Accom, AMV, NEP and Editware go to the Super Bowl, too

The HD production of Sunday's Super Bowl will feature the Abekas Dveous/MX Digital Video Effects (DVE) system and an Abekas 6000 DTV video production server. NEP Supershooters will use Dveous/MX to create the main show's digital effects in the systems's full dual-twin HD capacity. All Mobile Video will use its Resolut

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Publish date:: Jan 29, 2004
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The HD production of Sunday's Super Bowl will feature the Abekas Dveous/MX Digital Video Effects (DVE) system and an Abekas 6000 DTV video production server. NEP Supershooters will use Dveous/MX to create the main show's digital effects in the systems's full dual-twin HD capacity.

All Mobile Video will use its Resolution truck as the tape-release truck for the numerous replay sources; its Cinetour truck is outfitted with the Abekas server, which will be used to capture and edit live feeds used for commercial bumpers. AMV also is using Accom's Ethernet API protocol for interfacing the Abekas server to Editware's Fastrack editing systems.

Calif.-based Accom will display its new products at IBC2004 in September. The APR.ClipStore is an SD digital disk recorder housed in a 3 RU chassis. Dveous/MX is the universal format digital video effects system that broadcasters can use in SD or HD formats. Abekas 6000 is a production server that adds HDTV hardwa

Czech Television recently installed the Abekas Dveous/MX in its Prague studio. The new studio will be used for live cultural programming as well as film and television projects for Czech TV. Accom--based in Menlo Park, Calif.--debuted its Dveous/MX video effects system at IBC2004, along with several other products in

At NAB, Accom made the first sale of its new Abekas Dveous/MX Universal Format Digital Video Effects system to Bexel. The MX version of Dveous has the same feature set and control panel as its predecessor, but now can create real time video effects either SD and HD at known frame rates, has at least one channel of HD

The Weather Channel recently purchased two Accom Dveous/MX universal-format digital video effects (DVE) systems for two production control rooms. The network is currently working in SD, but an eventual upgrade to HD should be simple and require no retraining, according to Michael Smereski, Chief Engineer at The Weathe

Three mobile truck companies contracted by ESPN to cover HD sports have chosen Accom's DVE platform. Four new mobile units from NMT, NEP Supershooters and NCP are equipped with the Abekas Dveous HD multi-format editor. NMT has 46 mobile trucks, three of which are equipped for HD, and more than two dozen Abekas Dveous

The Weather Channel has purchased two Accom Dveous/MX universal-format digital video effects systems.

NEP Supershooters will help ABC Sports HD cover college bowl games in HDTV with two of its HD-capable mobile production trucks equipped with Grass Valley digital production gear. Both trucks use the Grass Valley LDK 6000 mk II WorldCam HD cameras, XtenDD and Kalypso Duo switchers, as well as Trinix and Concerto Ser

Mobile truck provider NEP Supershooters recently used a Leitch X75HD up/down/cross converter and synchronizer in its all-HD truck for Fox broadcast of the recent Super Bowl. The close match between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles was broadcasted in 720p HD format. The converter works in analo