August 2018
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n TV Tokyo upgrades
studio with Calrec
console
Japanese network TV Tokyo has purchased an
80-fader Apollo console from Calrec. Provided by
Calrec’s exclusive distributor, Hibino Intersound,
as part of a major upgrade of TV Tokyo’s flagship
Tennozu studio, the Apollo has been a “significant
improvement” over the broadcaster’s legacy ana-
logue desk.
As TV Tokyo moved the Tennozu studio’s audio
mixing into the digital world, the challenge was to
source a desk that could match its old console in
sound quality, revealed Yosuke Maruyama of Hibino
Corporation. “The Apollo more than exceeds TV
Tokyo’s expectations for pristine sound, and its im-
pressive feature set is also a huge improvement,” he
continued. “The new desk brings industry standard
reliability, ease-of-use and unmatched power to
Tennozu, with the ability to squeeze in more faders
than any comparable consoles on the market.”
The Apollo joins other Calrec desks in the
broader TV Tokyo operation, including another
80-fader Apollo, a 48-fader Artemis Light that is
installed in the broadcaster’s outside broadcast
vehicle, a 56-fader Artemis Beam, and a 48-fader
Artemis Beam.
Anthony Harrison, international sales manager,
Calrec, concluded: “[TV Tokyo] is a big supporter of
our products, as evidenced by its Calrec line-up. The
addition of the Apollo console has modernised the
Tennozu facility by offering unsurpassed processing
power.
”We’re excited to continue our relationship as TV
Tokyo goes from analogue to digital.”
CREATION
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Ross Video enhances control
for virtual solutions
Ross Video is releasing UX
cording to Ross Video, is
4.0, the company’s latest gen-
“extremely powerful” as it
eration of control interface
does not require any pre-
that improves the toolset for
vious experience in code
“dynamically and intuitively”
writing while offering an
controlling virtual productions.
extensive toolset to ac-
UX Xperience is a control
commodate even the most
centre application that is said
intricate behaviour.
to be “highly flexible and
The UX Unreal plugin
customisable”, with an easy-
allows users to feed data
to-use intuitive touchscreen
from UX directly into the
graphical user interface. The
blueprint layer of the Un-
application provides integra-
real4 engine. UX can feed
tion with tracking systems,
data as strings, integers,
keying products and real-time
floats, vectors, drive ani-
3D rendering engines such as
mations and meshes.
Ross Video’s XPression and Ross Video is releasing UX 4.0, the company’s latest generation of control
Other standard fea-
Frontier.
tures of UX include the
interface that improves the toolset for “dynamically and intuitively”
Gideon Ferber, director of controlling virtual productions.
ability to combine complex
marketing, product manage-
virtual moves and camera
components — UX Track, UX Server,
ment, Ross Virtual Solutions, explained:
moves into one-button events that can
workflow capabilities, and tracking and
“UX 4.0 is building on the success of
be triggered by Ross Video production
mounts. UX 4.0 also introduces two major
previous UX versions. We’ve added tools
switchers or OverDrive Studio Production
features: Visual Logic and Unreal4 Plugin.
to make the production smarter and
Control with UX Events.
UX’s visual logic is a new quadrant
more dynanic while keeping operation
Users can also configure project files
that allows users to create complex and
as straightforward and user-friendly as
and network settings with UX Config;
sophisticated behaviours by dragging
possible.”
move, rotate and create tween anima-
and dropping parameters on a canvas
UX 4.