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Showcase for Avatars
AIB (Avatars in Broadcast) takes place next week on 23 April at The Atrium in London. A series of live demonstrations from companies including Televirtual, Image Metrics and Kaydara will showcase the latest in build, design and operation of broadcast avatars and virtual humans. The aim is to demonstrate the ...
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APTN files war stories
News agency APTN produced more than 1,000 stories during the 24 days of the Iraq war, all of which are now expected to become a resource for programming after being placed in the APTN library. One of the only agencies to remain in Baghdad throughout the war, APTN hopes to ...
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Rushes' final call
The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival has announced a final call for entries, with films being accepted for categories of: short film, newcomer, title sequences and idents, animation and music video. Films must have been produced in the last year (up to 6 May 2003) with a running time of up ...
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Bruce Dunlop wins Italian job for Sky
Branding company Bruce Dunlop & Associates (BD&A) has won a multimillion pound contract to design the on-air look of Rupert Murdoch's new Sky satellite platform in Italy, writes Will Strauss.
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Quantel links Final Cut Pro with online systems
UK kit manufacturer Quantel has developed a new workflow system that will allow drama series and films that are offlined on Apple's Final Cut Pro (FCP) to be transferred directly to its own high-end finishing systems, writes Will Strauss.
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Discreet puts a shine on colour correction
Discreet has unveiled the real-time digital grading and colour correction system that will replace its Colossus product, writes Will Strauss.
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Rushes' animal magic for VW
Rushes has produced and posted a new ad for VW, featuring a series of images depicting the skulls of different animals, including a hippo, a baboon and a Siberian tiger. The final image in the spot is of a VW engine looking very similar to a skull. Once a basic ...
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Ascent head quits
The head of Ascent Media Grou's UK creative services division, Mark Hewitt, has quit the company to 'pursue other interests' after three years in the post. Sam Husain, UK Group managing director, corporate and finance, and Simon Kay, divisional managing director, Ascent Media Management Services, UK, will handle the responsibilities ...
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New mobile editing kit
Editing product manufacturer Canopus has developed a mobile editing workstation designed for remote location DV production. Combined with Canopus' DV codec technology and Rextor NLE application software, the laptop-based CWS-30 provides video professionals with a powerful and portable NLE system for remote location broadcasting, electronic newsgathering and on-location feature-film and ...
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BBC Tech major order
BBC Technology has received the first order for its Colledia for Sport media management system. American-based sports broadcaster ESPN has asked BBC Technology to transform the company's present production, presentation and archive operations into a fully digital, tapeless environment. The order also represents Quantel's biggest ever order, with the technology ...
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First sales for Nucoda
Post facilities Framestore CFC and Double Negative are the first customers to buy Nucoda's Data Conform pre-visualising tool for film. The PC-based system enables users to conform 2K 10-bit media files over a standard computer network, with full EDL capability. Double Negative head of technology David Scott said the system ...
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NewsBSkyB supply blow for Pace
Set-top box manufacturer Pace Microtechnology has been dealt another blow, after its biggest customer BSkyB ended the exclusivity of its contract to supply Sky Plus PVR boxes in favour of a co-supplier deal with Amstrad, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsBBC's fx shop exterminated
The BBC department responsible for building classic props such as the Daleks for Doctor Who and the spacecraft in Red Dwarf is to close with the loss of 22 jobs, writes Will Strauss
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End in sight for tape-based VTRs
Manufacturer Thomson Broadcast has introduced a digital VTR at NAB that threatens to make tape-based mechanical VTRs obsolete, writes Will Strauss.
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PC editing gets power boost from Avid
Avid Technology has developed a set of Digital Nonlinear Accelerator (DNA) boards that the company claims have the capability to increase the processing power of an editor's PC by as much as 30 times, writes Sam Espensenat NAB in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft bids to join pro market
Software giant Microsoft will try yet again to tap into markets beyond the personal computer by proving that its digital video and audio format is a standard for professional broadcasters, writes Will Strauss.
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Servers to replace tape at BBC sport
All BBC sport programming will be produced without the use of video tape within three years, thanks to BBC post-production's decision to move to a totally tapeless service, writes Will Strauss.
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Apple shows final cut 4
Apple has unveiled the fourth incarnation of its Final Cut Pro digital video and film editing software. The new version incorporates more than 300 new features and introduces a real-time compositing and effects system called RT Extreme that can be upgraded depending on processor speed. The technology enables Final Cut ...
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OB truck for canning
Kit hire and Outside Broadcast specialist The Picture Canning Company has spent almost£750,000 on a new digital widescreen OB truck. The six-VTR and 10-camera-capable truck is being built by E to E in Leeds from an in-house design by Picture Canning. It will house a virtual gallery with multi-image flat ...
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New Panasonic camera
Panasonic is building a solid-state camera that records onto PCA cards. The camera, according to Panasonic officials, is still about a year away from being available to the industry but as it has no moving parts it may well have a major impact on how people think about cameras. Other ...