there’s more room for clients to sit with the operator during a session. Where rooms were once specifically designated for online, offline and grading, these disciplines now merge into the same suite. This means flexibility within the space is key and the introduction of sit-stand edit desks has now become the norm. With this new working practice in mind, AKA Design has released two desks called the ProView and the ProCreate. The ProView is a 2m multi-use desk for editing, audio, grading and gaming. The ProCreate is a sit-stand desk at 3m long, and can hold all of the controllers, Grade 1 monitors and audio monitors required, with three operator positions. The desks are flat-packed and can be assembled on site with basic tools. They come with a variety of options, including finish, monitor stands and arms, keyboard trays and Bluetooth iPhone height adjustment, so they can be personalised.
as all of its storage solutions are tailored to the customer, from full SSD-filled servers to more local drives. Its NVME and PCI Express SSD servers offer a 20GB/s performance – so aimed at high-end VFX customers with lots of edit suites connected. The lower-priced solutions include StorNext and its own edit features. Further down the scale are companies like G-Technology and LaCie. LaCie was talking about its new Rugged SSD line, with the higher-than-2GB/s performance, but its line includes solutions from two- bay drives up to full media servers. The 2big, 6big and 12big drive systems are all Thunderbolt 3-enabled, apart from its 5big, which is Thunderbolt 2. WORKSTATIONS AND FURNITURE Your workstation is obviously the centre of your world and there are always new products from Dell, HD and Apple to look at, but don’t forget those independent companies like Scan, which has just released its newest Evolve series product. Read our review on page 62. Last but not least is the furniture: very important for staff morale and visiting clients. AKA Design is well known for its exquisite designs and has been working in the post-production sector for over 25 years. The company has seen the shape, size and usage of modern editing suites evolve exponentially. Also, the increase in the number of picture monitors – and the decrease of rack equipment – means
2019 show, the company was showing its 8K demo and some new AI engineering powered by Adobe Sensei, its AI and machine learning technology. It’s called Auto Reframe and it looks intelligently to reframe and reformat video content for different aspect ratios, from square to vertical to cinematic 16:9 versions. Auto Reframe uses Adobe Sensei to accelerate manual production tasks “without sacrificing creative control”, claims Adobe. Through Adobe Sensei, it is leveraging over a decade of AI and machine learning capabilities built into Adobe products. Avid has many layers to its products, but Media Composer is still there: the backbone throughout all the editing levels it has. MC now comes with Ultimate, which includes a bundle of additional software, and PhraseFind and ScriptSync are included, enabling you to phonetically find the right clips and best takes. There is Avid’s suite of colour grading tools and IMF packaging capabilities with Symphony, as well as integration with MediaCentral, iNEWS and ENPS workflows with NewsCutter. STORAGE Recording media for edit, grade and VFX suites is a huge subset, and goes from the single over-2GB/s SSDs to high-performing spinning disk drives and servers. A recent walk around IBC 2019 put flesh on those bones, with companies like Elements Media Storage not wanting to talk money,
BELOW The new LaCie 2big, 6big and 12big Thunderbolt 3-enabled hard drive arrays
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