I am called away this week to deal with a family emergency. For this reason, I postponed this Wednesday's "Ask Larry Anything" webinar until Thursday, not Wednesday, Sept. 22. The website is updated. If you are already registered, your registration was automatically moved to this new date and you should have received at least one email regarding the change.
I hope to be back next week with more tutorials.
IBC continues to dominate the news. Here's the latest.
AJA debuted ColorBox, a portable, high-performance device with unprecedented inline algorithmic color transforms and LUT processing capabilities delivering precise and accurate color space conversions for live broadcast, live events, on-set production and post production. ColorBox enables a range of HDR and SDR conversions and allows DITs to easily load, modify, and save looks, and create reference images for dailies to ensure color accuracy across all production stakeholders and creative vendors.
Blackmagic Design announced four new models of Ultimatte 12 real time compositing processors that are all designed for creating the next generation of broadcast graphics. Also announced was a new Ultimatte Software Control app for Mac and Windows that’s available for download free of charge. This software lets you control all Ultimatte 12 models without the additional cost of a hardware control panel.
SmallHD introduced their new Smart5 series of monitors. These ultra-compact,
high-performance, 5-inch touchscreen monitor series are loaded with tools, scopes, and camera-control capability of PageOS 5.
Codemill announced the latest version of Cantemo, its hybrid-cloud, Media Asset Management (MAM) software. Cantemo 6 features a completely refreshed user interface, improved usability, and now includes Codemill’s highly regarded Accurate.Player as the default media player.
Canon launched four professional camcorders – the XA65, XA60, XA75, and XA70 – alongside the VIXIA HF G70 camcorder. The new camcorders are suited to a wide range of uses, including documentary, corporate events, and education. Capable of capturing amazing 4K quality content and HD UVC Streaming via USB-C , with advanced autofocus and face detection functionality, these models offer excellent performance.
Avid announced Media Composer for Teams. This is a simple, consolidated team licensing plans for Media Composer and Media Composer | Ultimate. This takes the complexity out of managing licensing, users, and devices with a streamlined way to plan and purchase multiple seats of Media Composer from a single admin console.
Chromalight launched new paints and primers for green-screen cyclorama productions. With them, virtual studios will be more durable in the long run and the final picture will be of superior quality. Chromalight’s cyclorama green paint has been optimized for digital camera sensors so that it’s always at the optimal luminance level. This paves the way for a better key to reaching a superior final picture.
Market Technology - HDDISK launched a series of high performance NAS storage systems. The 4- and 8-bay 423 series is designed for SMB users who need high-performance storage. It uses an Intel Celeron N5105/N5095 quad-core processor with 2.0 GHz and maximum turbo to 2.9 GHz. It is integrated with a GPU graphics card, AES NI hardware encryption, and equipped with two 2.5 GbE interfaces and 4 GB DDR4 dual-channel memory (expandable up to 32 GB).
Teradek introduced Bolt 6. This series of wireless video transmitters taps into the newly-available U-NII 5 6 GHz frequency band, providing a clear signal even in the most challenging environments.
Grass Valley announced a range of products supporting live production - both in the cloud and locally. These include cameras, switchers, audio mixers, asset management and playout tools.
Flanders Scientific debuted five new video monitors, from 21 - 65 inch screens. All their current monitor models provide direct integration with Pomfort’s Livegrade offering real-time look creation directly with a monitor can be hugely beneficial for situations that call for a lightweight, power efficient, and streamlined look creation workflow.
Calrec unveiled Argo IP. This audio mixing system is built around an expanded version of Calrec’s popular ImPulse IP core. ImPulse can be located anywhere; the location of the control surface is not tied to the processing core. It can power up to four independent mix environments, including headless mixers accessed on the public internet, with each mixer able to access more than 2,350 processing paths on a single console.
Zaxcom announced the TRXLA5 and TRX745 Digital Recording Wireless Transmitters. The TRXLA5 has the same versatile bodypack design as its predecessor but boasts an array of improvements - longer running time, support of 5V lavaliere microphones, and a tuning range of 512 - 698 MHz. The TRX745 is a plug-on style transmitter that supports a variety of microphones and benefits from a longer running time and extended tuning range.
Crosziel announced the new Meta Mount, an E mount camera to PL mount lens adapter with electronic contacts for metadata communication and lens control. lens metadata through to the camera and conversely the contacts provide lens control through a 12-pin Hirose out connection to an ENG lens.
Cinedeck announced that its live multicam video ingest solutions have been integrated with EditShare’s storage and Media Asset Management solutions, EFS and FLOW. The partnership allows media captured with Cinedeck hardware appliances or Capture2Cloud to be written directly to on premise EFS hardware or Cloud based EditShare EFS Flex cloud systems, respectively.
