avid.com AVID
ADAPTING TO IP US-based company Avid is bringing its MediaCentral | Stream to market – a software-only solution that enables the ingest of IP streams for television news and remote live TV productions, including both on-premises and cloud-based workflows. With a steady incline of media houses adopting IP for contribution purposes, MediaCentral | Stream allows for a secure contribution approach, from a variety of incoming IP streams, including Haivision and LiveU. “IP protocols are being leveraged more and more for contribution to support news, sports and remote live production, providing significant cost and operational benefits,” says Avid product marketing director – media and cloud, Raul Alba. “MediaCentral | Stream enables those incoming streams to be ingested, re-wrapped or transcoded
into production-friendly formats, to support on-premises or cloud-deployed Avid production workflows.” Users can preview incoming streams, as well as record and edit media, while still recording. Using two common IP stream protocols, RTMP and SRT, users are provided with access, regardless of where the production is deployed.
dejero.com DEJERO
OPENING WINDOWS Dejero’s new Windows application joins the Dejero LivePlus series of apps, aiming to enhance the quality of remote news delivery. This is particularly relevant for remote journalists and anchors during the pandemic, who use a broadband connection to transmit high-quality live video, while also getting two low-latency return video and teleprompter feeds – all on a laptop. LivePlus for Windows offers a solution to ensure the broadcaster ’s quality of content is not compromised, while allowing the anchor to keep their eyes fixed on the camera at all times. “This is an exciting addition to the LivePlus toolkit that makes the home studio set-up even simpler for journalists and presenters, needing less equipment and minimising costs,” explains Dejero director of product management, Yvonne Monterroso. “It allows the creation and delivery of highly professional content using existing computing equipment; saving the station’s inventory of mobile transmitters for crews working out in the field.” The low-latency video the app transmits has a live stream of up to 20Mbps and Dejero’s integrated Smart Blending Technology includes an option to blend Ethernet with Wi-Fi. The app also supports the use of an internal camera, an external USB webcam, or the connection of an SDI or HDMI camera.
SYNCING WITH PIXFORMER InSync Technology’s PixFormer is the newest addition to the company’s API integrated, software-based conversion modules. This latest arrival is the first to be targeted for SDR and HDR conversion applications. “PixFormer builds upon our existing modular approach to providing high-quality image processing wherever it is required in the content supply chain,” says InSync Technology chief technology officer, James Shepherd. With a growing need for HDR content, producers face the challenge of delivering SDR, as well as HDR endpoints. To profit fully from the millions of hours of SDR content that already exist, conversion to HDR is then required. Simple to integrate via its open API, PixFormer is flexible to deploy and can run on-premise, as well as via cloud environments. And, as Shepherd notes, “The software’s range of advanced tools means that producers are always in full control of the content output.” INSYNC TECHNOLOGY insync.tv/software-solutions/pixformer
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