In a stunning turn of events, Northern California native and acknowledged production engineering expert Fred Meyers, who recently worked on George Lucas’s independent feature Red Tails, is joining the Band Pro team. Meyers will serve as Director of Production Engineering for Band Pro Munich, and be available for on-set consultation or to create workflow for productions that require his expertise.

At IBC in Amsterdam our 3D Booklet and our HD OBVan Special 2010 will be available at the Live-Production.TV press stand #38 on the walkway between Halls 8 & 9/10/11. The Booklet will cover recent 3D productions like Football, Ice Hockey, Tennis and Rugby and will give a comprehensive overview of available 3D production trucks as well as a brief description of state-of-the-art 3D production equipment.

CAST Software of Toronto, Canada will be debuting their newest technology, BlackTrax (patent pending), at PLASA, September 12-15 at Earls Court in London, Stand 1-G15. BlackTrax is a revolutionary motion tracking system for people and objects that operates in real time. BlackTrax is designed to work with CAST’s game-changing BlackBox system of multi-directional high-speed control coordination.

Pixel Power, the leading supplier of broadcast graphics systems, has today announced the international launch of its real-time stereoscopic 3D graphics control technology across its product range.

As the keynote to the IBC2010 conference day devoted to stereoscopic 3D (S3D), Steve Schklair, CEO of 3ality Digital, world leader in advanced technologies to empower creative digital stereoscopic 3D acquisition, is presenting a remarkable demonstration. In a recreation of a real-world live shoot he will use three beam-splitter rigs, including the latest TS-5 lightweight rig operated on a Steadicam mount, with the pictures shown live on the giant screen in the Auditorium.

Telecast Fiber Systems today introduced the CopperHead™ 3400, an innovative new fiber optic video transceiver specifically designed for high-end 3D cinema production. The CopperHead 3400 is the first product of its kind to mount directly onto a dual-camera 3D rig, allowing producers to harness the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of tactical fiber for transporting high-quality stereoscopic HD signals over long distances.

The use of interactive 3D visualisations is growing each year. Real estate property developers, governments and even industrial companies are reaping the benefits of these multifunctional visual presentations. World-leading 3D company Zero Creative is demonstrating its new solutions at IBC this year.

At IBC 2010 Stand 8.B80, Miranda Technologies will be highlighting its Densite HMP-1801 single card, solid state Stereoscopic 3D media player.

“The 3D train is moving forward, speedily and steadily, like China’s Harmony Express. And Sony clearly has the strongest engine in this 3D express.” Sir Howard Stringer, CEO Sony Corporation, said enthusiastically at the press conference of Sony Europe at IFA 2010. As Sony is aggressively blazing the trail in every part of the 3D universe, its hour-long press conference was held entirely in 3D.

The CEL name returns to IBC this year as Cel-Soft Ltd, a recently-formed company specialising in broadcast-quality control and measurement technology. Cel-Soft is the brainchild of Robin Palmer who founded CEL-Broadcast in the early 1980s and whose design talents have been behind many innovative and successful broadcast products.
Cel-Scope3D stereoscopic analyser, a software solution to the challenges of 3D quality control and depth budget management.

The Royal Opera House (ROH) in London continued to break new ground as a leader in digital distribution of the arts: It was the first opera house to film and distribute full length productions in 3D for a mass audience.

Vue Entertainment, one of the UK’s leading operators and developers of state-of-the-art multiplex cinemas, has reached an agreement in principle with Sony Europe to install 4K digital cinema projection systems across its circuit.

The future of television came bursting as Spain was working its way to the top of the soccer world last June/July in South Africa. In addition to the HD set of cameras in each of the ten stadiums there was a second set of cameras in five stadiums, actually pairs of cameras, capturing the matches to bring three-dimensional images of 25 of the 64 FIFA games to 3D television sets and 3D cinemas around the globe. Get the latest information on the “3D Work in Progress” first hand from participating companies at IBC in Amsterdam from 10 – 14 September 2010.

Vizrt will introduce Viz Engine/Artist 3.3 at its booth: Hall 2, Stand B10. As a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, Vizrt is committed to expanding its systems’ functionality and cost-effective workflow to maximize its customers’ creativity and investment.

DVS is show casing the latest CLIPSTER® features at its booth no. 7.E25. Right on time for Europe's biggest industry event in Amsterdam , the DVS flagship is presenting new highlights for 3D workflows, such as depth grading, as w ell as support for Apple ProRes 422.