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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 8 | August 2015

InNews
ATEME Wins With Aldea
USA: Aldea Solutions has chosen
ATEME's Kyrion CM5000 encoder
to stream the Pan American Games
to their customers throughout
the Americas. The Kyrion encoder
has been designed for low latency
streaming over fibre, OTT and
satellite networks, with ultrafast-boot, main screen and ABR
outputs, and integrated Automatic
Repeat reQuest (ARQ).
It is based on ATEME's fifth
Generation STREAM compression
engine, which delivers the highest
video quality at minimum bitrates
using ultra-low latency.

ISB And EPC Race Ahead
GBR: International Sports Broadcasting (ISB), host broadcaster
at the Baku 2015 First European
Games, selected Eurovision Production Coordination (EPC), as a
technical partner for the event.
Together with Quantel, EPC decided to upgrade its Enterprise sQ
fast-turnaround production system
for the event.
While recording and playing out
the event as part of ISB's international delivery to 52 rights-holding
organisations, the Enterprise sQ
system was integrated with MBT's
templated logging software and
workflow engine for end-to-end
sports highlights production.

AtomOS Update
Adds Features
AUS: Atomos has released
atomOS6.4 for its Shogun 4K
monitor-recorder.
Atomos CEO Jeromy Young said:
"We have unleashed thousands of
dollars of value for free."
The update includes features such
as: FS700 & FS7 4K-DCI RAW to
ProRes/DNxHR record; anamorphic
de-squeeze; pre-roll recording;
custom time lapse recording; LUTs
able to be applied on output, in
recording, on screen and split
screen; and expanded metadata
tagging capabilities.
The AtomOS6.41 update is
available as a free download.

BT Sport Employs
RT Software Graphics
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T Sport has selected real-time
3D graphics solutions from RT
Software, to provide augmented reality
graphics for the studio coverage of its
brand new UEFA Champions League
and UEFA Europa League shows.
BT Sport will be the new UK home
of UEFA Champions League and UEFA
Europa League football from the start
of the 2015/16 season, in which BT has
the exclusive live broadcast rights to
cover all 351 matches.
Having pledged to invest in "ground
breaking new augmented reality sets
and digital analytics," the broadcaster
selected the RT Software augmented
reality solution as part of a studio
upgrade.
RT Software's tOG-VR 3D solution is
designed specifically to meet the live
graphics needs of the most demanding
broadcasts.

BT Sport's UEFA shows will
use a tOG-VR solution

The package selected incorporates
the delivery of a three camera VR
studio with n+1 redundancy and as
well as services to commission the VR
studio with BT Sports' chosen camera
tracking technology from Ncam.
BT Sport has enlisted the help of
the RT Software team for a range of

additional on-site services and training
on the new equipment.
The agreement will see RT Software
contracted to provide ongoing
consultancy to the channel, and
work on refreshing and renewing
the graphics for the subsequent two
seasons.

AMP Visual TV Opts For I-MOVIX

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rench facilities and production
company AMP Visual TV has
become the first European customer
for the I-MOVIX X10 UHD RF ultra
motion system.

I-MOVIX X10 UHD RF ultra motion system

X10 UHD RF extends the operational
flexibility of the X10 system, which is
based on Vision Research's Flex 4K
high-speed camera, by supporting
wireless shooting in HD productions
where being close to the
action is important.
"We are really happy
to enlarge our existing
fleet of I-MOVIX cameras
with the X10 UHD RF
solution," said François
Valadoux,
Executive
Vice President, CTO AMP
Visual TV.
"This new investment is
in total accordance with

the innovation-oriented strategy of
AMP Visual TV. We are early adopters
of new innovative products like the
ultra motion cameras developed by
our partner I-MOVIX.
"With the image quality, advanced
ultra motion features and enhanced
operational flexibility of the X10 UHD
RF system, AMP Visual TV has now a
perfect range of solutions to offer to
the European broadcast market, and
that will meet the most demanding
requirements of sports broadcasting."
The X10 UHD RF can operate in Ultra
Slow Motion mode to deliver instant
replays of up to 3,000fps in 720p or up
to 2,000fps in 1080i.
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