Studio adds Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer Evan Benjamin and prepares to offer Dolby Atmos service as it benefits from New York’s production boom. NEW YORK— Sound Lounge is expanding its Film + Television division, which provides sound editorial, ADR and mixing services for episodic television, features and documentaries. The studio is upgrading the division’s main mix stage to support editing and mixing in the immersive Dolby Atmos format. It has also added veteran supervising sound editor, designer and re-recording mixer Evan Benjamin to its team. Benjamin is best known for his work in documentaries, including the acclaimed feature doc, RBG, ...

Koncept VR teams with Chapter Four to deliver spatial sound for unique virtual reality experience. NEW YORK CITY—Creative boutique Chapter Four recently applied its expertise in spatial sound to place consumers in the middle of the Disney’s hit Broadway spectacle Aladdin. Working under the direction of virtual reality studio Koncept VR, Chapter Four produced the soundtrack for a 3-minute VR video in which Aladdin’s cast performs the show-stopping number Friend Like Me. The work included recording the performance, creating a host of nuanced sound effects, and blending it all into an immersive soundscape. Viewers watching the piece through virtual reality ...

Award-winning Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer Will Files and his sound team helped bring ‘Venom’ to life. Culver City, Calif. – Box office hit, Venom, from Columbia Pictures, was among the first films to have its sound work completed through Sony Pictures Post Production Services’ expanded facilities on the studio lot in Culver City. Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer Will Files and his crew used a new theater-style sound design suite to create sound effects for the film, which stars Academy Award® nominated actor Tom Hardy as both the alien symbiote Venom and its human host, Eddie Brock. Bringing Venom ...

Fremont, CA XCHARX November 16, 2018 XCHARX Blackmagic Design announced today Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.21 now supports Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink 8K Pro, DeckLink Duo 2 and DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G capture and playback cards. DeckLink SDK binaries and source code from Epic will also now be available free to download on the company’s Unreal Engine Marketplace. Unreal Engine is the most used real time engine providing the highest quality solution for creating virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences in the world. It is a complete suite of creation tools designed to meet the most ambitious artistic visions while being flexible enough ...

Vinten and Sachtler: flowtech100 Carbon-Fiber Tripod flowtech100 is the newest addition to the award-winning flowtech carbon-fiber tripod range. Compatible with all major 100mm fluid heads, flowtech100 supports a payload of up to 30 kilograms (66 pounds), making it the ideal tripod for electronic newsgathering, field production, and a wide range of commercial, educational, and documentary productions. Like its predecessor, flowtech75, flowtech100 is based on an exclusive carbon-fiber technology that includes the worldXCHARXs fastest-deploying tripod legs. With unique quick-release brakes conveniently located at the top of the tripod, the flowtech100 legs can be deployed simultaneously and adjust automatically to the groundXCHARXs ...

UK loudspeaker manufacturer PMC has appointed Boujikian Bros.Co.Ltd as its distributor in Lebanon with responsibility for handling the company’s entire range of professional studio monitors. Established in 1984 as a supplier of all kinds of Electronics accessories, Boujikian Bros. Co. Ltd. Now offers a range of products to suit the audio, lighting, rigging, staging, and AV markets. As well as equipment sales, the company also provides design, technical and support services to a wide range of customers in the Middle East and Africa. Gary Boujikian, General Manager and owner of the Beirut-based company, says: “PMC is a well-known brand in ...

Online music network Mahogany and social media platform VERO are giving one talented filmmaker the chance to win a £10,000 production budget. The fund provides aspiring filmmakers with the opportunity to create original content, a unique short film, and a ‘Mahogany Session’ promoted to a dedicated audience of 6 million users per month. Commencing on Wednesday 14th November 2018 under the tag #discoverdonvero, the competition will run until Friday 23rd November 2018. Entrants will be given a series of written questions to expand on their chosen film idea, and must provide examples of previous work. The winning film concept will ...

Award recognizes outstanding contribution to the field of live transmission as Dejero turns 10 [Waterloo, Ontario, November 15, 2018] — Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has been awarded a prestigious Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for XCHARXexcellence in engineering creativityXCHARX, honoring a decade of achievements in the field of live transmission driven by its vision of reliable connectivity anywhere. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Dejero has been trusted by the biggest names in various industries around the world for broadcast-quality video transport and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Nov. 15, 2018 — BeckTV, one of the United StatesXCHARX premier design-build systems integrators, served as the systems integrator for the control room build at the new University of Louisville (UofL) Athletics Broadcast Center in Louisville, Kentucky. The state-of-the-art, 7,850-square-foot television production facility, which opened its doors in September 2018, is designed to house all of the equipment and personnel necessary to originate live programming for the comprehensive linear and digital ACC Network, which will be launched by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and ESPN in 2019. XCHARXWe aimed high with the design of our broadcast center, ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — Nov. 15, 2018 — VITEC, a worldwide leader in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, today announced that it has acquired Telairity, a provider of H.264 encoding workflow solutions to broadcasters worldwide. XCHARXThe strategic acquisition of Telairity further strengthens VITECXCHARXs position in the broadcast market,XCHARX said Mark DXCHARXAddio, VITECXCHARXs senior vice president, sales and marketing. XCHARXVITECXCHARXs HEVC technology and streaming expertise address a growing need for broadcasters to reduce bandwidth requirements while maximizing video quality.XCHARX Matt McKee, formerly at Telairity, has joined VITEC as director of broadcast sales. He added, XCHARXTelairity customers have been asking for a ...

Grass Valley, Calif (November 15, 2018) — AJA Video Systems today released v1.1 firmware for its IPR-10G-HDMI Mini-Converter, which enablesSMPTE ST 2110 IP video/audio to HDMI. Available as a free download, the update adds support for UltraHD up to 30p and integrates new improvements for discovery, registration and control. The compact and fanless IPR-10G-HDMI Mini-Converter receives SMPTE ST 2110 over 10GigE connectivity and formats the data for output as video and audio on a full-size HDMI interface, with simultaneous analog audio output via an RCA interface. New v1.1 firmware for the device includes: Support for 10-bit, 4:2:2 uncompressed UltraHD ...

Fremont, CA XCHARX November 15, 2018 XCHARX Blackmagic Design announced today that more than 25 feature length and short films competing at the 2018 Austin Film Festival used Blackmagic Design digital film cameras and DaVinci Resolve Studio professional editing, grading and audio post production software. Celebrating its 25th year, the Austin Film Festival focuses on the writers’ creative contribution to the film, and is unique for bringing professional and amateur screenwriters together to celebrate the role of screenplays in filmmaking. With a heavy focus on the art of story, the festival is intent on making the creators the stars, celebrating all ...

Ronkonkoma, NY – November 15, 2018 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading still photo and cinema lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced its Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale featuring impressive savings on its award-winning Global Vision lens line, with a large focus on Art lenses. For a limited time, customers can save up to $150.00 on some of Sigma’s most popular lenses. The promo deals are available for only two weeks exclusively through Sigma’s authorized US dealers and sigmaphoto.com from Thursday, November 15th through Thursday, November 29th, 2018. Ranging from wide-angle to hyper-telephoto, Sigma Global Vision lenses deliver outstanding optical performance that enables the ...

SKOKIE, IL, NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – Studio Technologies, manufacturer of high-quality audio, video, and fiber-optic solutions, introduces the Model 5330 Flex-Use Dante® Audio Interface, a simple yet high-performance means of interfacing analog signals with applications that utilize Dante audio-over-Ethernet media networking technology. Four line-level analog sources can be connected to the unit and then, after conversion to digital, output by way of four output (transmitter) channels associated with the Dante interface. Four signals that arrive by way of Dante can be converted to analog and then output as balanced line-level signals. A 2-channel/stereo monitor section allows the input and output ...

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — Nov. 14, 2018 — Digital Alert Systems/Monroe Electronics, the global leader in emergency communications solutions for video services providers, today announced that it has partnered with DigIt Signage Technologies to interface the ChyTV™ HDXCHARXEAS, a version of the ChyTV video graphics system for television, information displays, and digital signage, with the DASDEC™ series of Emergency Alert System/Common Alerting Protocol (EAS/CAP) flexible emergency communications devices. The integration brings the marketplace a better, lower-cost solution for creating selective, high-quality crawls for EAS alerts on standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) channels. XCHARXDigital Alert Systems has always looked for ways ...

WAYNE, NJ (Nov. 15, 2018) – JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, today announced CN2, an independent cable TV station in Rock Hill, S.C., purchased a ProHD Portable Bridge bonded LTE hotspot in August to provide live news updates for its daily newscast and website. David Bain, technical manager, said the Bridge and a new BR-DE900 ProHD decoder allow CN2 to provide live content for its viewers for the first time. Owned and operated by Comporium Communications, CN2 has two channels that serve the tri-county area of York, Lancaster, and Chester. Its small news crew produces a ...

Vidigo News ChyronHego will showcase their newly launched Vidigo News product, an all-in-one newsroom-compliant production solution designed specifically for live OTT production. Vidigo News packages ChyronHego’s Vidigo Live Compositor, an intuitive software solution for live multi-camera/sources production, with award-winning ChyronHego graphics, Live Assist playout automation system, and a custom GUI based on the Live Assist Panels control panel creation tool. Vidigo News combines a scalable switcher, an audio mixer, a powerful video effects engine, ChyronHego graphics channels, clip players, and even robotic camera control into an easy-to-use solution that can be controlled by a single operator. CAMIO 4.5 ChyronHego will ...

BOTHELL, Wash. — Nov. 14, 2018 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced a newly elected 2018-2019 board of directors who will lead the organizationXCHARXs effort toward a standards-based IP infrastructure for professional media. All existing board members — AIMS Board Chair Michael Cronk (Grass Valley), Deputy Board Chair Steve Reynolds (Imagine Communications), Chief Financial Officer Andreas Hilmer (Lawo), and Board Member Andy Warman (Harmonic) — were re-elected to their positions and are joined by newly elected Board Member Larissa Görner (Net Insight). In GörnerXCHARXs current role at Net Insight, she serves as the strategic product manager ...