The Official Medialooks Blog (Page 3)

Adrenaline Films drives virtual conference production with Video Transport

Founded in 1991, Adrenaline Films is a video production company that operates a 25,000 square feet facility in Orlando, Florida and provides video production and post-production services to major entertainment, media and technology companies like Universal Orlando Resort, CNN, NBC, Fox News, Amazon and Siemens. We had a great

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Christie Pandoras Box rolls out new render engine – powered by Medialooks Video SDK

Christie, a leading supplier of visual display technologies, has recently released a new version of its media server, now with expanded file format support and 10-bit color depth. We had a fireside chat with Markus Zeppenfeld, who runs the product’s development team in Germany, about why our Video SDK

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Videe finds VT to be an easy and efficient way to transport video over IP

Videe, established in 1988 and headquartered in Pordenone, Italy, is a leading provider of video production services for live events, reality shows, sports, TV shows, cultural and entertainment events – both in Europe and worldwide. The company operates a branch in Palermo, Sicily, and an entirely controlled Spanish company, Videoidea Videe,

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Yuan integrates with Medialooks Video SDK

Medialooks today announced official support for Yuan capture cards in its Video SDK. Established in 1990 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, YUAN High-Tech is a leading supplier of high-quality video/audio products to system integrators and ODM customers in the digital home entertainment, broadcasting, and surveillance markets. YUAN provides a

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The Video SDK roadmap for Q4 2020

Our team is working on the official 2.4 release of the Video SDK. It will include all updates available in the current beta, as well as new changes and improvements

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Flypack New York provides clients with ways to direct shows remotely

Flypack New York, based out of Long Island, is a production company with a focus on multi-camera events and live streaming. The company takes on projects of various scale and complexity, usually for professional sports and well-known brands—such as Cadillac, Ford, Microsoft and Twitter. I had a conversation with

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OPPS deploys Video Transport for multi-camera remote production

The Video Transport service was used to deliver high-quality, synchronized feeds of remote cameras from a venue in Kansas to the central studio in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Video SDK: TV automation solutions for ENCO Systems

ENCO Systems, based just outside of Detroit, is a leading provider of automation solutions for radio and television. I had a conversation with Ken Frommert — the company’s president since 2011 — about their products and how Medialooks has helped bring them to market. Founded in 1983 as an industrial automation

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The video SDK roadmap for Q3 2020

We have just released v. 2.3 of the Video SDK. The first feedback has shown that this release is stable and robust, so we are quite happy with it so far. Nevertheless, we can’t stop and say “Wow, that’s excellent!” because excellence is less about the state

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SMT deploys Video Transport to deliver zero latency video feeds to remote judges and scoring team

SportsMEDIA Technology is a premier solutions provider and video production partner for sports events in tennis, golf, football, motorsports, CrossFit, baseball, hockey, basketball, horse racing, cycling and esports. Having designed and developed the official timing and scoring systems for the NHL, Open Championship, NBA, Wimbledon, NASCAR, X Games, CrossFit Games

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New teleprompting products by RUSHWORKS: an interview with Rush Beesley

RUSHPROMPTER is a new teleprompting solution from RUSHWORKS, a long-time user of our video SDK. I had a conversation with Rush Beesley about how he came up with the idea and why it is the perfect companion for any at-home video contribution setup. How has the COVID-19 situation affected your

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Video SDK: live video production products for multiCAM, France

Founded in 2003, multiCAM Systems is a French company that offers video production services and builds easy-to-use video production systems shipped throughout the world. I had a conversation with co-founders Stan Walbert and Prasad Ramassamy, both of whom are now self-isolating: Prasad in his apartment in Paris and Stan in

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Remote contribution from reporters and anchors working at home

As the pandemic began its explosion around the world in the end of March, one particular scenario became overwhelming, which led us to quickly introduce a couple of new features into the Video Transport product — particularly VT Guest, a new Windows application, and the new, completely redesigned web contribution link.

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Video Transport helps remotely produce TV content for Ukranian broadcasters

Kinokit is a video production, post-production and rental company in Kiev, Ukraine. We reached out to Gregory Zinchenko, who shared with us how Video Transport has helped broadcasters stay on air during the isolation period. We started our subscription on March 1st, 2020 — exactly before the active stage of the

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Video Transport used for remote editorial review at ITN Productions

ITN Productions is a production company that sits under the umbrella of ITN, the largest news organization in the UK, and makes sports, television and advertising productions — such as TV commercials and branded content. This story is about how Video Transport helped with the editing process during the virus-imposed restrictions.

Esports

Video Transport helps remotely produce esports racing events

When we covered Weave Creative Media in our previous story, we mentioned that they’ve always been into esports — producing important racing tournaments, often for well-known brands. This story is about how Video Transport was used to produce a series of esports events with remote contributors — anchors in different cities

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The video SDK roadmap for Q2 2020

With the pandemic situation, a lot of our focus lately has been on Video Transport — but we keep working on the video SDK as well, and here’s what our goals are for Q2. Right now In Q1 we released a beta version of the video SDK with significant internal

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Video Transport powers a Unity-based virtual theatre project

Studio Biscoe is a creative studio run by visual and performance artist, director, producer, entrepreneur, designer and engineer Ian Biscoe. The studio creates artistic experiences across theatre, dance, music and installation bringing together audio & video streams, projection mapping, 3D engines, animation, analogue and digital electronics — often in transdisciplinary collaborations

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СOVID-19 challenges content creators

While, in most countries, people have switched to working remotely and most, if not all, mass gatherings have been cancelled, it’s fair to say that the industry has been challenged to quickly transform how content — the key element in the value chain — is being made. We recently built 3

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Video Transport powers The First, a TV channel with remote anchors

The First is a new TV channel launched in October and currently distributed via Pluto TV, a popular free OTT streaming service. Medialooks Video Transport has become the backbone of the team’s day-to-day live streaming workflow. We sat down with Greg Waugh, Executive Vice President of Technology, to learn

Broadcast

TV18 finds several ways to bring costs down with a Medialooks SDK

As one of India’s most diversified media conglomerate, Network 18 runs the biggest news broadcast network in India through its subsidiary, TV-18 Broadcasts Limited, owning newsrooms and studios across the country, including 73 broadcast channels, as well as leading online news portals and publishing brands. Network18 operates a large

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Moving from Flash to HTML5

By end of 2020, we will be completely removing support for the Flash Overlay Plugin, which was a great way to add high-quality animated graphics and dynamic content to video streams. We strongly suggest that all customers, who have been using Flash, migrate their solutions to the HTML5 Plugin during

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The video SDK roadmap for Q1 2020

Last year we released 3 major versions of our video SDK with new features and fixes to help you move your business forward. Similarly, this year we also plan 3 major releases with public beta versions in between. This post highlights our plans for the nearest future. Right now Our

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A Medialooks Video SDK helps premium clients with quality assurance and disaster recovery

Thomas Hohenberger knows video servers. Since the mid-1990s Hohenberger has held service and support positions for some of the industry’s most prominent server supply companies, including the mega manufacturer that evolved from Leitch to Harris to Imagine. But in 2011 he crossed the divide between employee and entrepreneur and

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Video Transport powers remote production for Lucca Comics & Games

Weave Creative Media is a video production company in Milan, Italy, originally focused on servicing brands—not just streaming, but also commercials, short films and branded content. The last two years the company has been doing more and more broadcasts in the area of esports and rapidly learning new technologies,