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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 9 | September 2015

InNews
Vimond Highlights
Posts DR Clips
NOR / DNK: Danish national public
broadcasting corporation DR is
using Vimond Highlights to create
interactive online clips of current
affairs and show programming.
Vimond Highlights helps create
audience interaction with entertainment shows like X Factor. The
time-pressured intensive coverage
of major elections showcased the
contribution Vimond Highlights
makes to rapid workflow in online
clip publishing. It combines a dedicated focus on rapid short-form
clip production and distribution to
social media with broadcast quality
recording and editing tools.

US Success For Rascular
USA: Rascular's Helm system has
been selected by Austin-based
PBS KSMQ to control Harmonic
Spectrum ChannelPort / Server
integrated playout technology.
The sale, the second in the US this
year, was via SI Heartland Video
Systems. Heartland Senior Systems
Engineer Mike Schmidt said: "We
have provided the Harmonic
playout technology in conjunction
with Rascular's manual control
solution Helm. We also supplied
a Utah router, multiviewer,
MPEG encoder with PSIP, audio
processing, patching, sync system
and conversion equipment."

DirectOut Team
With Merging
GER: Pro audio connectivity specialists DirectOut and networked
audio specialists Merging, have
announced
high-performance
interoperability of both their inhouse developed RAVENNA cores.
DirectOut's MONTONE.42 supports
low-latency streaming of 256 audio
channels to and from Merging's
Pyramix Virtual Studio DAW. This
high capacity and low latency feature demonstrates the full benefit
of RAVENNA. Other RAVENNA-compliant devices such as Merging's
Horus and Hapi networked audio
converters and DirectOut's PRODUCER.COM can be added to the
network.

'Dramatic Shift' For
Danmon Group, Systems
I

n the run up to IBC 2015, Danmon
Group, Systems reported a dramatic
change in broadcasters' requirements.
"We are seeing a dramatic shift in
our business," said Deputy Managing
Director Peter Thomsen. "Broadcasters
are rapidly moving their focus from
linear to on-demand channels and
OTT. This is accelerating the need to
use commercial of-the-shelf IT, videoover-IP, virtualisation and outsourcing.
Workflow orchestration and media
asset management will form the core
elements of many future projects;
perhaps all of them.
"As systems integration service
providers, our role is becoming more
than ever oriented towards selling our
experience and our knowledge-based
capabilities. UHD has also become

Danmon project - an HD studio at TV2 / FYN in Odense, Denmark

a key element of project planning,
either from the outset or in the need to
provide an easy upgrade path. These
advances create a challenge but also
an opportunity, not only for us but
especially for our customers."
Danmon Group, Systems' fields of

activity include every aspect of broadcast and electronic media technology,
from consultancy to production and
postproduction, transmission and
archiving, encompassing video, audio,
graphics, streaming, audio visual and
multimedia applications.

Timeline Delivers Euro 4K OB First
O

B provider Timeline Television
relied on Axon's 4K Synapse
processing and Cerebrum advanced
monitoring and control system
to deliver UK sports broadcaster
BT Sport's first live 4K match-day
production.

"The Synapse 4K cards Axon
developed and custom-built for us
intelligently manage embedding and
line routing," said Dan McDonnell,
Timeline
Television's
Managing
Director. "Our delivery schedule was
tight, but Axon met the deadline and
provided us not only
with the functionality
we needed but also
excellent
technical
support. With their
expertise, we were
able to produce a 4K
football match to the
same quality of HD
and showcase the
best immersive viewer
experience."
Timeline Television utilised Axon 4K Technology

BT Sport and Timeline collaborated
on the build of a bespoke OB vehicle
with an innovative 4K production
workflow featuring a number of
technology firsts, including a new
range of 4K signal processing and
distribution tools from Axon.
Axon CEO Jan Eveleens said: "We're
thrilled to see our technology playing a
central role in the coverage of many of
this year's major sporting events."
BT Sport launched Europe's first live
sports Ultra HD (4K) channel, BT Sport
Ultra HD, in early August.
Axon's Synapse 4K Production Tool
Boxes ease the challenges of a fourwire production setup by carrying Vanc
and Hanc data such as timecode and
embedded audio.
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