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Vizrt Debuts
Automation

NED: At IBC, Vizrt will unveil automation solutions designed to make
productions easier and more efficient. Innovations include Showmaker, a tool that customers can
use to build and amend rundowns
and rundown elements within Viz
Mosart and Viz Opus.
Showmaker can script stories and
edit graphics templates and videos
via a web-based interface.
It integrates with Viz Pilot, allowing producers to access graphics
templates and search video files to
add to show rundowns in Viz One.

ENCO Boosts
Video For Radio

NED: ENCO will demo innovations
in Video for Radio at IBC, creating
an automated workflow that
delivers high-quality video feeds
with radio streams.
It integrates with multi-camera
video production systems to
ensure a broadcast-quality media
experience for TV, web and mobile
consumption of live and ondemand radio programming.
The Video for Radio application,
built into ENCO's DAD radio
automation system, integrates
with NewTek's TriCaster, VidiGo's
Visual Radio platform, and ORAD's
RadioTV.

ScheduALL Expands
Portal Functionality

USA: ScheduALL will preview the
newest resource scheduling capabilities of ScheduALL Portal at IBC
2015. Enhancements to ScheduALL's revolutionary self-serve,
end-to-end provisioning scheduling tool gives users the power to
quickly schedule both transmission
and non-transmission resources.
IBC show attendees will be able to
receive a hands-on demonstration
of ScheduALL Portal. Portal's technology simplifies making complex
bookings of Occasional Use Transmission feeds in real-time, directly
into a transmission provider's
system.

Canon's 2/3-Inch 4K
Portable Lens
C

anons has unveiled the CJ12ex4.3B,
a new 2/3-inch portable 4K zoom
lens claiming "the world's widest focal
length".
At 4.3mm it is designed for
professionals shooting interviews and
live broadcast, including sports and
news.
Canon has also announced that it
is developing a compact 2/3" 4K allpurpose-zoom lens. Further bolstering
Canon's 4K broadcast lens range for
cameras employing 2/3" sensors, the
versatile new lens will be optimised
for both indoor and outdoor shooting,
across a variety of applications
including sporting events and live
broadcasts as well as television

dramas and commercials.
Leveraging Canon's renowned
heritage in optical design and
advanced
technologies,
the
CJ12ex4.3B boasts outstanding 4K
image quality throughout the entire
12x optical zoom range.
Providing the freedom to quickly
adapt to different shooting
environments, the new lens enables
shooters to swiftly move from an
ultra-wide 4.3mm angle shot to close
ups, whilst ensuring first-class image
quality from the very centre to the
edge of a frame.
A built-in 2x extender also helps
provide even greater focal reach,
whilst still maintaining 4K optical

Canon's CJ12ex4.3B

performance.
To further provide sharp, high
contrast images the CJ12ex4.3B
includes an increased use of fluorite
and UD glass combined with Canon's
coatings.
A new three group internal focus
system also reduces focus breathing.

Grass Valley Intros GV STRATUS
News Bundles
G

V STRATUS News Bundles from
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, are
designed to meet the needs of news
professionals with smaller budgets
while delivering high functionality,
including seamless integration of
proxy editing and advanced workflow
management.
"There is no one-size-fits-all solution
when it comes to news production,"
said Mike Cronk, Senior Vice President
of Strategic Marketing, Grass Valley.
"Our scalable approach with GV
STRATUS for news production mirrors
our commitment to making all of our
solutions 'Future Ready' - but at a
reduced cost of entry."
GV STRATUS is a modular video
production and content management

Driving
efficiency GV STRATUS News

toolset, based on K2 media servers
and storage, which embraces content
ingest, editing, distribution, and
archive and retrieval management, all
tightly integrated via the MOS protocol
with popular newsroom computer
systems. The two new GV STRATUS
News Bundles comprise: News Bundle
Express - 2x bidirectional I/O, 600GB
storage; and News Bundle Pro - 4x
bidirectional I/O, 7.2TB storage.

Customers
benefit
from
the
efficiency of GV STRATUS through
workflow automation, ease of use and
scalability.
Users can mix and move lowresolution and high-resolution assets
- including so-called "wild files" from
citizen journalists-across multiple
sites, and perform full editing in the
field with EDIUS XS, which is included
as standard in both News Bundles.

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