Industry vet Ben Benedetti tapped to lead new facility offering full-service sound and picture post. HOLLYWOOD—Chicago-based Periscope Post & Audio has expanded to the West Coast, opening a 22,000 square foot sound and picture finishing facility in Hollywood. The new site, located at 6860 Lexington Avenue near Highland, will offer a full range of post services including dailies, editorial, color grading, sound editing and mixing. Key resources include a theatrical mix stage with Dolby Atmos capability, three additional mix stages for home theater and streaming content, also Atmos capable, and five color grading and finishing suites, two with 4K capability ...

Singapore – June 17, 2019 – Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for media organizations and content professionals, today announced that Philippines media group ABS-CBN Corporation has deployed Dalet Unified News Operations powered by the Dalet Galaxy five Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform, at its regional Cebu City station. The turnkey news solution deployed by Dalet enables the broadcaster to break news faster and offers the agility to expand seamlessly to support multi-site workflows. ABS-CBN Corporation, headquartered in Quezon City, is the Philippines’ largest entertainment and media conglomerate by revenue, assets, and number of ...

Adelaide, South Australia— Adelaide native Chris La grew up enamored with movie magic. As a young man in 2016, he took a step toward turning his infatuation into a lifetime career by enrolling in Rising Sun Pictures’ Graduate Certificate Program in Compositing and Tracking. Conducted on the premises of the award-winning visual effects studio, the program required long hours and plenty of hard work, but, for Chris, the investment paid off as he is now employed as a Roto and Clean-Up Artist at Method Studios in Melbourne. There he has had the opportunity to work on a string of hit ...

Culver City, Calif.– Sound production for Columbia Pictures’ new action adventure Men in Black: International was completed by Sony Pictures Post Production Services on the studio lot in Culver City. Three-time Academy Award®-winning sound designer/supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Paul N. J. Ottosson led the sound team in delivering a host of ingenious sound elements to support the film’s colorful cast of characters, super-charged action scenes and extraterrestrial comedy. Like the preceding Men in Black films, Men in Black: International centers on a secret organization intent on protecting Earth from the scum of the universe as they face a new alien ...

WAYNE, NJ (June 17, 2019) – JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, today announced WFIE, the NBC affiliate in Evansville, Ind. (DMA #103), is using its ProHD Studio 4000S live sports production and streaming studio to produce breaking news and local sports coverage for the web. Owned by Gray Television, the station originally purchased the system last summer in time for high school football season. “We had been considering the idea of streaming live high school sports on our website, and JVC’s studio-in-a-box solution seemed like an affordable way to consolidate the equipment needed for multi-camera ...

Singapore — June 17, 2019 — EditShare®, a technology leader in intelligent scale-out storage, AQC and media management solutions, announced today that Singapore-based Hoods Inc. Productions (Hoods Inc.) has designed its next-generation media operation around EditShare media solutions, putting XStream EFS scale-out shared storage, Flow production asset management and Ark archiving and backup at the core of its media production operation. Known for award-winning projects and popular programs such as City Sharks, Knockout, Double Trouble and Yolo Pronto, Hoods Inc. replaced its legacy sneakernet set up with EditShare’s connected infrastructure. The future-proof setup eliminated the production inefficiencies with a connected and collaborative workflow that gives Hoods Inc. more time to focus ...

Whiteley, Hampshire UK, 17 June 2019: DTC Broadcast Nano HD transmitters were deployed to spectacular effect for coverage of the 13th L’Olla de Núria, a two-day “skyrunning” event on 8-9 June in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains. Skyrunning is an extreme sport of mountain running above 2,000 metres where the incline exceeds 30 percent and the climbing difficulty does not exceed II° grade. With a total course length of 21.5 kilometres, “The Olla” takes place only on mountain paths. For the more than 700 runners, 70 percent of the race takes place at or above 2700 metres above sea level – qualifying it as a skyrunning ...

LumaFusion Now Supports 12 Tracks of Video/Audio, External Monitor Support, Markers, and More Delivers the Most Powerful, Professional, Definitive Video Editing App for iOS on the Market Sandy, UT (June 17, 2019) – Luma Touch (www.luma-touch.com) today announced the immediate availability of a dramatically enhanced new version of its signature video editing application for iOS – LumaFusion. Created by video editing industry veterans, LumaFusion has quickly established itself as the definitive, must-have iOS editing app for mobile filmmakers, journalists, professional editors, YouTube creators and aspiring content producers. With today’s announcement, LumaFusion introduces a host of powerful new ...

READING, UK, 17 June 2019 – GB Labs, innovators of powerful and intelligent storage solutions for the media and entertainment industries, has integrated San Mateo, California-based Backblaze’s B2 cloud storage service with GB Labs automation contained in its CORE.4 OS. GB Labs automation enable users to script useful workflows at the folder level, which streamlines tasks that would otherwise require tedious and repetitive manual intervention. There are approximately 100 functions that can be scripted using GB Labs technology in a flexible, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop manner to automate multiple, user-specific workflow tasks. With the high performance Backblaze B2 backup, GB Labs users can use ...

TV18 Broadcast Ltd., one of India’s most popular television broadcasting networks, has signed a multi-year lease agreement for more than a hundred units of LiveU’s flagship LU600 HEVC solution. The units are already stationed in various locations in over 20 Indian states to support TV18’s entire network of channels, including CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC Bazaar, CNN-News18, News18 India, New18 UP/Uttarakhand, New18 Bihar/Jharkhand, News18 Bangla, News18 Odia, News18 MP/Chhattisgarh, News18 Rajasthan, News18 Punjab/Haryana/HP, News18 Gujarati, News18 Assam/NE, News18 Kannada, News18 Tamilnadu, News18 Kerala, News18 Urdu and News18 Lokmat. The TV18 group chose the reliability and stability of LiveU’s IP bonding technology ...

CLUBBING TV enlivens Ibiza and Formentera’s music scene – PBT EU celebrates firm partnership with one of Europe’s hottest music channels PBT EU’s client Clubbing TV has expanded its services to the 24-hour party islands of Ibiza and Formentera. Broadcasting on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) network in HD, Clubbing TV is also available on demand, with an impressive VOD portfolio that includes over 1500 titles with more than 700 hours of HD and 300 hours of 4K content. Exclusively dedicated to the electronic music scene, Clubbing TV had already selected PlayBox Technology’s AirBox Neo from PBT ...

Fremont, CA – June 14, 2019 – Blackmagic Design today announced that South Korea based independent record label Areia Creations shot its latest music videos for the artists Musky and Ferry with a combination of Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and URSA Mini Pro cameras using Blackmagic RAW codec. The videos were then edited and graded using Davinci Resolve Studio with a DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel. Aiming to expand the global KPOP genre by infusing it with fresh talent from varied cultures, Areia Creations produces catchy music videos with crisp colors to showcase the artists talents and range. Two key considerations for Georgios “Jun Areia” Tryfonas, Director and Owner of Areia Creations, choosing ...

Practical technologies help media enterprises to maximise efficiencies and revenue streams HONG KONG, 14 June 2019 – Imagine Communications will demonstrate its latest solutions for dynamic advertising, media architectures and the IP transition at BroadcastAsia 2019 (18 – 20 June, Suntec Singapore, stand number 4C2-04). Experts from Imagine’s extensive team in the Asia Pacific region will be joined by subject leaders to provide in-depth support for businesses looking for migration strategies that allow them to advance their technological platforms to next-generation architecture and business models. This approach enables media companies to shape their transition to an IP-connected, software-defined future ...

Former Director of US Sales promoted to Vice President Sales – Broadcast Solutions North America • Veteran of the broadcast industry moves is promoted to continue driving Arvato System’s impressive growth • Focused strategy to drive momentum across key markets in North America (Arvato Systems) Gütersloh // New York – Arvato Systems announces that Kurt Krinke has been named Vice President Sales – Broadcast Solutions Arvato Systems North America. Krinke joined Arvato Systems as Senior Director of US Sales in 2017. He was responsible for formulating sales and business development strategies to drive growth through direct sales and multi-tier channels. ...

Provides unmatched AV real time video wall and multi-view operation over 10GbE up to 30km while eliminating expensive AV matrix switchers; opens US headquarters Danacoid, a leading global innovator and manufacturer of intelligent networked Audio Visual (AV) over IP product solutions for the Pro AV market, announced today the general availability of its newly developed DyneNetTM 4K60 4:4:4 HDR Video over IP product family. Danacoid will debut DyneNet and a variety of other AV over IP solutions at InfoComm 2019, June 12th -14th, in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center, Exhibit Hall – West Level 2, in Booth ...

Global innovator and manufacturer of intelligent networked AV over IP solutions opens US office to support North American Pro AV market expansion Danacoid, a leading global innovator and manufacturer of intelligent networked AV over IP product solutions to the Pro AV market, announced today the opening of its US headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. In addition, Danacoid is debuting its ecosystem of industry leading IP based products for the North American market at InfoComm 2019, June 12th -14th, in Orlando, FL. Company executives and product specialists will be available to meet with customers, OEM/ODMs, integrators and attendees at the Orange ...

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Section of SMPTE®, the organization defining the future of storytelling, will explore the advent of fully immersive virtual reality at its monthly meeting, Wednesday, June 19, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles. Star Trek introduced science fiction fans to the “holodeck,” an imaginary virtual reality (VR) system that allowed people to enter incredibly lifelike holographic environments. Now, some technologists and engineers are attempting to make the holodeck a reality. The Immersive Digital Reality Alliance (IDEA) is a non-profit alliance of innovators promoting the development of an end-to-end ecosystem for the ...

Veteran sound designer and re-recording mixer continues his collaboration with director Alex Ross Perry with powerful drama of a faltering punk rocker starring Elisabeth Moss. NEW YORK CITY— Sound production for Her Smell¸ writer/director Alex Ross Perry’s new film about a self-destructive punk rocker named Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss), was completed at Goldcrest Post in New York. Ryan M. Price served as supervising sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer on the project, delivering a rich and nuanced soundtrack that brings to life a seedy rock club, an indie recording studio and other points along Becky’s road to ruin…and eventual ...