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Todd Dean of Affordable Cyc Wall Systems and Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine chat about Cycloramas from a studio in Los Angeles.

Affordable Cyc Wall System’s revolutionary way of building a custom cyc offers the quickest and easiest installation process. It is a polystyrene insert that is adhered to an existing sheet rock wall and a concrete or wooden floor. This is the only solid pre-fab cyc system available. Their product uses a solid foam structure covered in a Polymer cement material that is very economical.

Other systems currently available are hollow and made of rigid materials which have a tendency to crack at the seams from stress. The weight of constant re-painting sometimes causes sagging between ribs of hollow cycs. Our system is a solid structure throughout and the seams are filled in with polyurethane glue.

Temperature changes and mild foundation movement will not crack seams with the Affordable Cyc Wall Insert System.

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David Workman of Vizrt has a chat with Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat About Viz Mosart and Viz Opus. Viz Mosart is the number one studio control system in Europe with more than 70 percent market share, and the only open studio automation system capable of working with all major systems and devices, including all leading video switchers manufactured by Snell, Ross, Grass Valley, and Sony.

Viz Opus is a complete broadcast control solution running from a single system. It provides a newscast automation system, real-time graphics, and video playout–all in a single solution.

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David Gibbons of USTREAM chats with Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine. David touches on all of their video streaming services and talks about production services for clients.

The vision started several years before Ustream was officially born in 2007, when two of the company’s founders, John Ham and Brad Hunstable, were attending the United States Military Academy at West Point. At the time, Brad, Ustream’s current CEO, was unable to watch his brother’s rock band perform live onstage. Others in the military experienced similar challenges – they couldn’t watch their daughter graduate from college or they missed the big game with their friends. The specifics always differed, but the common thread was a single need: the ability to share real-time experiences with a large circle of family and friends, connecting people around the world with the most important events in their lives.

In comes Ustream. John and Brad joined forces with Gyula Feher, and together the three founders set out to make their vision a reality.

Live video is coming of age as a way to quickly disseminate information to large, engaged audiences. Over the last 7 years, Ustream’s socially-fueled video platform has powered more than 85 million live streams (more than 2 billion viewer-hours of content!) across the globe. We’ve seen it all – major press events, product launches, interactive how-to classes, intense international protests, entertainment gatherings, elaborate church services, (really) cute puppies, the list goes on. But what ties it all together is one single thread: the power of live video.

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Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat had the chance to chat with Dan Dugan of Dan Dugan Sound Design. Dan is widely recognized as the inventor of the automatic microphone mixer and has been involved in the professional audio industry for his entire career, which spans four decades.

Dan Dugan has always been fascinated by combinations of art and technology. As a child, when he was taken to the theater he always wanted to go backstage to see the light board. In his teens he built a huge model circus and two small pipe organs. He was very active in music, singing bass in the church choir, the San Diego Bach Chorus, Roger Wagner's summer workshops, and in madrigal groups performing on the green at the Shakespeare Festival. In college he dropped out of a four-year scholarship to work full-time in the theater doing lighting, which became his first career. He did lighting designs for the San Diego National Shakespeare Festival, the San Diego Opera, and the San Francisco Actors' Workshop.

At age 24 Dan switched to doing theater sound, working for the San Diego National Shakespeare Festival and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. The title "Sound Designer" was created in 1968 to describe what Dan was doing. He provided sound services for many seasons of the Mondavi Jazz Festival, and engineered several independent record albums, including Kate Wolf's first two albums which are still in print, now as CDs.

Dan is well-known in audio engineering as the inventor of the automatic microphone mixer. His patented equipment has and is being used in thousands of churches, courtrooms including the trial of Saddam Hussein, and on television shows including the David Letterman Show, Oprah, and Washington Week. Currently he works in his laboratory in San Francisco manufacturing his inventions, servicing sound equipment for the film industry, and editing his surround-sound nature recordings.

Dugan mixers are essential components of big television programs. Hollywood Squares said they couldn't do the show without it. "Dugans" are used for public affairs programs at WABC in New York, WETA (Washington Week, PBS NewsHour), WVIZ in Cleveland, and many presidential debates. ESPN has a D-3 in every control room. CBS Network, CBS Television City, NBC Network, CNBC, SportsNet NY, Fox Sports, MLB Network, Speed Network, Georgia Public Broadcasting.

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Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat has a great discussion with Jay Batista, General Manager of US Operations at Tedial.

Tedial is a leading independent Media Asset Management (MAM) software developer and Media IT solutions integrator. Broadcasters and global media companies worldwide rely on Tedial's unique Media IT solutions to manage their entire media workflow and to cost-effectively reach new audiences on every screen.

Tedial’s solutions significantly increase both creativity and efficiency by combining multi-site media management with business-driven media workflows. The company's proven track record enables its customers to rapidly take full advantage of file-based workflows, cloud computing and other emerging media technologies.

Tedial’s solutions are both vendor and hardware agnostic. Releasing its customers from proprietary constraints enables a significant increase in the return on investment from Media IT budget.

Tedial solutions are compliant with open IT standards such as XML, SOAP and BPMN 2.0 (Business Process Model and Notation), and its application framework is compliant with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) principles. Tedial supports next-generation open media standards such as DPP, IMF, MXF and BXF.

Tedial’s software modules have been designed to provide true enterprise functionality enabling a robust, flexible and scalable media IT platform.

Tarsys MAM provides Tedial's fully featured desktop media tools, with browse and workflow for PC and MAC.

MPM is Tedial's multi-format workflow automation and enterprise integration platform.

Ficus provides media aware business process management configuration tools and reporting framework.

Tedial's Web Services API provides integration between Tedial's software modules and with third-party business systems such as traffic, third-party PAM and MAM, CMS and business reporting systems.

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GPL Technologies is a full service technology solutions firm focused solely on solving the production IT challenges of the Media and Entertainment industry. They have worked with hundreds of studios across the globe to tackle challenges of every size and complexity.

From implementing point solutions to designing and deploying complete data infrastructure build-outs for studios, their staff of technology specialists and pipeline engineers is known for their innovative approach to problem solving, and trusted for their expertise in architecting client-centric production IT solutions that help your studio achieve its unique technology goals.

Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat chats with Brian Terrell, Founder & CEO of this innovative company!

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After 20 years’ working as a BBC audio supervisor and freelance sound recordist and sound supervisor, Paul Scurrell was tired of constantly changing kit for different filming scenarios. In 2010, Paul set up Timecode Systems Limited to initially create the all-in-one timecode solution he could see was missing from his filming kit bag. The result was the start of the Timecode Buddy: system.

Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine had a fun chat about Paul Scurrell about their products and what will be showcased at the 2015 IBC Show.

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StorNext® is high-performance shared storage designed to accelerate complex information workflows. Includes primary storage, extended online storage, and tape archives—all powered by StorNext 5 data management, the industry’s fastest streaming file system and policy-driven tiering software.

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Steve Katz of JMR Electronics chats with Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine.

Products built by JMR Electronics are dynamic and versatile, meeting the demands of your professional workflow with an unrivaled dependability. Whether you are a film industry pro in search of a better media management solution, a corporate technical manager seeking a smarter business process management or even an OEM looking to partner up on a new computer product, JMR Electronics builds products that support your workflow.

As of late, JMR Electronics is VERY popular thanks to the launch of their Thunderbolt products.The new JMR Lightning LTNG-XQ-DTMP is a four-slot Thunderbolt-2 to PCIe expander with an internal hardware (6Gb SAS) RAID controller and an 8-bay disk RAID array for working storage. This is an Intel-Certified product featuring four x16 (mechanically, x4 electrically) PCIe expansion slots and quad 20Gbps Thunderbolt-2 I/O ports so other compatible Thunderbolt products may be daisy-chained beyond the Lightning product.

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It is MZed's mission to build an environment through live educational tours, international masterclasses, and recorded training where photographers, filmmakers, designers, and their educators can forge mutually rewarding relationships within a community of creatives.

MZed is known for their educational programs. Some instructors have included Alex Buono of Saturday Night Live's Film Unit, Vincent Laforet and his "Directing Motion Tour", Adam Epstein and "The Cutting Edge Tour" Post Production Training and Shane Hurlbut of ASC and his Illumination Experience Cinematography Tour.

Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat Magazine sits down with Jeffrey Medford of MZed to chat about these highly educational programs.

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