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AmberFin
Launches iCR 4.5
By Jan Ozer
AmberFin iCR Software is an end to end system that
ingests a range of video formats, pre-processes and encodes the video,
performs quality control and then delivers the files in the necessary
formats to a range of delivery options. The feature set is so broad that
it would take weeks to understand and assess the individual features, so
I focused my time with the company in several key areas. more>>
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Cool
New Tablet
By Cynthia Wisehart
 At the Wacom booth, After
Effects artist and Apple Engineer Ben Koning is spending his first 20
minutes of life as a Wacom user testing the new Intuos4 tablet. "In that
time I’ve gone from completely flailing around, drawing things when I
don’t want to, to being able to drive Photoshop and AE," Koning says.
"This is my first animation with keyframes and spline," he says with
mock pride, indicating a kindergarten-level construction of boxes on the
monitor. Buy hey, he’s driving. "It’s responsive and easy to learn
I’d have to say, almost like drawing with a real pencil or a real
brush." more>>
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Band
Pro's Michael Bravin
By Michael Goldman
Few people have more NAB experience than Band Pro Film
and Digital Chief Technology Officer Michael Bravin—he’s been
attending NAB for more than 30 years. During that time, Bravin has
witnessed, and participated in, the rise of an entire new
industry—the digital cinematography industry that Band Pro
specializes in. As he did in 2008, Bravin sat down again this week with
me at the Band Pro NAB booth to discuss the state of digital
cinematography in 2009, and its role at NAB this year, particularly in
light of the current economic downturn and reduced NAB attendance.
Bravin has interesting thoughts about what new trends and opportunities
will emerge from these conditions that industry-watchers should
consider. Listen to the podcast>>
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Featured Posts from BE@NAB
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Christie
Digital replaces DLP color wheel with LEDs in latest rear-projection
cube design
 Christie Digital arrived in Las Vegas for
the NAB Show with the next step in the evolution of rear-projection DLP
cubes –removal of the spinning red, green, and blue color wheel.
In its place, the company is using three separate red, green and blue
LEDs –something Christie says is a first in the professional DLP
display market. Making its debut in two new rear projection cubes, the
substitution offers a variety of advantages, including longer life, a
wider color gamut and less maintenance. more>>
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Ikegami
announces additions to GFSeries
By Susan Anderson
There are many new product announcements at the
Ikegami booth. Among them are several additions to the company’s
GFSeries of tapeless HD Flash memory production tools. On display at NAB
2009 are the GFCam HDS-V10 tapeless camcorder, which Bob Molczan,
Ikegami engineering specialist tapeless products, pointed out features
Bluetooth this year for instant export of thumbnail clips directly to a
laptop application for fast logging, metadata insertion, and other
workflow advantages. Also on show are the GFStation GFS-V10 Flash memory
studio deck and the rugged high-capacity GFPak HD Flash-memory media. more>>
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Telecast
CopperHead INF
By Brad Dick
 Previewed at IBC 2008 and now
shipping, Telecast’s (SU8517) new CopperHead INF id s camera-mounted
fiber optic transceiver for the Thomson Grass Valley Infinity camcorder.
This enables the Infinity to be used as both a camcorder and an HD-SDI
multicam production camera. more>>
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Quality
costs, but it sure sounds nice
Collin LaJoie
In addition to a nice setup allowing visitors to
Genelec’s booth to have a seat and experience its speaker systems
first-hand, the company is also showing its smallest speaker to
date—the 6010A. more>>
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Tandberg
Television is excited about MPEG-2
By Angela Snell
 With 1 billion MPEG-2 set-top
boxes still in play, MPEG-2 technology isn’t going anywhere soon, and
Tandberg Television comes to the rescue. At NAB 2009, the company was
very excited to show me its new EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder. The new system
has been designed to deliver revolutionary encoding performance in a
high density, low power (six channels in 1RU) chassis. It cuts MPEG-2 SD
bandwidth requirements by at least 15 percent, even in legacy set-top
box operations, and delivers a step change in performance. more>>
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Featured Post from MixBlog
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You
Down With FCP?
By Kevin Becka
 FCP (Final Cut Plug-in) is the latest release from the
folks at SmartSound, the creators Sonicfire Pro 5. The plug-in provides
interoperability between Final Cut Pro and Sonicfire Pro 5 featuring the
ability to set markers in Final Cut which in turn enables Sonicfire to
calculate the exact amount of music needed. You can also click
“Send” on any one of Sonicfire’s tracks and that track will be
edited to fit within your markers and added directly to your Final Cut
Pro project. I saw the booth demo and it is fast and makes music
creation and editing within Final Cut a breeze. more>>
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Featured News from The Briefing Room
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Alioscopy
Demonstrates 3D Autostereoscopic Workflow with Autodesk 3D and
Compositing Software at NAB 2009
 Alioscopy USA, a 3D
visualization technology provider, has announced its involvement with
Autodesk at the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center (April 20-23, 2009).
Located at the Autodesk booth (South Hall, Booth SL 2120), Alioscopy is
demonstrating finished autostereoscopic 3D content playing on its LCD
display. Attendees can see firsthand how artists and technical directors
(TDs) can use Autodesk 3ds Max software (with planned future support for
Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Softimage software) and Autodesk Toxik
software to help create and composite auto-stereoscopic 3D animated
content for playback on Alioscopy LCD displays. more>>
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Sonnet
Fusion RX1600RAID Offers Speed and Reliability With Easy Implementation
and Economical Expansion
Sonnet Technologies announced the Fusion RX1600RAID, a
high-performance, high-capacity, direct-attached 3U rackmount storage
system that provides data throughput speeds suitable for work with
uncompressed HD video up to 2K resolution. Fusion RX1600RAID is designed
to provide high reliability in demanding editing and content creation
environments. With its drives formatted as a RAID 5 set, this 16-drive
system delivers data transfer speeds up to 1,000MBps read and 750MBps
write. An integrated SAS expander facilitates fast, easy expansion of
the Sonnet system, enabling the user to connect additional 16-drive
enclosures. more>>
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