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Vest-Pocket Live Sports Production Truck Packs Powerful Punch
By Jim Bask
Once upon a time, television production trucks were like cruise ships on wheels. They pulled into a sporting event, swaggering with self-importance; fifty feet of gleaming metal pulled behind a pavement-buckling Peterbilt that belched diesel smoke and deafened every innocent bystander within a mile’s radius. Once parked, these production trailers began unloading thousands of pounds of equipment and unspooled miles of cable. Inside one these lustrous fifty-foot beasts, you might find a dozen or more crew members, all working away happily, while the truck sucked down power like a thirsty brontosaurus.
G-DRIVE Slim SSD USB-C Drive reviewed
By Jim Bask

G-Technology recently expanded its G-DRIVE portfolio, with its first solid state portable drive, the G-DRIVE slim SSD USB-C. David Shapton took one for a spin.
Learning Valley Implements Monarch Controls into Lecture Capture Software
By Jim Bask
MONTREAL – November 3, 2016 — Matrox® today announced that Learning Valley BV, a leading European manufacturer of PRO-AV streaming media technologies, has integrated Matrox Monarch API controls into their newly released Presentations 2Go open lecture capture and distribution software.
NewTek TriCaster User Story: Whirlpool Corporation
By Jim Bask

It’s been a problem for businesses for decades. What’s the best way to quickly and effectively disseminate product information and support material to a far-flung sales force spread across miles of territory?
Intelligent shared storage evolves with Avid NEXIS
By Jim Bask
At the NAB show back in April, Avid (www.avid.com) introduced the next generation of its intelligent shared storage. Avid NEXIS represents an evolution in the company’s offerings, which date back to the mid-90s with its Unity MediaNetwork, and more recently with its Avid ISIS line of ‘infinitely scalable intelligent storage’ solutions.
SmallHD Firmware Upgrade Adds Functionality to Monitors
By Jim Bask

(November 8, 2016) SmallHD announces a free firmware update that adds an array of new features to increase the functionality of its groundbreaking line of 13”, 17”, 24” and 32” production monitors, including the HDR (high dynamic range) displays. To provide a better viewing experience, the Firmware 1.3 update adds De-Interlacer to view interlaced video in a progressive mode.
Atomos Master Caddy, Shogun Inferno & Shogun Studio All in Stock
By Jim Bask
NOW IN STOCK! G-Technology Master Caddy products for Atomos
G-Technology Evolution Series Storage Solutions that optimize your ATOMOS 4K Workflows!
Tutorial: How to Use Avid NEXIS | PRO with axle Starter Media Management
By Jim Bask
How to Use Avid NEXIS | PRO with axle Starter Media Management
Art of the Cut author Steve Hullfish demos how to use axle Starter for media management and metadata-enhanced proxy screening with Avid NEXIS | PRO. While producing this tutorial, Steve was on location editing with Avid Media Composer and an Avid NEXIS | PRO set up in a trailer on the set or from his apartment near set with multiple Media Composer systems set up, which means he can be editing while the other systems are handling assistant editor work and things like ingest and transcoding.


