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What's new at Ensemble Designs
- Ensemble Designs To Show New Compact Clean Switching Router at InfoComm
- Ensemble Designs Introduces New Multiviewer at NAB
- Ensemble Designs Introduces Next Generation of BrightEye Products With New Compact Router
- Saudi TV Takes Delivery of Avenue Routers
- Ensemble Designs New High-Resolution Support for Scan Converters at ISE
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Ensemble Designs - BrightEye Mitto Webcast
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You need a more affordable scan converter but you still want great quality, right? Mondae introduces 3 new BrightEye Mitto Scan Converters and goes over the differences in functionality and price. Chris shows exactly how to connect your Mitto to an iPhone, a computer with Skype™, a scope with VGA, and a few other devices. David discusses how to eliminate audio delay and lip sync problems and gives
May 7, 2013 Grass Valley, California – Ensemble Designs will show its new BrightEye NXT Compact Router at the infoComm Convention in Orlando May 12-14, 2013. The next generation of the BrightEye...
April 4, 2013 Grass Valley California – Ensemble Designs is introducing the new Avenue Multiviewer at the National Association of Broadcasting Convention in Las Vegas, April 8-11, 2013 at booth ...
April 4, 2013 Grass Valley, California – Ensemble Designs is introducing the next generation of its popular BrightEye line of products with a new compact router at the National Association of Br...
Saudi TV, Long-Time Ensemble Customer, Takes Delivery of Avenue Routers
Grass Valley, California, 22 February 2013 – Saudi TV, the government-owned television broadcast service in Saudi...
28 January 2013 Grass Valley, California, – Ensemble Designs is announcing new high-resolution support for it’s line of BrightEye Mitto high-performance scan converters at the ISE Conventi...
Grass Valley, California, 7 November, 2012 – In planning its coverage of the 2012 Summer Games, the most important DTH broadcaster in Italy selected GlobeCast, a leading supplier of video transp...
Nevada City, California, November 1, 2012 – Ensemble Designs is one of four finalists for the Education Innovator of the Year Award, sponsored by Tri Counties Bank. Innovate North State” h...
Grass Valley, California, 14 September 2012 – Ensemble Designs was honored with the prestigious STAR Award for its new Avenue Layering Engine at the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC) i...
Nevada City, California, September 13, 2012 – Sierra Commons will launch its new Business School this fall with funds donated from founding sponsor Ensemble Designs. The financial gift from Ense...
Grass Valley, California, 4 September 2012 – Ensemble Designs will debut two new models of its award winning BrightEye Mitto high-performance scan converters at the IBC, International Broadcaste...
Grass Valley, California, 1 September 2012 – Ensemble Designs will featuring its new Avenue Layering Engine at IBC (International Broadcasters Convention) in Amsterdam, Septemb...
Grass Valley, California, 24 August, 2012 – Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) made use of an extensive compliment of Ensemble terminal equipment to support its coverage of the 2012 Summer Games...
Ensemble Designs to Demonstrate New Video Processing and Keying Technology at AUVSI 2012
Grass Valley, California, 7 August 2012 – Ensemble Designs is demonstrating new video and audio ...
Grass Valley, California, 14 June, 2012 – Ensemble Designs Avenue and BrightEye signal processing equipment has been chosen for use at the Olympics by Sky Italia. Avenue audio embedders and fram...
Grass Valley, California, 13 June, 2012 – Ensemble Designs will debut two new features to its BrightEye Mitto family of high-end scan converters at the infoComm Show in Las Vegas June 13-16, 201...
Grass Valley, California, 1 June 2012 – Ensemble Designs has begun shipment of its BrightEye 83 and 83-F HDMI to 3G/HD/SD SDI Converter. They will be featured at the infoComm Show in Las Vegas, ...
Cindy Zuelsdorf gives a great demo of the new NXT430 Compact Router from Ensemble Designs at this years NAB.
Introducing the new Avenue Multiviewer. Stunning detail and simple setup. Easy, click-to-fill configuration from your Mac, PC or iPad.
New Routing Technology Features Introducing the BrightEye NXT 430 Compact Router from Ensemble Designs for clean quiet switching of video and audio sources. The exclusive front panel LCD displays realtime full motion video of your router sources. Great for fly packs, ENG and anywhere you need a small router, this new BrightEye has incredible power in a small 1RU high by 1/3 RU wide footprint
David Wood gives an insider's look at Ensemble Designs new router technology.
David Wood gives an insider's look at Ensemble Designs new router technology.
Cindy Zuelsdorf explains why Ensemble Designs manufactures everything in California.
Cindy Zuelsdorf explains what makes Ensemble Designs different.
Chris Merrick from Ensemble Designs talks about how to eliminate audio delay and lip sync problems.
Chris Merrick from Ensemble Designs talks about what every engineer wants from signal processing equipment.
Chris Merrick talks about how Ensemble Designs control systems contribute to your efficiency.
Jay Warner talks about remote broadcast equipment and how Ensemble Designs BrightEyes stand up to test of vibration and longevity.
Robert Nunez explains how a sync pulse generator is the heart of a TV station.
Ron Chubb talks about how you can bring Skype interviews into your church broadcast.
Ron Chubb talks about Ensemble Designs Mitto Scan Converter used in the military and in the boardroom.
Cindy Zuelsdorf talks about how Ensemble Designs Protection Switch can keep you on air.
David Wood talks about Ensemble Designs CRC Tool and more on MPEG error analysis.
David Wood from Ensemble Designs talks about distributing one transport stream to multiple transmitters.
Davis Wood speaks about Multi-Transmitter Solutions for Single Frequency Networks.
Ron Chubb talks about using an iPhone video in a news broadcast.
David Wood talks about CRCs and how it works.
David Wood talks about how to provide data integrity to your MPEG transport stream.
David Wood speaks about Multi-Transmitter Solutions for Single Frequency Networks.
Mondae Hott talks about scan converters and balancing affordability and quality.
David Wood talks about why you might need a TBC for your ASI stream.
David Wood talks about Back-Up Systems and Disaster Recovery for Broadcast.
Mondae Hott talks about what matters most in a Reference Generator.
Mondae Hott talks about Disaster Recovery and Back-Up Plans for Your Station.
Ron Chubb talks about Router capabilities.
What do you need to know about the CALM Act by this December? This webcast with John Pichitino details the CALM Act for broadcast television stations, LKFS targets, Dialnorm and logging requirements. Q&A at the end.
What do you need to know about the CALM Act by this December? This webcast with John Pichitino details the CALM Act for broadcast television stations, LKFS targets, Dialnorm and logging requirements. Q&A at the end.
You have complete control of the Avenue Router control from a computer or iPad. The Avenue Flexible Matrix Router with realtime video thumbnails. Ease of expansion, user-definable input/output port geometry, unique video thumbnails, built-in test signals, and optional clean and quiet switching make it ideal for QC, master control bypass, ENG, edit suites, and for your next project or upgrade.
Get an overview on how to install your new Avenue router. The Avenue Flexible Matrix Router with realtime video thumbnails. Ease of expansion, user-definable input/output port geometry, unique video thumbnails, built-in test signals, and optional clean and quiet switching make it ideal for QC, master control bypass, ENG, edit suites, and for your next project or upgrade.
Chris walks you through the router's default configuration. The Avenue Flexible Matrix Router with realtime video thumbnails. Ease of expansion, user-definable input/output port geometry, unique video thumbnails, built-in test signals, and optional clean and quiet switching make it ideal for QC, master control bypass, ENG, edit suites, and for your next project or upgrade.
You have complete control of the Avenue Router control from a computer or iPad. The Avenue Flexible Matrix Router with realtime video thumbnails. Ease of expansion, user-definable input/output port geometry, unique video thumbnails, built-in test signals, and optional clean and quiet switching make it ideal for QC, master control bypass, ENG, edit suites, and for your next project or upgrade.
Joao Melo from Video Systems talks about how to use the Mitto Scan Converter from Ensemble designs.
Joao Melo from Video Systems talks about how to use the Mitto Scan Converter from Ensemble designs.
David Wood details the timing of DVB-ASI transport streams and why timing is important to broadcast television.
David Wood defines what a DVB-ASI transport streams is and how it's used in broadcast television applications.
How do broadcasters make the transition from analog to SD SDI and from SD to HD SDI? Cindy Zuelsdorf at Ensemble Designs details the path.
Robert Nunez at Ensemble Designs provides technical details on how the BrightEye 72 converter provides open captions, time code and audio presence. Combine BrightEye 72 with any HDMI monitor for high-end display applications in broadcast and post. BrightEye 72 accepts an SD, 1.5 Gb/s HD or 3 Gb/s HD SDI digital signal and outputs HDMI.
Your transition to HD is made easy with video converters from Ensemble Designs. Robert Nunez gives an overview of Ensemble's exceptionally clean Upconverters, Downconverters, and Crossconverters, and the proprietary scaling and filtering which gives you the best possible video quality, suitable for the most demanding applications.
Mondae Hott gives you the inside scoop on Ensemble Designs. In 1989, a former television station engineer who loved designing & building video equipment, decided to start a new company. He relished the idea of taking an existing group of equipment and adding a few special pieces in order to create an even more elegant ensemble. So, he designed and built his first product and the company was born.
How are you taking YouTube and Skype video into your production switcher or video router? You'll be amazed at who's using the BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter! The BrightEye Mitto™ family of high performance scan converters provide a new way to take just about any source to 3G, HD or SD SDI video.
See on car footage of Team Two-Two (sponsored by Ensemble Designs) race down the hill and win first place in the art category. GO team GO !!!
SkyItalia uses Ensemble products for processing video and audio for broadcast, and multiplatform distribution.
Introducing a new Layering Engine for use in broadcast, live venues and presentation. With two, independent linear keyers, program/preset background transitions, and audio mixing and breakaway, it's an agile and flexible solution to combining audio & video content. Inputs can be driven by SDI signals from cameras, remote feeds, character generators, graphic & stillstore systems, and video servers
End viewer complaints about changing audio levels with LevelTrack Audio AGC for broadcast. Automatically, easily correct varying levels between programming and spots.
This informal chalk talk gives demonstrates how the many different products we make are used in a broadcast plant. David Wood, Chief Design Engineer, takes us through the complete architecture of a broadcast television facility.
Now you can look at your source before you do a take. The exclusive real time thumbnail display in the Router Control Panel shows you the source before you take it to air. In addition to video monitoring on the LCD, indicators for synchronicity and timing, audio and AFD provide confidence that a source is ready to use. Use the panel at your facility or use it remotely, thousands of
miles away.
Huge success at the Piper Digital Tech Expo. Join us next year for an even better show.
The best way to get Skype and YouTube into your HD product switcher or video router. Any source to HD SDI video with the new BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter from Ensemble Designs.
You need a more affordable scan converter but you still want great quality, right? Mondae introduces 3 new BrightEye Mitto Scan Converters and goes over the differences in functionality and price. Chris shows exactly how to connect your Mitto to an iPhone, a computer with Skype™, a scope with VGA, and a few other devices. David discusses how to eliminate audio delay and lip sync problems and gives
Here's how to install the MittoMagic bookmarklet, and use it to make screen selections in your web browser.
BrightEye Mitto control software Ensemble Designs Chris Merrick NAB NAB2011
BrightEye Mitto has the advantage of proprietary scaling technology and exclusive multi-tap filtering. The region selected for output determines if Mitto acts as an upconverter or downconverter. Even a small part of the computer screen, such as a YouTube video, will be upconverted to full HD. The filters automatically adjust in accordance with the conversion being performed.
How to get YouTube and Skype into your live show: Why does a scan converter need to upconvert? Mondae Hott demonstrates the Ensemble Designs BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter live from the new studio at Ensemble TV. Detailed info on setup, configurations and applications in post and broadcast. Applications include news, live shows, weather radar, maps, and viewer emails. 40 min
Do you need to color correct a monitor that is on a broadcast television studio news set? Chris Merrick reveals tricks on how to adjust color temperature of a video monitor that is on camera. BrightEye 72 from Ensemble Designs has SD and SD and HD SDI in with HDMI out and a built-in color corrector as well as caption decoding, audio VU monitors, and time code display.
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EnsembleDesigns — June 07, 2010 — Here are three new products for broadcast and post covered in this 90 second video hosted by Cindy Zuelsdorf and Chris Merrick of Ensemble Designs. 1-BrightEye Mitto professional scan converter for broadcast TV stations. http://www.brighteyemitto.com 2- BrightEye 72 SDI to HDMI converter for turning any monitor in high-end broadcast applications. 608 and 708 ca
Backpack broadcaster Vomodo uses Ensemble Designs' BrightEye Mitto Scan converter to get breaking news to air. Vomodo wifi backback is used for broadcast and is combined with Ensemble Designs' BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter for taking live stories to air.
New HD Scan Converter for broadcast applications, BrightEye Mitto™ from Ensemble Designs wins the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit Award at IBC 09.
http://ensembledesigns.com/products/bemitto
Mondae Hott of Ensemble Designs talks about the functionality of the Avenue control system and how it is the difference between Ensemble and its competitors.
Cindy Zuelsdorf , Marketing Czar, talks about what Ensemble Designs was like back in 1989 and why customers still love to do business with them.
David Wood talks about how new product decisions are made at Ensemble Designs.
Mondae Hott, Director of Sales at Ensemble Designs talks about visiting customers around the world including EPSN, Star, NASA, RAI and CBS News and about new 3 Gb/s ...
David Wood talks about why he started Ensemble Designs in 1989.