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WWW.INBROADCAST.COM | ISSUE 37 - NOVEMBER 2014

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Boris FX Backs
DaVinci Resolve

Vizrt 4K Ryder Cup Trial
V

izrt has delivered a successful
4K graphics workﬂow for Sky
Sports' Ultra HD trial at the recent
2014 Ryder Cup.
The 4K trial follows the Sky Sports'
4K test carried out at the 2014 World
Cup in Brazil. To enable the Ryder

Cup coverage, Vizrt provided two
4K-compatible newly-released
v3.7.0 Viz Engines with Matrox DSX
LE3 4K SDI video cards and the
Viz Trio character generator to Sky
Sports to generate and deliver the
onscreen graphics.

Vizrt powered Sky Sports 4K onscreen graphics

"We weren't doing a full production,
just showing selected holes, so we
only used a small percentage of
the graphics during the main show.
That said, pretty much everything
we tried from our Vizrt HD graphics
worked in 4K straight out of the box,"
said Phil Madge, VFX Supervisor
at Sky Sports.
Keith Lane, Director of Operations
at Sky Sports, said: "With around 12
hours of live golf each day, the Ryder
Cup gave us and our technical
partners a great opportunity to
look at 4K closely and test the
best ways of working in this new
format. We were pleased with how
well the Vizrt and Matrox workﬂow
performed when outputting at a
higher resolution."
Sky Sports also used Vizrt tools to
provide a full 3D graphics workﬂow
for its regular Ryder Cup broadcast.

Facilis And Marquis In Strategic Partnership
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hared storage provider Facilis
Technology and specialists
in content workﬂows and media
integration software Marquis
Broadcast have joined forces to
qualify Medway and Project Parking
products with TerraBlock shared
storage.
The duo say that the strategic
partnership will help Facilis
customers take advantage of
Medway's extensive media and
metadata tracking features for
enhanced project management in
Avid environments.
"Our customers desire the
ﬂexibility to work with a shared
storage solution that best matches
their speciﬁc workﬂow needs, so
qualifying Medway and Project
Parking with TerraBlock was a
natural evolution for us," said
Simon Fearn, Product Manager,

Marquis Broadcast.
Medway is Marquis Broadcast's
"Medway and Project Parking
comprehensive software toolkit
that integrates broadcast platforms
a re e x c e p t i o n a l t o o l s f o r
post-production facilities and
by providing transfer and format
broadcasters, and there's an
conversion tools for media and
incredible synergy between the
metadata, and Project Parking is
software and TerraBlock," said
an intuitive solution for analysing
James McKenna, VP of Marketing,
and managing media to optimise
Facilis Technology.
shared storage utilisation.
TerraBlock is Facilis' multiplatform, high-capacity
shared storage solution that
facilitates highly collaborative
workﬂows in post-production
and content creation
environments.
Supporting 8/16Gbps
Fibre Channel and 1/10Gbps
Ether net through the
Facilis Shared File System,
TerraBlock delivers advanced
performance with industry- Marquis Broadcast's Medway and Project
standard creative applications. Parking harmonise with TerraBlock

USA: Boris FX has added
support for Blackmagic DaVinci
Resolve to Boris Continuum
Complete and to Boris RED.
"Through DaVinci Resolve's
support of OpenFX plug-ins users
now have access to many of
the same effects and tools that
are used within other nonlinear
editing workflows through Boris
Continuum Complete," said
Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty.
Boris FX plug-ins support After
Effects, Premiere Pro, Assimilate
Scratch, Avid, Edius, FCPX and
Sony Vegas Pro.

FXHOME
HitFilm 3 Pro
GBR: FXHOME is to release the latest
version of its HitFilm 3 Pro video
editing and visual effects software
at the end of November 2014.
HitFilm 3 Pro offers editing
tools, 3D compositing, 3D object
rendering, a particle simulator
and a toolkit for advanced
colour correction and grading.
Over 180 fully customisable
visual effects are included plus 130
plugins for use in Sony Vegas, After
Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro
X and Motion.

Sound Devices
Firmware 2.10
USA: Sound Devices has released
Firmware 2.10 update for its
970 audio rack-mounted and
PIX 250i, PIX 260i and PIX 270i
video rack-mounted recorders.
Features and upgrades include
enhanced metadata functionality,
sound report creation and
improved file/folder formats.
A new Metadata screen gives
quick access to the Scene, Notes,
Take and Circle status of Previous,
Current and Next takes.

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