NBCUniversal Forces Unite for Super Bowl Week in Indy
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
NBCUniversal is taking the synergy concept to new heights leading up to Super Bowl XLVI, delivering a wide range of shoulder programming across its vast array of networks all week long, including 18 hours of live Super Bowl programming on NBC Sports Network and a variety of NFL content on Golf Channel. NBC will take [...]
Apple Releases Update for Final Cut Pro X
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, a significant update to its professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos; advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app; and enhanced XML for a richer interchange with third party apps and [...]
PGA Tour HD App Optimizes 2012 Coverage for iPad
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turner Sports’ PGATOUR.com extended its signature LIVE@ video-streaming franchise to the iPad last week, launching the PGA Tour HD app on the eve of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, CA. The free iPad app, now available at the Apple App Store, features a centralized dashboard that will deliver [...]
Fletcher Chicago To Provide Ultra Slow-Motion HDTV Cameras for Super Bowl XLVI
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Fletcher Chicago will be providing four of the new NAC Hi-Motion II Ultra Slow Motion Digital cameras at this year’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis. The Hi-Motion II camera, developed in cooperation with Ikegami, is a dual-format 1080i/720p system that can provide simultaneous output of live normal-speed video and ultra-slow-motion replay video, and can be used [...]
Panasonic Hosts ‘Five Flavors of Filmmaking’ Contest at Slamdance 2012
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Josh Gibson, Associate Director and Instructor, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University, has just won the Grand Prize of an AF100 large imager HD cinema camera at Panasonic’s “Five Flavors of Filmmaking” contest held at Slamdance 2012 (Park City, UT). For the competition, five teams were each assigned a flavor [...]
Blackmagic Design Releases Software Update for Broadcast Monitoring Support
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Blackmagic Design released Desktop Video 9.2 beta 1, a software update for its capture and playback products that adds broadcast monitoring support with the new Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 update. Desktop Video 9.2 beta 1 for Mac OS X is available for download now and is free of charge for all Blackmagic Design customers. [...]
KAUZ and KSWO Complete Utah Scientific Routing and Master Control Installations
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Utah Scientific announced that Wichita Falls, TX-based KAUZ and Lawton, OK-based KSWO each have upgraded their broadcast facilities to digital operations with Utah Scientific routing and master control equipment. The two stations installed the equipment as part of an ongoing initiative of their parent company, Drewry Communications Group, to standardize on Utah Scientific equipment for [...]
Networks Increasingly Take Studio Shows On the Road
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It was just a few years ago that sports networks would send their studio shows on the road only for high-profile events, such as postseason and All-Star games. However, today, the remote studio show has become the norm throughout regular-season telecasts for ESPN’s Monday Night Football, Fox Sports’ NASCAR coverage, NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football, [...]
NEP Deploys Over 100 Canon HDTV Lenses to Cover Super Bowl XLVI
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
More than 100 Canon HDTV field and portable zoom lenses will be deployed for both domestic and international coverage of Super Bowl XLVI by production facilities provider NEP Broadcasting. NEP will deploy three mobile production vehicles and more than 100 HDTV cameras, each of which will have a Canon HD lens mounted on it. “The [...]
Argentinian Sports Gets Virtual Support from Shotoku
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
C5N (Canal 5 Noticias) in Argentina has embraced Shotoku virtual reality (VR) camera support in Buenos Aires. The news and sports information service, established in 2007, is distributed to a worldwide audience via cable, satellite, streaming internet services and social networks. The facility recently interfaced Shotoku’s SH120 VR-enabled pan / tilt head system with virtual [...]
Venue News: Islanders To Play Preseason Game at Barclays Center; Safeco Field Installs Solar Panels
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
With the New York Islanders’ future in Uniondale looking as tenuous as ever, the speculation about a potential move to Brooklyn intensified with the announcement this week that the team will play a preseason game Oct. 2 against the New Jersey Devils at Barclays Center. The exhibition game will be the first NHL game played [...]
Vizrt, Platinum Sponsor, Renews with SVG
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The Sports Video Group is pleased to announce that Vizrt has renewed its platinum sponsorship. Vizrt Ltd. is a provider of content production tools for the digital media industry. Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics and asset management tools for the broadcast industry – from award-winning animations & maps to online publishing tools. Vizrt’s products are [...]
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