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www.postmagazine.com 14 POST MAY 2018 POST PICKS 2018 An HDMI video capture solution, Kona HDMI supports a range of work- flows, including live streaming, events, production, broadcast, editorial, VFX, vlogging, video game capture/ streaming and more. Kona HDMI is flexible, designed for four simultaneous channels of HD capture with popular streaming and switching applications including Telestream Wirecast and vMix. Kona HDMI also uniquely offers cap- ture of one channel of UltraHD up to 60p over HDMI 2.0 using AJA Control Room software for file compatibility with most NLE and effects packages. It is also compatible with other popular third-party solutions for live streaming, projection mapping and VR workflows. Designed for broadcast, post and ProAV, as well as OEM developers, Kona 1 is a robust, cost-efficient, single-chan- nel 3G-SDI 2K/HD 60p I/O PCIe card. Kona 1 offers serial control and refer- ence/LTC, and features standard ap- plication plug-ins, as well as AJA SDK support. Kona 1 supports 3G-SDI cap- ture, monitoring and/or playback with software applications from AJA, Adobe, Avid, Apple, Telestream and more. Kona 1 enables simultaneous monitoring during capture (pass-through). Kona HDMI will be available June 2018 for $895 US MSRP, and Kona 1 in May for $595 US MSRP, with both available for pre-order now. PANASAS ACTIVESTOR FOR VR WORKFLOWS "We've taken an interesting tact this year, where we're showing regular everyday productions tools like Adobe Creative Suite tools, Premiere Pro and After Effects and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, and demonstrating the use of those tools for VR production," said David Sallak, VP and CTO, Panasas, at this year's NAB. "Adjacent to that, we have a half dome where you don't have to put on the VR headset but you can experience the con- tent produced on those tools all sourced from Panasas storage." Panasas (www.panasas.com) demon- strated VR, as well as AI and production workflows, on its ActiveStor plug-and- play, high-performance storage solu- tion. ActiveStor is optimized to support parallel creative activities, handle high resource demands from multiple sources and deliver raw speed and management simplicity required for those working in the creative value chain to work fast- er and smarter. "We're very excited to support everyday tools, used in unusual, emerging ways," added Sallak. TELESTREAM AVID ECOSYSTEM SOLUTIONS Telestream (www.telestream.net) an- nounced significant enhancements to its Avid integration in the latest version of Vantage. The new Avid Production Asset Monitor in Vantage supports MediaCentral directory monitoring allowing Vantage to trigger jobs from MediaCentral 'virtual directories'. Also, the latest version of Lightspeed Live Capture which streamlines ingest for Avid workflows by creating Avid OPAtom MXF media with associated AAF files and automatically checking assets into Interplay or MediaCentral. With the Vantage Production Asset Monitor, Avid editors no longer need to spend valuable time rendering and exporting sequences from Media Composer for use in a Vantage work- flow. The next release of Vantage includes a new window that allows users to connect to their Avid systems and start jobs without leaving Vantage. Avid sequences and master clips can automatically trigger Vantage workflows from within the Interplay environment. By directly integrating with Interplay or MediaCentral Production, creative teams can spend more time on the creation of media and less time doing what Vantage is optimized to do. In Lightspeed Live Capture v2.3, a new Avid Interplay Advanced Encoder option allows baseband SDI signals from live events, tapes, or IP feeds to be encoded into native Avid MXF OPAtom containers and AAF files for use in any file-based workflow. PRONOLOGY STREAMFILE CORE Pronology (www.pronology.com), de- veloper of tapeless workflow solutions, presented StreamFile Core, a cross-plat- form, standalone encoder, at NAB 2018. StreamFile Core encodes evolving IP standards, such as Aspen, NDI, NMI, SMPTE 2022 and SMPTE 2110, and dis- tributes content as popular file-based co- decs, such as ProRes, DNx, XDCam and others. This enables facilities and studios moving to an IP-based platform to utilize existing nonlinear editing systems, graph- ics and digital system infrastructures throughout this transitional phase. "Compatibility, low cost, reliability and ease-of-use make Pronology's StreamFile Core a must-have for any company interested in integrating with emerging IP technologies," says Jonathan Aroesty, president of Pronology. IMAGINE PRODUCTS/ STORAGEDNA MYLTODNA Imagine Products (www.imagineproducts. com) partnered with StorageDNA (www. storagedna.com) to release myLTOdna for Macintosh, a copy application geared for media files. The software is optimized to take advantage of StorageDNA's en- hanced Linear File Transfer System (Hyper Tape). The system was developed to let users interact directly with files on a tape using their favorite applications for the fastest, simplest LTO tape workflows. By building a Random Access Database (RAD) file for each tape's