This is an archive page, kept for reference. News items are listed newest first.
The trade shows and events from 2008 onwards, with photos, are now on the Events page.
2014
- 6 February 2014 - From 13 to 15 February 2014 IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBTS 2014 (Cinecittà 3, Rome) on the JVC booth.
2013
- 26 August 2013 - From 13 to 17 September IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBC 2013 (RAI Center, Amsterdam) on the BLT booth (Hall 8, booth A64).
2012
- 8 August 2012 - From 7 to 11 September IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBC 2012 (RAI Center, Amsterdam) on the Media-Alliance booth (Hall 8, booth B71).
- 23 March 2012 - From 30 March to 2 April IVS exhibits ivsEdits at Photoshow 2012 (Nuova Fiera di Roma, Rome) on the JVC booth (Hall 11, booth D16).
2011
- 19 August 2011 - From 9 to 13 September IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBC 2011 (RAI Center, Amsterdam) on the Media-Alliance booth (Hall 8, booth B71). See the map (file no longer available).
2010
- 2 September 2010 - From 10 to 14 September IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBC 2010 (RAI Center, Amsterdam) on the Media-Alliance booth (Hall 8, booth B71).
2009
- 3 September 2009 - From 11 to 15 September IVS exhibits ivsEdits at IBC 2009 (RAI Center, Amsterdam) on the Media-Alliance booth (Hall 8, booth B71).
- 6 August 2009 - ivsEdits 1.2.336c is available for download.
- 19 May 2009 - TV Forum Roma 2009: IVS is waiting for you on the Digital Rapids booth.
- 22 April 2009 - ivsEdits 1.1.323 is available for download.
2008
- 11 December 2008 - Promotion: until 20 February 2009 all PowerPack users can buy an ivsEdits licence saving up to 500 euro on the purchase price.
- 22 September 2008 - ivsEdits at IBC 2008: the photo report is below.
IBC 2008 photo report
Some pictures from IBC 2008 (Amsterdam, 12-16 September). On the Professional Show - SI Media booth IVS showed the latest developments of ivsEdits integrated in Kapricorn, the advanced playout and newsroom system developed and distributed by Professional Show.
Here is ivsEdits:
From left: Paolo, Stefano Mazzon (Professional Show IT manager), Roberto.
Roberto in the middle with Andrew Okunev (left) and Dmitry Nikitin from MediaLooks.
From left: Stefano Bossi (Mediaset), Alberto Panozzo (SI Media), Roberto, Paolo and Christian (Professional Show).
The touch-screen interface of the Kapricorn Live control panel.
Probably the generous rations of Parmigiano on our booth tables were the most interesting attraction of the entire hall.
A picture taken while dismantling the booth.
Special thanks to Mr. Girardi (head of Professional Show), Fabio Veggiato (Director of Sales, Professional Show) and Ivana (Sales Manager, Professional Show) for their welcome and amazing support.
2006
- 25 December 2006 - The IVS staff wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.
- 5 December 2006 - Millecanali writes about ivsEncoder in its November 2006 issue, page 88.
2005
- 23 December 2005 - The IVS staff wishes everyone a Merry Christmas.
- 16 October 2005 - IVS at IBTS-SMAU 2005: all the news about our Velocity products shown in Milan from 19 to 23 October, Hall 13, booth D21 (Imago Edizioni).
- 15 September 2005 - VelocityQ 8.5.44 D4 Build01: an IVS-exclusive upgrade for correct handling of DPS files with Quattrus on system, network and SAN disks.
- 7 September 2005 - ivsQdesktop v1.0: software emulating a broadcast VGA scan converter for Quattrus, with live and DVE support.
- 20 April 2005 - ivsNewsManager Server 3.2.1: added support for combined key and parsing of txt files.
- 17 April 2005 - NAB 2005: Leitch extends its HD product portfolio and announces VelocityHD 9.1, which among many improvements adds support for HDV and for Panasonic VariCam HD with variable frame rate.
- 8 April 2005 - Velocity 7.6 in Italian: by popular demand IVS will release the Italian update for Velocity 7.6.14 at the end of April, with a new and more complete capture module based on ivsEncoder.
- 8 April 2005 - IVS announces VelocityQ 9.1 in Italian, following the release of VelocityQ 9.1 planned for May.
- 14 March 2005 - Leitch announces VelocityQ 9.1, to be released in May.
- 10 January 2005 - The magazine Millecanali (December 2004 issue) publishes an article on IVS and Leitch about Velocity in Italian.
- 10 January 2005 - Broadcast & Production publishes the article "IVS a Quattrus Mani" on IVS and ivsNewsManager, described as an interesting solution for infochannel and multicast TV programmes.
- 10 January 2005 - ivsNewsManager v3.1.1.
2004
- 23 December 2004 - IVS wishes all its friends and customers a fantastic 2005.
- 16 December 2004 - Leitch acquires 100% of Inscriber Corporation, world leader in video titling.
- 12 December 2004 - The magazine Monitor publishes an article on ivsNewsManager ("La televisione si fa in Quattrus").
- 12 December 2004 - IVS releases ivsNewsManager 3.1, adding 3 more dynamic graphics playlists.
- 12 November 2004 - ivsNewsManager reaches full maturity: IVS releases version 3.0, with 5 additional playlists for a total of 10, all independent and dynamic. Free upgrade for owners of version 2.x.
- 19 October 2004 - IBTS 2004: great success for ivsNewsManager, Velocity 8.5.35 in Italian and the other products shown on the IVS booth.
- 9 October 2004 - IVS at IBTS: IVS will show VelocityHD 9.0 on Altitude high-definition hardware, VelocityQ 9.0 (beta), Velocity 8.5.35 in Italian (with many features not available in the English version), ivsNewsManager 2.1, Digital Fusion 4.0 and Digital Fusion 5.0. Booth C21, Hall 3/1.
- 8 October 2004 - ivsNewsManager 2.5 in beta, probably to be shown at IBTS 2004.
- 14 September 2004 - IVS report from IBC in Amsterdam.
- 10 September 2004 - IBC 2004: on the occasion of IBC in Amsterdam IVS releases ivsNewsManager 2.1.1.
- 7 September 2004 - IVS will attend IBC in Amsterdam unofficially from 10 to 13 September.
- 7 September 2004 - Great success for the promo of "Dici Ciao", made with ivsNewsManager and on air on NapoliTV since 4 August.
- 6 September 2004 - Since 13 August 2004 Telecapri Sport broadcasts 24 hours a day with ivsNewsManager, used to display the news with a double crawl.
- 6 September 2004 - Leitch invites all its customers to IBC in Amsterdam with a free entrance pass.
- 21 July 2004 - From August the Canon XL2 is on sale, with a 20x lens and professional features.
- 20 July 2004 - Panasonic introduces the AG-DVC60, a new shoulder-mount professional Mini DV camcorder.
- 19 July 2004 - IVS announces the upcoming release of Velocity 8.5, exclusive to users of Velocity in Italian (no such release was planned for the English version). The upgrade mainly concerns the user interface, improved according to user requests.
- 2 July 2004 - Major update of the IVS online price list.
- 29 June 2004 - IVS supplies equipment and technology to Univision Graphics for "Percorsi di Luce nella Reggia", an evocative night walk through the gardens of the Royal Palace of Caserta.
- 11 May 2004 - IVS announces the release of dpsVelocity 8.2.32 Plus in Italian, available to the public by 20 May 2004.
- 9 May 2004 - IVS collaborates on the TV production of the Naples City Marathon, broadcast by RAI, supplying a dpsVelocity for titling and video graphics.
- 30 April 2004 - Official release of ivsNewsManager 1.2, with pre-recorded audio and audio/video switching.
- 24 March 2004 - First delivery of ivsNewsManager 1.0.4 on an ivsQ workstation.
- 22 March 2004 - Bordeaux (France): first appearance of ivsNewsManager abroad, where it receives wide approval.
- 27 February 2004 - ivsNewsManager release 1.0, the forerunner of the ivsGOLIVE family of TV automation solutions.
Preview: Eyeon Digital Fusion 5
Eyeon Digital Fusion 5, shown by IVS at IBTS 2004, was the leading application for digital compositing, used for the visual effects of many contemporary films. Its success came from the efficiency of its compositing engine, its node-based flow and the DFScript scripting language, and version 5 added powerful 3D features.
Eyeon's preview of Fusion 5 highlighted these new features:
- Flow improvements: optional direct pipes between tools, a flow navigator for large flows, a find tool, and masks and their connections visible in the flow.
- ASCII compositions: projects are saved as text files (*.comp, previously *.flw) made of nested tables, easy to read and edit with DFScript or any other scripting language.
- OpenGL implementation: fully OpenGL-accelerated display views supporting a 3D environment where image planes, particles, text and basic shapes coexist, with a native camera able to import camera paths from most 3D applications and trackers.
- Masking improvements: polylines made of Bézier curves or B-splines, with single or inner/outer shapes for variable edge softness.
2003
- 20 November 2003 - IBTS 2003: IVS and Leitch announce their collaboration for IBTS 2003. On the Leitch booth IVS staff demonstrate dpsVelocityQ Quattrus and dpsVelocity, and present the world premiere of the Italian version of the Velocity software. Paolo Castellano (IVS managing director): "We are proud that Leitch has chosen us to represent its post-production products; we will present the world premiere of Velocity in Italian, the first and only high-end editing software available in our language."
- 30 October 2003 - MPEG-2 export and simultaneous output to tape with dpsVelocityQ, thanks to new drivers developed exclusively by IVS. After a year of development, changes to the dpsQuattrus drivers increased performance and reliability: full efficiency with system disks and maximum export speed for multimedia clips, with MPEG-2 export of a timeline complete with audio while recording to tape. The driver was initially available only on IVSQ systems, pending an agreement between IVS and Leitch to make it available to all users; dpsVelocity/dpsReality users would also benefit.
- 1 October 2003 - IVS becomes the exclusive Eyeon distributor (Digital Fusion and DFX+).
- 1 October 2003 - VelocityQ and Velocity 8.2 are available in Italian, an IVS-exclusive development: menus, windows, warnings and error messages of dpsVelocity have been translated. Free for all IVSQ users.
IBTS 2003 photo report
Some pictures taken at IBTS 2003 in Milan. On the Leitch booth IVS showed the latest developments of the Leitch post-production products Velocity and VelocityQ, together with the world premiere of Velocity in Italian, developed by IVS. The Italian version improved on the English one not only in the amount and quality of added information but also in ergonomics, thanks to the redesign of some windows.
Paolo Castellano shows the new Velocity+ and VelocityQ+ 8.2 with the Italian user interface.
Two snapshots from the meeting with Leitch management.
Some Leitch studio products shown at IBTS.
2002
- 27 September 2002 - IVS organises a large exhibition at the Holiday Inn hotel in Naples for early November.
- 24 September 2002 - IVS, Apple Solution Expert, organises its first Apple Day, with demonstrations of Final Cut Pro 3.0 on dual-processor Power Macs.
- 20 September 2002 - IVS sells its first dpsVelocityQ system.
2001
- 4 October 2001 - dpsQuattrus debuts at IBTS. The new Leitch board for the high-end video editing market handles up to 4 uncompressed video layers plus 6 graphics layers in real time, has a four-channel 3D DVE and is designed for two simultaneous live channels. It will go on sale after the release of Velocity 8.0, expected in April 2002.
- 14 September 2001 - Velocity 7.6.10 and Reality drivers 1.5.143 are available. Main improvements: integration with Digital Fusion 3.03/3.1 and DFX+ 3.03, remote control of the Panasonic WJ-MX20 mixer for streaming, faster multimedia export (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, QuickTime, WMV, RM, etc.) and customisable WMV export (no longer only 30 or 24 fps). Free update for all users of release 7.5.
Trade show calendar 2005-2012
The main international trade shows listed on the old site:
| Year | Event | Location and dates |
|---|
| 2012 | CeBIT | Hannover, 6-10 March |
| 2012 | Photoshow | Rome, 30 March - 2 April |
| 2012 | NAB | Las Vegas, 16-19 April |
| 2012 | Computex | Taipei |
| 2012 | SIGGRAPH | Los Angeles, 7-9 August |
| 2012 | IBC | Amsterdam, 7-11 September |
| 2011 | CeBIT | Hannover, 1-5 March |
| 2011 | Photoshow | Milan, 25-28 March |
| 2011 | NAB | Las Vegas, 11-14 April |
| 2011 | Computex | Taipei, 31 May - 4 June |
| 2011 | SIGGRAPH | Vancouver, 9-11 August |
| 2011 | IBC | Amsterdam, 9-13 September |
| 2010 | CeBIT | Hannover, 2-6 March |
| 2010 | Photoshow | Rome, 27-29 March |
| 2010 | NAB | Las Vegas, 12-15 April |
| 2010 | Computex | Taipei, 5-9 June |
| 2010 | SIGGRAPH | Los Angeles, 27-29 July |
| 2010 | IBC | Amsterdam, 10-14 September |
| 2009 | CeBIT | Hannover, 3-8 March |
| 2009 | Photoshow | Milan, 27-30 March |
| 2009 | NAB | Las Vegas, 20-23 April |
| 2009 | Computex | Taipei, 2-6 June |
| 2009 | SIGGRAPH | New Orleans, 4-6 August |
| 2009 | IBC | Amsterdam, 11-15 September |
| 2008 | CeBIT | Hannover, 4-9 March |
| 2008 | Photoshow | Rome, 5-7 April |
| 2008 | NAB | Las Vegas, 14-17 April |
| 2008 | Computex | Taipei |
| 2008 | SIGGRAPH | Los Angeles, 12-14 August |
| 2008 | IBC | Amsterdam, 12-16 September |
| 2007 | CeBIT | Hannover, 15-21 March |
| 2007 | Photoshow | Milan, 30 March - 2 April |
| 2007 | NAB | Las Vegas, 16-19 April |
| 2007 | Computex | Taipei, 5-9 June |
| 2007 | SIGGRAPH | San Diego, 7-9 August |
| 2007 | IBC | Amsterdam, 7-11 September |
| 2006 | CeBIT | Hannover, 9-15 March |
| 2006 | Photoshow | Rome, 18-20 March |
| 2006 | NAB | Las Vegas, 24-27 April |
| 2006 | Computex | Taipei, 6-10 June |
| 2006 | SIGGRAPH | Boston, 1-3 August |
| 2006 | IBC | Amsterdam, 8-12 September |
| 2005 | Photoshow | Milan, 4-7 March |
| 2005 | CeBIT | Hannover, 10-16 March |
| 2005 | NAB | Las Vegas, 18-21 April |
| 2005 | Computex | Taipei, 31 May - 4 June |
| 2005 | SIGGRAPH | Los Angeles, 2-4 August |
| 2005 | IBC | Amsterdam, 9-13 September |
| 2005 | SMAU/IBTS | Milan, 19-23 October |