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InNews
San Francisco Giants
Veritone aiWARE

USA: The MLB's San Francisco
Giants have selected Veritone's
AI solutions to bring its 60-year
media archive to life and drive
an advanced fan engagement
strategy.
Veritone aiWARE will enable rapid
content search and accelerated
asset sharing with media, global
partners, web and social media
teams, and fans during live games
in the ballpark. The AI-powered
application
Veritone
Digital
Media Hub makes clips available
securely in the cloud, allowing
for accelerated content delivery,
utilisation, and monetisation.

Vela Unveils v6.5
At NAB Show NY
USA: At NAB Show NY, Vela will
unveil version 6.5 of Vela Luna
and Encompass. Both Luna
and Encompass have advanced
engineering tools with live and
recording multiviewers, QoS/
Compliance Alerting, and AirCheck/
Ad Verification. Encompass adds
competitive news comparison and
competitor commercial analysis
that produce sales leads, clipping
of original media, links for AI/
Machine Learning search and
analysis. Version 6.5 provides
many enhancements to the
comprehensive, highly scalable
platform.

HOW Invests In
VITEC Solutions
USA: VITEC's MGW Ace Encoder and
Decoder have been successfully
installed at Life Church and its four
satellite campuses in Memphis,
Tennessee.
Part of VITEC's Houses of Worship
Solution, the MGW Ace Encoder
and Decoder allow the church
to live stream its services from
the main campus to its satellite
locations easily and affordably,
and in the highest quality with
perfect synchronisation, providing
an enhanced video delivery that
engages followers.

U.S. Department Of State
Deploys Blackbird Editing
C

loud video editing platform
Blackbird has been selected by
the U.S. Department of State for video
production.
The contract awarded to Aperture
Solutions Group, Blackbird's U.S.
partner, is for one year with multi-year
extension options. It is understood
that the contract value is a six-figure
U.S. dollar amount each year of the
contract.
Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough, said:
"As a large-scale non-traditional video
broadcaster who is expanding their
output, the U.S. Department of State
had the entire plethora of available
technology and more traditional tools
to choose from.

Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough

They have chosen Blackbird because,
simply put, we can do things that no

other cloud video platform is able to
do. We can deliver unparalleled speed,
high quality, full interoperability and
scalability which is ideal for both
large and small teams alike. The
deployment of Blackbird is designed
to raise the quality of output and
drive engagement as well as internal
productivity."
The U.S. Department of State's
video and production teams will use
Blackbird to rapidly clip, edit and
publish news broadcast seconds after
live to its social channels including
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as
well as delivering longer form content
to its own website and other digital
news outlets.

Amis Selects SHOTOVER M1 System

U

K-based
production
company,
Amis
Productions has purchased
multiple
SHOTOVER
M1
systems.
Equipped for UHD shooting
with a Sony P50, and newly
released Fujinon UA46, the
M1 will be an essential part
of delivering their future
broadcast projects.
"Live broadcast events
provide the harshest and
most trying conditions
with no room for error,"
said Simon Aldridge
of Amis Productions.
"SHOTOVER's continued
commitment
to
innovation and exceptional
reliability, ensures we are offering
the most advanced and dependable
camera system on the market. We're

Unveiled in 2018, the
SHOTOVER M1 features
cutting edge technology,
the
system
can
be
utilised on a host aircraft,
watercraft and groundbased platforms.
"Amis Productions shares
the SHOTOVER vision of
innovation in the broadcast
industry, helping customers
push the limits of what
they can accomplish,"
said SHOTOVER CEO Brad
Amis Productions selects
SHOTOVER M1 camera system Hurndell.
excited to join
Amis, which will become an official
the SHOTOVER SHOTOVER UK Service Centre, has
team
and covered events including the America's
look forward to Cup, Giro D'Italia, SailGP, IAAF World
having the SHOTOVER Athletics Championships, Volvo Ocean
M1 to help us exceed the Race, FIFA World Cup, World Sailing
expectations of our high-profile Championships, and BBC Blue Planet
clientele."
Live.
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