Grab 2G

The Anystream division of Grab Networks premiered their new 2G Agility system. The 2G system includes a new User Interface (UI) that makes it easier to create profiles and manage watch folders. The Agility and Folder Attendant configurations are combined into one summary page for review and the simple cross sharing of already created components.

Anystream also showed the new Velocity version 3.8. 3.8 eliminated the need for a separate ftp application to move the content from the PAR (Physical Asset Repository) to the final destinations. PAR has also been redesigned and streamline. Also within Velocity are new reporting and Dashboard tools for visibility of all content distributed as well as status per station or the entire group.

Keys for All

Keyboard Logic displayed keyboards for many Editing applications as well as custom keyboards.

Elemental Accelerator

Elemental has updated their accelerator for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to work with other versions of the Nvidia. Depending upon hardware configuration Elemental can encode to H.264 in almost 5 times the speed. The new improvements include accelerated decoding.

http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/

G-Force Storage once again a popular destination

The SAN architecture is the same but the storage sizes have increased. The system requires a FibreChannel adapter and is a single-user solution for Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro.

They also introduced a desktop 4TB system for under $2,000.

Low Latency Contribution Quality MPEG4 from Haivision

The Makito H.264 compression encoder is the lowest latency encoder on the market at 70ms. There is additional latency in the decode side, which Haivision does not have yet.

LiveCast

LiveCast is the reverse of Mobile DTV. With LiveCast a phone can broadcast to the internet of TV. LiveCast’s differentiator is low latency. Using their decoder a stream can be received at the studio in less than a second allowing for real-time dialog with the reporter or user.

LiveCast, formerly ComVu, has an accompanying web site with GPS tracking and the makings of a social community for LiveCasters. LiveCast is truly the profession version of “LifeCasting”.

BXF Coming Soon

Wide Orbit announced BXF functionality coming soon inversion 5. The below link is a conceptual demo from NAB 2008 and is similar to the functionality coming this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJT6qu5DBVw&feature=channel_page