Grass Valley Equipment Used to Support Coverage of the Papal Election

Selected for its ability to install a fully working system within days of being tasked with the project, Grass Valley installed a complete live production solution on-site at the Vatican, including a K2 Summit® SAN system and its EDIUS® nonlinear editing system.

Grass Valley supported broadcasting across three channels – Rai1, Rai2, and Rai3. All channels produced news of the conclave event four times a day as well as offered live content in addition to the bulletin updates. In total, more than 15 million households across Italy tuned in to watch the coverage, making it the number one broadcast of the day.

Grass Valley’s production solution has remained installed since the announcement of the new Pope and was recently used to cover Pope Francis’s first Angelus prayer on March 17, 2013.

The K2 Summit Production Client is optimized for live event workflows as well as broadcast applications and can be configured as part of a SAN system using multiple media servers. Grass Valley EDIUS nonlinear editing system enables advanced real-time editing capabilities and features along with support for professional and broadcast environments.

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For more than 50 years, the Grass Valley name has been synonymous with innovation, leadership, and performance. Our full range of solutions and services is unmatched in the industry, leveraging the economies of scale of the IT industry with our proprietary core knowledge of media processing and storage. Grass Valley customers include most of the world's leading broadcasters, teleproduction facilities, and service providers, as well as independent video professionals who rely on our products to cover the world's most high-profile live events, as well as to benefit from efficiencies in day-to-day operations. When you’re watching news, sports, or entertainment programming—whether on a TV, the web, or a mobile device—you’re watching Grass Valley at work in today's connected world.