projects. Gina Fucci, Managing Director of Films at 59 said: "With everdecreasing budgets, faster turnaround times, and the need for producers to find money across territories to fund a project, we needed an agile workflow based on open and tightly integrated solutions. With the innovative and 14 Russian Channel Chooses Calrec RUS / GBR: The Public Television of Russia has outfitted its new Moscow facility with Calrec Artemis Light digital audio consoles. The consoles are being used in every studio to produce audio for a variety of news, cultural, and magazine programmes. The channel purchased four Artemis Light consoles with 32 faders and Hydra I/O boxes. The consoles are connected by Calrec's Hydra2 plug-andplay audio routing system. Systems integrator Professional Television Systems handled the project. LQL Works With TouchMonitor Avid's S6 customisable control surface DiGiCo Brings The Ballads To Malaysia DEN: RTW's LQL is compatible with the TC Electronic TM7 a n d T M 9 To u c h M o n i t o r s . LQL is a tool for logging, truepeak data analysis and reporting. It enables data to be derived directly via an IP-connection from a capable TouchMonitor, as well as from external storage media such as a USB stick. The PC software is free, however a license is required to enable data export and additional display functions. M Sonifex DA Duo alaysia has a long tradition of male and female vocalists who become superstars across eastern Asia. Playing in their home country guarantees sold-out stadiums, with DiGiCo consoles bringing their ballads to thousands of fans. Selangor-based Clef Productions Sdn Bhd is one of the leading companies in Malaysia's live production industry. Clef's owner Alvin Koh was a fan of DiGiCo's original D5 consoles before he started working with the SD Series and has specified DiGiCo on shows by some of Malaysia's biggest intuitive Avid S6 at the heart of our workflow, we can be more creative, yet less labour intensive, enabling us to grow our business." Films at 59's new audio production infrastructure, which combines Avid Pro Tools and the S6 console - the only integrated software, hardware and control surface environment artists this year. One of the company's most recent projects is Anuar Zain's 'Three Decades of Music, Love and Passion'. One reason why Alvin likes DiGiCo consoles is their ability to handle DiGiCo SD10's in use at a stadium optimised to work together, has been integrated into its existing proven and trusted Media Composer and ISIS shared storage video content creation workflow. Films at 59 plans to add additional Avid S6 consoles to its workflow later in 2014. a large input channel count in a single desk. "What I most like about DiGiCo is the sound quality and the flexibility of how you can customise the work surface. "Yet, at the same time, you have the benefits of the DiGiTuBes and the 'analogue' style of the console's layout and workflow," said Alvin. "It is also so easy to record shows, either using a DiGiCo UB MADI interface (for up to 48 channels) or with the new DiGiGrid MGB for up to 128 channels, direct to an Ethernet port on a PC or Mac running any DAW." GBR: Sonifex has displayed two new distribution amplifiers - the RB-DDA6A3 DA and the RB-DA24MD 24-way audio DA. The RB-DDA6A3 is for distributing one BNC AES3id audio input to six outputs - repeating both the audio data and the status information while re-normalising levels. The RB-DA24MD is a 24-way audio DA, with two inputs which can be individually routed to 12 (protected) outputs or mixed and routed to all 24 outputs.
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