Welcome to our first IBC blog. For those of you that do not know IBC is the 2nd biggest film and TV trade show in the world, and is held in Amsterdam every September. I was demonstrating for DFT the film scanning company who make the Spirit telecine and Kevin was driving the Film Master for Digital Vision.
Let’s start with some ICA news. As with NAB the ICA received lots of positive feedback in the press and from the public. Kevin ran 3×1 hour ICA spots in the IBC training zone, these sessions were very well attended with all 50 seats taken, people even stood at the back and viewed from outside the zone! We have also been asked to run training classes for Blackmagic DaVinci the newly formed alliance.
In general news Filmlight were back after missing NAB and their AVID to Baselight demo was impressive. Iridas had a larger and improved stand as did Mystika who are making a big push for color corrector sales in Europe. Blackmagic will continue to produce the DaVinci Resolve, with production of the 2Kplus being suspended. Tangent and Euphonix have both released low cost grading panels, a great addition to any FCP Color user. No Apple or RED stands at the show, but there was an Apple training setup and almost everyone showing RED camera support. There is still no clear choice of grading monitors as the obvious replacement to the widely used Sony CRT grading monitor.
The attendance seemed good in Hall 7 where all the post production manufacturers were housed, although I did hear reports of less crowded booths in other areas.
