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ToolsOnAir introduces LiveCut for tapeless multicamera productions (7/4/2009)

Software maker ToolsOnAir and post-production supervisor Christof Halasz are introducing a tapeless multicamera workflow system for daily soap productions and near-live events at the NAB in Las Vegas. "LiveCut" significantly reduces the all-over production time of multicamera productions by completely eliminating the time consuming tasks known from traditional tape based workflows.

While recording up to 16 cameras simultaneously, "LiveCut" records a vision mixers edits in an edit decision list (EDL). This is then processed into a multiclipsequence in FinalCut Pro, syncronized, tracklayed and ready for review & postproduction in a couple of moments. Directors can take notes and set markers during the recording, as well as differ good from bad takes; these do show up in FinalCut Pro, making it easy for editors to continue with postproduction.

Productions using LiveCut save valuable time that is otherwise wasted on capturing tapes, logging, searching for footage or other tedious manual tasks.

Easy Integration

Thanks to LiveCuts usage of worldwide standards, it easily integrates into existing multi-camera setups. "Together with Telestream's "Pipeline" ingest solution, LiveCut offers a low-cost, low-space & low-power solution for use in OB-vans," says Gilbert Leb, VP Sales of ToolsOnAir.

www.toolsonair.com 

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