NAB 2009 Wrap…[or rap]
Written by BOBL on April 29, 2009 – 10:00 am -
Attendance was expected to be down this year, and it was… and there was so much open room! While I spent most of my time in our booth, I did manage to get out for a while. Since the introduction of the South Halls, I still found the show to be too spread out to walk comfortably…no change there. But what I found pleasantly conspicuous by their absence were the suffocating crowds. For example; I walked through the Sony booth several times without being bumped, pushed, mauled and jostled by another living soul. When was the last time you could pull that off? I could see the demos and products without having to forge my way through a throng of “tire kickers”. Many of the aisles were double-wide, which made it possible to walk around the flocks of camera toting vendors with their badges on backwards taking pictures of everyone else’s booths and products.
One of the more pleasant experiences I always enjoy at NAB is the schmoozing. I saw many friends and acquaintances there, but not half as many as in earlier years. I noted the absence of many, who up to this year, had never missed an N.A.B., and many told me that they paid their own way to the show this year. This of course kills one of the major perks of N.A.B… someone else picking up the tab.
Also down this year besides the attendance…swag! For those of you not familiar with this term, swag are the items that used to be given away in abundance at N.A.B. with the vendors brand and phone number on it to keep close to your heart (and your telephone); everything from logo hats and shirts to water bottles and coffee mugs, calculators and desk clocks to ping pong balls that would light up and flash when dropped in the bathtub. Last years big swag item; the flying monkey.
Noticably gone these days, more for reasons of political correctness than the economy, are the “booth babes”. These were always young, always attractive, always smiling young women, who adorned most of the larger booths in the hope of attracting the more intelligent and business minded attendees. They would hand out literature using the latest technical buzz words of the day in the hope of making you feel important and special. And they did.
Another major part of attending NAB were the extravagant after hours parties. Fuji was always one of the hottest tickets for years. This year the party circuit was much more low key. Editware, who was once known for its famous “editor dinners”, had a Hospitality Suite again this year at the Marriott Suites across from the convention center – jointly hosted with one of our development partners, Prime Image. Many who came to spend time, relax and enjoy a bit of good food, drink and company, commented on the fact that many of the other exhibitor parties they had attended did not include anything to eat. This at a show that used to brag about its parties, ranging from whole floors rented in a top Las Vegas Strip hotel serving food and booze to thousands, to a barbeque at a dude ranch during the last Dallas N.A.B.
Can’t wait to see what N.A.B. brings next year…your thoughts?
Bob
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The LE-2000 Linear Plus! Edit Controller
Written by Jay Coley on April 14, 2009 – 8:32 am -| Doing What We Do Best! Editware, long recognized as the industry leader in linear and hybrid editing, has introduced its latest solution for cutting time and cost from linear editing…the LE-2000. |
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Time Is Money |
| Production operations, Sports, News and Promotion departments… Many of you have already made the transition to non-linear editing, but are now confronted with the need to add or bring back linear editing to support your everyday workload. Well, the LE-2000 will control virtually every analog, SD or HD VTR in your facility, as well as edit directly with many servers such as the Abekas Mira, the EVS XT2 and the Grass Valley K2 and Profiles. |
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Upgradeable & Flexible |
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Familiar Control Panel |
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High Definition Editing |
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Product Overview |
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Fastrack K2-H is “Tapeless” at NAB
Written by BOBL on April 13, 2009 – 5:10 am -
Come to Booth C12124 to see the “Fastrack K2-H”. With the Fastrack based K2-H application, you can edit directly onto the Grass Valley K2 server using both linear and non-linear functionality.
This allows you to benefit from all the features that make linear editing so flexible, as well as the immediacy of our non-linear “virtual” capabilities…it all combines to create a win-win situation for the editor, the broadcaster and your clients. You have to see it to believe it. New pricing has now made it perfect for any budget. Here is what some current users of K2-H have to say about it:
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Ask about the EditSet.HD Integrated Edit Suite
Written by BOBL on April 7, 2009 – 8:47 am -The remainder of 2009 [aka 'post NAB'] Editware will be focusing our energy and additional development on our latest products that have proven to save our customers both time and money. The stars of this year’s NAB 2009 show were the EditSet.HD Integrated HD Edit Suite and the Fastrack K2-H Hybrid Editor with the Thomson K2 Server.
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The award winning EditSet.HD consists of a functionally integrated editor, video switcher and audio mixer from industry leaders Editware, Ross Video and Renegade Labs. This package is tightly interfaced and priced to get you into HD linear editing at a fraction of what you would expect to pay for such exceptional interoperability and functionality. The EditSet.HD will be shown using the Abeka Mira server as both sources and recorder.
Don’t let the compact size or the low cost of this system fool you. It’s packed with everything you need – a real stimulus package. The mixer has 8-output busses, virtual faders, and the ability to accept multiple formats including SD and HD SDI inputs and outputs. It has all the effects you could possibly use including 16 frames of dial-up audio delay, and you can even control the audio levels from the editor.
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Time Tailor Post - Real Time Reduction
Written by Jay Coley on February 2, 2009 – 8:39 am -Time Tailor Post Features
Prime Image’s Time Tailor Post is a feature rich, fully automated system designed for cable-programmers, broadcasters, content providers, and post-production facilities for editing program and/or segment times to fit into new time slots.
- Frame accurate time-reduction
- Deletion of unwanted “black-holes”
- Creation of new “black-holes” for commercial overlays
- Time-reduce specific segments & leave others unaltered
- Maintains closed-caption information
- Frame accurate control of Source & Record units
Prime Image Digital Time Tailor
The Time Tailor system makes use of a patented technology to remove frames from material. Time reduction from 3 to 5% or more is achieved in a way that is virtually undetectable to the viewer/listener. Up to 8 channels of audio are processed along with video, with no pitch correction needed, and there is never a problem maintaining synchronization of audio and video. Closed captioning and other vertical interval data is also maintained. The Time Tailor is available in SD and HD (1080i) versions.
Typically, a first-run broadcast time slot allows 22 to 23-minutes for the actual show, with the remaining time used for commercials, promotional spots and public service announcement. When these shows are broadcast as reruns, or in syndication by local, cable or satellite channels, they must run in a 21-minute time slot. Old ways of reducing the time needed to play out a show included editing out scenes, racing through the credits, and playing out the show at a higher than original speed.
Based on Prime Image’s Time Tailor’s patented time-reduction process and the Fastrack TT system, Time Tailor Post removes video frames automatically and undetectably without compromising the integrity of the program. Time Tailor’s “micro-editing” provides a faster and less expensive method of this type of content processing. Plus, the final output is a higher quality of media than that which is modified by current methods.
Time Tailor Post offers SD support for 525i, 625i, 1080/29.97, and 720p/59.94 standards.
The Fastrack TT Controller
The Fastrack TT is based on Editware’s Fastrack Hybrid Editing Controller. It provides a simple user interface and the control capability to fully automate and synchronize the Time Tailor process. Source VTR, Record VTR, Time Tailor and switcher are all controlled frame accurately. The Fastrack allows for additional control for editing tasks which may go beyond the Time Tailor compression process.
The Process
The operator provides the following data to the Fastrack, then clicks on the “Start” button, and the fully automated time compression process proceeds to completion.
Operator intervention (patch or router control) may be required once or twice during the first two minutes if bars and slate segments are recorded during the Time Tailor process.
Click here for more information on Time Tailor.
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Digital Micro-editing: For Fitting Content To Time
Written by Jay Coley on April 14, 2007 – 8:09 am -
Originally, Editware designed Fastrack as a front-end controller and editor for the GVG Profile series of Video Servers. As time progressed, Editware was asked by its users to have Fastrack control just about every type and variety of audio and video source, server and effects device. Fortunately, Fastrack was adaptable. Since it began shipping over three years ago, the number of Fastrack controllable devices has grown substantially. Through Editware’s commitment to meet industry needs, Fastrack has evolved from a simple GVG Profile controller to a hybrid linear/nonlinear editor, controlling seven different servers and hundreds of other devices.
The first step in Fastrack’s development was to incorporate a full graphic user interface. This was accomplished through a partnership with Lift GmbH of Germany. The GUI modernized Fastrack beyond the use of timecode numbers, making editing a more intuitive process. Due to the GUI, Fastrack provided device control and linear/nonlinear editing from a single channel of video to as many as 80 channels from multiple servers, VTRs and other peripheral devices. Read more »
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