Los Angeles, CA, June 2010….ToolsOnAir, makers of innovative QuickTime-based applications for broadcast video production professionals, has announced the opening of their first US offices, located in the busy West Los Angeles media corridor.
Peter Bentley
Managing Director Peter Bentley of ICU Grow, Pty., ToolsOnAir’s United States distributor, will oversee the day-to-day operations of the US offices, including sales, marketing and support.
“We’re very proud to be representing such a fantastic suite of powerful applications,” remarked Bentley. “I’ve worked in Mac-based technologies for more than 20 years, and the ToolsOnAir just: Broadcast Suite of products stands out as one of the most impressive and innovative I’ve had the pleasure to work with.”
ToolsOnAir’s Broadcast Suite Helps Blink TV Maintain their Cutting Edge
V Festival
London, UK, June 2010….
One of the most well-worn business clichés states that the key to success is to “find a need and fill it.” For London-based Blink TV, that philosophy has been anything but a cliché.
Pro Sales Management Founder Takes the Helm at Former Client
Sun Valley, CA, June 2010….Late last year, music industry veteran Rick McClendon shook things up with the introduction of a whole new business model. McClendon’s Pro Sales Management was the first company in professional A/V to offer outsourced sales management consulting, bringing the sales strategies and expertise of major corporations to small and mid-sized music technology manufacturers. The company’s rapid growth within the professional audio and MI markets has gained McClendon recognition and spawned imitators.
The Hot Shop at Tacoma’s Museum of Glass is a cacaphonous, fast-paced environment. A single Community ENTASYS system has replaced four conventional speakers to meet the museum’s audio needs.
Okay, it’s not eco-tech per se….but it’s technology and it’s one of the coolest applications that’s been released in the recent past. Mashable‘s Ben Parr reports on PhotoSketch, an image recognition software created by five computer science students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore.
The basic premise works like this:
1. Draw the outlines of the figures you want in your picture – anything from seagulls to a Mercedes, whatever.
2. Add labels for each of the items, as well as for the background.
Pro Tools 8 and M-Audio Keep the Creativity Alive No Matter Where They Travel
Linkin Park have never been a band that’s easily pigeon-holed. The band’s innovative mélange of musical styles has garnered them a fan base that spans hip hop, metal, rock and pop, and their cutting-edge, interactive communication with those fans has resulted in a loyal following few other groups can match.
In the time-intensive world of TV and film production, deadlines are everything. For the composers behind the music, it’s a non-stop series of moving targets, with last-minute changes followed by more of the same. Creativity is just the beginning – fresh ideas need to come fast and furious, and your creative tools need to keep pace.
Emmy-winning composer Russ Landau’s Pro Tools-equipped studio is where he cranks out the weekly music beds for the hit CBS show Survivor, and with 43 minutes of music every week, it’s a compressed schedule even by TV standards.
