Artbeats’ newest royalty-free aerial stock footage collections, New Orleans Aerials and Florida City Aerials, featuring unique aerial shots of numerous landmarks including the picturesque southern coastline, commanding skyscrapers and prominent skylines. Shot with the Gyron system for ultimate stabilization, these new titles include superior quality, HD content that has made Artbeats footage a favorite among industry professionals.

New Orleans Aerials (containing 42 clips) features all the excitement and history one would expect from this famous city, even post-Hurricane Katrina. This breathtaking collection, available in HD and SD resolution, includes the Louisiana Superdome and the dominant towers of downtown; the renowned French Quarter and views of the beautiful St. Louis Cathedral from the Mississippi River.

Florida City Aerials includes soaring high above the scenic Florida coast and dramatic skyscrapers to gliding through water canals and massive harbors. Containing 45 clips in both HD and SD resolution, this collection showcases Florida’s most well-known cities, such as Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, and the state capitol, Tallahassee.

Both New Orleans Aerials and Florida City Aerials are available now on the Artbeats website at www.artbeats.com/new. Artbeats’ footage is available in HD-1920×1080, D1 NTSC-720 x 486 or D1 PAL-720 x 576 resolutions. Pricing for Artbeats’ HD collections range from USD $799-$1599; standard definition collections range from USD $399-$899. Individual clips are also available and range from $199-$300.

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A new wireless HD video standard for multiroom audio, video and control connectivity using Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology has been agreed to by a group of major consumer electronics companies including Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola.

A key ingredient of WHDI technology is a video modem that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band to enable wireless delivery of uncompressed HD video (including 1080p). WHDI allows secure, encrypted HD video delivery through multiple rooms and other potential signal obstructions, including people and furniture.

The objective of the consortium is to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between consumer electronics devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD players, set-top boxes, game consoles and PCs. The new interoperable standard aims to ensure that devices manufactured by different vendors will simply and directly connect to one another.

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The latest version of Telestream’s FlipFactory transcoding software offers significant codec optimization that enables users to achieve HD encoding speeds that were previously only attainable using multiple servers.

FlipFactory 6.1 delivers HD-to-HD transcoding speeds up to 15 percent faster than real-time on a single server for edit-to-broadcast workflows, including DNxHD and DVCPRO HD formats. The ability to achieve these speeds on a single server means substantially lower costs for users.

The new software also adds new features and enhancements, including support for all broadcast HD workflows, such as VANC metadata associated with HD files.

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Scripps Howard Broadcasting stations will acquire all of their HD newsgathering and studio production footage across 10 television stations with JVC GY-HD250 cameras and Fujinon HD lenses. This tapeless workflow, which includes storing video on Focus Enhancement FireStore disk drives and editing on Mac laptops running Apple Final Cut Pro software, will be used across the company as its standard way to produce HD packages for local newscasts.

The independent station group has ordered more than 100 lenses for six of its ABC-affiliated stations, three NBC affiliates and one independent. The Fujinon HTs18X4.2 BERM lenses with 2X extenders were specifically designed for the JVC HD cameras.

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According to a report in Broadcast Engineering, CBS claims that 46 percent of its online audience primarily views their favorite shows online, and most say that the wide availability of these shows across the Internet does not impact their TV viewing.

Thirty-five percent of the nearly 50,000 streamers surveyed by researcher Magid Media Labs on behalf of CBS reported that they are more likely to view shows on the network as a result of having been exposed to content on the Web.

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