Inter BEE 2018

GSS had a successful trip to Inter BEE 2018 last month, Japan’s annual broadcast electronic conference and exhibition. Totsu International, our sales partner for the Japanese market, shared our advanced gimbal technologies with the Japanese broadcast audience.

GSS Japan Sales & Support Partner Totsu International President Akira Ito, Koichi Ogata and Takeshi Sasadate.

Totsu International has represented Cineflex and GSS products in the law enforcement, government, broadcast and production markets for over a decade. Their experience and knowledge of the industry has allowed us to grow our presence and market share in Japan. At this year’s Inter BEE, we showcased our Cineflex Broadcast series gimbals specifically tailored for the Japanese market, the GSS Cineflex Premier and Cineflex T2.

Customers had a chance to try out our gimbal at the Totsu booth.

Inter Bee, formerly named the Broadcast Equipment Exhibition, has showcased the latest in broadcast electronics in Tokyo since 1965. It was a privilege to attend alongside some of the world’s most advanced technology. It has continued to be a great opportunity to share our systems.

Learn more about our Cineflex Broadcast systems here.

GSS at IBC 2018

Next week, GSS will attend IBC 2018 in Amsterdam, a six-day conference and exposition showcasing leaders in technology, media and entertainment.

We are so honored for this opportunity and invite everyone to visit our booth in Hall 12, booth E56.

Originally known as the International Broadcasting Convention, IBC was founded in 1967 and featured 32 exhibitors. Since then, hundreds of keynote speakers and thousands of guests from nearly 20 countries attend annually for 15 halls of exhibits from the world’s top media contributors.

The convention allows engineers, content providers, researchers and more from all industries to collaborate, teach and showcase their latest projects. This year’s featured guests include The BBC’s Research and Development, Verizon’s Digital Media Services, and Vimeo.

We are excited for this incredible chance to showcase our gimbals with professionals in film, broadcast and more.

Contact Jason or Nick for meeting requests during the event. If you have questions, stop by our booth; we’ll be meeting with people all day and look forward to showing our tech.

We hope to see you there! Until then, follow our Instagram @gyrostabilizedsystems and the blog for the event recap.

GSS Used In The French Rally Championship

This past May, the GSS Cineflex gimbal was used to film the 53rd Antibes Côte d’Azur Rally of the French Rally Championship. More than 170 teams raced cars during the Antibes portion of the championship from May 18 to 20 in Juan-les-Pins.

Mikko of Mikko Aerial operated the gimbal system alongside Pilot, Manuel Benitou. The pair have previously combined efforts for documentaries, movies, advertisements and sporting events.

The team filmed with a RED Helium and a Canon 30-300mm lens, and a Sony HDC 1500 HD with the Fujinon 25-1100mm lens.

Check out the footage Mikko shot with our gimbal here.

GSS NAB Recap and Highlights

We’re back from NAB and feeling grateful and very excited from this year’s event and what the future holds for GSS and our partners!

In case we missed you, here’s a glance at what we showcased at NAB this year:

• We introduced the new Cineflex Pro camera system for the broadcast/ENG market.  At 60 pounds or less with camera and zoom lens and no auxiliary box, the new system has the ability to integrate unmodified cameras from Sony, Grass Valley, Ikegami and others with focal lengths of up to 46X.

• We showed the Arri Alexa 65 with Universal Lens Kit integrated into the gimbal inner axis of the Cinema Pro+.  We partnered with Pat Longman from Active Camera Systems to showcase this exciting offering. Pat is excited to bring this new GSS capability to market in a much smaller and lighter gimbal package than was previously possible.

• We had gimbals in our booth that included cameras from Arri, Red, Ikegami and Grass Valley, as well as, lenses from Arri, Canon and Fujinon.

• We partnered with Angenieux to integrate the new Optimo Ultra 12:1 lens into the Cinema Pro+.  The system is the smallest and lightest gimbal in the world to integrate this massive lens and was on display at the Angenieux booth paired with the Arri Alexa XT M camera.

• We partnered with Defy to show their new 48V Dactylcam Pro cable camera system with a GSS gimbal integration.

• We announced the GSS internal INS (Inertial Navigation System) and showcased test footage with Churchill Navigation. We are now able to offer the most stable moving map interface on the market.  Take a look for yourself here!

It was great to connect again with some of our worldwide customer base of Cineflex products at NAB.  Cineflex is in the GSS team members roots and we have known many Cineflex customers from humble beginnings. It was great to get reacquainted and connect as we continue the Cineflex legacy!

GSS is committed to providing the latest technologies to the broadcast/ENG and production gimbal markets.

Check back soon to see what else is going on with GSS.

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GSS HAI Heli-Expo Recap

This year’s HAI Heli-Expo was one for the books for GSS. Our Managing Director, Jason Fountaine and VP of Sales, Nick Ricciardi exhibited at the annual trade show and had the opportunity to connect with many industry customers, supporters, and friends.

After all, that is one of our favorite parts of being in this industry- the amazing people we get to meet along the way that becomes friends. It’s pretty rewarding to watch the epic projects our friends and customers use GSS gimbals for. (Check out our social media to get a glimpse of where GSS gimbals travel to!)

The helicopter industry have been the biggest users of our products throughout the years and it was a lot of fun to check out the variety of helicopters at the show. (Like the Airbus and Bell 525 Relentless helicopter mockup!)

We are seeing exponential opportunity in the broadcast/ENG, utility inspection and surveillance markets with our gimbals and look forward to keep on sharing the happenings at GSS throughout the year.