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Reality-2-Go receives the Television Broadcast 2006 Top Innovation Award
Products or technologies that receive the Television Broadcast Top Innovation Award are nominated by industry professionals and selected unanimously by the editorial team of Television Broadcast magazine. These awards are presented in recognition of Technology Insight for the Bottom Line™, having combined innovative technical achievement with workflow and cost efficiencies.


NAB2006, April 24-27, booth SL1208 and booth SU1341 with Miranda Technologies
Lanterna Magica will be launching three new indexing solutions: Reality-2-Go for portable, in-the-field, real-time indexing, Finality for off-line indexing and Reality HDV for live HDV indexing and native HDV storage. Plus, we'll be showing Reality v3.0 featuring advanced web-based pre-editing features. Come see our new indexing solutions at booth SL1208 and drop by Miranda Technologies' booth SU1341 to see the new Reality HDV in action.


Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) roundtables
Lanterna Magica's CTO, Jean-Denis Gingras, lead two roundtable discussions at the HPA Technology Retreat last February. The first, “Web-based Real-time Video Indexing” addressed the use of real-time indexing for unscripted show productions with short time-to-air. The second, ‘'HDV: Shoot, Index, Edit!'' was held with Miranda Technologies Inc. and presented indexing within an HDV production workflow. You may read the corresponding white papers here:
“Web-based Real-time Video Indexing”
‘HDV: Shoot, Index, Edit!''


Indexing Service - Press Release, November 29, 2005.
Lanterna Magica's new Indexing Service provides on-site on-line and ready-to-go video library. Generate new revenues by video redistribution, resale and repackaging. Television show producers, broadcasters and other companies with substantial video assets can now easily search and browse thousands of hours of material from any location in the world, select and play specific clips, and even email clips to colleagues with a new Indexing Service from Lanterna Magica.
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YB Productions on Reality
Producer and technical director Yves Beriault shares his experience with Reality on two reality TV shows in TV Technology User Report. “Reality is a terrific tool… helping to sift through hundreds of hours of footage… into shows that are coherent, compelling and dynamic''.
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HD Studio on Reality
Adding Reality to the chaos of video indexing. Anyone who's ever worked on a project that required the acquisition of large amounts of footage that must be quickly organized and cut down to a manageable 30-minute or one-hour show can use a little reality — Lanterna Magica's Reality video indexing and logging system, to be exact, which lets production companies spend 30 percent less time in the edit suite. And, as we all know, time is money.
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Television Broadcast's Two-Minute Drill
In just 2 minutes, learn about Reality, its usage and specificity, by listening to the Two-Minute Drill.


Reality - Press Release, November 7, 2005.
Lanterna Magica's Reality cuts production time, expense of reality TV:
Innovative, turnkey solution provides instant on-set access to video material and content descriptions. Lanterna Magica, the video indexing and logging specialist announces the launch of Reality, an innovative new system that streamlines the production of non-scripted television shows, allowing directors to create compelling storylines on the fly, in real time.
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