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ACCESS Selected
For Hybridcast TV

Schneider Optics Captures
Classic New York Hotel Look
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GBR / JAP: ACCESS has announced
the integration of NetFront Browser
NX in the Toshiba TV platform and
the embedding of the browser
for the world's ﬁrst commercially
available Hybridcast TV in Japan.
ACCESS has expanded NetFront
Browser NX to offer support for
Hybridcast, providing Toshiba with
a market-ready solution that can
be deployed quickly and efficiently.
In addition to Hybridcast, the
solution also supports the YouTube
specification.

weatpants Media shoot at
Manhattan's Viceroy New York
communicates a high-end, high
fashion feel.
"The client's expectations were, as
always, high. Every shot needed
to look like it was pulled from a
fashion magazine," said Jonny
Zeller, Sweatpants Co-founder. "The
Viceroy in Manhattan channels the
classic style of old New York. A
mixture of old and new, it creates a
timeless feel. Like a duet between
Frank Sinatra and Jay-Z, this short
ﬁlm represents the success of the
past and all the promise of today."
Production used a Steadicammounted RED Epic for most of its

Sony's 4K-Ready
PXW-X70 Camcorder

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shots. The entire piece was ﬁlmed
in 5K. The majority was shot at
23.98 fps, though higher frame
rates were used to accentuate the
actors' movements.
Due to the high level of camera
movement, Zeller and his DP, Alex
Jacobs, opted for the Schneider
Cine-Xenar III prime lenses instead
of a larger, heavier zoom.
Zeller appreciated that the lenses
each have the same dimensions, do
not change volume during focus
and focus and iris gears share
identical positions: "The CineXenars made things more efﬁcient
since the Steadicam op didn't
have to re-balance after every lens

Latest mocha Pro 4
Extends Integration

Elemental Highlight
Software Video Focus

AUS: Expanding the file-based
XDCAM family to a new smaller
form factor Sony has launched
the 4K-ready PXW-X70 compact
professional camcorder.
Sony says that the PXW-X70
is suited to a wide range of
applications.
It features a 1" type Exmor R
CMOS sensor with a resolution of
20 megapixels that delivers high
resolution and low light performance,
as well as offering more depth of
field control.
It has the ability to record HD in
XAVC Long GOP, enabling 4:2:2 10bit sampling at 50 Mbit/s.
This in-turn supports a broadcastquality workflow.
The PXW-X70 is Sony's first
professional compact camcorder
to include Wi-Fi-enabled control
via smartphone or tablet using the
Content Browser Mobile application.

GBR: Imagineer Systems is shipping
the latest release of its ﬂagship visual
effects solution, mocha Pro 4.0.
A new Stereoscopic 3D workﬂow
enables quick analysis of differences
between right and left camera
streams and apply the solved
disparity in 2D tracking, 3D camera
solving, object remove module and
image stabilisation.
Adobe Premiere Pro editors
can now paste mocha roto
masks directly to their timeline for
advanced isolation, blurring and
colour correction tasks while a
customisable keyboard shortcut
interface provides preset proﬁles
to match Adobe After Effects.
Python scripting integrates mocha
Pro 4 with VFX production workﬂow
systems such as Shotgun, Hiero or
Generation, synchronising content
and metadata across applications
and projects.

USA: Elemental Technologies
demonstrated its video processing
solutions at the recent ABTA Expo
& Conference in São Paulo, Brazil.
Highlights included 4Kp60 HEVC
for VoD applications and support for
new value-add live-to-VOD timeshift
TV services, such as catch-up TV,
start-over TV and nPVR.
The demo featured an Elemental
Live appliance which sends up an
RTP stream for ingest by Elemental
Cloud by Elemental Live.
Elemental Live then forwards
an ABR stream in Apple HLS
for delivery. Applications key to
successful timeshift services include
just-in-time packaging (JIT-P) and
Apple HLS passthrough.
Additionally, Elemental together
with Globosat and Broadcom
provided insights into 4K HEVC,
multiscreen content delivery and
video over IP.

Sweatpants Media deployed
Schneider's Cine-Xenar III prime lenses

change," Jonny said.
"The Cine-Xenar III primes
captured the look we were going
for without being distracting, which
was something I was really happy
with," Zeller said.

Globecast Extends
West African Reach
FRA: Globecast has extended
its reach in West Africa via
a new PoP partnership with
Senegalese telco Sonatel.
The PoP - which in this case
is operating as an access (in/
out) point to Globecast's
international network dedicated
to the backhauling of audiovisual
services - is located in Dakar.
Sonatel is headquartered in
Dakar with the company serving
additional local markets including
Mali, Guinée Bissau and Guinée.

Quantum
DXi-Series
GBR: Quantum Corp has
announced an enriched and
simpliﬁed DXi-Series deduplication
family, including a new DXi6900
appliance, to serve as the foundation
for next-generation data protection.
The DXi6900 is powered by
Quantum's DXi software with
StorNext 5 technology at its core.
When combined with Quantum's
Q-Cloud Protect services, the new
DXi-Series enables customers to
build data protection workflows
that extend across sites and
to the cloud.

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