news - 2 December 2014 Contacts
for additional information: Eyeheight maintains momentum in broadcast conformance innovation London
, Notable highlights included the use of Eyeheight CC-2M colour correctors for coverage the 60th BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony which was transmitted on December 15 from the First Direct Arena in Leeds.Eyeheight's CC-2M technology was also chosen for the fourth annual Stargazing Live series transmitted on BBC Two between January 7 and 9. The series was produced from Jodrell Bank and featured live links from observatories in Hawaii, South Africa and the USA. Also
in January, Eyeheight LE-2M legalisers were used during the German
series Ich bin ein Star...Holt Mich Hier Raus!, transmitted by RTL. Eyeheight
compliance legalisers were deployed during broadcast television coverage
of the 2014 world football championship, hosted by From
late June to early July, Eyeheight DK-2 multi-rate linear downstream
keyer delivered the excitement of the 2014 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis
Championships to television viewers around the world. The keyer was
chosen by one of Eyeheight
colour correctors and legalisers returned to Eyeheight
chose the 2014 NAB Show in Eyeheight
sales director Martin Moore headed to the Creative Pro User Group's 13th
Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet, held at the Riviera Hotel during the April
2014 NAB Show. Eyeheight promoted its plug-in broadcast legalisers for
Adobe Premier Pro, Apple Final Cut X, Apple Final Cut 7 and Avid Media
Composer 7, plus ITU 1770-X audio leveling software for Apple Final Cut
7. In the run-up to IBC, Eyeheight announced a major expansion to the capabilities of its BroadcastSafe compliance plug-ins for Avid's Media Composer and Adobe's Premiere Pro post-production software. Version
1.5 BroadcastSafeMC (for Media Composer) and BroadcastSafePP (for
Premiere Pro) both incorporate a new Broadcast Evaluate display
indicating which parts of a video image require adjustment in order to
be fully broadcast compliant. Non-compliant areas of content are
displayed in a user-definable colour with the option of manual or
automatic correction, giving editors greater choice in the way they
work. Previously, this was an auto-only function. BroadcastEvaluate
supports all common compliance standards. Users can alternatively define
their own compliance standard as an XML file. Also
new for BroadcastSafeMC and BroadcastSafePP, BroadcastSafeArea allows a
wide range of safe-area markers to be superimposed over the video
monitor display. BroadcastSafeArea supports a multitude of standards
including SMPTE, EBU and DPP, in 525/625 standard definition, 720/1080
high definition and 2K line formats. Also included is a centre marker
plus a measurement utility to ensure minimum text height conformance in
commercials. Any marker colour can be assigned by the operator. Introduced
at IBC itself, BroadcastSafeFCPX is a plug-in video legaliser which
works seamlessly with Apple's Final Cut Pro X editing software. The
The
faster-than-realtime conformance capability offered in BroadcastSafeFCPX
gives Apple Final Cut Pro X users a great speed advantage over their
competitors. Media files can now be processed on a modern
high-specification Apple desktop computer faster than it takes to view
rather than typically four times longer than real-time on a lower-spec
machine. Faster processing means faster delivery of completed content
and higher operational efficiency throughout the business chain. Eyeheight
(www.eyeheight.com) produces broadcast-standard technical compliance
plug-ins for use with popular video editing software, including Avid,
Adobe and Apple systems. Eyeheight also designs and manufactures 3G, 3D
and HD-SDI equipment for video and audio content origination,
quality-assurance, post-production, playout and associated areas. This
includes audio descriptors, audio loudness conformers, color correctors,
emergency switchers, mixers and keyers, safe area generators, subtitling
decoders, text and graphics generators, timecode processors, video
legalisers and widescreen signal generators. Eyeheight products are
available worldwide
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