BoinxTV Gears Up for Back to School Season: Turning Classrooms into Live TV Studios

Puchheim, Germany (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

Boinx Software?s Apple Design Award winning live video production ?broadcast truck without the truck? software is gearing up for the 2011 back to school season with classrooms and schools all over the country. As more and more educators strive to integrate technology into the classroom, BoinxTV has quickly become a fan favorite among students and teachers alike for its user-friendly workflow and engaging video production capabilities. From creating a school news show, to broadcasting school events, conducting live interviews, or even making a full documentary, BoinxTV makes classroom projects more vivid and exciting, resulting in higher retention rates and increased student participation. ?The BoinxTV application is like having a TV studio in the classroom,? says Peter Goetz, Kentfield Schools. ?The look, feel, and results are very professional, and the students fall right into their roles as engineer, writer, director, pundit, or special guest. Whether filming high-resolution videos or broadcasting a news show to a uStream audience, this is a classy and cost-effective way to do realistic media production with teenagers.? Take a quick tour of BoinxTV here: http://bit.ly/nrHZ89.

A Remarkable Learning Experience with Immediate Results

BoinxTV not only presents students with a remarkable and beneficial learning experience in today?s digital world, but also gives students an immediate sense of achievement. It keeps students interested and engaged by simplifying the video production workflow. Its real time capture and edit capabilities allow students to focus on the content rather than the editing, while at the same time empowering them to create visually appealing videos that look as if they were produced by a real TV production company. For those students who want to be in front of the camera, like news anchors, delivering the latest hot topics from campus, BoinxTV turns them into TV stars ? and for those who enjoy behind the scenes work, BoinxTV?s easy-to-use interface and built-in templates allow students to roll out professional looking video broadcasts within just minutes, no post-production work necessary. A basic BoinxTV video production can be completed in the timeframe of one class ? cuts, graphic effects, titles and more are all applied easily during the recording of the project.

Limitless Creative Possibilities on a Dime!

BoinxTV provides educational institutions with an affordable, scalable and easy-to-learn solution to build a low-cost TV studio, even with multiple cameras. Students receive all the necessary features and possibilities of expensive studio hardware, in our much more convenient, cost effective, and easy to handle software package. From creating documentaries, to conducting live interviews, and original newscasts, BoinxTV gives students limitless possibilities for producing high quality shows in less time and at a fraction of the cost. ?We use BoinxTV for our live news program,? says Zachary McNaughton, Digital Audio & Video Electronics Instructor, RVTC School District. ?We love the software for what it does! It gives us the look we need during the live show and also eliminates editing for us after the live production. This year we will be building a real news set and really spicing things up for the show!?

Narrowing the Gap Between School and Community

BoinxTV not only offers schools an affordable, scalable and easy-to-learn solution to build a low-cost TV studio right in the classroom, but it also opens up remarkable opportunities narrow the gap between school and community. Students and faculty can easily record school events, plays, sports games, and more, and broadcast to the community via Internet or Public Access TV. ?We use BoinxTV to broadcast live news each and every morning at our elementary school,? says Reed Brotherton, Technology Integration Enhancement Specialist, Fowler School District. ?The broadcast consists of anything from current events, to the weather, birthdays, and more. Each student on the team has a role for the day. The great thing is that they?re already trained and I don?t really have to do anything except for watch them and be proud.?

To learn more ways of integrating BoinxTV into the classroom curriculum, please visit: http://boinx.com/boinxtv/use/school/.

About BoinxTV

BoinxTV, winner of the Apple Design Award 2009, is a revolutionary tool for Mac OS X for creating Live to Disk, Live to Internet, and Live to Stage video. With BoinxTV, you can create stunning studio shows, podcasts, sports events, concerts, interviews, sermons, lectures, seminars and more, using your Mac and multiple cameras. Acting like your own personal TV truck ? minus the truck - BoinxTV combines live camera video, clips, photos, 3D graphics, lower thirds, audio, and more to create stunning broadcasts with a professional touch in minimum post-production time.

Availability and Pricing

Download a free 30-day demo license of BoinxTV via http://www.boinx.com/download. For education and volume licensing (multi-seat) of BoinxTV, please contact sales@boinx.com.

About Boinx Software

Boinx Software Ltd. is located in Puchheim, near Munich, Germany. Boinx Software develops award-winning animation, video production and photography software for the Mac platform and iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod. Boinx iStopMotion is the leading solution for stop motion animation and time lapse capture and won the O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Award in 2003. Boinx FotoMagico, winner of two Apple Design Awards??Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application Runner?up 2008? and ?Best Mac OS X User Experience Runner?up 2006,? is a presentation tool for professional photographers. BoinxTV, winner of the ?Apple Design Award 2009,? is revolutionary live production software that turns any Mac into a TV studio. Boinx PhotoPresenter, winner of the Apple Design Award 2005 ?Best Mac OS X Student Product,? is a quick slideshow tool with a variety of pre?built templates. Boinx Mousepos? is the indispensable mouse pointer-highlighting tool for users developing presentations, training or demos. ?You Gotta See This!? is Boinx?s very first iPhone 4 app that works off of 4th generation gyroscope technology to create amazing 360-degree photo collages. LightLoupe, Boinx?s first iPad application, provides photographers with an on-the-spot analysis of the technical quality of their photos and VGA connection capabilities for viewing photos on the big screen.

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For more information please visit: http://www.boinx.com.

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JVC to Introduce Video/Still Hybrid Cam That Puts Pro Shooting Capabilities Into Anyone's Hands: GC-PX10

Sydney, NSW (PRWEB) September 08, 2011

JVC (Victor Company of Japan, Limited) is launching the new GC-PX10 digital memory camera to select markets around the world. This camera is capable of satisfying users both in terms of digital still photography and video recording, and offers unique advantages of being a ?hybrid? camera. In addition to being able to take 12 Megapixel stills and Full HD video with a single camera, it also lets users capture pristine stills from video. Since video is recorded in progressive format, with an amazingly fast 36 Mbps sampling rate to enable the intake of larger amounts of visual data, each frame of video is a crystal clear still image without blur. Adding to its appeal are consecutive still shooting at 50 shots per second, as well as high-speed video shooting at 250 frames per second to yield super-slow motion footage. Its design emphasises stable shooting of both still and moving images, thus featuring an ?L? shape similar to SLR cameras (but with much less bulk) to encourage two-handed holding.

GC-PX10 was created based on a single premise ? that beautiful video consists of a series of beautiful still images. These HD Hybrid Cameras succeed in putting both beautiful moving and still images into the hands of virtually anyone. Video is Full HD 1920 x 1080, but more importantly, Progressive recording means each individual frame offers complete visual information unlike interlace in which each frame only includes half the visual information. And since the sampling rate is an extremely fast 36 Mbps, the visual information included in each frame is extremely clear and detailed. What this means for the user is that he or she can shoot hours of video and later go back to pick out any moment and save it as a high quality still image ? just by pressing a button. With this function, anybody can take impressive ?hero shots? that would otherwise be missed, like ensuring a return on your investment.

Of course, the camera allows digital still shooting in real time also, with up to 12 Megapixel resolution (4000 x 3000). An ISO6400 mode is available for increased sensitivity when shooting in dark environments. Rapid-fire still shooting is also possible (3840 x 2160), at 50 shots per second, up to 130 shots total per burst. This actually surpasses the capabilities of other Digital SLR cameras currently on the market.

Super-slow motion is an effective tool for analysing form and technique of athletes. GC-PX10 can shoot video at 250 frames per second, which when played back, slows movement down to 5-times normal speed. Image resolution is VGA (640 x 360), making it more than sufficient for online posting and viewing. But more importantly, this camera allows this mode to be used for up to approximately 2 hours straight. So, to offer an extreme example, it?s possible to record an entire football game in super-slow motion.

Key to all of this visual capability is JVC?s high-speed imaging engine, FALCONBRID. This JVC-original processor was released in December 2010 and has since been featured as the core technology in JVC?s 3D camcorder GS-TD1, as well as the latest Everio lineup. In terms of performance, FALCONBRID is a next-generation ready 1-chip technology that?s actually capable of processing 4K2K images. As such, it is readily able to handle the high-speed processing of both high-resolution moving and still images required for GC-PX10. Other support technologies that went into the GC-PX10 include the 1/2.3? 12.75 Megapixel Back-Illuminated CMOS sensor, Optical Image Stabilisation with Advanced Image Stabiliser function, KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS, 19x Dynamic Zoom* with no image degradation when zoomed, K2 technology for high quality sound, 32GB internal memory, tiltable 3? Touch Panel monitor, HDMI output, and bundled LoiLoScope FX software (for Windows?).

The GC-PX10 is scheduled for an October launch in Australia, RRP $ 1099.

*18x when Advanced Image Stabiliser set to ON.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements. These involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary or differ materially from those projected.

Microsoft? and Windows? are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All brand names are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders.

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Lenel and IQinVision Announce Plans to Enter into a Partnership

San Juan Capistrano, CA (PRWEB) October 05, 2011

IQinVision (http://www.iqeye.com), market leader in high-performance HD megapixel IP cameras, today announced that Lenel Systems International plans to enter into a bundling agreement with IQinVision under which Lenel will package the newest IQeye standard and HD/megapixel H.264 network cameras with Lenel?s Video Channel License.

As part of the agreement, IQinVision IP surveillance cameras will be added to the Lenel pricebook with large cost savings for Lenel?s Value Added Resellers. Lenel is a business of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

More than 50 IQeye IP cameras will be offered as bundling options from Lenel, including the highly-popular IQeye Alliance-pro Series. IQeye cameras integrate with a wide range of NVR/VMS products including Lenel?s flagship security platform, OnGuard?, which seamlessly integrates a full suite of security management functions and technologies using an open architecture design. In addition to the LNVR channel license, Lenel will be including licenses for their Smart Video Motion Detection and Invalid Camera Intelligent Video Solutions.

?IQinVision?s high-resolution camera systems continue to set the standard for the new generation of security cameras. With over a decade of experience manufacturing megapixel IP cameras for surveillance, IQinVision is a proven leader when it comes to innovation, quality and performance,? said Jonathan Lewit, Product Manager for Lenel?s Digital Video Solutions. ?By offering our customers these new camera bundles, we will not only save them money but ensure that they have a superior IP camera.?

?We are proud to partner with an industry leader like Lenel to offer their customers this exceptional value,? said Paul Bodell, IQinVision Business Development. ?Lenel?s commitment to open architecture and giving their customers a wide range of choices is unparalleled. We look forward to a successful partnership with Lenel to make our IQeye HD megapixel cameras available at highly attractive prices.?

The IQeye Alliance-pro Series cameras are H.264 vandal domes that provide the highest quality video with the lowest bandwidth consumption. They are available in VGA, 720p, 1080p, 3MP, and 5MP resolutions, indoor or outdoor models, and standard and true day/night models. IQeye Alliance-pro Series cameras also have multi-stream H.264/MJPEG, full duplex two-way audio, on-camera recording, and analog video out for easy focusing during installation. They are also ONVIF and PSIA compliant.

IQinVision?s H.264 cameras use Main Profile encoding, which offers the most efficient video compression available while maintaining a smooth, high quality image and low network bandwidth utilization, resulting in lower storage costs.

About IQinVision

Since 1998, IQinVision has been designing the quality engineered IQeye line of HD megapixel cameras. IQinVision is a world leader in IP network camera products, renowned for image quality, stability, and reliability in the most demanding network environments. IQinVision was first to market with megapixel IP cameras, HD cameras with on-camera recording, intelligent network cameras, and a long list of other industry firsts. IQeye cameras are integrated with all leading Network Video Recorders (NVR) and can also be used for fail-over recording, as stand-alone event recorders, and as distributed processing platforms for video analytics. The company?s products are widely deployed in government, military, city center, property management, education, retail, casino, transportation, and multiple other vertical applications. IQinVision is a privately-held corporation headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with a regional office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For more information: http://www.iqeye.com

About Lenel Systems International, Inc.

Lenel provides enterprise software, integrated systems and access control systems to manage multiple security systems, real-time intelligent video content analysis, biometric access, smart card applications, and visitor management systems for corporate and government security customers. Lenel is a business of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), which provides fire safety and security solutions to more than one million customers worldwide. Headquartered in Connecticut, UTC Fire & Security is a business unit of United Technologies Corp., which provides high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries worldwide. More information about Lenel and UTC Fire & Security can be found on their Web sites at http://www.lenel.com and http://www.utcfireandsecurity.com.

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Float Turns the iPad Into a Collaborative Web Browsing Tool with Launch of RabbleBrowser? 2.0

Morton, Ill. (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

Float Mobile Learning announced today the release of RabbleBrowser? 2.0, a collaborative Web browsing tool for the Apple iPad.

Building on the success of RabbleBrowser? 1.0, Float has made dramatic changes to improve and enhance the usability and effectivity of the RabbleBrowser? app with version 2.0. In addition to letting users print and share images, documents, multimedia and bookmarks directly from the iPad, the 2.0 version of the app now lets users share files using Dropbox.

Unlike basic presentation apps, RabbleBrowser? enables a facilitator to guide an unlimited number of people through a Web browsing session or demonstration on iPads connected through a shared Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network. The app also uses both devices? bandwidth for a faster browsing experience. Social media tools are integrated so anyone in the session can share URLs to the Web via email, Facebook and Twitter.

Participants can also collaborate using RabbleBrowser? group and/or private chat, as well as bookmark editing and sharing. Facilitators have the option to configure VGA output to project their screen for presentation settings.

?RabbleBrowser 2.0 is the ultimate collaboration tool for classrooms, meetings, trade shows, presentations and just about any group environment you can think of,? said Float Managing Director Chad Udell.

?For the first time ever, you have a group presentation tool combined with a shared Web browsing tool for an even more powerful collaborative experience. On top of that, the added functionality and integration with features like Dropbox provide an ideal setup for when you need to work with or present to those around you.?

How does it work?

?????Download RabbleBrowser? 2.0 from the Apple App Store

?????Connect to the same Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection as other iPads around you

?????Begin sharing with an unlimited number of iPads

What can RabbleBrowser? 2.0 do?

?????Share files such as PowerPoints and PDFs saved on Dropbox

?????Share photos, videos and other multimedia with other iPads

?????Save and edit bookmarks directly in the app

?????Enter group or private chat for increased communication and collaboration

?????Send URLs directly to email, Facebook or Twitter

?????Print documents with AirPrint

RabbleBrowser? does not require any cables or wires. No registration or authentication with third-party services is required, and no subscription charges or in-app purchases are needed.

RabbleBrowser? is available for purchase in the App Store for $ 1.99.

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Kindle Fire Magically Transforms into Guitar Tuner

Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) January 09, 2012

As the Kindle Fire heats up the marketplace, developers work to reach an audience still amazed by their first magical tablet. One such company is Web Flex Media LLC, a Denver-based developer of interactive music tools. Their latest effort is a guitar tuner that helps musicians tune by ear using the sound of each string. The free version of Guitar Tuner supports standard tuning, while the full featured, Guitar Tuner PLUS includes the seven most popular alternate tunings.

Ben Long is a co-founder and music composer for interactive media. He explains how the app came to be: "It dawned on me that modern guitar tuners only require eyesight to tune a guitar, while the ears often take a rest. The old fashioned tuning fork forces critical listening and this ultimately improves your pitch and musicality. We decided to emulate that experience on the Kindle Fire."

The web-based version is completely free to use and can be accessed on any flash compatible web browser. The company plans to release a full line of products in 2012 and port all existing apps from Flash to HTML5 with the long tern goal of functionality on every mobile device.

John Battagline, a co-founder and veteran programmer, explains the companies position in the marketplace: "The Kindle Fire will permanently change the mobile landscape and create a unique opportunity for app creators. We are looking at various ad networks for the free version although most of the free apps on the Fire are not taking advantage of ad revenue. For now, the conversions from free to the paid version are the main focus. There is a large part of the population that has never owned a tablet and now they can use it to tune their guitars."

About Web Flex Media LLC: Web Flex Media is a developer of free, interactive music tools for web and Kindle Fire.

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