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BT Sport will add UHD extras
Walter Murch talks Premiere Pro Adobe
Conference Analysis
By Chris Forrester
By Carolyn Giardina
BT Sport is ramping up its 4K sports coverage and will also start embracing the extra image benefits of HDR, Wider Colour Gamut and even Higher Frame Rates as the technology becomes available. Delia Bushell, MD at BT TV and BT Sport, said the broadcaster would blend in the additional upgrades probably in two years time. In the ‘Telcos Tune into Broadcasting’ Keynote session, Bushell admitted the cost of Ultra HD represented a “big, very big investment. It has been a complex set of challenges but the output has worked seamlessly, and viewers will see more. We have stolen a major march on the competition, and 4K allows us to move further ahead.” Bushell, who is just one year into her job, said BT’s commitment to sport was for the long term, as was BT’s recent agreement with the AMC channel and carriage of Netflix. “We want to be breaking their new productions for the UK, and it was a long-term partnership.”
Academy Award-winning editor and sound designer/ mixer/editor Walter Murch thrilled IBC attendees with a standing-room only appearance at the Adobe stand, to discuss why he chose to edit upcoming documentary Coupe 53 from director Taghi Amirani, on Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Murch emphasised that he was impressed by the “tight level of co-operation between [Adobe] developers and filmmakers.” In fact, he offered a suggestion that led to Premiere Pro’s current trim window feature. “The important thing is it gives you very quick feedback to learn the rhythmic cues of the film.” The inventive editor also gave high marks to the “analogue feel” of the system’s
Delia Bushell: “We have stolen a major march on the competition”
It also seems there will be other channels. “Since signing the AMC deal, which was a great step forward, we have had quite a few approaches from other channels. We understand that viewers want great content, and while much of our focus has been on soccer, rugby and
now cricket, we are open to new opportunities.” Bushell explained that the EE cellular deal, should it close satisfactorily, would also represent a huge improvement for BT, and give it a Quad-play offering. “Then, it will start getting really interesting!”
By Carolyn Giardina
The Matrox M264 multichannel 4:2:2 10-bit H.264 encoder card has been released. It’s a half-length PCIe card featuring an onboard codec for multichannel H.264 encoding/decoding from
Baseline Profile to High 10 Intra Profile up to Level 5.2. Multichannel motion-adaptive de-interlacing and up/down/ cross scaling allow content to be repurposed into any resolution before encoding or after decoding, of note for OTT workflows. M264 is aimed at broadcast distribution, contribution
multiCAM systems
had a human behind the [touch] screen.” Users can change the dynamics of how it does this, even as it is streaming live. 11.E40a
M264 now available Matrox Video
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RTL goes live for visual radio By David Fox
First sale of 576 matrix: IHSE reports that it has sold its first 576 port Draco tera KVM matrix switch (K480-576) at IBC, in a deal with an estimated value of $500,000. The customer who ordered the K480576 is an undisclosed “major broadcaster in the US.” According to IHSE, a current studio upgrade required the expansion of an existing installation, and the new 576 port Draco tera KVM matrix switch “provides a hybrid (Cat X and fibre) KVM infrastructure with no performance limitations.” It offers Mix & Match functionality to allow switching freely between Cat X extenders and fibre optic extenders. The installation is scheduled for completion by 2016. Pictured: IHSE managing director Dr Enno Littmann (left) and US managing director Chani Shah. – Carolyn Giardina 7.B30
ability to scan dailies, noting “this alone would be a reason to use Premiere Pro.” Murch is the only person to have won Oscars for both editing and sound on the same film, The English Patient, which is also the first Oscar win in editing on a film cut with an electronic system (Avid). He also received an Academy Award for sound and nomination for editing on Apocalypse Now; and his additional nominations include one for Cold Mountain, the first nomination for a movie edited with Apple’s Final Cut Pro.
and production applications. It encodes a single stream of 4Kp60 H.264/AVC intraframe at 4:2:2 10-bit, up to 10 streams of HD long GOP at 4:2:2 10-bit or up to 16 streams of HD at 4:2:0 8-bit. Presets for Sony XAVC and Panasonic AVC-Ultra formats are provided. 7.B29
RTL Belgium goes on air today with live streaming video from its radio service. It has installed two of the newly upgraded multiCAM Radio, an automated ‘visual radio system’ that allows broadcasters to air live programmes 24/7 – it links audio and video content and permits broadcasters to deliver radio on demand without human intervention. “We have had great success with this product. It is easy to use and is linked to the automation system in the station,” said Christophe Tomasini, head of international sales, multiCAM systems. The upgrade now allows users to add on-air graphics (including automatic RSS or Twitter feeds) and manage all the video production in manual or automated mode. It uses AI software to identify who is talking the most, so that it can change camera angles to ensure the main speakers are in vision at any time, even if they are interrupting each other, “as if you
Tomasini demonstrates the touch-screen multiCAM Radio system bought by RTL
Conference Highlights Today at IBC IBC Big Screen Experience Keynote: Extending the Creative Palette – Vision from Pixar and ILM 09:30 – 11:00, Auditorium The Outlook for Broadcast and Media – IBC2015 wrap-up 11:30 – 13:00, Forum Immersive Cinema: Sound 14:00 – 15:30, Auditorium Cinema2020: Seeing the future business today 16:00 – 17:30, Auditorium