So, that's it. BVE is over for another year. After three days
of meeting vendors, tyre kicking new products and getting to see
some of our customers face-to-face, we asked our consultants to
tell us about their highlights of BVE 2012.
James Graham, M & E Solutions Architect
It was great to chat to a huge range of different people about
their workflows and the things they where doing, and to answer some
questions on how to take their workflows forward. One of the main
'hot topics' that I talked through with people was the problem of
how to ingest their massive amount of raw data faster and get
editing quicker. With that in mind, we were demoing some of the
latest and fastest Thunderbolt workflows - the Thunderbolt to CF
card reader that Sonnet passed our way allows people to ingest at
the maximum speed of their CF card. Also, the eSATA to Thunderbolt
hub from LaCie got people excited about being able to connect their
newest generation Macs to their existing eSATA storage.
Personally I think one of the most exciting products I saw,
although not a brand new thing, was the Teradek Cube. I had used
one a couple of times and knew the possibilities, but as Nicol from
Teradek talked me through the setup they had there and some of the
problems I had encountered, it became apparent not only how simple
and configurable The Cube actually was, but how much of a game
changer it could be. Realtime metadata tagging is not only simple
but can be done by multiple people. Permissions can be set to stop
the scriptwriter, for example, making comments about the lighting.
The other thing is that you can take proxy files direct to a
computer, (meaning that the rough cutting can begin during the
shoot) which can be linked to the high-res versions. But this is
only really scratching the surface of what Teradek's range can do.
This is a product to watch.
Anthony Hammond, AV Business Manager
It was great to see how much interest people had in the video
wall. Some people were keen to know how it worked, others just
wanted one for their front room. It was interesting to speak to
people who were thinking of doing more simple digital signage type
networks, but saw this as an inspiration to add some serious style
to their display endpoints. Our systems are capable of supporting
video wall or standard screen endpoints - all over the same
centralised content management system.
In terms of products, I was also impressed with the Terradek. We
saw our friends at Cambridge Imaging too, whose Orbital and Imagen
products have blown us away in terms of their flexibility in
capturing, tagging and repurposing broadcasted content.
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