Newsletter from 25/09/2014
Cycling - Rowing - Baseball - Formula E
MOBILE PRODUCTION
Televital HD1
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TV Skyline Flight Pack 1
TV Skyline is located in Mainz and has within the Sky Center office space with a total area of approximately 1,700 m² as well as storage and workshop area of around 1,400 m². The products developed by TV skyline are unique in the world and manufactured in-house. the strengths of our own cameras and tracking systems are continuous development through resulting needs and experiences in practice. In addition to its HD OBVans TV Skyline operates two identical Flight Pack Systems.
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Broadcast Solutions GmbH Sees Ongoing Demand for Streamline OBs
After signing a frame contract in 2011 Broadcast Solutions and Mediatec worked closely together in developing the Streamline Concept. The aim of this effort was to conceive a flexible OB with standardized hardware and workflow concepts. This results in short setup times, reduced training costs and highest flexibility, providing customers with the right tool in a demanding Outdoor Broadcast market. The Concept originally was developed for smaller and somewhat less demanding productions. But working with the first units it became clear that this concept works perfectly for large high-profile events and today the Streamline OBVans have proven their ability to cover for instance the European Song Contest (ESC) or the IIHF World Championships.
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BT Sport Selects LiveU for its First Cellular Newsgathering Fleet
BT Sport has worked with LiveU and Garland Partners to equip three Vauxhall Astras with the LU500 and Xtender remote antenna technology. Each LU500 backpack unit can be connected wirelessly (up to 1,000 ft/300 meters) or via Ethernet to the Xtender that sits on top of each vehicle. The combined power and signal robustness achieved, even in congested areas like sports stadiums, is unrivalled in the market and gives the broadcaster absolute confidence. Andy Beale, Chief Engineer with BT Sport, said: “We now have a fleet-footed and effective way of allowing sports journalists to get the story back to us. We value the flexibility and speed of deployment of the LiveU solution.”
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
Robe Provides A Splendit Solution for Normal People
Splendit is a Belgian lighting and sound rental company based in Liedekerke and headed by Marijn Broeckaert, who has a great passion for the industry and is also an LD / programmer in his own right. He formed the company in 2007 with the ambition of becoming a premium equipment supplier to top-end professional production markets, offering the highest standards of excellence. Splendit has built up a great reputation for servicing some of the leading TV shows and lighting designers. In the last years Marijn also consciously made the decision to start investing in Robe moving lights to further service his clients. “I was really impressed with the speed and smoothness of the delivery,” comments Marijn. The units went straight on to “De Neus van Pinokkio” (The Nose of Pinocchio), a TV show lit by Michiel Milbou, one of the country’s leading TV lighting designers.
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Euronews to Deploy EVS Technology for Live and Studio Based News Productions as it Moves to HD
Euronews, the top news channel in Europe, has contracted live video production systems provider EVS to enable its live and studio-based news productions. As the news broadcaster moves to HD, EVS XS media servers and IPDirector live production asset management suite will sit at the heart of the new Euronews Live workflow. The innovative EVS news solutions will sit alongside Euronews’ existing Harmonic storage and playout systems. The XS servers will be used to enable either live or studio-based news productions – ingesting multiple feeds and playing out live coverage or playing out content on the screens behind the presenters in its studios. It will also allow Euronews to manage 16 audio channels from ingest to playout, which fits with their need to report news in 13 different languages. The IPDirector system will be used to control the ingest and playout commands, as well as manage content.
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Shotoku Boosts Studio Capabilities Of National Spanish Broadcaster
Shotoku has announced the recent installation of a robotically controlled system comprising numerous pan and tilt heads and dual 16-camera control systems at Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. The Madrid-based Spanish media group, a national broadcaster, maintains a significant presence in the television, radio and cinema industries. The sale was made through Shotoku’s regional reseller Datos Media. After in-depth testing and on-site demonstrations, the Shotoku systems — seven TG-18 robotic pan and tilt heads and two 16-camera TR-T control systems — were selected by Atresmedia Corporación as key pieces of its re-launched and refurbished studio to replace its older gear.
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Avid Everywhere Enables dock10 to Accelerate Innovation
Avid announced that dock10, a leading media services provider, has embraced Avid Everywhere™ and implemented a fully integrated, end-to-end workflow centered upon the Avid MediaCentral Platform. The workflow, comprised of industry-leading Avid solutions, delivers the openness, scalability, and integration dock10 needs to enhance productivity, adopt innovative new workflows, and continue expanding its business to new markets. dock10 provides cutting-edge studio, post-production, and content management services at MediaCityUK, one of the most technically advanced HD production facility in Europe.
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SPORTS
SMACS Technology at the Road Cycling World Championships 2014
The best riders in all categories, the best national teams will be racing for medals and the prized rainbow jerseys. Throughout the week of the competition around 350,000 spectators are expected to follow the evolution of the events on the ground, and some of the world's leading cyclists are scheduled to take part of it. In recent years EMF has developed technology and unique know-how in long-distance transmissions. EMF's knowledge of the transmission of signals from the race and the capabilities of EMF's new RF systems which are able to transmit high definition pictures simultaneously with audio data flux prompted EMF to examine the possibility of transmitting the information collected by an array of sensors from multiple different sources to bring the athletes and the race even closer to the spectators.
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FIA Formula E Come to FAL Systems for Systems Integration
Formula E, the new FIA fully-electric racing series, opened with its inaugural race in spectacular style this weekend in Beijing and Leeds-based FAL Systems has provided its full spectrum of systems integration services for the project. FAL was commissioned to build the system by Hayfisher Productions based in the West Midlands who have been contracted by Aurora Media to provide broadcast facilities for the new motorsport championship. British systems integrator FAL Systems has announced the completion of a prestigious project to provide the complete ‘Fly-Away’ world feed broadcast facility for the new ten round all electric race series. Their brief was quite challenging in that not only were they to provide all means for acquiring all the audio and video for the transmission but that they were to do so in such a way as to have minimal environmental impact.
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Broadcast Rental Uses Videosys and Cobham for 2014 World Rowing Championships
Videosys Broadcast, a leading supplier of broadcast solutions for film, television and A/V, has announced that Broadcast Rental, an international full service rental house in Hilversum, the Netherlands, used Videosys technology to provide coverage of the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam from 24-31 August 2014. Billed as the largest rowing event ever held in the Netherlands, it was covered by NOS with technology from Cobham Broadcast and a custom-built racking system devised by Videosys for use with a range of 6 out of the 18 professional cameras along the banks of the course, on tracking vehicles, chase boats and cable cams.
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SportsNet LA Captures Dodgers from all Angles with FUJINON Optics
When MIRA Mobile’s new M-12HD rolls into Dodger Stadium on behalf of MIRA customer, SportsNet LA, it does so with shot-capturing skills that rival the speed and focus of any Cy Young Award winner. Four of the truck’s six FUJINON XA99x8.4 ultra-wide field lenses outfitted on Sony HDC2570 studio cameras are positioned at various points on the field – high left field, mid first base, tight center field, and right field. One XA99x mans the high third base position placed on an I-MOVIX ultra-slow-motion system, provided by Fletcher Chicago. M-12 is also equipped with four XA77x9.5 telephoto field lenses.
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SHOWS
Painting With Light Helps Celebrate 25 Years of VTM
Belgian commercial TV channel VTM (Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij) celebrated 25 years of success in an amazing son et lumière spectacular staged on the beach at Nieuwpoort, which was attended by 17,000 people who were dazzled by the visual impact and audacity of the production. Lighting was designed by Painting With Light’s Luc Peumans, who has worked on many music based projects for VTM, and was commissioned to add his own elements of eye-catching magic to the mix. The 25 minute “Great Big Musical Thank You” show was directed by Dirk Decloedt and set to a specially composed soundtrack. It featured 250 dancers, a troupe of huge Dundu puppets, a 75 metre wide by 12 metre high waterscreen projection surface, dancing fountains and over 2000 pyro cues, all linked together by the vision of Scenographer / Art Director Marcos Viñals Bassols and Peumans’ dynamic lighting.
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Kings Of Leon Prefer Sennheiser - No Bull!
Long-term Sennheiser users Kings of Leon have spent most of 2014 on tour throughout Europe and the USA, promoting their latest album Mechanical Bull. Accompanying them at every show has been their trusty package of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors. The band and their engineers - Front of House engineer Brent Rawlings and monitor engineer Saul Skoutarides - have been dedicated Sennheiser users for over eight years. Vocal microphone of choice for the past six has been the MD 431, a microphone they are still very happy with. “We have the MD 431 on all of the guys as it is very stable and has a very nice frequency response for vocals,” says Saul. “It also suits Caleb (Followill, lead singer) better than any other mic we tried in the past, which is part of the reason we stumbled upon it in the first place.”
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GLP impression X4 Help Rock Rio in Lisbon
When the famous Rock in Rio Festival returned to Lisbon (Portugal) this summer, and crowds of up to 350,000 swarmed to the Parque da Bela Vista, they zeroed in on the main Palco Mundo stage, the façade of which was spectacularly lit by 120 GLP impression X4 LED heads. This provided the perfect setting for top tier acts such as the Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age and many more to perform over the four days. Having worked with Rock in Rio, one of the largest festivals in the world, for the last decade, lighting design company, bright! GmbH again turned to GLP’s successful impression platform.
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MLA's Capital Service
Martin Audio’s award-winning MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) PA system enjoyed its busiest weekend of the year, with two huge simultaneous London events either side of the capital. While rental / production company Capital Sound were fielding no fewer than 170 enclosures at the perennial Proms in the Park (Hyde Park), over in the east at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Prince Harry inspired Jaguar Land Rover Invictus Games Closing Concert also featured MLA. The five hour extravaganza combined a celebration of medallion presentations to the wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women who competed in the Games, backed by a full concert line up headlined by the Foo Fighters with supporting acts including Kaiser Chiefs, Ellie Goulding, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, The Vamps, Rizzle Kicks and James Blunt.
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PRODUCTS
IBC Announcements from 84 Companies with relevance to the TV Live Production Community
Apantac - Artel - Atomos - AVIWEST - AXON - Belden - BFE - Bradley Engineering - Broadcast Networks - Broadcast Pix - Broadcast RF - Broadcast Solutions - BroaMan - Calrec - Camera Corps - Canare - ChyronHego - Clear-Com - Cobalt - coolux - CrossCast - Custom Consoles - Datavideo - Dejero - Delec - DiGiCo - DirectOut - DPA - Elemental - EVS - Fairlight - FieldCast - FOR-A - Fujifilm - Gearhouse Broadcast - Genelec - Guntermann & Drunck - Grass Valley - Harman - Hitachi - Hybrid - I-MOVIX - IHSE - Ikegami - Imagine Communications - IO Industries - Joseph Electronics - Jünger Audio - JVC - L-S-B - LAWO - Limelight - LiveU - LMP - Matrox - MHz - Miller - MultiDyne - Neutrik - Orad - Panasonic - Plura - Polecam - Quantel - Riedel - Ross Video - RTS - Ruige - Salzbrenner - Satmission - sonoVTS - Sony - Stagetec - Studer - Telestream - Teradek - Thomson - TSL - TVC - VideoFlow - VidiGo - Vislink - Vizrt
Click here to get the 112 announcements in alphabetical order
Infostrada and dutchView invest in DYVI
EVS company, DYVI Live, has been selected by leading Netherlands-based broadcast and production facility companies Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology to enable the first true real-time remote production in Europe. Dutchview and Infostrada Creative Technology are specialized in providing integrated media acquisition, post production, broadcast IT and data services to many leading media companies – including Fox Sports – and have a long-standing relationship with EVS. The deal consists of two modular switcher panels and three IP-based servers from DYVI Live, the developer of the world’s first fully IT-based production suite.
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3D/4K ARISING
Sony and TVN Fly High to Capture Red Bull Air Race in 4K
Sony has enthralled delegates at IBC 2014 by showcasing content shot at the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Gdynia, Poland, in 4K Ultra High Definition. TVN MOBILE PRODUCTION, in charge of broadcasting the competition with partner EURO TV, used a full Sony 4K workflow to produce the race as part of its 4K trials. TVN’s trial 4K workflow consisted of five PMW-F55 cameras fed into an MVS-8000X high-end switcher system working in 4K mode. The 4K files were stored by a PWS-4400 XAVC 4K server, which provides up to 8TB of storage.
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FieldCast is Powering the Broadcast Revolution
For the very first time, fiber optic specialist Rosenberger OSI presents a cabling solution for very high data rates at a revolutionary price level: FieldCast®. Now a large and diverse community of consumers, prosumers and professionals can finally make full use of the fast rising UHD technology and beyond. FieldCast® is simple to use, extremely robust and available from stock. With its 4K resolution, Ultra HD is craving for higher bandwidth connections. With latest 6Gb chip technology, the SDI and HDMI video standards allow for 4K signals to be transported from one place to the other, however traditional copper cabling technology severely limits maximum cable length. “Even highest quality 6Gb coaxial cable can’t carry these signals over longer distances than 60 to 70 meters without severe signal loss” says Theo Stals, head of Mediamachine, the exclusive FieldCast® EMEA distributor.
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Atomos 4K Shogun Ready for Action
Atomos, creator of award winning camera-mounted recorders and recording accessories presented the shipping version of the highly decorated 4K Shogun at IBC2014. The new Shogun is due to begin its first production run to be ready to ship to the reseller channel to meet pre-orders. 2014 has been the break out year for 4K. This was started, in the first half of 2014, with the release of the game changing Mirrorless DSLR cameras from Sony (A7s) and Panasonic (GH4). With the release of the Atomos Shogun in the 2H 2014 we now see the 4K workflow complete & transformed from a new complex and costly niche category, to a mainstream simplified and affordable solution for every creative professional from DOP's through to events and Post Production.
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