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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 9 | September 2017

InNews
Kaltura Pledges
High Availability

USA: Kaltura has enhanced to
its Cloud TV Platform claiming
99.995% availability for live and
VOD TV viewing.
Kaltura has also invested in
the modularity of its platform,
allowing customers to experiment
with business models, features and
functionality.
The platform's flexibility also
enables Kaltura to integrate with
legacy TV platforms and migrate
them to a hybrid Cloud solution.
The release boosts end-user
personalisation, and enables
operators to market to and reach
their users in a more targeted way.

EVS Announces
X-One Multicam

BEL: EVS has announced the X-One
unified multicam live production
system.
The system puts the capabilities
of a control room in the hands
of a production operator - all
controlled from a touchscreen.
It allows for the ingest of six
camera feeds - as well as for the
media import of any other files
- which operators use to create
replays, control audio, cut together
a live feed with the built-in video
switcher, which is output in
broadcast-standard quality.

Dalet Social Media
In News Room

FRA / NED: At IBC, Dalet will unveil
the Dalet Social Media Panel for its
Dalet News Solutions.
The Panel is part of Dalet's
comprehensive
social
media
framework that enables journalists
to analyse, produce and deliver
fast-paced news on social media
platforms.
It gives editorial teams a
synthetic view of all their posts,
including simple analytics to
understand popularity of their
posts, allowing journalists and
news directors to better fine-tune
and deliver content to targeted
audiences, ultimately augmenting
engagement.

Sony's Venice FF
Motion Picture Camera

S

ony has unveiled Venice - its first
full-frame digital motion picture
camera system.
The camera was officially
unveiled at select venues
to high-profile industry
professionals, at which Sony
screened footage produced
with the new camera,
directed by Joseph Kosinski
and shot by Academy Award
winning
cinematographer
Claudio Miranda, ASC.
"The launch of Venice demonstrates
our
strong
relationship
with
filmmakers around the world, and
our commitment to developing
tools that support directors, DOPs
and cinematographers in bringing
their vision to the screen as they
originally intended it," said Sebastian

Venice boasts a newly developed
full-frame sensor

Leske, Product Marketing Manager,
Cinematography, Sony Professional
Solutions Europe.
"We've not only focused on features
to deliver the most true to life
images, including colour reproduction
for natural skin tones. We also
thought about the best usability and

SAM Enables UK National
Theatre Live HDR/UHD

T

he UK's National Theatre has
delivered its first HDR/UHD
production thanks to SAM's latest
Kahuna production switcher.
Creative Broadcast Solutions issued
a competitive tender for the
project, which was awarded to
UK OB company Telegenic.
Creative
Broadcast
Solutions worked together
with Telegenic to ensure that
their choice of kit - which
included SAM's Kahuna - was
suitable for what needed to be
achieved and that the full UHD
experience was delivered in a

much more robust fashion than ever
before.
"As this was the 60th production
we decided to shoot it in UHD and
exploit HDR and everything that comes

operability, without compromising on
quality."
The camera combines a newly
developed 36x24mm full frame sensor
and compatibility with a wide range of
lenses, including anamorphic,
Super 35mm and full frame
PL mount for a greater range
of expressive freedom with
shallow depth of field.
The lens mount can also
be changed to handle E-mount
lenses for shooting situations that
require smaller, lighter and wider
characteristic lenses.
User-selectable areas of the image
sensor allow shooting in Super 35mm
(four perforation).
Future firmware upgrades are
planned to allow the camera to handle
36mm wide 6K resolution.
from that," said Christopher Bretnall
Technical Producer, Creative Broadcast
Solutions. "Although Kahuna has been
used for NT Live productions in the
past, this is the first time we have used
it to its full capability."
The production switcher deployed
in the OB truck was running the
latest version of the FormatFusion
technology, bringing HDR capabilities
to all inputs and outputs.
The two parts of Angels in
America were broadcast on
July 20 and 27 respectively.
The
production
marks
National Theatre Live's 60th
production since it launched in
2009 and was broadcast live
to over 2,500 cinemas in 60
countries.
UK National Theatre Live
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