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Appointments
Artel Video Appoints
Director of Channels
USA: Artel Video Systems has
appointed Franz Semprun as
Director of Channels and Key
Accounts. "We are excited to add
Franz to Artel's sales team. His
proactive approach and success
in maximising revenue and
cultivating best-in-class customer
relations are critical to meeting
the needs of new and existing
customers worldwide as Artel
continues to grow," said Mike
Rizzo, Artel President and CEO.
"In this newly created position,
Franz's proven commitment to
excellence and technical expertise
will play a powerful role in our
continued success - developing
new opportunities and supporting
channel partners and key accounts
in the U.S., Canada, and Latin
America regions."
Prior to joining Artel, Semprun
was Channel Sales Manager
at Oracle. Before that, he was
Director of Product Marketing
and Sales Engineer at
Genband.

Axon Names Business
Development Manager
NED / GER: Axon Digital Design has
named Andreas Wuth-Rausch as
Business Development Manager for
Germany. Wuth-Rausch joins Axon
from Adder Technology where
he was Business Development
Manager Broadcast & Media.
"We feel Germany is an important
broadcast market," says Mina
van de Pol, Axon's Sales Director
Continental Europe, to whom
Wuth-Rausch will report. "It's
really important for us to have a
locally based person dedicated
to the German market and fully
available to support Axon's clients
and partners. We look forward to
welcoming Andreas into our hardworking international team."
Wuth-Rausch said: "With the fast
development of UHD and move
to IP-workflows, it is an exciting
time to join Axon, helping
customers gain competitive
advantage from these emerging
technologies."

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 4 | April 2018

Telestream Vantage Gains
Avid Interop Features
T

elestream has announced
significant enhancements
to its Avid integration in the
latest version of Vantage.
The new Avid Production
Asset Monitor in Vantage
supports
MediaCentral
directory
monitoring
allowing Vantage to trigger
jobs from MediaCentral
'virtual directories'.
Also announced is the latest version
of Lightspeed Live Capture which
streamlines ingest for Avid workflows
by creating Avid OPAtom MXF
media with associated AAF files and
automatically checking assets into
Interplay or MediaCentral.
With the Vantage Production Asset

Monitor, Avid editors no longer need
to spend valuable time rendering
and exporting sequences from Media
Composer for use in a Vantage
workflow.
The next release of Vantage includes
a new window that allows users
to connect to their Avid systems

VSN's New HTML5 Video
Editing Tools For MAM
V

SN is bringing an even more
powerful version of its VSNExplorer
MAM to NAB.
The software now incorporates the
100% Web-based editing
tool Wedit with brandnew functionalities such
as voiceover capability.
Wedit's features are
also fully available in
the Cloud to ensure
maximum flexibility for
users.
Douglas Wynn, VSN's
Sales Director, North
America, said: "VSN
Explorer MAM already
offered all the tools
necessary to manage

the media of any company. It now
comes turbo-charged with the Wedit
tool including the new voiceover
feature, with the added flexibility that

and start jobs without
leaving
Vantage.
Avid
sequences
and
master
clips can automatically
trigger Vantage workflows
from within the Interplay
environment.
In Lightspeed Live Capture
v2.3, a new Avid Interplay
Advanced Encoder option
allows baseband SDI signals
from live events, tapes, or IP feeds
to be encoded into native Avid MXF
OPAtom containers and AAF files for
use in any file-based workflow.
Lightspeed Live Capture supports
"growing files" in an Edit-WhileCapture workflow and provides direct
support for Avid storage solutions.
is provided by Cloud technology. For
editors and journalists, this even more
powerful solution enables them to
create high-quality content and still
meet even the tightest of deadlines,
removing some of the stress in what
is often a high-pressure environment."
Launched at NAB Show 2017, Wedit is
a tool developed in HTML5 that allows
journalists and editors
to edit videos, preparing
them
for
broadcast
from a single interface,
without having to switch
to another NLE. Now,
advanced editing and
voiceover capabilities are
included in the Wedit tool.
VSNExplorer MAM now
offers its features under a
pay-per-use model (SaaS)
in the Cloud for additional
speed, flexibility and costs
VSN Wedit
reduction.
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.telestream.net/vantage/overview.htm https://www.vsn-tv.com/en/web-based-video-editor/ http://videoclarity.com/ https://nab18.mapyourshow.com/7_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?ExhID=726
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