Carolyn Giardina

The EVO shared storage platform from Studio Network Solutions is getting a performance boost at IBC2026, as well as compatibility with Media Composer 2026.8 Enterprise.

MovieLabs, the nonprofit technology joint venture founded by Hollywood studios, is using the occasion of IBC2026 to unwrap version 3.0 of its Ontology for Media Creation (OMC), which is aimed at providing software applications with a common language for describing narrative and production elements and the ability for them to interoperate with a common data exchange format.

Pixotope has announced a unified virtual production platform that offers all its capabilities across three editions, available with the Pixotope 26.3 release.

Panelists explored the potential of agentic AI in news production, distribution, and broadcast operations – as well as issues such as governance of AI – during a Friday panel titled “Platform-Native News in the Agentic AI Era.”

ACE Eddie-winning and BAFTA-nominated film editor Ant Boys, whose work includes The Great and Veep, discussed his latest film, the comedy/drama The Invite, and shared his views on the potential of AI in film editing, during a conversation at the IBC Conference yesterday, presented by American Cinema Editors.

Studio Network Solutions is announcing a new tier of its on-premise AI Suite, as well as browser-based upload capability for Outpost, its cloud-native review and approval tool.

As well as unwrapping DaVinci Resolve 21.1, and showcasing enhancements to Blackmagic Cloud, Blackmagic Design is highlighting native support for SMPTE ST 2110 standards in Hall 7.

Premiere's Generative Media Tool launched at IBC with its first two publicly available features, Generate Video and Generate Sound Effects, and with Generate Music and Generate Soundscape in beta.

There's a shared global responsibility to address piracy, authenticity, and provenance at this critical time, panellists agreed during the recent IBC Conference session, “Security, Authenticity and Provenance: How can we trust the content we have now and in the future?”

MovieLabs launched version 3.0 of its Ontology for Media Creation (OMC), developed to provide software applications a common language for describing narrative and production elements and ability for them to interoperate with a common data exchange format.