Maxon, the developers of professional software solutions for motion designers, visual effects artists and editors, today announced the immediate availability of Universe 4.0. This latest subscription-only release features Electrify for creating electrical effects on images, footage, and logos, Texturize Motion for blending animated textures with footage for sketchy, stop motion looks, and Analog for simulating dynamic analog retro-TV-styles, noise, interference, and CRT effects. These new effects include 100+ exciting presets. Universe 4.0 also takes advantage of Apple‘s latest Metal technology for optimal GPU performance on Mac. With improved Premiere Pro and After Effects integration, users will notice significant performance improvements. Additionally, in an effort to provide continuous content-driven value to the community, 140 exciting new presets have been added for Array Gun and Typographic contributed by talented Motion Designer, Laura Porat.
 

German-based audio network specialist DirectOut and the Italian IT system-provider Vivivaldy will use SRT for ViViD, a customized service that permits audio professionals to easily setup remote productions using standard internet connections.

The comprehensive portfolio of the German KVM manufacturer Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) continues to grow. With its "VisionXS", the company is launching a new high-end extender product series. Following the motto "smaller, more compact, more powerful", G&D developed a new compact multi-purpose KVM tool. The main idea: a wide range of functions in the smallest possible housing. The new VisionXS systems are high-performance KVM extenders with a bandwidth of 10G and video transmission for resolutions up to 4K. Users can expect the best video quality and an even better performance.

Cobalt Digital has announced the addition of HDMI-to-SDI and SDI-to-HDMI converter cards to its openGear® family of products. The new dual and quad-channel modules come complete with built-in per-channel frame synchronizers and loads of features that maximize space and ensure greater installation integrity than throwdown devices can offer. The new 9926 series target any application requiring signal conversion from HDMI compliant devices such as computer monitors or video projectors, to broadcast quality SDI formats, while the 9927 conversely converts SDI signals to HDMI formats.
 

Having already successfully assisted clients in converting large studio and production buildings to an IP infrastructure, LOGIC media solutions was in charge of another IP migration process in the broadcast industry that is currently receiving particular attention. However, this time, it is a mobile and flexible flight case infrastructure for the “Mobile Produktions Einheit” (MPE) (Mobile Production Unit). The technology used jointly by German broadcasters ZDF and ARD has been upgraded to full IP functionality in essential core components. The mobile production unit comprises a wide variety of customised components to suit the individual purpose and event. It is used jointly by ZDF and ARD for events which, due to their size and complexity, cannot be handled with conventional production means (OB vans, on-site studio), e.g. European and World Cup football matches or summer and winter Olympic Games.
 

Thai satellite platform operator MVTV has updated to latest-generation broadcast television playout resources from PlayBox Neo. Based at headquarters in Bangkok, MVTV provides turnkey broadcast playout services for a portfolio of television channels and its own 24-hour entertainment station. Transmitting in HD, the MVTV channel offers its viewers an eclectic mix of content including news and documentaries, music, fashion, sport and coverage of the theatrical arts. MVTV is also establishing a new OTT service called MV Hub. The company's latest investment includes the Capture Suite multi-channel live ingest plus TitleBox Neo-20 graphics and text creation running within an AirBox Neo-20 operating environment.

Audinate’s Dante® AV is now available as part of new solutions from BOLIN Technology and Patton Electronics. These new products are the first commercially available offerings in the Dante AV video-over-IP networking platform, ushering in a new era of video connectivity over standard 1 Gbps networks. The new offerings are available and can be ordered immediately from the BOLIN and Patton websites.
 

Built in 1980, Bahrain radio, with seven radio stations, was long due for a revamp. The recent USD6,5m turnkey project, which is the first phase, has launched this facility into the digital realm. The entire facility has been refurbished, from nine radio studios and control rooms to the MCR (Master Control Room) and CAR (Central Apparatus Room), with a parallel overhaul of furniture, equipment, automation systems, radio library and acoustics.
 

Why just stash content away when you can repurpose and breathe new life into it while improving productivity and ROI with powerful search tools?  Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage infrastructure solutions, and axle ai, the leading independent vendor of media search software, have joined forces to provide complete solutions not only to store, but also manage and provide instant user access to many terabytes or petabytes of video content.  Your media is safer on Seagate storage; axle ai’s software makes it easily findable as well.
 
 

AMP VISUAL TV, the leading broadcast service provider headquartered in France, has completed a major upgrade of its live production infrastructure with the latest LiveCeption Signature solution by EVS.
 

As the world re-opens and live events return, Hollyland’s Streamix M1 is your go-to choice for an easy-to-use, portable, and reliable switcher that can provide event directors up six video sources for their stream at stunning 1080P HD all the while providing connectivity via WiFi or Ethernet.
 

XR stage opens its largest ICVFX sound stage in June.
Again, XR Stage has selected ROE Visual to supply the LED volume for this stage.   
 

Genelec, one of the global leader in professional loudspeakers, is establishing the first branch of its new G Innovation Lab in Kuopio, Finland, with the goal of nurturing creativity and entrepreneurship in the Savilahti region of the country, and attracting imaginative professionals to the area. Starting with a Discovery Event Pitch Challenge this August, Genelec aims to recruit a team of ‘start-up minded’ individuals to further develop the innovative thinking that has helped inspire the company’s technical breakthroughs over the last four decades.
 

AMP VISUAL TV, a leading French provider of outside broadcasting (OB) facilities and production services, has chosen Riedel’s cutting-edge solutions to provide signal routing and processing as well as communications on board its all-new Millenium 3 and Millenium 4 live UHD production vehicles. A Riedel MediorNet real-time network drives 14-camera (10 4K capable) productions for both trucks, and Riedel’s Artist digital matrix intercom and Bolero wireless intercom enable reliable, flexible, and seamless crew communications.

Before I came to work at Imagine Communications, I was in live production and operations. I have pulled cables across the athletic fields of universities, and I have run master control for internationally viewed broadcasts. If I had to summarize my decade of experience in live broadcasting, I would say that the key requirement was the ability to make snap decisions while working in a constant pressure cooker. Of course, staying cool-headed isn’t enough to save a broadcast if you don’t have the right tech: flexibility to get the shots you need, reliability to stay on air, and agility to instantly get around a problem should one occur.