Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a test subject, it’s often the other way around.
The subjects of timing, synchronizing and broadcasting are inseparable and in this new series John Watkinson will look at the fundamentals of timing, areas in which fundamental progress was made, how we got where we are and where we might be going.
MSE adds another smart mounting solution to their Gobo Plate line - this time using Matthews must-have grip essential, the 5/8” Baby Pin.
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There aren’t many positions in the film industry which have the prerequisite of spending an hour sunken in the waters off San Diego in a classic diving suit with a blacked-out helmet. To be fair, it wasn’t so much the film industry that made Pete Romano do that; it was the U. S. Navy, who were interested in finding out if prospective dive school candidates could handle confinement.
SmartPed addresses the creative and commercial demands of on-air environments with a cost-efficient and high-performance solution, and can now travel in clockwise and counterclockwise movements around circular sets, a growing design element in today’s broadcast studios.
During the pandemic PrimeTime Lighting Systems introduced a Remote Lighting Kit which includes two MSLED 5-S luminaires designed specifically for remote studio applications.
International esports and gaming solutions provider, Gfinity, has deployed Grass Valley’s cloud-based SaaS platform GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) to support multi-day live esports broadcasts.
Through this partnership, VidOvation will supply turnkey solutions for flexible, remote IP-based camera control and shading over unmanaged networks, such as the public internet and cellular networks, during live multicamera productions, particularly for live sports broadcasts.
