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Australian News Connects Editors with Quantel Workflows
Australian News Channel has completed a major upgrade for its 
Quantel Enterprise sQ production and playout, updating to V5
software and QTube connected workflow system.
PacTv Converts Frame Rates Live with FOR-A UFM-30FRC
PacTV Centre now operates three FOR-A UFM-30FRC frame rate 
converters to handle diverse formats when transmitting feeds
around the world from LA, New York and London.
Front Porch Content Storage Integrates with Ericsson & Sony
Front Porch Digital is now integrating its DIVArchive and LYNX 
cloud-based content storage management with Ericsson’s disaster
recovery and Sony Optical Disc Archiving.
iN DEMAND Pumps Up Promotional Content with AJA
iN DEMAND creates volumes of promotional content for on-demand 
movies and sports, distributed to video providers with a flexible
workflow based partly on AJA hardware.
Tokyo’s Puppet Theatre Gets Blackmagic HyperDeck Ultra HD Playback
DP Hajime Watanabe and director Koshi Horibe produced the 
BUNRAKU Human/Puppet Exhibition with on-site playback through
an on-site 4K, Ultra HD and stereo 3D set-up.
Anton/Bauer Powers Up Steadicam Set-ups on Location
Cinematographer and Steadicam Operator Brant Fagan SOC works on films 
and TV powering his Steadicam and onboard cameras with Anton/Bauer
HyTRON 140s and DIONIC HCs.
Digital Rapids Encoders Expand to MultiScreen, HEVC and Ultra HD
Digital Rapids StreamZ Live encoders now include products for multiscreen 
and converged deployments. Transcode Manager 2.0 supports H.265
compression and 4K Ultra HD encodes.
Haivision Powers Live Video Streaming for Ballet Festival
Haivision’s Mako and KulaByte encoders were used to deliver high 
quality video for live streaming of simultaneous performances by
ballet dancers in Amsterdam and Toronto
Screen Australia’s Research Shows Kids Want Kids’ TV
Research at Screen Australia and Australian Children’s Television Foundation 
indicates children prefer narrative, dedicated children’s screen content,
watched on multiple screens.
Evertz Dreamcatcher Customises 4K Slo Mo Sports Replay
Dreamcatcher can zoom into the 4K raster of UltraHD sports footage 
to customise replays in 4K or HDTV standards. A Mosaic feature
synchronises multiple angles for playout.
Signiant Media Shuttle Speeds HD Film Entries to Banff Festival
The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival has standardized on 
Signiant’s Media Shuttle file sharing for digital film submission and
distribution at its annual festival and world tour.
AJA KONA Integrates FCP Video Editing at Green Rock
Green Rock Media runs a custom built FCP video editing, conversion 
and monitoring infrastructure that functions on two AJA KONA 3
cards and four KONA 3G cards.
BLUEFISH444 Steps Up Video Support for AVID, SCRATCH & Adobe
Bluefish444’s Apple Mac installer now supports AVID Open IO and 
Assimilate software on OSX 10.8. The Adobe Mercury Transmit
plug-in now supports Epoch 4K Supernova video cards.
FUJIFILM IS-mini Brings Precise Colour Management On Set
The new FUJIFILM IS-mini on-set colour management device 
takes HD-SDI video and converts the colour information via 1D
and 3D LUTs to HS-SDI and HDMI outputs.
ACC Races Sports Content to Broadcast with Aspera SDK
Atlantic Coast Conference used Aspera SDK to build a customized 
video distribution portal with high-speed transfers of college sports
content powered by Aspera faspex.
TVB Hong Kong Puts Chyron Channel Box HD Graphics On-Air
Hong Kong TVB free-to-air broadcaster recently installed multiple 
Chyron Channel Box HD graphics systems from Magna Systems
for the technical and on-air graphics of its three channels.
Norwia miniHUB platform and TV 2 Go the Distance
Broadcaster TV 2, Norway’s largest commercial station is using 
Norwia miniHUB platform to cover Vasaloppet cross-country ski
race in Sweden from three transmission sites.
Yomiuri TV Shifts to Grass Valley File-Based NLE and Playout
Yomiuri TV in Japan is replacing its entire tape-based linear editing 
workflow with a new file-based NKE system based on Grass Valley
hardware and software.
