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Dana Ruzica of Avid Technology speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam. Dana talks about Avid's acquisition of Orad and also talks about Avid Everywhere

Avid Everywhere is our strategic vision for helping content creators and media organizations connect with consumers more powerfully, efficiently, collaboratively, and profitably.

The Avid Everywhere vision is guiding our development of the most fluid end-to-end, distributed media production environment in the industry. The Avid MediaCentral Platform, in conjunction with the corresponding Artist Suite, Studio Suite, Media Suite, Storage Suite, and upcoming private and public marketplaces, will together form a comprehensive ecosystem that encompasses everything from media creation to distribution and monetization, addressing every aspect of the new digital media value chain.

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Peter Ole, CTO of Vizrt speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at the 2015 IBC Show in Amsterdam. Peter shares multiple announcements from IBC 2015, including "Eclipse."

Viz Eclipse builds on top of the same state-of-the-art technologies as Viz Libero and Viz Arena. Viz Libero is Vizrt’s leading 3D virtual sports analysis system. Using existing TV images only, Viz Libero generates the perfect perspective for analyzing interesting or controversial scenes. Viz Libero combines realistic 3D replays and advanced virtual graphics and telestration tools for sports broadcasts. Viz Arena enables broadcasters to place virtual 3D graphics into their live coverage of a sports event. Using real-time image-based camera tracking, Viz Arena can place offside lines, distance circles, first down lines, virtual ads, or any kind of telestration tools onto the field, directly into the live feed or for an instant graphical replay.

Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry. This includes interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather, video editing, compositing, and playout tools.

Vizrt has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide and the list keeps growing each day. This is made possible by nearly 600 engaged and very competent employees in 40 offices around the world.

Vizrt’s business model provides its customers with complete packages, including hardware, professional services, installations, support, etc.

Vizrt's products are used by the world's leading broadcasters, including: CNN, CBS, Fox, the BBC, BSkyB, Al Jazeera, ITN, ZDF, NDR, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, and NHK. Furthermore, many world-class production houses and corporate institutions such as the London Stock Exchange use Vizrt systems.

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Joshua Rush of Audinate speaks with Janet West at IBC 2015 with their recent product announcements and news. Joshua talks about Audinate's partnership with Solid State Logic (SSL) and how their Dante Audio Networking Technology is integrated into SSL Consoles.

The story of Audinate is the story of just such a game changer. In just a few short years, the company’s Dante technology has forever altered the face of professional audio, from installed systems to live sound to studio recording and beyond.

The seeds of the company were sown in Sydney, Australia, where a small team of engineers was designing new technologies for Motorola Research Labs. Motorola shuttered the facility in 2003, but a few members of the team stayed together, securing backing from the National Information and Communications Technology of Australia (NICTA), a government research institute whose goal is to spawn innovative technology to benefit the growth of industry in Australia.

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Qligent's Ted Korte speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat at IBC 2015.

Qligent is dedicated to maximizing the quality of service, quality of experience and content delivery for satellite, ATV, DTT, Mobile, Cable, IPTV and OTT services. Products which are offered as on-premise or as a "cloud" SaaS (Software as a Service) solution which is unique in the industry.

What Qligent Does:

* Enterprise solution for quality assurance of any size or type of media distribution

* Captures and analyzes media streams and content locally at any point and format from acquisition to consumer

* Real-time centralization of data for rapid service degradation detection, data analytics, reporting and proxy viewing

Whom Qligent Addresses:

* Network Operators

* Broadcasters

* System Integrators

* Regulators

* Content Creators

* Advertising Agencies

* Anyone who is interested in assuring their investment reached their intended audience via ATV, DTT, Mobile, Cable, IPTV or SAT

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Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine recently had the opportunity to chat with Scott Ross, Founder of Digital Domain.

Scott Ross is an American film and digital media executive with a career spanning many decades. In the 1980s Scott led George Lucas' companies and in 1993 he founded, along with James Cameron and Stan Winston, Digital Domain, Inc., one of the largest digital production studios in the motion picture and advertising industries.

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James McKenna of Facilis Technology chats with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at IBC 2015. Jim explains that their storage systems are capable of handling 4K and 8K projects with multiples streams of HD Video.

Massachusetts-based Facilis Technology launched in 2003 with a vision to bring affordable, advanced shared storage to post production and content creation professionals working in media and entertainment. Over the past decade, the company has evolved into an industry-leading provider of cost-effective, high performance shared storage systems and dynamic workflow solutions for the film, broadcast and AV markets. Facilis’ multi-platform shared file system and complementary workflow solutions power thousands of post production and content creation workflows in facilities worldwide – allowing professionals to store, share, edit and archive a diverse array of media at an accelerated pace. Supported by a strong internal team comprising industry veterans with extensive backgrounds in product development, broadcast facility engineering and creative video editing, Facilis continually innovates its solutions to enable superior integration with the latest creative applications and technology, as well as support for cutting-edge connectivity methods. The company’s world-class technical support and meticulous in-house integration of each turnkey solution have earned Facilis a loyal customer base and esteemed reputation in the industry. Its consultative selling process ensures that all Facilis solutions will fit seamlessly into facility environments of all shapes and sizes and provide unmatched stability for years of uninterrupted production.

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Rich Redmond of GatesAir speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine at IBC 2015.

GatesAir’s professional studio solutions enable broadcasters of all sizes to make great radio. In fact, seven of the top ten revenue-producing stations use GatesAir studio solutions, starting with a complete range of networked digital audio consoles. Leveraging IT connectivity to provide operational flexibility and tremendous ease of use, GatesAir offers an industry-leading selection to help broadcasters work efficiently and creatively on the air and across production environments.

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Ken Frommert of Enco speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine about enCaption 3, from ENCO at IBC 2015.

enCaption 3 is a unique totally automated hardware/software system that can automatically generate captioning on live or recorded video. Using enCaption 3, content creators can provide real-time, live captioning to their hearing impaired audience any time, without any advance notice and without the high costs of live captioners or signers.

enCaption 3 uses ENCO’s enhanced speaker independent neural network based speech recognition engine to closely inspect and transcribe your audio in near real-time (typically 4-6 seconds). Available in a number of languages, enCaption

3.0 works with your audio stream, whether recorded or live and is local to your facility. This puts you in control of the captioning process and makes it available even in the most demanding situations.

This is not an ENR/prompter based system nor is it a ‘re-speaking’ system requiring live personnel to operate. enCaption 3 is a fully automated, true speaker independent speech recognition based system that is available whenever you need it.

Linking enCaption 3 to your electronic newsroom system allows it to automatically access current and historical script information to build a local dictionary which allows the system to improve accuracy over time - it literally gets better every day! You can also easily feed enCaption specific scripts for presentations, meetings or other productions. While enCaption 3 is not ideal for use where background noise is high or scoring or other musical elements are present mixed underneath spoken voices, when a clean audio feed and script material (used to build and maintain a local dictionary) can be provided, enCaption 3 gets the job done - reliably, accurately and at a significant cost savings.

The system consists of a rack-mount processor unit that provides a serial data stream (CEA-608), feeding your captioning encoder. With regulatory captioning requirements a reality and enforcement increasing, ENCO’s enCaption 3 system can economically meet your needs 24 hours a day. Whether you’re closed captioning for video or open captioning for meetings, don’t wait (or pay) for a live captioner. With enCaption 3, you’re ready...now.

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Peter Balchin of ADB speaks with Janet West of Broadcast Beat Magazine about ADB's recent announcements and projects at IBC 2015.

ADB creates and delivers the right solutions that enable their customers to reduce integration and service delivery challenges to increase ARPU and reduce churn. They combine ADB know-how and products with those from a number of third party industry leaders to deliver complete solutions that benefit from collaborative thinking and best in class technologies.

This approach is underpinned by ADB's ConnectedOS, a digital platform and community that bridges together products and services designed to simplify integration, speed time to market and reduce cost in the delivery of connected services for their clients.

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Chris Exelby of TSL Products speaks with Janet West at IBC 2015.

TSL Products designs, manufactures and markets a range of broadcast workflow solutions that serve to simplify operations within the television broadcast, cable, satellite, IPTV and IT industries.

Specializing in audio monitoring, surround microphones and processors, broadcast control systems and power management tools, TSL Products’ solutions satisfy and exceed the commercial, technical and operational requirements that exist in IT-based and traditional workflows, helping its customers to lower costs, generate revenue and streamline operations.

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