The Television Academy has announced the recipients of the 74th Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy Awards.
The annual awards honour an individual, company or organisation for developments in broadcast technology.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award
Recipient: ARRI
ARRI is awarded The Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award for its more than a century of designing and manufacturing camera and lighting systems as well as systemic technological solutions and service networks for a worldwide complex of film, broadcast and media industries.
This year’s seven (7) Engineering Emmy recipients are:
Recipients: Mark Hills and Marc Bakos for the Cleanfeed remote audio review/recording system
Cleanfeed is a high-fidelity “conference call” software as a service with a focus on audio production. It enables collaboration with audio-quality equivalent to all participants being together in the same studio and with low latencies for smooth interaction between talent. Cleanfeed‘s innovative technology has advanced workflows in the industry, including being accessible to at-home engineers and talent who use a straightforward link in their web browser to enable full-scale TV and film post-production.
Recipient: disguise Systems Ltd. for the disguise platform
The disguise platform is an advancement in image processing that incorporates elements of video playback and real-time technology to improve interaction between computer graphic elements, digital images and environments, physical actors, props, and practical sets.
Recipient: Industrial Light & Magic for the StageCraft virtual production tool suite
ILM StageCraft is an end-to-end virtual production tool suite that bridges the gap between practical physical production methodologies and traditional digital post-production visual effects by providing the ability to design, scout and light environments in advance of the shoot and then capture that vision in camera during principal photography. StageCraft brings together a real-time engine, a real-time renderer, high-quality color management, physical camera equipment, LED displays, motion-capture technologies, synchronization methodologies and tailored on-set user interfaces to digitally create the illusion of 3D backgrounds for live-action sets.
Recipients: Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley for the Leostream remote access software
Leostream‘s remote access and desktop connection management software enables news and entertainment organizations to create security-conscious remote production environments that are sustainable, performant and cost-effective. Its ability to mix and manage on-premises and cloud-based hosting platforms and support for multiple high-performance display protocols ensures the productivity of editors and production engineers, while simplifying IT. The ability to manage disparate technologies from a single management and access platform is a uniquely Leostream construct that enables organizations to advance the state of the art of their entire hosted desktop environment with an eye on integrating new technologies as they come to market.
Recipient: Shure Incorporated for the Axient Digital wireless audio system
The Shure Axient Digital Wireless System equips audio production teams with the wireless capabilities necessary to deliver transparent, true, artifact-free audio for television and television broadcasts with the highest-performance RF (radio frequency), exceptional audio quality, command and control, and hardware scalability necessary to tell stories seamlessly on the most demanding sets in the world.
Recipient: Sohonet for the ClearView Pivot remote collaboration tool
Sohonet‘s ClearView Pivot is a real-time remote collaboration tool with the flexibility to connect creative users at the click of a button, allowing the user to stream color and frame-accurate footage in 4K HDR, 12-bit color depth and 4:4:4 chroma sampling in real time with ultra-low latency. From a single web interface (and without having to set up new firewall configurations for each usage), ClearView is able to efficiently connect numerous participants for multi-point review sessions.
Recipients: Stype Cajic, Andrija Cajic, Daniel Kruselj and Ivica Antolkovic for the stYpe suite of optical/camera tracking tools
The stYpe suite of optical/tracking tools includes the first bolt-on mechanical tracking kit for camera cranes (StypeKit) that was used to retrofit existing cranes and transform them to virtual production cranes (complete with lens data delivered to an ethernet interface), resulting in the simplification of setup procedures and implementation of lens calibration procedures that eliminated graphics drift and, with the introduction of auto-aiming functionality, made VR shots smoother. Additionally, its optical-camera tracking system (RedSpy) produces a point cloud marker system used to calculate the position of the camera, which, in conjunction with StypeKit’s crane tracking, satisfies the most demanding needs of live productions.
The winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony on 28th September in Los Angeles.
Calendar of broadcasts-events of autumn 2022
September 9-12 – IBC 2022 – Netherlands, Amsterdam
September 19-22 – SCTE Cable Tec Expo – Philadelphia, USA
September 27 – Onlıne Round table «News of IBC 2022», TKT 1957 LCC
September 28 – Emmy Awards – Los Angeles, USA
September 30 – Pro-video, broadcast and mediashow KitPlus Show London – London, UK
October 4-5 – Pro-video, broadcast and mediashow KitPlus Show Bristol – Bristol, UK
October 11-12 – Conference Broadcasting/Pro AV Central Asia – Almaty, Kazakhstan
October 13-15 – Broadcasting and Infotainment Show Broadcast India – Mumbai, India
October 17-20 – NAB Show New York – New York, USA
October 17-18 – Post|Production Conference – New York, USA
Dates to be confirmed – Conference Broadcasting/Pro AV Armenia – Yerevan, Armenia
November 22-23 – Conference Broadcasting / Pro AV Azerbaijan – Baku, Azerbaijan.
