News
In today’s rapid 24-hour news-driven world, news organizations need the flexibility to accept content of all types from anywhere, anytime — and the agility to turn it around fast. Final Cut Studio 2 integrates with products from the industry’s leading manufacturers to create cutting-edge solutions that help news organizations respond quickly. Whether you capture breaking stories down the street or halfway around the world, for broadcast in SD or HD, Apple’s open platform can help you deliver the news 24 hours a day.
Building4Media
Building4Media offers a broad range of broadcast software solutions for the Apple platform, including production automation and master control automation for news workflows. Solutions based on Building4Media’s software modules are extremely flexible and scalable; allow integration with ENPS, iNews, and most other newsroom and traffic systems; and provide control for a vast range of broadcast equipment.
BugTV
Breaking news requires fast solutions, instant access to digital assets, and automated real-time graphics. BUG.tv delivers your own AirFlow. BUG.tv builds innovative Mac OS X-based solutions for ingest, management, graphics, and playout of SD and HD broadcast content, integrating with all professional newsroom systems. On top of that, BUG.tv products are easy to administer, cost-effective, flexible, powerful, and professional-grade.
Dalet
Dalet provides broadcasters with newsroom solutions from ingest to playout. Dalet Xtend integrates Final Cut Pro into its production and playout workflow, allowing for best-of-class technologies to accelerate news production.
ENPS
The Broadcast Technology group of the Associated Press is responsible for the development and maintenance of ENPS, the world’s most popular broadcast news production system. Used by journalists in more than 500 radio and television stations in 42 countries, ENPS fits the needs of demanding news environments. With third-party interfaces to ENPS from companies such as Sienna, full newsroom production including ingest, editing, management, and playout is now possible in Mac OS X.
Grass Valley
Grass Valley manufactures market-leading, multiformat solutions for acquisition, production, storage, and playback. With the Grass Valley Broadcast Plug-In, NewsEdit can integrate with Final Cut Pro. NewsEdit users now have access to the high-end, craft editing feature set of Final Cut Studio 2.
Harris
NewsForce is the complete platform of Harris HD/SD news products that features deep integration with Final Cut Pro. NewsForce enables Final Cut Pro editing directly on the SAN of Harris’s NEXIO AMP server, including editing on content during ingest and playout to air. Final Cut Pro and Harris editors can share media and timelines. Integration of the MOS newsroom computer into the Final Cut Pro interface provides access to rundowns and scripts and allows direct recording of VO onto the timeline from a scrolling script window timed to anchor read rates.
Octopus
Octopus Newsroom focuses primarily on newsroom computer system (NRCS) development. Its products help redefine the way newsrooms work by managing all the information and content needed by journalists to bring their stories to air. Integration of Octopus NRCS products with Final Cut Studio 2 greatly enhances the creative editorial process compared with solutions that use traditional cuts-only editing.
Omneon
Omneon provides cost-effective and flexible networked media storage and servers for production and broadcast. Omneon solutions allow Final Cut Studio 2 workstations to edit on the same servers that play to air. Leveraging best-of-class technologies, Omneon solutions and Final Cut Studio 2 provide one of the most seamless workflows in broadcast news production.
Sienna
Sienna creates innovative products for broadcasters working in news production. The Sienna products bridge the gap between Final Cut Studio 2 and the newsroom with NRCS MOS integration as well as asset management, archive, ingest, automation, and playout to air — all using QuickTime natively on the Mac. Sienna products can fit individually in an existing workflow or be the basis of an entire Mac OS X-based world-class broadcast workflow
Softron
Softron manufactures Mac-based products that provide key technologies for news production. OnTheAir news is a complete newsroom application that provides full management of content from RSS feed selection to playout and web page creation. Softron’s products integrate seamlessly with Final Cut Studio 2 for an all-Mac-based newsroom infrastructure.
