Red Bee Media builds bridges between content and viewers, providing technology and creative solutions to broadcasters, channels, content rights holders and brand owners.
Its UK HQ, which occupies a modern facility and broadcast centre in West London, has amassed a prestigious customer base including the BBC, Channel 4 and Virgin Media TV.
Red Bee Media provides a range of playout, asset management and promotional services
to VMTV. The two companies are linked via an advanced digital workflow infrastructure, enabling operators at both locations to exchange content quickly and easily, and work collaboratively in a highly efficient, file-based, end-to-end environment.

Red Bee Media uses Marquis' Medway software as an integrated element in the workflow infrastructure where it allows large HD originated media to move at full network speed between the various post-production applications in use. Media moves seamlessly without the delays that may otherwise arise from the differences in system file formats.
Medway also helps to manage media metadata, thereby minimising the manual input of data so that operators have more time for creative tasks.

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At IBC 2010, Marquis will be highlighting an extended range of video codecs and file formats supported by its Media Highway Technology, the underlying technology on which all Marquis products are built.

Codec and format support will be available for AVC Intra, XDCam50 HD and XDCam35 HD.

Marquis will also be demonstrating its Media Highway Technology with support for 24 frames per second frame rate and 1080p HD material.

Finally, uncompressed HD will also be supported for the Apple Final Cut Pro edit platform.

To book a demonstration at IBC click here

Marquis Consulting has expanded its team with the appointment of Mike Cronk as Senior Partner. As a much respected personality in the international broadcast industry and with over thirty years of broadcast experience, the last ten at board level, Cronk will bring a further breadth of experience to the Marquis partnership.

Cronk previously held the position of Controller Future Media, Technology and Distribution at BBC Global News and led broadcast and distribution technology and operations across the Global News output. In this and earlier positions Cronk played key roles in a number of major projects including migrating workflow environments from analogue to digital technology, the launch of the BBC's Arabic and Persian TV channels as well as leading a number of successful transmission and distribution projects in the UK and overseas.

At Marquis Consulting, Cronk will undertake a pivotal role advising customers in the areas of strategic technology direction, programme distribution, advanced broadcasting systems design, integration and implementation.

Over the past few years we have seen an enormous change in the relationship between the broadcast and gambling worlds. Regulation in Europe is now starting to change radically, presenting barriers and opportunities to existing or would be operators.

In the UK advertising gambling services have been permitted on TV for some time, and with the shift in Ofcom's licensing to recognise gambling as Teleshopping we now have clearer opportunity for broadcasters and gambling operators to work together to bring new transactional revenue generating content to TV audiences.

Geoff Wright, Associate of Marquis, featured in this latest discussion which examines the commercial, technical and regulatory developments together with the opportunities that both broadcasters and gambling service operators face today.

To view the panel discussion in full click here