Clients
There is no one way that we work with clients; each is unique in its personnel and ways of operating. We are highly adaptable and work very closely with clients as moving forwards together is vital to achieve the maximum.
Below is a list of companies we have worked with as Jump. At the end there is a more extensive list that Joss Armitage and Kate Ford have worked with over their years in the industry.
Current full-time clients:
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Image Systems
Image Systems provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, colour correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and post-production facilities use to master and deliver feature films, TV programs and commercials. The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for tapeless and non linear grading for HD broadcast and 2k/4k digital intermediate productions. The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media and entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities and broadcasters around the world.
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IMPALA (International MHEG Promotion Alliance)
IMPALA is an association of software manufacturers and supporters who are engaged with the use of interactive TV middleware MHEG. IMPALA, founded by Strategy & Technology (S&T), Cabot Communications and EchoStar Europe, promotes the use of the standard outside the UK for public service broadcasters in terrestrial, satellite or cable; wherever the use of low cost iTV technology is a benefit.
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LiveU
LiveU is the pioneer of broadcast-quality, video-over-cellular backpack solutions that allow live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. LiveU’s solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum throughput depending on which connections are available. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries across five continents, LiveU’s solutions have been used at high-profile events, including the red carpet at the Academy Awards®, GRAMMY Awards®, Super Bowl, Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding, Brazilian Carnival, World Cup in South Africa, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and President Obama’s inaugural train ride from Philadelphia to D.C.
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Pixel Power
Pixel Power is a leader in the development and production of SD and HD broadcast graphics systems, news production workflow tools and live interactive content with more than 2,000 installations worldwide. With a local presence around the world, the company’s award-winning solutions suit broadcasters, post-production houses and outside broadcast (OB) trucks of all sizes for distinctive, professional, reliable and cost-effective on-air graphics. Established in Cambridge, UK, in 1987, the company also has a wholly owned subsidiary office in the USA, and a dedicated network of distributors and support offices around the world.
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Rascular
Rascular is a broadcast software company based in the UK. It specialises in highly evolved device control and media management tools that provide operators with direct access to third-party hardware technologies. Flagship product Helm allows customers to pick best-of-breed devices – graphics technologies, routers, multiviewers, modular gear and more - from a range of different manufactures and provides a single, integrated, user-defined control/monitoring surface for operators. Helm, along with Commander, Mediant and the ET Updater range, is used by broadcasters and playout providers globally.
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Software Generation, Ltd (SGL)
SGL is a privately held archive management software company headquartered in Fareham, England. SGL has been in business since 1989 and its flagship FlashNet product is installed in over 4,500 customer sites around the world.
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SysMedia
SysMedia manufactures products to produce and transmit value-add content: subtitling and closed captioning, teletext, digital text services and interactive TV. With over 30 years of experience in this specialised sector, customers include BBC, BSkyB, Red Bee Media, Ascent Media, Technicolor, Teletext Ltd, ARD, RTÉ, TVNZ and over 100 others in more than 25 countries worldwide.
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Tedial
A content management company Tedial specialises in MAM, HSM and BPM software. Tedial enables broadcasters to truly take advantage of file-based workflows by optimising and automating their operation processes. Content is made available in the right format whenever needed and is delivered in the most efficient way regardless of the combination of equipment and systems used. With more than 50 reference sites, some of the world’s most complex and largest broadcast MAM systems use Tedial.
Occasional use clients:
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Altered Images
Since its inception over 10 years ago, Altered Images has specialised in delivering post production and media delivery solutions, installation and technical backup for a wide range of clients in production, post and broadcast, as well as a variety of corporate organisations. The company has become the leading supplier of post production, shared storage and delivery solution technology in the UK.
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BNT Priboy
BNT Priboy, based in St Petersburg, Russia, is a leading designer of cutting-edge integrated cooling systems for power electronics and power instrument engineering and manufacturing. With nine patents secured in the past two years, BNT Priboy has traditionally supplied air, liquid and combined type cooling systems for power amplifier blocks. IBC 2010 sees the company introduce a breakthrough in output power using integrated air cooling as demonstrated in a digital broadcast transmission amplifier equipped with the technology.
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Digital TV Labs
Digital TV Labs provides specialised consultancy, receiver testing products and services to validate digital receiver conformance across various worldwide geographies. The company delivers conformance regimes for operators and broadcasters covering terrestrial, satellite, cable and IP delivery. Digital TV Labs’ flagship Evora iSuite is a unique test framework incorporating multiple test suites covering over fifty countries and operators, and that can be quickly configured for new standards and specifications. Digital TV Labs has over 150 clients including all the major consumer electronic brands, manufacturers and semiconductor suppliers. For more information about Digital TV Labs visit:
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High Level TV
This is a new service that provides sophisticated aerial video shots for sports, news and drama applications. The High Level TV system is a mobile film unit, which can include a broadcast quality camera on a fully controllable pneumatic mast, mounted to a 4x4 vehicle or van. Providing a cost-effective alternative to helicopters and cherry pickers, the High Level TV service can capture that all important top-shot or aerial view of the action. Its instant mobility means a vehicle can be repositioned at any time.
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MWA Albrecht GmbH
Over the last 60 years the name MWA Albrecht GmbH has become synonymous with the highest engineering quality, and technical innovation; a tradition that continues today following MWA Nova’s takeover of the company at the end of 2002. Berlin based MWA Nova has retained the development and engineering aspects of Albrecht, and has implemented this in house expertise in the design of a new generation of film products, which promise the famous MWA engineering excellence at ground breaking prices.
Clients Joss Armitage and Kate Ford have worked with in the past include:
Aspex, Autocue, AMWA (MXF project), Boxx TV, Bradley Engineering, Chyron, Fighting Bull, The IABM, Media Links, MicroVideo, OmniTek, Pro-Bel, S&T, SSL, Tektronix, TSL and Trilogy.