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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 9 | October 2018

InFocus

Editing & Graphics Trends
Editing tools become lightweight clients in the cloud, while virtual set
integrations with games engines render photoreal broadcast graphics,
writes Contributing Editor Adrian Pennington...
Speeding Edits
As the demand for OTT, mobile and
social video continues to accelerate,
publishers need to expand the volume
of content they create and increase
the speed at which they produce it.
One way of accelerating production
workflows to meet the demands of
mobile and digital audiences is to host
the editing application in the cloud.
Grabyo Editor is a set of browserbased editing tools for creating
and distributing short video clips,
highlights and social video from
live streams, VOD and mobile
sources. Combined with Grabyo's live
Union VFX worked on T2 Trainspotting © 2016 - Sony Pictures
production platform and publishing
capabilities, it will offer
Forbidden Technologies has
digital teams a cloud-based
what it calls "the workstation
platform for fast, flexible
experience" in the cloud. Now
editing with distribution
released for Mac as well as
to social, mobile and OTT
Linux,
Blackbird
platforms.
Edge enables video
The
browser-based
ingest and editing
experience will support
for teams in remote
picture-in-picture frames,
locations
with
graphics overlays, audio
bandwidth as low
controls, and time-based
as 2Mb per second.
asset-splitting.
The Blackbird codec
"By
removing
the Forbidden Technologies remote web-based
transcodes the video and uploads it
complexity
of
more editing solution, Blackbird
to Microsoft Azure for collaborative
traditional editing software, users will reverb from a sound clip.
production.
be able to take advantage of powerful
Perhaps the more significant
It plays edited media directly without
video editing features without the announcement from Adobe is the any need for pre-render, supports jog
need for extensive training or specific beta of Project Rush, a video editing and shuttle, as well as any playback
hardware or software," Gareth Capon, app available on mobile and desktop speed and direction. It is claimed
Grabyo CEO, said.
designed specifically for online as only solution to provide such
Adobe Creative Cloud updates content creators. Work automatically responsive frame-accurate navigation
include selective colour grading syncs to the cloud, so you can start in the cloud.
and management with new Lumetri on your phone or tablet and move to
"Blackbird Edge also removes
Color tools in Premiere Pro and After your laptop for further editing. Rush the need for original sources to be
Effects. It has new tools for 180-degree has all the same features on mobile uploaded before cloud editing can
immersive video in Premiere Pro and and desktop, allowing you to work start with the Blackbird video being
After Effects, including ingest, effects wherever you want without losing used to create the editing decisions,
and output in Google VR 180 for creative flexibility.
which are later reflected in a full
viewing on YouTube; and audio clean
Rush includes colour correction and resolution render," explains Forbidden
up features that permit you to dial uses Audition to auto-detect audio CEO, Ian McDonough. "With the
down or remove background noise and to improve sound quality and reduce ability to publish locally, in many
background noise. Adobe workflows, only the final hi-res version
Stock is integrated right of the edit is uploaded to the cloud
into Rush, for access to a for distribution, reducing internet
constant stream of new bandwidth requirement at the Edge
Motion Graphics templates location by up to 99%."
and it should be easy
Avid focused on Avid On Demand,
to create and publish a software as a service running on
different versions of video Microsoft Azure that allows users
to suit different social - principally large editorial teams
media outlets.
- to access Web-based versions of
Adobe CC Ptremier Pro colour management

MediaCentral, the company's media
production and management platform.
Avid Nexis E5 NL is a new storage
solution that sports a web-based
app for managing, controlling, and
monitoring its installation. The
appliance can be accessed through
MediaCentral Cloud UX or Media
Composer, and also integrates with
Avid's production management system
to drive collaboration.
Other announcements from the
firm include NewTek NDI (network
device interface) output from Media
Composer and Avid Artist DNxIP
for media workflow connectivity
supporting SMPTE 2022-6.
According to Jeff Rosica, Avid CEO
and President: "We've accelerated our
delivery of open platforms, tools, apps,
services and solutions to make it easier
for our customers to end disparity
among technology in their operations,
so they can work faster on smaller
budgets, and still thrill and retain
viewers on any platform."

On demand: Avid MediaCentral Cloud UX

Marquis Broadcast's Fotonflite can
be used as a point-to-point transfer
system for Media Composer projects
and media workspaces. It allows files
to be moved between source Avid
ISIS/NEXIS systems and a range of
target storage types, including Avid,
generic and proprietary storage. This
tool is claimed to be unique in its
ability to directly connect and securely
synchronise live Avid ISIS/NEXIS
systems, especially with Avid work-inprogress, and is ideal for connecting
production centres over the Internet,
for example, Pinewood and Hollywood.
Games Engine Power
Games engines are being integrated
into film and broadcast virtual studio
environments where their superior
rendering power is capable of
photorealistic scenery.
Frontier is Ross Video's graphics
platform based on Epic Games' Unreal
Engine and used on The Future Group
game show Lost in Time. It uses Ross'
UX control platform as an operatorfriendly front end, so operators are
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