Everyone loves shiny new toys and here at Planet PC we're no different which is why we're excited about the newest announcements from the likes of Atomos, Telestream and Teradek.
The Atomos Spyder
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| The Atomos Blade (Sharper than your average Swiss army knife!) |
Announced at this year's IBC Atomos's Spyder is a portable colour calibration unit which has been designed conjunction with Swiss colour specialists Datacolor for use with the Samurai Blade. Along with adding increased functionality to an already excellent product this means that the Blade is now capable of one colour calibration which is a feature normally only found on higher end monitors.
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| The Atomos Spyder |
Arachnophobia?
Fear not because this little beast will do anything but drain the colour from your cheeks due to the fact that it enables the Blade to accurately calibrate and represent colours like never before. This means you can now confidently trust the colours represented on screen which in turn means you can spend less time grading in post or worrying about your vectorscope settings when on set. While currently only available for the Blade the Spyder is soon to be compatible with the Ninja 2 which is great news when you consider a decent grading monitor can easily cost in excess of £1000.
Wirecast 5
Streaming gurus Telestream have updated their ever popular Wirecast software with the announcement of Wirecast 5 which is due to be shipping anytime now. Featuring more encoding options, increased compatibility, additional input sources and a more efficient interface this latest version looks set to be even better than the last one. See below for more on the new features in this latest version:- x264 encoding enables x264 live encoding with stunning quality at lower bit rates.
- High quality screen capture provides the ability to broadcast multiple application windows from the same computer, as well as HD screen capture in 60 FPS with amazing quality. This is great for game streaming, as well as online application demos.
- Updated UI has been redesigned to include new keyboard shortcuts, live preview swap, shot bin improvements and more.
- Output program feed permit output of SDI/HDMI program feeds to Blackmagic Design Intensity and DeckLink capture cards. This enables users to send live feeds directly into editing, effects and broadcast design systems.
- Web stream plugin allows an IP or web-based live feed to be used as a source, supporting RTMP, RTSP, MMS or HTTP as input sources into Wirecast. This enables a Wirecast live stream to be used as a source in another Wirecast.
- Improved H.264 playback delivers smoother playback of pre-recorded H.264 videos in Wirecast.
- Stream delay adds an optional time buffer between the live feed and final broadcast, preventing mistakes from airing live. This is a key feature for gamers wanting to delay their live on-screen action to hide their strategy from online competitors.
- Cross-platform Teradek plugin integration with Teradek Cube, Bond and Sputnik is now available for both Mac and PC. This adds flexible and economical live streaming options for easier capture of remote sources and more scalable publishing of local sources.
Teradek Stream Reader
Wireless wizards Teradek never cease to impress and they've done it again by teaming up with two live production greats (one of which we've just mentioned) in the form of Telestream and NewTek. Teradek's Stream Reader now makes it easier than ever before to further enhance the capabilities of Wirecast and NewTek's Tricasters, and means integrating Teradek equipment is now easier than ever before.
The Stream Reader plug-in is available from the Teradek website and means users of Teradek's Cube, Brik and Bond can now wirelessly stream HD footage directly to Wirecast or a Tricaster!
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