Geekazine Special Media: Interviews and Reviews

If you are a broadcaster, media storage on tape is actually your friend. The newest standard - LTO-6 - can keep thousands of scenes, clips and other media. Of course, if you are a bigger production company, you will need larger appliances that can connect and maintain your LTO environment. That is where Cache-A comes in. Calvin Zito talks to Cache-A Mark Ostlund about archiving to the network. Whether a Mac, PC or even most proprietary devices, Cache-A can keep it all in a safe, secure place. The ProCache 6 is one of their popular appliance. It has multiple connections to get content into your archive. It will also expand into robotic libraries if needed. With a staging archive option you can access the Cache-A archive system.

Andy McCaskey talked with Lauren Offers from Aurasma at NAB 2013 about the newest mobile Augmented reality platform. Adding a visual search, you can point your phone at an item and get video, audio and more. You can even create your own Auras to bridge the physical world with the digital. For example, you could point your mobile device as Carrie Underwood and you could easily download and purchase video and music. Same thing with Spiderman - pointing to the picture pulls up a game you can even play offline. Get Aurasma on iOS (http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=2xLp*uS7M9w&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=https%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Faurasma%252Fid432526396%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30) - Get Aurasma on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurasma.aurasma&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5hdXJhc21hLmF1cmFzbWEiXQ..) Also check out my episode of iPad365 on Aurasma

Inside a big corporation, you want to broadcast and livestream. That is where alldigital comes in. They can help you become a broadcaster. Their cloud services empower you to become just that. alldigital has configured their technologies so you can broadcast just like a Fox affiliate. Even big corporations want to broadcast to mobile and TV. Even companies like Cox (the Cable company in Las Vegas, among other areas) use Alldigital for By using workflows, you can get things up in the system to have it stream out. There are two types of broadcasts - private and public. alldigital also has social media solutions, cloud services along with the broadcast options. Tim talks with Calvin Zito about how they use HP StoreAll to speed up their process

With products like Viz Engine, Viz Virtual Studio, Viz Media Engine, Viz Dart and more, Vizrt can cover all your broadcast needs. If you see things like bottom tickers on TV channels, it most likely is Vizrt technology that is driving that. Oscar Tenwall of Vizrt was at NAB 2013 to show off their MAM (Media Asset Management) system. This is an enterprise MAM that is scalable and accessible from many desktop or mobile device. Their API allows you to make your own media applications that you need.

When I first saw this program, I was reminded of the newsroom bulletin board. Above the board was the LED sign that scrolled new news while the board had post-it notes of information breaking when people found it. Now you can have all that on one screen with a lot more option. Broadcast Monitoring can not only give you a timeline of events but you also don't have to do it yourself. Put in the event and you can see real-time tweets, video, demographics and more. A massive amount of information at your fingertips. David Humphrey shows us this great software. At the time, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death was trending so we got to see how the social media universe dealt with that.

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/flav1-125x125.png)Marco Stahl of Flavoursys (http://www.flavoursys.com/) joined us for an interview at NAB. Flavoursys is a software company focused on editing video between multiple employees. Their product (called Stawberry) allows project sharing between different people and even different video editing software (such as AVID and Final Cut Pro). Flavoursys' media management component makes it less complex for editors to find materials and have them available within the editing environment. The project sharing and project management system also includes access rights management but focuses on a smooth and easy user interface.

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dam1-125x125.png)Video is critical in communications of relevant content as quickly as possible, but maintaining control of your brand and marketing message. Eric Courville of North Plains talks about recent acquisitions that allow them to merge web and marketing video production with broadcast oriented management of digital assets.  The Northplains platform makes assets available under controlled management for large organizations such as Turner Broadcasting, that have millions of assets that must be cataloged Finding the content quickly and getting it deployed over a variety of platforms are critical business success factors. Calvin Zito, @ HPStorageGuy discusses the role that HP Express Query technology has in their products.

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/duffy1-125x125.png)Cost-effective storage space of digital possessions for production and show depends on quick, scalable search. The HP StoreAll system with the recently presented Express Inquiry, recently developed at HP Labs which can looking documents at amazing speed (FIVE HUNDRED hundred reports in a few secs). As file modifications are taking place, the kernal creates occasions that are incorporated into the StoreAll appliance so there is no have to re-scan the file system periodically to create the meta information tables. Media firms have both storage and access necessities that pressure their systems for modifying and specifically in fast-breaking information situations.

(http://www.geekazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/independent11-125x125.png)Ryan Brown is a filmmaker who was an Apple fan. Within the last year he decided that Apple prodcuts are not for him - especially in creating video. He needed scalability, he needed upgradability and most important, he needed reliability. That is why he switched to HP. Ryan tells his story to Andy McCaskey at NAB and how the HP Z1 workstations can overpower what any apple computer can do.

During SXSW I stopped by the AT&T / American Airlines Travel Hackathon. American Airlines opened up their API to the groups for 24 hours to see what they would come up with to improve the travel experience. This is a road show that will be headed to London, then back in the US for similar hackathons. What is a Hackathon? A Hackathon is where people join teams and build software and hardware using Application Programming Interfaces (API) that are open and available to them. Were up here at the Hilton and up on the 4th floor for the AT&T Hackathon for here with phil easter tell me what's what's going on with the hackathon? This is the first ever travel hackathon it's sponsored by AT&T and american airlines so i'm with american airlines and i represent the mobile application team. This is the first time that american airlines has opened up APIs for third-party developers to create travel apps. Were encouraging developers to come up with ideas that can enhance the travel journey - before during and after you land. So to help augment our travel app we decided to partner with third-party developers. Is it like a regular hackathon - do these people just show up and get in a group say i want to get in the group for a or do they have that predefined? They registered a few weeks ahead time but none of the APIs were released They didn't know what they were getting into do they're going to create something cool and uh... disruptive and so when they show that they were given access to our API data uh... they form teams and they had twenty four hours to develop. Here at five o'clock we'll submit the presentations will have awards at eight. Anything catching your eye right now that you you could talk about yellow We estimate sheet things around the gamafication and gaming in air with wifi - also rollatwo program - gaining miles and how do you can gamify that process visualization using gestures for interfacing with travel data social obligation things that we have about about visual AR or visual google type glass technology...