Quantel launches Station sQ, its new comprehensive HD news production system

Built on the same technological platform as its older brother, Enterprise sQ, it includes everything necessary for a production with a very fast response time: file and video ingestion, central storage, network editing and live broadcast.

En IBC 2012, Quantel is launching Station sQ, a comprehensive HD news production system. The Station sQ has been built on the same technology platform as its big brother, the Enterprise sQ, providing the same effective performance in a package that is affordable for every average business.

Station sQ includes everything you need for fast turnaround production: file and video ingest, central storage, network editing, and live streaming. To complete the package the Station sQ includes project support and services that will assist the customer in the installation and operation of the system, ensuring it is carried out smoothly and as quickly as possible.

Faster than real-time file ingest (XDCAM and P2) is handled by Quantel's sQ upload application: video ingest by sQ Record. The system can operate as HD, SD or a combination of resolutions, all managed together within the same set time limit. Broadcast is controlled with sQ Play, which can download MOS rundowns from newsroom computer systems. Editing is carried out on the sQ Cut editors and the sQ Edit effects editor: both editors share the same powerful user interface, which is easy to learn. The Station sQ package includes six days of project management covering installation, commissioning and launch support, along with operational training.

More features for QTube

Quantel's QTube global media workflow technology now includes more new features and facilities that make it easier to use and more connected, leading to more applications in QTube's game-changing potential. Now many of Quantel's broadcast system owners are using QTube, leveraging the power of QTube to incorporate a diverse range of systems into a single workflow. All the developments that are being seen are the result of proposals made by QTube users around the world.

At IBC, Quantel has shown how QTube Browser users can instantly switch between multiple locations to find media, which is in line with Quantel's goal of making the interface that is the easiest to use and most intuitive on the market.

Scrolling content on the Internet really represents a challenge. QTube's unique capabilities have allowed us to find an innovative solution to this universal problem by displaying a still image obtained from the clip while the user scrolls up and down for the set time limit instantly. This is possible thanks to Quantel's QVFS virtual file system, which allows jpg images to be created on the fly. The system has been presented for the first time at the IBC.

Quantel has also demonstrated network-based shot selection and QuickTime and MXF file sharing with Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer. Now, with QTube, any third-party production, editing or effects software can reap the benefits of instant access to content.

Quantel has also demonstrated how a media shot on an iPhone or iPad can be immediately uploaded via QTube by simply pressing a button, broadcasting live or online in just a few seconds.

Quantel and Marquis Broadcast announce strategic partnership

Quantel and Marquis Broadcast have announced that the two companies have reached a strategic partnership agreement. This partnership will make it easier for Quantel customers to seamlessly incorporate workflows between Quantel systems and third-party publishing, server and archiving platforms.

Quantel's Enterprise sQ fast response time production systems are at the heart of many news and sports production environments. The sQ Fileflow application, recently released by Quantel, exposes a RESTful API, allowing it to be controlled by the Marquis Medway interoperability engine, in turn allowing third-party systems to freely exchange content with Enterprise sQ.

Medway is a sophisticated set of software tools that ensures economical and seamless integration between broadcast content applications. Medway unifies systems from different manufacturers, providing technical and operational workflows that optimize and integrate: Media clip and sequence transfers, media format conversions and transcoding, and metadata capture and incorporation.

Pablo Rio

One of the main novelties from Quantel at this show is Pablo Rio. This impressive development from Quantel is the only one for high-end grading and color correction in post-production that is available as a software option or as a turnkey system with the British manufacturer backing.

Pablo Rio takes full advantage of the new Nvidia Maximus multi-GPU technology to offer incredible interactivity for color correction and finishing suite.

With Pablo Rio, working with 2D and 3D material becomes agile, a creative experience, both for the artist and the client, while delivering the quality and productivity necessary to succeed at the highest range. color and finish.

Mocha Planar Tracker

Quantel has announced that it has incorporated the Mocha Planar Tracker from Imagineer Systems into the Quantel color and finishing toolset. Mocha is widely recognized as the most versatile and accurate tracker available, and is the perfect companion to Quantel's integrated spot tracker. Starting in late October, the Mocha Planar Tracker will be a free update for all systems running V5 software.

The Mocha Planar Tracker is fully integrated into Quantel's multilayer time limit, making it instantly available regardless of the task at hand. For example, if the face in a shot needs more light, the colorist draws a curved shape around the face and selects mocha with a simple touch, simply following the face throughout the clip. A mask is automatically generated through which the color can be applied.
mocha offers a sophisticated range of tracking options, such as scaling, rotation, cropping and perspective, achieving fabulous results on complex tracking when the subject is moving in two or three dimensions.

SynthIA facilita el 3D

Quantel is conducting a technology demonstration of SynthIA, a new high-quality Interaxial Synthesis tool that allows the interaxial distance between two camera positions of an S3D clip to be altered in post-production.

This great advance means that many of the S3D shots that previously would have had to be discarded as unusable can now be “saved.” Typically the biggest problem in S3D is oversized camera spacing, which can result in a z-axis depth range that is too large to fit with the viewer.

SynthIA instruments two new stereoscopic frames that can be synthesized from the originals, just as if they had been captured with a reduced interaxial distance. The image quality is superb, with no perceptible difference between the original and the new synthesized frames.

Shot rescue with interaxial synthesis is just one of SynthIA's capabilities. It can also have different effects on foreground and background objects in the same shot. This is possible because SynthIA understands where all objects are located in an S3D space by being able to recognize the differences in disparity of each element in the frame between the left and right eyes. Different objects in a clip can be moved in z-space individually to alter the balance or focus point.

Stereo D LLC, experts in 2D to 3D conversion, are currently immersed in converting major archival productions to 3D for re-release. These experts have found SynthIA to be invaluable in redefining the 3D positioning of dimensioned objects within scenes to ensure a flawless S3D result.

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