The first-ever FilmLight Colour Awards has received an enthusiastic welcome from professionals across the imaging industry.

While the awards programme has been initiated by FilmLight, the awards are platform-agnostic and open to users of any grading system, from juniors to veterans, independents or those representing large global facilities.

Séamus MacCormaic has been named executive vice president and managing director of Streamland Media-United Kingdom. MacCormaic previously served as chief financial officer of The Farm, a Streamland Media business. In his new role, he will continue to oversee operation of The Farm which has locations in London, Bristol, and Manchester.

The mobile network company O2 Czech Republic covers the country’s major soccer league for a couple of years now. With additional games and projects being on the table the company added a new Broadcast Solutions Streamline OB van to its fleet, complementing an existing model systems integrator Broadcast Solutions delivered a couple of years ago. The new OB van is a S12T from the Streamline OB van family (based on a truck chassis) and works with up to 12 cameras (HD). As was the case for the first OB Broadcast Solutions again cooperated with Slovak partners ELEKTRONIKA a.s. and IVC s.r.o. to build and deliver the Streamline S12T to the customer.

Drawing on a heritage of more than 20 years in newsroom production, Imagine Communications is introducing a powerful new approach to content access, management and multiplatform delivery. With the launch of Nexio NewsCraft™, Imagine brings to market a high-value, remote-friendly, all-in-one news production solution that enables organizations to work smarter and more efficiently ensuring every news story gets to air quickly no matter where operators are located.

Scality today announced the results of an independent survey completed by IT decision makers across the UK, France and Germany. It revealed a fundamental shift in the industry towards flash-based object storage to fuel artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation, and big data analytics in place of other forms of primary storage. All-flash object storage provides comprehensive data protection of and rapid access to massive volumes of unstructured data, powering the heavy workloads of these digital business initiatives.

FilmLight, the leader in colour management technology, has announced a new programme of awards which will honour colourists and the art of colour worldwide. The awards are being organised in association with professional bodies and are open to colourists using any grading technology, with the winners announced at EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2021 in Poland.

Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass® enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup platform now offers full support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties. Through the Compass SAML integration, Cobalt Iron customers now have the convenience of managing user provisioning and authentication securely and easily from their preferred third-party identity providers.

Whether binge-watching a new series, catching a baseball game live or tuning into an online event, modern audiences favor personalized viewing experiences. In tune with this trend, UK-based media delivery startup Streamly envisioned a portable multichannel encoding and processing solution built on AWS Media Services that’s transforming how audiences watch live events online, from concerts to corporate webinars and beyond. With it, event organizers can easily synchronize and aggregate multiple HD camera feeds from a venue for cloud video processing and make them accessible to audiences for live and on-demand viewing with dynamic graphics overlays and geographically tailored ad insertion. Audiences can then select from a host of camera angles to drive their own viewing experience.

Production and storytelling specialists nxtedition is set to launch the latest version of its core software. The new release will bring a range of additional and improved functionality to the platform, all aimed at boosting operational efficiency.

disguise welcomes Streamliner Productions in New Zealand to its worldwide partner network. Streamliner are now a disguise xR Creative & Rental Partner, and will enable new levels of creativity for virtual productions in a country that has been described as a thriving mecca for the global film industry.

Dejero and private wireless network specialist, Rajant, teamed up to provide a robust wireless network blended with cellular connectivity to support the coverage of the 2020 US presidential election for broadcasters in Washington, D.C. This combined connectivity solution eliminated potential signal drops and communication gaps, allowing news organizations to transmit live video of this momentous occasion without worrying about the possibility of cellular network congestion.

Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new paper in its series of 2030 Vision white papers. The new paper, titled “The Evolution of Production Workflows: Empowering Creative Processes with Software-Defined Workflows”, is available today for free download at https://movielabs.com/production-technology/sdw/.

IABM-member and established systems integrator and manufacturer PBT EU is delighted to confirm its new partnership with AppTek.

A leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR),Neural Machine Translation (NMT), and Natural Language Understanding (NLU)technologies, AppTek will integrate its award-winning NMT, ASR and Intelligent Line Segmentation (ILS) technologies directly into PBT EU’s SubtitleNEXT captioning, subtitling and localization platform.

Established systems integration specialist PBT EU is holding an exciting webinar on 24th September at 12:00 (UTC) titled “Future Trends in Content Management and Automation”, to outline the unique approach that the Profuz LAPIS technology brings to the industry and why it is considered an indispensable resource to help manage companies of all sizes. Attendees can find out what's new in Profuz LAPIS such as support for new formats such as IMF, DPX, integration with STT engines and more.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, announces that it has been chosen by J SPORTS, Japan’s largest sports broadcaster, to deliver live telecasts of major US sports directly from American stadiums and arenas to Japanese screens. The Switch, which is working with J SPORTS for the first time, has installed a permanent transmit path from its New York Network Operations Center (NOC) to the broadcaster’s Tokyo facility to bring all the anticipation and action of Major League Baseball, PGA golf and WWE wrestling to Japanese fans.