Broadcasting
Westdoc Online interview with National Geographic Channel's VP of Development, Charlie Parsons
Charlie Parsons is Vice President of Development for the National Geographic Channel, responsible for developing new projects, discovering new talent and serving as one of the network’s main points of contact for the global production community. Since joining the Channel in 2010, Parsons has developed popular series “Doomsday Preppers”, “Inside Combat Rescue”, “Mars” and “One Strange Rock”, as well as the global natural history event “Earth Live”. He developed the Emmy Award winning Special “Space Dive”,as well as the Emmy Award winning feature doc “LA 92”. He also served as an Executive Producer on the network’s most watched program in history, the Emmy nominated three-hour movie event “Killing Jesus”, as well as the second and third most watched programs, “Killing Kennedy”??"also Emmy nominated for Outstanding Television Movie??"and “Killing Lincoln”, respectively.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Chuck Braverman |
NAB Show
NAB Show New York 2016: Growing, Yet Still Intimate
Calling April's NAB Show "overwhelming" is an understatement. The expo that fills the rapidly expanding Las Vegas Convention Center every April topped 103,000 attendees and 1700+ exhibitors in 2 million square feet of exhibit space. The Big Apple's edition of the NAB Show is more bite sized: taking place this week at the Javitz Convention Center, 7000 visitors will be able to engage with 300 exhibitors, along with a variety of new opportunities for in-depth workshops on cutting-edge technologies. Here's a preview of the week's festivities.
COW News |
Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design Teranex Mini: 4K Monitoring & So Much More
When Blackmagic asked broadcast engineer, systems designer, and all-around straight shooter Bob Zelin to take a look at the new Teranex Mini line, he told them no. Converter stories are too boring. Just one problem, though: his clients couldn't see pictures out of their SDI gear going into HDMI inputs of consumer 4K TVs. BMD promised that one of the Minis would do the trick, and it did -- but Bob was pleasantly surprised to find even more than he was looking for! Find out why he calls the Teranex Mini lineup a no-brainer, and what it might be able to do for you. Read more...
Editorial, Feature
Bob Zelin |
Blackmagic Design
Building a Broadcast Studio with Blackmagic Design
Master facility designer Bob Zelin has been building studios for his clients based around the offerings from Blackmagic Design, and he's here to tell you: this is for real. The pieces are here now, and they fit together beautifully -- and he's got even more clients lined up for Blackmagic-centered studios. Read on as Bob helps you put together a plan to build your own.
Feature
Bob Zelin |
Broadcasting
NAB 2015, ZELINIZED: HD IS OVER
Bob Zelin applies decades of engineering and facility design experience to finding products from the 2015 NAB Show that will make a real-world difference for you on a daily basis. Here's Bob's take on everything from thumb drives to 40GigE.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Bob Zelin |
NAB Show
Quantel + Snell: New Workflows and Expanded Customer Base
In their first NAB Show exhibiting together, Quantel and Snell introduced updates and new features to their IP routing and switching technologies and servers, and affirmed a commitment to lower costs and expand third party support to make their products widely available to a broader market.
Feature
Kylee Peña |
Broadcasting
The Drive to Create: The Drive: PAC-12 Football
The 25-year career of 16-time Emmy winner Jim Jorden began with NFL Films, and included 7 years creating programs for NASCAR before returning to football. Along the way, he has led the production of 69 new series on 20 networks, winning Emmys for his work as a cameraman, an editor, and an executive producer. He brings every bit of that experience to bear on "The Drive: PAC-12 Football," now in its second season. It's the first show to cover an entire season, week by week, combining the classically cinematic approach Jim took to his work for NFL Films, and the all-access approach he pioneered with his work on Hard Knocks. You won't want to miss this remarkable look at full-contact TV production.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Tim Wilson |
Art of the Edit
Distributing Creativity: The Growth of Cloud-based Workflows
The cloud can mean a lot of things, and in some cases, it can mean nearly nothing. This can make it hard to even know what we're talking about. The "real" parts are getting more real all the time, though, for everything from collaboration to computation. Creative COW Contributing Editor Kylee Wall has been looking into the ways that the cloud in its many meanings is already transforming TV & film production today, and she has some ideas about where things might be going from here.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Kylee Peña |
Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design's Film Scanner and the 4K Future
A film scanner being released in 2014 is kind of a strange thing, but not when you get the full Ultra HD story. Blackmagic Design's new Cintel Film Scanner can create Ultra HD content in real time for a fraction of the price of older scanners, and many movies and television shows over the last thirty years were shot on 35mm or 16mm film - natively Ultra HD content, just waiting to be scanned and re-released into the world.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Kylee Peña |
Broadcasting
Project DAVID Creates Digital Content Preservation Tech
While there is a strong movement to preserve and restore old film, preservation of audiovisual digital content has been less of a priority. Project DAVID seeks to change that, by developing technology for prevention of damage, preservation and restoration for the vast libraries of digital content.
Editorial, Feature
Ryan Salazar |
Broadcasting
NAB Show Conferences: Can We Talk?
NAB Show is billed as "the largest and most relevant educational program for media and entertainment professionals anywhere." With so much information, you'll want to do your research and find what's the best conference for you. In this condensed guide, Ryan Salazar names a few of the conferences he finds the most "interesting and intriguing" and provides links for your further perusal.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Ryan Salazar |
Broadcasting
NOT Your Father's AM
At this time, over 2,200 radio stations are broadcasting a hybrid HD Radio signal, with more on the way, and with NAB approaching, Ryan Salazar is considering the future and applications of digital radio. Radio is going to become sexy again, and this is NOT your father's AM broadcast...
Editorial, Feature
Ryan Salazar |
Broadcasting
NAB Labs Futures Park: FM & Smartphones - A Good Idea?
NAB Labs Futures Park is a showplace designed to display the newest of advanced projects, demonstrations of high-tech media developments in progress, prototypes, and products not yet available for sale. One of the most exciting features in NAB Labs Futures Park will be the exploration of FM radio signals delivered via smartphones. Read up on what's new and be prepared to visit NAB with questions ready.
Editorial, Feature
Ryan Salazar |
Broadcasting
Inter BEE keynote: Japan Will Broadcast 8K by 2020 Olympics
It's not news that Japan has announced its intent to broadcast 8K by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In today's production environment, the advent of 4K is still news and 8K seems like a futuristic pipe dream. But when Creative COW Contributing Editor Debra Kaufman was in Japan in November, she learned just how serious Japan is in its intent to broadcast 8K -- and to do so sooner than originally announced.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
Broadcasting
Will 2014 Be the Year of 4K?
UltraHD, or 4K, has been making an appearance at trade shows for the last couple of years. At this year's IBC in Amsterdam, the demonstrations and products pushed forward the idea that 4K is a possibility for TV distribution and general production and post. Creative COW takes a look at the offerings and the opportunities.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
Broadcasting
IBC 2013 Wrap Up
Broadcast Engineer Ryan Salazar wraps up his perspective on IBC 2013, the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Ryan Salazar |
Archiving and Back-Up
Sony Media Cloud Services Debuts New & Enhanced Services
Sony Media Cloud Services just debuted three new production applications (RoughCut, AudioReview and VideoReview) as well as integration of Sony’s wireless camera adapter. The cloud service has already been in heavy use at Sony Pictures, and is newly adapated by broadcasters and other media and entertainment organizations.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
Broadcasting
SIGGRAPH 2013: Highlights from a Great Party!
SIGGRAPH member Ryan Salazar highlights animation tech, visual tech featuring powerful LED and DLP projection and ultra-high resolution, provides links for keynote speeches, and first-hand looks at the Canon MREAL Mixed Reality handset. This was a must-see show, and we wrap up with a few of our COW favorites.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Ryan Salazar |
Art of the Edit
Covert Affairs and Suits with Online Editor Scott Freeman
Scott Freeman figured out how to use Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve in an innovative way to dramatically speed up media matching in the online editing process for USA Network's dramas, "Suits" and "Covert Affairs." He describes how he round-trips between the Avid Symphony and the DaVinci Resolve and why he wants every other online editor to learn his trick.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Scott Freeman |
Broadcasting
The Cloud - Nowhere To Go But Up
The cloud is here, and it's perfect for television broadcasting. "The broadcast industry is changing, has always been changing and will always be about change," says Michael Rofe, iCTVBA Chairman and Global president. Migrating broadcasting to the cloud is a natural transition, and Ryan Salazar takes a look at that transition, the possibilities for cloud-based broadcasting and embracing the progress of technology.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Ryan Salazar |
Broadcasting
WorldStage Collaborates with ESPN Studios for LED Displays
WorldStage, of New York City, has recently designed and integrated 'First of It's Kind' Live, Moving LED display installation for ESPN's premier show, the KIA NBA Countdown, recorded at the Los Angeles Production Center.
This article describes the design and integration requirements implemented by WorldStage, including a unique systems design process and subsequent hardware and software integration coincident with a new studio upgrade for ESPN's studios at the Los Angeles Production Center in Los Angeles, California.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Nicholas Chase |
Broadcasting
NAB Show 2013 Coverage
NOBODY is more excited about NAB Show 2013 than broadcast guru Ryan Salazar. His contagious enthusiasm about new products and technologies for the studio industry will be certain to captivate and inform. Take a look at his pre-Show teaser of 2013 coverage.
Editorial, Feature, People / Interview
Ryan Salazar |
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