Eyeheight Reports 'Innovative, Successful' 2014

Eyeheight has said 2014 was one of its "most innovative and successful years" since the company was formed in 1992 by BBC-trained engineers Steve Crocker and Martin Moore.

Eyeheight's CC-2M colour correctors were used for coverage of the 60th BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony, transmitted on December 15 from the First Direct Arena in Leeds.

Eyeheight's CC-2M technology was chosen for the fourth annual Stargazing Live series transmitted on BBC Two between January 7 and 9. The series was produced from Jodrell Bank and featured live links from observatories in Hawaii, South Africa and the USA.

Also in January, Eyeheight LE-2M legalisers were used during the German series Ich bin ein Star...Holt Mich Hier Raus!, transmitted by RTL.

Eyeheight compliance legalisers were deployed during broadcast of the 2014 World Cup in brazil. 12 LE-2M channels housed in two 1U-high chassis were on site for this year's tournament, which commenced with a match between Brazil and Croatia on June 12.

From late June to early July, Eyeheight DK-2 multi-rate linear downstream keyer delivered the excitement of the 2014 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships to television viewers around the world.

Eyeheight colour correctors and legalisers returned to Australia for the latest series of the television show I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! The programme's 14th UK series commenced on November 16, produced in 1920 x 1080 high-definition from a production site at Murwillumbah on the edge of a sub-tropical rain forest.

Eyeheight chose the 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas as the launch platform for the latest version of its LEGAL-6 legaliser. This incorporates extended audio capabilities including eight loudness level control channels configured as four AES stereo pairs.

Sales director Martin Moore headed to the Creative Pro User Group's 13th Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet, held at the Riviera Hotel during the April 2014 NAB Show. Eyeheight promoted its plug-in broadcast legalisers for Adobe Premier Pro, Apple Final Cut X, Apple Final Cut 7 and Avid Media Composer 7, plus ITU 1770-X audio leveling software for Apple Final Cut 7.

In the run-up to IBC, Eyeheight announced a major expansion to the capabilities of its BroadcastSafe compliance plug-ins for Avid's Media Composer and Adobe's Premiere Pro post-production software.

Version 1.5 BroadcastSafeMC (for Media Composer) and BroadcastSafePP (for Premiere Pro) both incorporate a new Broadcast Evaluate display, indicating which parts of a video image require adjustment. Non-compliant areas of content are displayed in a user-definable colour with the option of manual or automatic correction. Previously, this was an auto-only function. BroadcastEvaluate supports all common compliance standards. Users can alternatively define their own compliance standard as an XML file.

Also new for BroadcastSafeMC and BroadcastSafePP, BroadcastSafeArea allows a wide range of safe-area markers to be superimposed over the video monitor display. BroadcastSafeArea supports a multitude of standards including SMPTE, EBU and DPP, in 525/625 standard definition, 720/1080 high definition and 2K line formats. Also included is a centre marker and a measurement utility to ensure minimum text height conformance in commercials. Any marker colour can be assigned by the operator.

Introduced at IBC, BroadcastSafeFCPX is a plug-in video legaliser which works seamlessly with Apple's Final Cut Pro X editing software.

Following the October 1 File Delivery Day, Eyeheight's BroadcastSafe audio and video legalisation plug-ins allow editors to ensure their files meet the relevant national compliance standards before being wired back to the client or straight to the broadcaster.

The conformance capability offered in BroadcastSafeFCPX gives Apple Final Cut Pro X users the ability to process media files on a modern high-specification Apple desktop computer faster than it takes to view, rather than typically four times longer than real-time on a lower-spec machine.

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