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Vendor Spotlight: Brainstorm 3D July 15th 2022 - 10:30 AM

Founded in 1993, Brainstorm is based in Spain, with offices in Madrid and Valencia, where its Development Center is located. The company also maintains satellite offices in the U.S., Mexico, Singapore and China, and is represented by a global reseller/distributor network in more than 40 countries.

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Independent News Production Teams Capture Breaking News Coverage With URSA Broadcast G2 Cameras July 11th 2022 - 10:00 AM

A large warehouse fire comes across the police scanner and a news camera operator and an audio guy jump in their car, specially outfitted with a laptop for editing (mounted to the dashboard) and a tripod that folds out of the trunk, and race to get the story. It’s a scenario that plays out hundreds of times each day at TV stations across the country.

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Vendor Spotlight: Telestream July 8th 2022 - 11:00 AM

Telestream, based in Nevada City, Calif. (with additional offices in Westwood, Mass,), is a privately held company that supports customers around the world in the Broadcast, Professional Video Production, Education, Corporate and Military market segments. The company is celebrating its 25th year in business in 2022, offering relevant products, systems and services that stretch from “glass to glass.”

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Information: Part 4 - Data Rates July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

In an increasingly digital world, it may be useful to look at the amount of data needed to represent various media. Note that the amount of data is being considered; the amount of information will always be somewhat less than that.

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Electricity: Part 4 - Solar Panels July 6th 2022 - 11:00 AM

Solar Panels, or photo-voltaics (PV), have their uses, but they also have their drawbacks.

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Transforms: Part 6 - The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) July 1st 2022 - 09:00 AM

The Fourier Transform is complex in the mathematical sense, which means that each coefficient is represented by complex number.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Working In The Cloud – Productivity Is Always The Key June 30th 2022 - 09:00 AM

We’ve encountered media companies along all aspects of migrating their workflows to the cloud. Some with large on-premises media processing capabilities are just beginning to design their path, while others have transformed some of their workflows to be cloud-native, and still, others are all in – meaning all their media files reside in the cloud and are processed there.

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HDR: Part 4 - Surviving Modern Colorimetry June 29th 2022 - 09:55 AM

Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color. In this piece, we’re going to look at something that comes up often in modern film and TV technique: color gamuts. It’s a term that suffers a lot of misuse, but the basics are simple: a color image uses red, green and blue, and the gamut describes which red, which green, and which blue we’re using.

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