LOS ANGELES—It’s a fab four that will be honored with the Hollywood Professional Association’s 2016 HPA Engineering Excellence Awards, as Aspera, Grass valley, Real D and SGO all will be recognized. According to HPA, the Engineering Excellence Awards spotlight companies and individuals that provide services to the professional media content industry for outstanding technical and creative ingenuity in media, content production, finishing, distribution and/or archiving.

Aspera will be honored for its FASP Stream application software, which enables live streaming of broadcast video globally over commodity internet networks. Grass Valley’s GV Node real time IP processing and edge routing platform has also been tapped for the award; it provides accurate switching of video signals from SDI or IP. The RealD Ultimate Screen is another recipient, delivering images in both 2D and 3D formats. And the group is rounded out with SGO’s Mistika, a DI post-production system.

The HPA Awards will also take time to recognize excellence in 12 craft categories, present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Herb Dow and the Charles S. Swartz Award to Michelle Munson.

All winners and honorees will be recognized during the HPA Awards gala on Nov. 17 in Los Angeles.

MADRID—Software developer SGO and video hardware developer AJA Video Systems are teaming up, as the two companies announced a new integration partnership.

Mistika

As part of the alliance, SGO’s color grading and finishing post-production system Mistika will now be compatible with AJA’s KONA and Corvid video capture and playback cards. This integration of SGO and AJA’s products lines will reportedly boost support for video formats like 4K Stereo 3D dual-link up to 60p HFR frame-rates.

“Our KONA and Corvid families of professional video and audio capture cards have long been the solutions of choice for filmmakers and broadcasters for their reliability and scalability. SGO delivers on that same promise to customers with their advanced Mistika software that supports future-proof workflows and we’re pleased to offer a best-of-breed post-production solution,” said Nick Rashby, president of AJA.

SGO is based in Madrid. AJA has its offices headquarters in Grass Valley, Calif.