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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 12 - Issue 5 | May 2022
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Blackbird appoints
Sumit Rai
UK: Blackbird plc., the technology
licensor, developer and seller of the
market-leading cloud native video
editing platform, Blackbird, has
announced the appointment of Sumit
Rai as Chief Product Officer. Sumit
will join the Company in June 2022
from VEGAS Creative Software where
he holds the same role.
LiveU acquires easylive.io
L
iveU,
the
leader in live video
solutions, has
streaming and remote production
the
announced
acquisition of easylive.io as part of
its strategy to expand its cloud video
platform, enabling customers
to
grow their audiences with original,
interactive and quality live content.
The move will provide remote and
collaborative tools for cloud-based
and hybrid
productions, enabling
customers to operate and scale up,
while still lowering budgets, quickly
and easily from anywhere including
video switching, audio mixing,
adding graphics, localizing content
and bringing on guests.
easylive.io provides
a live
Sumit has over 23 years leadership
experience in the video and film
industry.
Starting off as a visual
effects and video editor in news
production, children's TV and film,
Sumit progressed to Chief Technology
Officer
at Pukka Films developing
an innovative, award-winning
production facility before founding
Kulu
Valley. Providing enterprise
video distribution platforms for tier
1 organizations, Kulu Valley was
acquired by Qumu Inc. in 2014 where
Sumit
Officer and Chief
served as Chief Marketing
Product Officer.
Sumit is leaving his position as Chief
Product Officer of the well-known
video editing platform,
VEGAS
Pro. He joins Blackbird to lead the
strategic development and direction
of the Company's product suite.
Having developed
and
by
thousands
distribution platforms
of
streaming production studio in
the browser, allowing users to mix
any type of content into live stream
videos and distribute them to the
widest audience, creating innovative
and interactive live experiences. All
the tools needed to edit, mix and
broadcast live streams are combined
in the all-in-one user-friendly cloud
solution, reducing production and
equipment
costs. It
ensures
the
reception of all format types and their
conversions for optimal management
and
redistribution to multiple
destinations.
Samuel Wasserman, CEO and Cofounder,
LiveU, said, " We have been
reinforcing our cloud
that meet the needs
strategy as
the industry moves to cloud-based
production, introducing brand new
services
of
customers moving to the cloud.
Recognized as the leader in mobile
backpacks, we're now consolidating
our leadership in cloud-based
offerings. This announcement is an
important
step, delivering futureproof
tools that help our customers
grow their business, building on our
deep expertise in live production.
We believe there is a significant
part
of the market
for cloud
production that wants and needs a
vertically
integrated solution. Our
goal is to offer a fully end-to-end
solution for live contribution, cloud
production, orchestration, ingest
and distribution, serving the needs
of every type of customer from global
broadcasters to niche sports and
entertainment. "
Actus Digital Showcasing at CABSAT 2022
A
ctus
Digital, the premiere
quality monitoring and alerting,
compliance logging, content
repurposing, and workflow solution
company, will showcase the new
Actus
8.0
AI-based
intelligent
monitoring platform during CABSAT
2022, booth 501. Actus
Digital's
platform was recently honored with
a Best-in-Market award at NAB Show
2022.
video editing
used
companies and
millions of users, Sumit will help take
Blackbird's multi award-winning and
multi-patented technology to wider
markets.
The new Actus
8.0 platform
includes Actus Synchro, an enhanced
recording-multiviewer with QA
monitoring and compliance logging,
and
support
for standards
such
as IP, SDI, HDMI, DVB, ASI, SMPTE
ST 2110/2022-6/2022-7, SRT, NDI,
HLS, MPEG-DASH, and more, to
address applications for TV, radio,
Multichannel
Video Programming
Distributors (MVPDs), and more.
" We're redefining innovation with
an expanded range of intelligent
monitoring capabilities on the Actus
8.0 platform, " said Sima Levy, CEO
at Actus Digital. " Following 17 years
of improving quality monitoring and
compliance logging for broadcasters,
value beyond
media operators, governments,
agencies, and more, the Actus
8.0 platform further expands the
intelligent
monitoring platform's
core engineering
benefits. At CABSAT 2022, we will
highlight
how our
award-winning
platform offers unique workflows and
use cases for news, ad sales, digital
media,
asset management,
research teams within TV and radio
stations. "
The Actus
and
8.0 platform offers
engineering innovation and
advanced features for a diverse range
of use cases, besides compliance
and technical monitoring, all in one
platform.
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