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 news 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 newsroom production and playout workflow, allowing for best-of-breed 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
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Their technology offers end-to-end solutions for broadcast infrastructures. NewsForce is a complete, format-transparent news platform capable of handling both SD and HD. Featuring deep integration with Final Cut Pro, Newsforce enables editors to use their preferred editing platform while taking advantage of the significant media management and automation features offered by the Harris products.
Octopus
Octopus Newsroom focuses primarily on newsroom computer system (NRCS) development. Their 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 to 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 sports and live events production. PictureReady multichannel ingest from live feeds lets Final Cut Pro editors begin cutting while the content is still being ingested. This capability has transformed the nature of sports broadcasting on the Macintosh. VirtualVTR plays out Standard Definition and High Definition video files directly from shared storage, even while footage is being ingested. VirtualVTR can be controlled by a range of hardware consoles, including a slow motion T-Bar controller and shuttle/jog wheel. Add Sienna infrastructure to turn your sports workflow into an end-to-end object-based and asset-managed production chain with unmatched price and performance.
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.
