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Ukraine honoured at Vilniusfilmfestival
After two years off due to the pandemic, the Vilnius International Film Festival bounced back with live screenings of 90 feature films and 51 shorts, by filmmakers from 56 countries. The Lithuanian festival boycotted all Russian filmmakers, replacing their productions with Ukrainian projects from recent years. War refugees from Ukraine were invited to see films free, and many were translated or dubbed in Ukrainian specifically for them. Ukraine’s blue and yellow colours were displayed on screens, while the main hall of the event – the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of the most prestigious cultural spaces in the country – was dressed in sunflowers. TERADEK’S GALAXY QUEST! The flagship 4K HDR encoder/decoder from Teradek is good enough for Nasa, and definitely suitable for more terrestrial live streaming. The Prism Flex is the successor to Teradek’s Cube line of hardware, which delivers secure, low-latency streaming. Prism Flex’s compact, low-power design and 12G-SDI and HDMI I/O make it easy to integrate into live production workflows. There is onboard recording, store and forward functionality, plus monitoring options for viewing streaming content, with latency over WAN as low as 300ms on Apple TV, macOS and iOS.
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