Las Vegas, NV (April 25, 2023)—Mix is happy to announce the recipients of the 2023 Best of Show Awards. The Best of Show awards acknowledge innovation and excellence in new, just lately launched and pending services and products for skilled TV/video, radio/audio and AV merchandise and options. Winners had been chosen by panels {of professional} customers and journal and website editors.
The profitable merchandise had been (in alphabetical order):
Avid Media Composer
Shure Incorporated AD600 Axient Digital Spectrum Manager
Sound Devices A20-Nexus
The following is un-edited promotional data on every of the profitable merchandise, as supplied by the producers.
Avid Media Composer
“Earlier this 12 months, Avid delivered on what is taken into account the workflow enabler that media manufacturing groups have been asking for to considerably velocity up the put up manufacturing course of between image and sound workflows – Media Composer interoperability with Pro Tools.
Collaborating with the 40,000-member world Avid Community Association to carry this new innovation to market, Media Composer now speaks the identical language as Pro Tools. This interoperability makes the hand-off between editorial and audio put up groups fast and simple. Postproduction groups in TV, movie and training can now merely select “Pro Tools Session” from the Media Composer “Export to File” command and choose the parameters and choices they wish to embody of their export. Pro Tools customers can then simply double-click the ensuing session file to open it in Pro Tools together with the exported video and all edit factors. That easy!
Avid is uniquely positioned to streamline the method of exporting complicated sequences with video, audio and metadata all the way down to a single step, combining every part in a single export .PTX file that may be opened immediately in Pro Tools. This functionality allows groups to finish tasks sooner and remove expensive, time-consuming errors, whereas accelerating content material creation and supply for post-production workflows. This is step one in delivering ground-breaking collaborative workflows between Media Composer and Pro Tools, which was recognized as a important want throughout buyer workshops and can permit Avid to introduce a differentiated set of capabilities not accessible out there at the moment.
Avid additionally delivered the flexibility to supply world-class audio inside Media Composer by
providing full assist for Avid’s fully reimagined MBOX Studio audio interface for each Macs and Windows. Media Composer now supplies editors with a robust resolution for recording, punch-ins and multichannel monitoring of sequences in as much as 7.1 encompass sound. Access to the distinctive preamps and audio converters in MBOX Studio additionally allows customers to seize each sonic nuance of each efficiency with low-latency monitoring.”
Shure Incorporated AD600 Axient Digital Spectrum Manager
“In at the moment’s fast-paced and difficult RF environments, trade professionals search options that allow complete administration and coordination. RF environments require real-time scanning for planning and managing frequency coordination throughout skilled audio functions. Shure launched the Axient Digital AD600 Digital Spectrum Manager to supply trade professionals the instruments they want for real-time RF management.
The Shure Axient Digital AD600 Digital Spectrum Manager helps RF coordinators and audio professionals monitor real-time RF data to plan and coordinate frequencies in essentially the most difficult RF environments. This contains extremely televised broadcast media and leisure like Super Bowl LVI and the worldwide Tokyo-based athletic competitors held within the Summer of 2021.
The AD600 Axient Digital Spectrum Manager is the successor to the Shure AXT600 and continues to construct upon Shure’s portfolio of next-generation expertise that equips the trade with highly effective and complete RF coordination workflow instruments. The AD600 boasts sooner scanning that finds accessible frequencies and analyzes RF spectrum in real-time, streamlining website surveys and spectrum administration.
The AD600 Digital Spectrum Manager delivers wide-band spectrum scanning and monitoring from 174 MHz to 2.0 GHz, spectrum evaluation, and frequency coordination in a single rack unit. Six antenna connections ship a number of protection choices whereas Dante connectivity supplies superior audio monitoring of your community. Users can lean on the USB port to export, import, or save backup scans, occasion logs, and different necessary information. When used with further Axient Digital options, AD600 customers can profit from interference avoidance options accessible with ShowHyperlink, a function distinctive to the Axient Digital ecosystem that permits real-time management and communication with all ADX transmitters.
With AD600 customers can plan, scan, and deploy frequencies to their wi-fi community, or dive deep for full management in difficult RF environments due to the guided coordination options. These options have been put to the take a look at at main occasions all over the world, with Steve Caldwell, RF Coordinator, trusting the AD600 and Axient Digital in a number of the world’s most demanding RF conditions.
Speaking of its use on the worldwide Tokyo-based athletic competitors in 2021, Caldwell mentioned, “In my opinion, the perfect function of the AD600 is its means to pattern as much as six completely different antenna (or distribution community) sources concurrently. This allowed me to see comparable ranges of 4 separate antenna inputs (the Axient Digital Quadversity distribution) and two localized wideband antennas. This means to check the six discrete antennas allowed fairly correct localization of any transmitter within the Tokyo stadium. As the six antennas had been various in each location and beamwidth route, together with two antennas on the alternative aspect of the stadium on an RF over Fiber (RFoF) community, the flexibility to find a transmitter primarily based purely on RSSI was remarkably correct.”
The new AD600 Digital Spectrum Manager ensures RF coordinators and audio professionals have essentially the most correct RF data in essentially the most demanding audio functions.”
Sound Devices A20-Nexus
The Sound Devices A20-Nexus is an ultra-high efficiency wi-fi microphone receiver in a compact ½-rack extensive chassis. It options eight unbiased, true-diversity channels that may be expanded to 12 or 16 channels by way of software program licenses accessible for buy or lease from Sound Devices’ on-line retailer or licensed resellers. With Sound Devices’ SpectraBand expertise, the A20-Nexus receiver provides an unprecedented world tuning vary of 470-1525 MHz and distinctive RF filtering capabilities that permit it to make the most of authorized RF frequencies all over the place.
The A20-Nexus options Sound Devices’ proprietary NexLink distant management, an modern idea in wi-fi microphone receivers. With NexLink, the A20-Nexus permits full distant management of transmitters by way of an built-in, lengthy distance RF hyperlink.
The A20-Nexus additionally options an built-in RTSA (Real Time Spectrum Analyzer, permitting spectrum visibility whereas decoding audio. The A20-Nexus may be mounted in a normal 19-inch rack or simply positioned remotely close to the microphone transmitters attributable to its Power-over-Ethernet + (PoE+) functionality, its Dante audio-over-IP community means, and its built-in net server for management by way of cellphone, pill, or laptop.
Additionally, the A20-Nexus may be docked to Sound Devices 833, 888, or Scorpio mixer-recorders utilizing the A20-QuickDock accent, which supplies handy energy, audio, and timecode connections with no further cables. This accent permits the A20-Nexus to attach and disconnect from the 833, 888, or Scorpio in seconds with no instruments, and be distant mounted when desired. The A20-Nexus receiver is ideal for productions requiring full distant operation. Its mixture of options permits it to switch a number of gadgets in any RF skilled’s wi-fi toolkit, its versatile energy and management choices make it adaptable to any workflow, and its svelte type issue makes it equally at dwelling in a bag, on a sound cart, or taking over minimal house in a hard and fast set up.