We talked with Rakesh Agrawal from SnapStream about a metadata-based content search system that organizes storage and search functions. The system can handle 10 channels per unit, and units can be cascaded for greater capacity. The system uses closed captioning and time codes to generate data streams for search. This equipment can be integrated into [...]
NAB, Las Vegas—We met with Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Cinema and talked about the research organization and its work in next generation technologies for video. The organization has an international presence with the main research facilities in Germany, in Erlangen, Berlin, and Ilmenau. Other facilities are in the US and in Asia. The four main institutes [...]
April 17, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—We talked with Simon Frost and Fabio Murra from Ericsson Television. The company has been supplying equipment to the broadcast industry for many years. They produce a number of product lines to address all phases of broadcast operations. Now they are helping networks move TV into a full digital flow [...]
April 16, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Blackmagic Design introduced a host of new products for video capture and production. The highlight was a cinema-quality camera for $2995. The Cinema Camera touts a 13 stop dynamic range, 2.5K sensor, built-in SSD recorder, and Canon EF or Zeiss ZF lens mounts. Other features include a Thunderbolt connection, and [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Snell announced a number of new software and hardware packages for broadcasters. First, Momentum is a software tool for media asset management, workflow automation, and resource planning. The software has a unified interface across all users and departments. The software includes analytics to provide a picture of operations and real-time [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Panasonic released a number of new products for the broadcast industry. After reporting the award of a technical Emmy, they announced many new equipment and software releases. Panasonic will be covering the Olympics in HD and 3-D as one of the official video equipment suppliers. Some of the 3-D content [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB Conference. We met with EVS to hear what they are doing in broadcasting. Sports and other live content is growing at a high rate. The equipment for a typical sports event must now include some high-speed cameras for the ultra slow motion that consumers demand. A soccer game might require as [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas– Avid announced new tools for staged transitions in workflows to keep them in parallel. These software upgrades and changes take advantage of increased storage capacity and higher performance computer systems. The storage and asset management software has increase capacity for more access, including online. These tools allow real-time media [...]
April 15, 2012, NAB, Las Vegas—Alfonso Cuaron, award winning director, described the influence of technology on creativity in cinema at an Autodesk event. Movies have evolved from silent black-and-white, to movies with sound, to color and through many other changes. Now we have color, 3-D, surround-sound movies that can hide the underlying technologies. Today, films [...]
April 12, 2012 Mentor Graphics User2User Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sameer Halepete from Nvidia projected that super phones will become the driver for compute power rivaling that of a supercomputer. The integration of al of the functions into a single chip will be the impetus for the trillion transistor SoC. GPUs are getting bigger and the [...]
