Bill Hadsell joins Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, as product manager responsible for the Ignite automated production system and the Vertigo Suite for branding graphics automation and asset management. Hadsell brings to the position many years of experience in product management and design for the broadcast industry.
“These two product families play important roles in the operations of our customers, automating production and enhancing broadcast graphics,” said Hadsell. “I’m looking forward to building on the success already enjoyed by these solutions and working with our development team to add even more features that address the needs of the market.”
The Ignite automated production system allows a single operator to manage control room devices used to produce live newscasts and event programming. With Ignite technology, users can easily control on-air timing, accommodate last-minute show changes and direct any type of production on the fly. The solution also provides more opportunities to repurpose content for digital multicasting and webcasts, increasing overall production value.
The Vertigo Suite for branding graphics automation and asset management is designed for easy and highly productive graphics generation. Scalable to meet the needs of a wide variety of broadcast environments without the high operating costs, Vertigo simplifies the creation of sophisticated, multilayer graphics combining text crawls, animated graphics, DVEs and audio inserts. Vertigo delivers a choice of highly productive workflows and a choice of dynamic rendering models using graphics templates, which suit even the most demanding applications, such as business news graphics.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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