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Appointments
Omnitek Appoints
VP Worldwide Sales
GBR: Omnitek, specialists in
Test and Measurement and IP
and design services for the video
industry, has appointed Rob Arnold
as its Vice President of Worldwide
Sales for its Test and Management
products.
With over 10 years of test and
measurement sales experience,
Arnold is a prominent figure within
the industry.
He will be responsible for sales
of the Ultra 4K Tool Box, the OTM
1000 and OTR 1001 as well as
the PQA Picture Quality Analyzer
products worldwide (excluding
EMEA).
Vice President of Business
Development,
David
Ackroyd, will retain the
EMEA sales market as well
as taking full responsibility
for the growing IP and
design services from
Omnitek.

Accedo Continues
Global Expansion
SWE / SIN: Accedo has opened
an office in Singapore and has
appointed Chris Hampartsoumian
as Technical Director for the APAC
region.
Accedo,
headquartered
in
Stockholm,
Sweden,
has
announced the addition of the
Singapore office as a strategic
step in further strengthening its
global position and to provide
local support for APAC customers
including
Telstra,
PCCW,
MediaCorp, SBS and LightBox.
Hampartsoumian
brings
a
wealth of industry knowledge
and expertise to Accedo, having
previously worked in similar roles
for ioko, Irdeto, and Amazon.
Accedo's
award-winning
range of products and
solutions
have
been
deployed with numerous
customers
in
the
region.

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Canal Once Opts For
Grass Valley Solutions

I

n a recent renovation of
its news studio, Canal
Once, the first public
service television station
in Latin America, installed
a number of advanced
solutions
from
Grass
Valley, a Belden Brand.
The
Grass
Valley
technology will streamline
its
news
production
workflow and prepare for
4K/IP production. The
modernised studio is now
the first of its kind in Latin
America for a government-owned
public channel.
Canal Once produces four daily
newscasts Monday through Friday in
addition to talk shows, educational
programmes, documentaries, recorded

clips and kids programming. Canal
Once upgraded its news studio with
Grass Valley's GV STRATUS production
asset management toolset, EDIUS
editing software, Karrera K-Frame
production switcher and the Kaleido-

MX 4K UHD multiviewer.
"As a long-time user of
Grass Valley products and
solutions, we have a very
high comfort level with the
technology and know that
it's the right investment for
us," said Oscar Baldenebro,
Operations Director, Canal
Once. "GV STRATUS is the
perfect turnkey solution for
us that works as designed -
tailored to our needs."
"When we decided to look
at solutions that would give
us the option to migrate to 4K and IP,
Grass Valley just made sense," added
Baldenebro.
Preparing for the future with 4K and
IP, Canal 11 selected Grass Valley's
Karrera K-Frame production switcher.

Masstech Streamlining Portal For Avid
M
asstech
has
announced
Masstech Portal for Avid, a new
software offering that streamlines
media interchange between Avid's
Media Composer editing systems and
Masstech-managed media archives.
Users can archive, restore and
flatten content simply by dragging
and dropping it between their
Media Composer and the Masstech
Portal, eliminating manual steps and
workflow obstacles that distract from
creativity.
"Avid
customers
worldwide
have long enjoyed the benefits of
our deep and flexible integration
with enterprise solutions such
as Interplay | Production," said

Savva Mueller, Director of Product
Management at Masstech. "Our new
Masstech Portal for Avid extends
our integration to standalone Media
Composer systems and continues our
focus on further enhancing the user
experience. It gives creative end-users
an intuitive archive gateway that
works seamlessly with their familiar
editing interface while providing
powerful,
time-saving
feedback.

The Portal shields editors from the
technical details of the archive, letting
them focus on creating great content."
Avid sequences and master clips
are archived easily by dragging
and dropping them from the Media
Composer interface into the Masstech
Portal.
Valuable metadata is preserved, with
customisable mapping between Avid
and the Masstech media management
system.
In addition to job status
monitoring, the Portal also
provides immediate notification of
issues such as unrendered effects
and offline media in the Avid
sequence.
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