Sony announced its plans for NAB Show 2024 with demos covering remote and distributed production, capture, monitoring, audio, cloud, and virtual production. A new 4K 60p PTZ camera will be among the new products demo-ed.
   

“NAB Show continues to be an opportunity for our brand to actively engage with the community and champion the latest technologies and workflows,” said Theresa Alesso, President, Imaging Products and Solutions Americas, Sony Electronics. “In recent years, we’ve prioritized improving innovations that are helping connect, reimagine, and streamline our customers’ efforts. We are committed to enhancing the benefits of IP, capture, cloud, and virtual production, which are changing the way our industry does business.”

Remote and Distributed Production

Sony’s Networked Live portfolio is an ecosystem designed to enable production resources to be optimally connected, used, and shared, regardless of location to facilitate remote and distributed production through on-premise and cloud hybrid solutions, the company said. It is comprised of three core applications: Contribution, Remote Production, and In-House Production.

Updates in this area include new V1.1 functionality for the NXL-ME80 LAN/WAN media transport appliance, expected summer 2024. This will allow the device to work as a receiver alongside the CBK-RPU7 remote production unit, in a private 5G communication environment. The firmware will also increase the channels in Ultra Low Latency mode and offer support for 24P format.

Cloud

Creators’ Cloud, Sony’s suite of cloud-based platforms and apps, supports individuals and enterprises with many versatile components, which can be used separately or together for increased power.

Ci Media Cloud, Sony’s collaboration and media management service, has added new ways to streamline production workflows and strengthen non-linear editing collaboration. A new integration with Marquis’ Medway provides automated ingest from Ci into Avid systems. Ci has significantly expanded its media processing capabilities with the addition of Colorfront Transkoder directly into the platform. Ci is also officially launching Ci Workflow to support fully automated visual effects (VFX) pulls.