Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) will showcase for the first time in the United States (2011 NAB Show - Booth, #SL10205 Las Vegas Convention Center, South Lower Hall) its award-winning hybrid-cloud, multi-platform content operations and workflow management solution for the new era of broadcast operations. Called CLEAR, PFT crafted the system from the ground up to serve this crucial market for a 24/7 global production/post-production environment that can enable broadcasters’ to drive better efficiencies and higher revenue at lower operating costs in the face of demands like migrating to HDTV to delivering programming across divergent viewing platforms (Internet, TV, mobile) simultaneously.

Thinkbox Software, developers of Deadline, the popular network rendering solution, announces that global visual effects company Pixomondo has standardized on Deadline across its worldwide studios. Deadline has been installed at Pixomondo's facilities in Los Angeles, Burbank, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Beijing, Shanghai, Munich and Toronto.

Deadline offers a host of management options for render farms of all sizes, and the flexibility to run the software on the industry's widest range of platforms and rendering packages. Pixomondo chose Deadline after a lengthy research process in which the facility evaluated a number of render management solutions, eventually purchasing 500 licenses of Deadline to run on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux-based workstations.