Livewire Digital announces continuing collaboration with Blackmagic Design to provide a simple, low cost, IP newsgathering workflow for live HD video
Journalists in the field can now use a broadcast camera and a laptop to deliver low latency, high quality, live HD video to the studio.
In 2012, Livewire Digital introduced live capture from Blackmagic’s new range of Thunderbolt and USB3 UltraStudio and Intensity products to enable connections from SDI and HDMI video and audio sources for both Windows and OSX users working with M-Link Live X live video over IP software.
As Blackmagic has added new products to the range, Livewire Digital has ensured that M-Link is compatible, offering customers maximum flexibility. The introduction of the new pocket-sized UltraStudio Mini Recorder and Mini Monitor1 from Blackmagic bring a new level of affordability, convenience and compactness to OSX users, adding less than 300 grams to a camera kit, powered over the Thunderbolt connection, whilst providing direct feeds from HD-SDI and HDMI sources.
Livewire Digital’s M-Link Live X software is simple and intuitive to use and automatically controls the BGAN satellite uplink and shuts it down at the end of a transmission. M-Link is in use around the globe for live links from the field using available IP networks such as 3G/4G, mobile satellite links including Inmarsat BGAN, Thuraya-IP, Iridium Pilot, VSAT, Ka-band, DSL and other broadband networks.
Livewire Digital enabled low cost delivery of broadcast video over very low bandwidth satellite links over 20 years ago, since then, the UK-based company has been leveraging emerging technologies to ensure M-Link stays at the forefront of broadcast newsgathering solutions.
About Livewire Digital Ltd
Livewire Digital Ltd. is a leading provider of live and store and forward video solutions for Mac and Windows platforms and has in-depth knowledge in satellite communications such as Inmarsat. Livewire Digital also offers bespoke hardware and software solutions and a range of HD cameras designed for extreme sports.
For further information on Livewire Digital please visit www.livewire.co.uk
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1. The Mini Recorder and Mini Monitor enable a journalist to connect an HD SDI or HDMI source, such as a broadcast camera, to a MacBook Pro or other Thunderbolt-equipped Apple computer and work with the live video and audio signal in compatible video processing applications.
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