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Appointments

De Tune
Deploys
AMPP Platform

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os Angeles-based live entertainment
and media company, De Tune,
has chosen Grass Valley's recently
launched GV AMPP cloud-based SaaS
platform to support completely virtual,
live event broadcasts.
De Tune first deployed GV's Agile
Media Processing Platform to help
Public School, the creative agency
owned by Czarnowski Collective,
successfully - and quickly - pivot the
corporate theatre-style events it runs
for clients to the virtual world.
"We wanted a truly decentralised
production approach with a true
engineering centrepiece that you
can count on to be consistent while
driving multiple outputs from a single
user interface. GV AMPP does that;
we can use it to look at all the other
aspects of the workflow to ensure
they are behaving as we expect and
keep pushing out content even with
the inconsistencies of the internet,"
commented De Tune's Founder and
CEO, Michael Thuney.
"This type of cloud-based approach
is truly globalised, meets our clients'
needs even beyond the restrictions of
COVID-19 and gives us more utilisation
on the people and equipment; now
I can have my team at home and
available to work on more shows
during the week."
In its first project with Public School,
De Tune leveraged the GV AMPP
Master Control application to create
a master control room in the cloud
with full redundancy, accessible
anywhere in the world. The workflow
supported three hour-long events,
delivered to six countries across EMEA,
the Americas, and Asia, featuring 40
presenters around the world.

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Sky News Arabia Chooses
Blackbird Platform

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lackbird, has been chosen by
Sky News Arabia for remote and
collaborative cloud video editing and
publishing of digital news content.
Sky News Arabia will use Blackbird
to drive major video production
efficiencies across a number of key
workflows.
Sky News Arabia Director of
Technology, Suresh Kumar, said: "Sky
News Arabia operates one of the most
progressive newsrooms in the Middle
East and Blackbird will empower our
multi-site production teams to work
collaboratively in the cloud with a rich
suite of video editing and publishing
tools. The adoption of this platform
supports our drive to continuously use
technology and innovation to enhance

our screens and digital platforms."
Production
staff
will
utilise
Blackbird's suite of professional video
editing tools such as multi video and
audio tracks, graphic effects, colour
correction, transitions and voice over
to enrich content.
Editorial approval will be a key
feature of the workflow, ensuring
content
quality
and
accuracy.

Sky News Arabia is deploying Blackbird

Blackbird will also be used by Sky News
Arabia to repurpose the network's
output through the editing and
publishing of file-based video content.
Sky News Arabia's teams in Abu
Dhabi, UAE and other locations will be
able to collaboratively and remotely
edit and publish news content live to
social platforms.

CJP Broadcast Maintains Creative
Edge At EHU

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he Department of Creative Arts
at Edge Hill University (EHU) has
renewed its technical support contract
with CJP Broadcast Service Solutions
for a further year.
The contract includes maintenance
of two HD TV studios, radio and sound
recording studios as well as upgrade
planning and installation services.
Based in the Creative Edge building
on the Ormskirk campus, the
Department of Creative Arts offers
courses in subject areas including
Animation, Film, Media & Television
plus postgraduate courses to MA level
in Film & Media and International
Creative Enterprise.
EHU was declared 2014-2015

University
of
the
Year in the 10th
annual Times Higher
Education
(THE)
Awards and named
University of the Year
for Student Retention
by The Times and The
Sunday Times Good
Studio production training in progress at EHU
University Guide 2018.
The Department of Creative Arts has Paul Farrell. One is a professional
strong links with leading companies multipurpose studio, the other is a
and agencies throughout the media broadcast standard TV studio.
The broadcast space was designed to
industry, including collaborations with
replicate an industry standard space
the BBC and MediaCity.
Edge Hill has two studios which enabling students to gain invaluable
are supported by TV Studio Manager experience of working in a broadcast
Ian Steel alongside Senior Tech setting.
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.blackbird.video http://www.cjp-bss.co.uk https://www.studiosuite.com
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