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Enhancements For Avid's
Media Composer | Software
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vid has released the latest
version of Media Composer |
Software.
Avid say that the release
features faster and more efﬁcient
workﬂows, continuing to deliver
on the Avid Everywhere vision of
connecting content creators with
their audiences in more powerful,
efﬁcient and profitable ways.
As part of the Avid Artist Suite of
creative tools, Media Composer |
Software is powered by the Avid
MediaCentral Platform, giving
editors access to an even wider
range of tools and expertise for
collaboration, production, and
monetisation of content.
In direct response to the editing
community's need to deliver
high-quality, inspiring content

while pressured by
compressed project
schedules, Avid has
introduced time-saving
capabilities to Media
Composer | Software.
These features are
available to all new
and existing Media
Composer
|
Software
customers
regardless of
whether they
are on perpetual licenses or using
the recently introduced ﬂoating or
subscription licenses.
Media Composer | Software gives
editors the tools, workﬂows, and
options needed for professional ﬁlm,
television, video, and news creation.

Faster more efﬁcient workflows
- Avid Media Composer | Software

The latest enhancements to Media
Composer | Software are available
to new and existing users who
have purchased a subscription,
new perpetual license, or standard
support plan (upgrade), or renewed
a support plan.

TV2000 Deploys Dalet Enterprise MAM
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V2000 has deployed the Dalet
News Suite solution for news
production and Dalet Media Life
to manage programme preparation.
The Dalet MAM manages the
essential business and operational
functions including lifecycle
media, essence and metadata
management. It also provides
workﬂow orchestration.
Each Dalet solution offers
dedicated toolsets. Dalet News Suite
includes a complete Newsroom
Computer System (NRCS) and
tools for editing, ingest, playout,
repurposing, multimedia distribution
and archiving.
Dalet Media Life includes fully
integrated tools for functions
such as bulk ingest, automatic
QC, compliance and rough-cut
editing, language/captioning and

content repurposing.
The Dalet system at TV2000
includes 45 workstations for
news and 15 workstations for
programme preparation.
Four Dalet Brio video servers are
conﬁgured for a total of eight inputs
to handle SD-centralised ingest.
These same Brio servers have
16 outputs, which are distributed

A Dalet workstation GUI

among three different studios for
playout and contribution.
In addition, XDCAM and P2
imports modules allow users to
import content from their Sony/
Panasonic camcorders.
For faster sharing, archiving and
repurposing of content, ingest
operators use the Dalet Media
Logger to enter metadata according
to the channel's preferred ﬁelds to
ensure metadata integrity and easy
search and retrieval from the Dalet
MAM catalogue as well as from the
existing DIVArchive system.
System deployment was
successfully completed with the
assistance of Dalet's integration
partner MediaPower.
TV2000 is Italy's primary television
channel for news related to the
Catholic Church.

Baselight Sets Up
Jersey Boys Look
GBR: Warner Bros. relied on Baselight
to help create a characteristic
period feel for Eastwood's Jersey
Boys, the musical of Frankie
Valli and The Four Seasons.
He turned to the Warner Bros
MPI team and their colourist
Maxine Gervais on the Baselight
colour suite from FilmLight.
Shot in 2K anamorphic using an
ARRI ALEXA, Gervais worked on
Baselight with cinematographer
Tom Stern to create initial looks that
formed the basis of the finished DI.

Frankie Takes
Airbag Reviews
AUS: Airbag Productions has chosen
Frankie to conduct video review
sessions both internally and with its
local and remote clients after testing
and comparing many other options.
Airbag found Frankie to be the
easiest product to use, with the most
appealing interface and PDF summary.
Production companies like Airbag
now have an affordable and simple-touse option to complete video reviews.
Airbag is a combined VFX,
animation and production company.

Sonnet Ships
xMac Pro Server
USA: Sonnet is now shipping its xMac
Pro Server with a Thunderbolt 2-toPCI Express (PCIe) expansion system
and 4RU enclosure for the latest
generation of Mac Pro computers.
The xMac Pro Server mounts
the computer horizontally inside
a 4RU modular enclosure and
connects three PCIe 2 slots
via Thunderbolt 2 technology.
It provides space to install
additional equipment in two
5.25-inch mobile rack bays.
The PCIe card expansion
module boasts ultrafast 20 Gb/sec
Thunderbolt 2 technology.

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