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Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 8 (April 9, 5pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Janel Fleming, Sales Manager, Sports, LiveU
    • Janel Fleming from LiveU talks about how their product bonds multiple cellular signals together providing the bandwidth for the highest quality live stream video. She announces their new management profile called Live U Matrix, which can immediately distribute a live video without interrupting the current transmission and you can stream content anywhere without another piece of software.
  • John HickeySenior Director, KVM and Pro AV Business, Black Box
    • Black Box’s John Hickey gives an update on their recent security upgrades with Boxilla. In addition, he announces their brand new KVM software app that is Windows 10 compatible with any laptop, tablet or phone allowing secure remote access from anywhere.
  • Bryan McKoenPresident, FingerWorks Telestrators
    • Bryan McKoen, with FingerWork Telestrators, (yes, THOSE Telestrators!) has telestrators with every NFL team and discusses their new Fingerworks 6 interface that has a completely new look to it and the ability to change colors on the fly. He also announces how they have a new VR product that supports adding text and logos in VR video.
  • James DeRuvo, Editor-in-Chief, doddleNews
    • DoddleNews’s James DeRuvo wraps up Day 2 of the 2019 NAB Show by talking about Adobe’s revolutionary content-aware fill, which they added to After Effects. He also discusses his perspective of what he saw from Hit Film. He concludes by describing the application Luma Touch version 2.0 for the iPad and eSports.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 7 (April 9, 4pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Jakob BallingerGaffer / Founder, The Light Bridge
    • Jakob Ballinger, with The Light Bridge, explains how their lighting makes natural looking key lights that help light travel further to create more beautiful shadows and more. He gives a background of the history of how he got into lighting and the type of lights he likes to work with the most.
  • Peter PlesnerFounder, BB&S Lighting
    • Celebrating their 20th year anniversary, Peter Plesner, with BB&S Lighting, explains their high quality lighting equipment made for professionals and how over 70% of their products are found in TV studios. He also mentions their new Area 48 Color LED Light, which gives everyone who uses their product the option to use a five color system (RGB, warm white and daylight).
  • Stefan Karle, Managing Director and Owner, DoPchoice
    • Stefan Karle, with DoPchoice, talks about the light-shaping tools they make that are placed front of the light. He discusses their brand new egg crates and soft panels for tube lights, along with portable snapbacks that can fit up to eight tubes of light.
  • Jon Grieve, Sales Manager UK, bebob
    • Jon Grieve with Bebob explains how even though they’ve been around for more than 20 years they restructured four years ago to focus on batteries. He describes their brand new B-Mount battery that emphasizes durability along with a new partnership with Arri to standardize that mount on Arri cameras starting next year.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 6 (April 9, 3pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Nick MattinglyCEO / Co-Founder, Switcher Studio
    • Nick Mattingly with Switcher Studio, talks about their mobile production platform that allows you to edit your videos while you shoot with the use of an iPhone or iPad. He introduces Switcher for Teams, which can help users in the same company create multiple profiles to manage multiple accounts standardize graphics and looks between accounts. He also announced a partnership with LinkedIn and Microsoft for streaming distribution.
  • Josh CetnarBusiness Development, Videon Central
    • Videon Central’s Josh Cetnar discusses how they provide coding for live streaming. He explains their new workflow services and product lines that help you stream natively to more sites at once. Their new device: “Versa Streamer” is going to be released in a month and he announces their partnership with Amazon web services.
  • Christopher Spahr, VP of Sales and Marketing, USA, DPA Microphones
    • Christopher Spahr and DPA Microphones emphasizes that their sound quality and size of their microphones sets them apart from competitors. He announces a new model series, the “6066 lavalier microphone” which is only 3mm in size and gives a much more accurate sound.
  • Jim Dugan, President, Wisycom
    • Jim Dugan, from Wisycom, talks about their wireless systems. Their wireless gear uses a wide frequency band providing more room for frequency agility. Their microphones are also multi manufacturable and work with other.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 3:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 5 (April 9, 2pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • John Tkaczewski, President / Co-Founder, FileCatalyst
    • FileCatalyst’s John Tkaczewski discusses their file transfer software and how they continue to find ways to speed up the process. He also talks about how they have 50 venders here at NAB that have integrated their technology and announce how they’re launching a product called: “FileCatalyst Spaces” for prosumers with larger size files.
  • Jon W Gacek, Sales and Marketing, Veritone
    • Jon Gacek from Veritone explains his operating system for AI and how the system is able to provide a transcript that’s enables you to search and find massive amounts of data. The system allows you to search for not just words but can even find faces, objects and words. Some of the clients include CBS and ESPN. They also work with filmmakers.
  • Wilson McCoy, Senior Developer, Pronology
    • Wilson McCoy from Pronology discusses how they work in encoding, content management and storage. Their typical user for their product will is someone who’s interested in recording live events and wants to stream live and want to have highlights of a show. Typical customers have recorded events, live shows and concerts.
  • Emery WellsCEO / Co-Founder, Frame.io
    • Frame.io’s Emery Wells talks about their video review software and collaboration. He explains their long-term investment in security. He also showcases their latest features such as PDF support, @ mentioning, new private team commenting, integrated archiving and newly-released API.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 4 (April 9, 1pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Dan MayPresident, Blackmagic Design
    • Blackmagic Design’s Dan May describes in depth how they’re adding new capabilities into DaVinci Resolve. He also talks about their new “Cut Page,” a high-speed editing pages within Resolve that edits media the quickest and most efficient way possible. He also discusses their new hardware development involving 8K products as well.
  • Boris YamnitskyFounder / President, Boris FX
    • Boris Yamnitsky from Boris FX describes how their company specializes in visual effects. Boris FX also announces new features for their three main product lines of Boris Continuum, Sapphire and Mocha which are all going to be released mid summer.
  • Robert KrügerManaging Partner, Lesspain Software
    • Robert Krüger, with Lesspain Software showcases the new features in version 1.6; released a few weeks ago. The update includes metadata exporting, importing and merging for footage. He also provided a preview of version 1.7 which is scheduled to be released in three to four weeks, focusing on new integration with Frame.io and improved Final Cut workflow.
  • Andrew DonahueDirector of Marketing, Killer Tracks
    • In their 30th anniversary, Andrew Donahue from Killer Tracks talks about how they’ve developed a great relationship with Youtube to help users avoid copyright issues when dealing with music uploaded in videos. He talks about their extension panel that was released last year for Adobe Premiere Pro and how they now have made enhancements that adds automatic cue sheet generation for video projects. He also announces their music label: “Abby Road Masters” which has original music with each track.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 1:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 3 (April 9, 12pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Scott MurrayVice President of Product Management, Telestream
    • Celebrating their 20th anniversary last year, Scott Murray from Telestream describes how they’re “all in” on The Cloud and how they recently acquired a new CEO, Scott Puopolo. He also talks about their new products for The Cloud called: “Vantage Cloud Protection” and “Optiq.”
  • James McKennaVP Marketing, Facilis Technology
    • James McKenna from Facilis Technology discusses their shared storage for post production and broadcast and how their system is unique and customized. He talks about how their traditional audience is large studios who focus primarily on video. He also announces their new release of: “Facilis Hub Shared Storage” that’ll be released in a couple weeks focused on pro-sumer users.
  • Tamas Vass, CMO, Pebble Beach Systems
    • Pebble Beach System’s Tamas Vass celebrates being a stand-alone company for almost two years. He also talks their support for VoIP in their streaming system and how they’re using Cloud deployment systems.
  • Vernon Freedlander, Strategic Partnerships, Bannister Lake
    • Vernon Freelander from Bannister Lake talks about how their software provides data aggregation and graphics software solution for broadcast and streaming. He also talks about how they’re not just specializing in traditional broadcasters but how they’re becoming highly involved in the world of eSports.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 12:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 2 (April 9, 11am)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Jeffrey WilksChief Revenue Officer, Pond5
    • Pond5’s Jeffrey Wilks talks about how they’re continually looking ways to improve their visual search tool for the 15,000,000+ video clips they have for their marketplace. He also discusses their partnerships with DJI, Red Camera’s and also ProRes Raw.
  • Tod Musgrave, Director of Cameras, Marshall Electronics
    • Tod Musgrave from Marshall Electronics goes in depth about their new CV503 camera that is coming out this month. He discusses Marshall’s mini-cameras and how the cameras are revolutionizing how people shoot sports and international racing. He also talks about expanding their product line and the continual growth in their camera selection.
  • Roger Mabon, CEO, mLogic
    • Roger Mabon of mLogic talk about their specialization in LTO tape archive solutions. He discusses their Thunderbolt connection to tape drives, their LFTS (linear tape file system) application that comes with all their products and their latest integrated Thunderbolt RAID with LTO drive.
  • Jared IvySenior Technical Representative, Sigma
    • Jared Ivy from Sigma brought a variety of Sigma lenses, while discussing their most popular Art line of cinema lenses as well as their new “Global Vision Lens.” In addition, he explained the differences between each lens and the capabilities of each. He also discusses the recent news of expanding their lens line to include new L mounts.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 11:00 am at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 1 (April 9, 10am)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Jeromy Young, CEO, Atomos
    • Atomos’s Jeromy Young talks about post production and how they have installed 500,000 units and now support more than 350 camera. He also explains their Ninja, Shogun and Sumo external hard disk/monitors. In addition, he talks about their new Shogun 7 with increased support for HDR and improved monitoring.
  • Dr. Marc BatschkusBusiness Development Manager, Archiware
    • Marc Batschkus from Archiware explains the ABC’s of data management and how their products support a broad range of customers from small workgroups to the enterprise. He talks about new partnerships with Kyno, LumaForge jellyfish and QNA. He showcases the upcoming Version 6 with an improved new interface coming in the new few months.
  • Bruno MungerDirector of Business Development, Colorfront
    • Bruno Munger with Colorfront announces their new partnership with Pomfort LiveGrade Pro, which allows the ability to use discreet color management. He talks about Dolby Vision 4.0 as well and how their color pipeline products can differentiate themselves from competitors, while maintaining color integrity during post.
  • Emily Stadulis, Senior Account Rep, DMG Lumiére by Rosco
    • Emily Stadulis from DMG Lumiére by Rosco discusses how they’re adding full spectrum color to the LED lighting. In addition, she goes into depth about their new app and their announcements they’re bringing to NAB 2019.

Interview scheduled for Tuesday April 9th, 2019 @ 10:00 am at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 7 (April 8, 5pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Tama Berkeljon, CEO, Creamsource
    • Tama Berkeljon from Creamsource talks about their LED technology and how their early experience with LED design has given them a unique perspective on application and design. He also explains their new SpaceX lighting system, a LED system with a broad color palette.
  • Michael ShabunMarketing Director, Insta360
    • Insta360’s Michael Shabun brought examples of his two 3D camera’s the Insta360 One and Insta 360 Eve. The Insta360 One is a unique action camera that is able to shoot in 360 then takes that imagery and places it into 2D video at up to 100 frame a second. The Insta 360 Eve shoots 180 degrees in 3D.
  • Jeffrey StansfieldCEO / President, Advantage Video Systems
    • Jeffrey Stansfield from Advantage Video Systems talks about his current highlights at NAB this year and how everyone seems to be getting into live streaming. He also explains why media pros should develop their own brand and get out of YouTube.
  • James DeRuvo, Editor-in-Chief, doddleNews
    • James DeRuvo from doddleNews gives his review of current NAB highlights and discusses how DJI, GoPro and virtual reality all absent at this year’s show. He also reflects on what he saw from Blackmagic Design at the press conference this morning, and new features in Davinci Resolve.

Interview scheduled for Monday April 8th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).

Digital Production Buzz – NAB Show BuZZ LIVE 2019 – Show 6 (April 8, 4pm)

Join host Larry Jordan, live from our booth on the NAB Show floor, as he talks with:

  • Philip HodgettsPresident / CEO, Lumberjack System
    • Lumberjack System’s Philip Hodgetts describes their new text-driven Lumberjack Builder. He reflects upon the ability to edit video based on text transcripts; similar to video editing using a word processor.
  • Bob VassarVP WW Technology Sales & Service, Tiger Technology
    • Tiger Technology’s Bob Vassar talks about their shared file storage system. He goes into depth about how they can move projects seamlessly between collaborators and how storage can be pulled into a production at will. He also describes a starter storage system starting at 64 terabytes.
  • Andrew Donahue, Director of Marketing, Killer Tracks
    • In their 30th anniversary, Andrew Donahue from Killer Tracks talks about how they’ve developed a great relationship with Youtube to help users avoid copyright issues when dealing with music uploaded in videos. He talks about their extension panel that was released last year for Adobe Premiere Pro and how they now have made enhancements that adds automatic cue sheet generation for video projects. He also announces their music label: “Abby Road Masters” which has original music with each track.
  • Randy Reck, Director of Product Development, MTI Film
    • Randy Reck from MTI Film describes how Cortex is used in DIT work, while DRS Nova is a staple software tool for file restoration. He also announces a new version of Cortex titled: “Cortex QC” and how it enables producers to find problems in their media before submitting it to distribution.

Interview scheduled for Monday April 8th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm at our Digital Production BuZZ booth ( SL10527 in the South Lower hall ).