Vintens New Vector 750i Nominated IABM Design Awards Candidate 2010
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Posted: 26/08/2010
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Vinten today announces its new Vector 750i - which will launch at IBC2010 - has been shortlisted as one of the ‘Top 10 most innovative in design’ by the IABM judging panel.
The Vector 750i is the first encoded pantographic head from Vinten and it delivers unsurpassed precision for virtual and augmented reality in outside broadcast and studio applications. Developed in collaboration with leading global customers, including Telegenic and Sportvision, it incorporates a new and innovative Intelligence Module to ensure the stable and precise placement of virtual graphics into the live environment.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have been nominated for this prestigious award,” said Andrew Butler, product manager. “The IABM received over 80 submissions for the Design Award this year, so to make it into the Top 10 is a real achievement for Vinten.”
“The Vector 750i has been developed to meet real user requirements so we are very pleased with the recognition and look forward to the awards ceremony at IBC2010 and continuing to develop innovative products in partnership with our customers,” Butler added.
The winners of the IABM Design Awards will be announced at IBC2010 on Saturday 11 September 2010. You can also find Vinten and the Vector 750i at IBC on stand 11.F60, near the Production Village.
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Vinten Wins Queens Award for Perfect Balance
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Posted: 26/04/2010
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Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand and global leader in camera supports, currently celebrating its 100th year of business, has today received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance. The innovation Award in particular recognises those organisations demonstrating substantial and sustained improvement in business performance and commercial success as a result of outstanding innovation in products or services.
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Fast and user-friendly tripod heads
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Posted: 15/03/2010
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THOMA Film- und Videotechnik, Sauerlach near Munich, presents their new Remote-Kit system. With it, conventional tripod heads can be converted quickly and easily into full-scale remote systems. The system is especially user-friendly due to the fact that it can be assembled and dismantled in just 20 minutes without any mechanical handling. This new development is appropriate for all modern Sachtler tripod heads. THOMA is developing the system further, so that in the future, Vinten heads will be compatible, as well.
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Vinten Radamec debuts the Fusion FP-188VR at NAB
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Posted: 15/03/2010
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Vinten Radamec®, a Vitec Group brand, debuts a Virtual Reality enabled version of its market leading robotic and manual pedestal at NAB 2010 (12-15 April, Las Vegas Convention Center).
The Fusion FP-188VR supports today’s studio camera packages on Fusion heads and has the ability to send precise positioning data for use with VR sets. Designed for automated studio operation the robotic pedestal senses its location on the floor from a small, L-shaped floor target which is unobtrusive and works with any floor surface. With over 700 installations worldwide, the new product will boost Vinten Radamec’s current offering.
Also showing is the LCS Legislative Control System which is now shipping for use with the Radamec 431 and Autocam HS-102 heads, as well as cost effective robotic solutions for small studios.
Technology demonstrations on the NAB exhibition floor will be incorporated into a dedicated VR set, showing Vinten Radamec products working live with software from leading graphics providers including Brainstorm and Orad.
Vinten Radamec will also demonstrate its control systems for production systems. For the newsroom environment it will show its ability to control third party products, such as Telemetrics tracking solutions and external cameras such as the Canon weatherproof head. This further demonstrates Vinten Radamec’s ability to offer an unrivalled and complete solution to global broadcasters, whatever the requirements.
Vinten Radamec can be found on booth C 6025 in the Central Hall at NAB2010. |
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Actors, puppets and virtual reality combined live!
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Posted: 25/02/2010
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Vinten Radamec, a Vitec Group brand, has supplied a Quattro SE pedestal with a Vision 250E head to Enfys Studios in Cardiff. The Quattro SE and 250E combination is specifically designed for work in conjunction with virtual environments, feeding high precision camera positioning detail to the graphics system to enable moves to be perfectly synchronised.
The new system was first used for Yn Yr Ardd (In the Garden), a pre-school series produced in HD by Flic Films for S4C. “The programmes create a magical world with an actor interacting freely with a number of animal puppets, all in a virtual world,” explained producer Sioned Eleri. “Our puppeteers are dressed in suits of Reflecmedia material, like the background, so we can key them out with the virtual environment. The freedom of movement we get from the new pedestal means we can make the action much more natural.”
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Vinten celebrates at NAB2010
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Posted: 25/02/2010
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Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand and global leader in camera supports, is celebrating its 100 year anniversary in 2010, an unprecedented achievement in the film and television industry. As part of the celebrations it will be rolling out new technology alongside its proven favourite products at NAB2010
Vinten is renowned for its Perfect Balance, the unrivalled ability to support a camera so that it appears weightless to the user. This, combined with fluid drag, ensures that the only moves the camera makes are those that the operator wants, with the camera remaining perfectly still – in any position – at the end of the move. Today Vinten provides Perfect Balance for virtually any camera, with the award winning Vision AS range (launched at NAB last year) matching payloads from 2k to 14.5kg, the Vector range of pan and tilt heads, and the Quattro range of pedestals which together provide top end support for large camera/lens/prompter combinations
As well as showing the breadth of the Vinten range of heads, tripods and pedestals, NAB2010 will also see the demonstration of new technology to meet emerging user requirements, such as supporting cameras with compact box lenses or HD EFP barrel lenses.
Also on display will be heads incorporating precision positional encoders, either to stream data to virtual studio graphics systems or to work in association with image stabilising lenses, eliminating lag in pans and tilts.
Vinten will be demonstrating some of its products in a studio environment and a broad selection of the range will be available for the visitors to get hands on experience
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Pedestals in a virtual world
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Posted: 29/01/2010
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Three Quattro SE pedestals with Vision 250E heads from Vinten Radamec, a Vitec Group brand , are being used by BBC Studios and Post Production for a new children’s show which combines live action and virtual reality. In Bamzooki Street Rules four teams of children design their own “zooks” – 3D computer-generated creatures – which compete with each other in a range of challenges. The zooks and their games are generated in real time, and the production design immerses the teams in what appears to be four floors of an industrial building. The series, for CBBC and BBC One, is produced in a four-wall studio at Pinewood.
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Vinten 100
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Posted: 25/01/2010
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Vinten is celebrating its centenary in 2010. It was on 1 January 1910 that William Vinten, already noted as a remarkable mechanical engineer, took over a workshop in Wardour Street in London as his own business, at first repairing then designing and building cameras.
On 7 January 1910 the new company won its first order, for 25 Kinemacolor Machines - high speed film printers for the Edison colour system - at £28 each.
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Vinten supports the X Factor
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Posted: 23/12/2009
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Capturing all the performances on ITV’s The X Factor – shot in London’s Fountain Studios - called for fast and fluid movement from the cameras. One of the ways to achieve that freedom was with the use of Vinten Quattro-S pedestals with Vision 250 heads, supplied by The Camera Store.
The Quattro-S pedestal retains all the advantages of the Vinten Quattro – perfect balance over the whole of its one metre height adjustment, with smooth and silent on-shot moves – but with a smaller footprint. Under the pressure of a fast-moving live show like The X Factor this means that more cameras could get close to the action in the confined area at the front of the stage.
“The whole show was all about creating high excitement, which means lots of unusual camera angles and plenty of movement,” said Simon Tyres, camera supervisor on the production. “The Vinten Quattro S allowed me to move wherever the director calls, and never restricts my movements. It is the perfect pedestal for live light entertainment.”
The X Factor is produced by Syco Productions and Talkback Thames. |
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The play’s the thing for The Camera Store and Vinten
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Posted: 10/11/2009
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In response to a tough challenge, Quattro pedestals from Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand and global leader in camera supports, have been modified for track use by The Camera Store. The new skated pedestal hybrid – now given the nickname Skquat – was developed to get cameras into the audience for the National Theatre’s NT Live project, which sends live coverage of plays from London to cinemas around the world.
Director Robin Lough and senior cameraman Paul Freeman recognised that the cameras needed to be in the audience to get the right coverage. The alternative, using cameras at the back of the auditorium with long lenses, leads to uninvolving images because of the foreshortening effect of the zoom. Getting closer to the action gave more intimacy.
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Vinten®, a Vitec Group brand and global leader in camera supports, is launching two new heads at IBC2010 in direct response to user demand. The new Vector 750i delivers unsurpassed precision for virtual and augmented reality in outside broadcast and studio applications. The new Vector 430 is a compact head with a very wide payload range, meeting the needs of production companies working with multiple camera set-ups.