In Broadcast - January 2015 - 4

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InNews
Rodeo FX
Opens In LA
CAN / USA: Rodeo FX, which has
contributed visual effects to over
70 ﬁlms and recently won an Emmy
Award for its work on Game of
Thrones, has opened an ofﬁce in
Venice, CA.
The Montreal facility has signed
on the Hatch FX team, renowned
Matte Painter, Deak Ferrand, and
long-time Executive Producer,
Cheryl Bainum, to lead the Rodeo
FX Los Angeles team.
The new ofﬁce offers Hollywood
studios and creatives direct access
to all Rodeo FX services.
Rodeo FX opened a studio in Quebec
City last April and has a burgeoning
advertising
department
that
complements its work in ﬁlm and TV.

Grass Valley LDK
Engineering Emmy
CAN: The Television Academy has
presented an Emmy Engineering
Award to Grass Valley.
The LDK 6000 DPM CCD
Multiformat HDTV Camera System,
ﬁrst introduced at the NAB Show
in 2000 by Philips, subsequently
acquired by Grass Valley, is being
honoured as a game-changer.
The award recognises the camera
systems ability to capture multiple
video formats and frame rates
without physically changing the
image sensor.

Palace Of Arts
Chooses DiGiCo
HUN: Palace of Arts, Budapest
and Hungary's new cultural
hub, has selected DiGiCo's SD10
mixing console to help ensure its
exceptional status is maintained
into the future.
Imre Makkay of Chromasound, who
supplied the Palace's SD10, said:
"In the Palace of Arts, they needed
to have an absolutely top quality
console. It is unquestionable that
the DiGiCo SD10 is just that."

TopVision & Sony 4K
Linkin Park Concert
B

erlin-based TopVision successfully
accomplished a 4K live production
and transmission of a Linkin Park
concert in Berlin using the latest
technology from Sony.
Setting another benchmark with the
ﬁrst live 4K broadcast of a concert by
new metal band Linkin Park, TopVision
Telekommunikation Managing Director
Achim Jendges said: "The production
went smoothly without any technical
issues and the result exceeded our
expectations. The intensive and
meticulous testing in advance has paid
off for us."
A total of 11 Sony PMW-F55 live
camera production units were used for
the production & a PXW-FS7 captured
the images for the "making of".

TopVision
had
previously been the ﬁrst
European
broadcast
service provider to invest
in
PWS-4400
server
technology from Sony.
This enabled 12 UHD
signals to be transmitted
to the OB truck, recorded
as individual XAVC ﬁles
and then transferred to
external hard drives in
real-time.
The live signals were mixed with
a multi-format video switcher from
Sony's MVS-X series.
All of the 4K live images were sent
via ﬁbre-optic cables to TopVision's
U2 HD/UHD optimised OB truck. The

Sony PMW-F55 live camera production
unit at the Linkin Park concert

ﬁnal mix was at 3840 x 2160 pixels at
50fps (2160p50) and the graphics were
added.
This was sent to SES Astra's centre in
Unterfohring, Germany, for broadcast
as a free-to-air demonstration channel.

Dalet Releases AmberFin 10.5
D

alet Digital Media Systems has
announced the release of Dalet
AmberFin, version 10.5, which enables
customers to make the best possible
pictures with unprecedented ﬂexibility
for their businesses.
This major update to the platform
marks the debut of Dalet AmberFin
Dark enterprise transcode, Cinnaﬁlm

Tachyon GPU-accelerated frame-rate
conversion (as part of (AT)3 toolbox),
XAVC support, ARD-ZDF MXF Proﬁles
and other signiﬁcant features.
Ben Davenport, Dalet's Director
of Marketing, commented: "This
signiﬁcant release conﬁrms Dalet's
investment and commitment to the
AmberFin platform. Dalet AmberFin
Dark is completely
scalable,
enabling
businesses to start
small and expand to
an
enterprise-grade
solution.
"Meanwhile, unlike
other vendors, who
may only provide a
single
technology
option for temporal
conversions,
the
A "major update" for Dalet AmberFin platform

inclusion of Tachyon as a tool in the
(AT)3 toolbox allows users to choose
the best solution for their businesses
or even a combination of different
technologies."
Dalet AmberFin is a high-quality
scalable transcoding platform with
fully integrated ingest, mastering,
QC and review functionality, enabling
facilities to make great pictures in a
scalable, reliable and interoperable
way.
The inclusion of Tachyon within
the (AT)3 toolbox gives Dalet
AmberFin users the ability to perform
faster standards conversion while
maintaining the high quality pictures.
All components run as Windows
services, so that users can build
transcode farms on commodity IT
hardware as appliances.

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