Newsletter from 18/05/2018
IP Real-Time Media: Here and Now
All-IP Live Production
To demonstrate the real-world power of IP, the AIMS IP Showcase booth will feature an all IP-production room. Broadcasting live during show hours, the broadcast control room will use all-IP technologies to show how end-to-end productions are possible using the standards and specifications promoted by AIMS. The all-IP broadcasts will also make it possible for those not visiting NAB to see IP Showcase Theater presentations streamed live over the internet.
IP Showcase Interop Demonstrations
Get the actual picture in 11 Days at this years NAB Show: This vast and comprehensive show floor showcases the latest game-changing tech, craft-altering trends and cutting-edge tools that change how we create, manage, deliver, consume and monetize content, no matter the purpose, no matter the screen.
As of today we feature 54 companies and their approach at the NAB2018 Show. This list is continously updated. NAB2018 opens on 07April at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Adder - AEQ - AIMS - Aston - AVIWEST - Axon - Barnfind - Black Box - Brainstorm - Broadcast Pix - Calrec - ChyronHego - Dejero - DTC - ENCO - EVS - FOR-A - G&D - Grass Valley - Hitachi - IMT - Jünger - Litepanels - LiveU - Marshall - Media Links - Mobile Viewpoint - MXL - never.no - NewTek - PAG - Panasonic - Phabrix - Quicklink - Rohde&Schwarz - RTW - Shotoku - Shotover - Solid State Logic - Sonifex - Sony - StageTec - Supershere - Tedial - TSL - TVU - Utah Scientific - Vinten - Vislink - VSN - Wisycom - Wohler - YouTube - ZEPLAY
(new additions since last week are marked in bold)
The link "NAB2018" will always show you the list of featured companies and events in alphabetical order.
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
Guangxi TV OB HD2
Guangxi TV, a leading TV channel focusing on content about fashion and entertainment, strives to show the beautiful world to viewers. It delivers a range of hunky programmes including "Fashion China", "Beautiful Guangxi", "Find Jinhua" and "Collector Ma Weidu" that are made to introduce Guangxi's beautiful sceneries, dazzling ethnic culture and follow the fashion tendency. Thanks to the star power brought by the host and the appearance of the star guests, “Talk with Zhao”, a celebrity talk show hosted by Zhao Zhongxiang has attracted overwhelming attention from viewers.
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CyanView Wins Order from NEP Germany for Camera Control Solution
NEP chose the CyanView solution to support its coverage of sport – notably ice hockey and basketball – to enable it to deploy mini-cameras in any location (for example, on a basketball backboard to capture the ball passing through the hoop). The CyanView solution fulfills the vision engineer’s requirement for full camera control, including advanced colour correction. “NEP has become a pre-eminent provider of outside broadcast, live events and remote production companies for many reasons – and among those is our constant innovation, helping our customers deliver content that is engaging and compelling and, often, unique,” said Zlatan Gavran, Managing Director of NEP Germany GmbH.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
Capcom chooses The Ones
As one of the world’s most renowned games developers, with titles including Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter in its catalogue, Japan’s Capcom is also a leader in the specialised field of games audio. More than 300 Genelec monitors can be found within the company’s facilities, and a recent refurbishment of Studio B, within the nearby “bit MASTER studio” R&D location, has prompted the addition of even more. Now renamed the Dynamic Mixing Stage, the room has become home to an immersive 7.1.4 set-up which represents Japan’s most prestigious installation to date of the coaxial 8331 and 8341 point source monitors from The Ones range.
Starwest Studios Partners with Litepanels
Starwest Studios, an all-new broadcast production and dance facility in Burbank, California, is also an outstanding showcase studio for Litepanels® LED lighting solutions. An array of almost 50 lights from Litepanels’ Gemini, Astra, and Sola, product families provide reliable, flicker-free lighting for a wide variety of television broadcast and online streaming dance productions. Launched last fall with partner Randy Jackson, former “American Idol” judge and well-known producer, Starwest Studios is the world’s first dance studio and broadcast production facility, with spaces for both music and video production.
SPORT EVENTS
Reebok CrossFit Games
The CrossFit Games are the world's premier test to find the Fittest on Earth. The athletes at the Games are challenged with elements such as weightlifting, gymnastics and endurance, as well as tests unknown to them until just before the competition begins. The CrossFit Games Open—the first stage in the CrossFit Games season—was introduced in 2011. The Open is an online, all-inclusive event in which CrossFit casts the widest net possible in the quest to find the fittest on earth. More than 380,000 athletes competed in the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games Open. Now in its seventh year, the Open has grown exponentially in both number of athletes who compete, and number of viewers who tune in to watch the live announcements of the five workouts that make up the worldwide competition.
NYC Half-Marathon with Mobile Viewpoint and CP Communications
CP Communications and Mobile Viewpoint just recently entered into an OEM partnership to provide Mobile Viewpoint bonded cellular and IP streaming solution in the Unites States. This past week the technology was put to test. CP deployed a 4k Agile Ultralink on their Smart Car as the lead vehicle. A Sony F55, provided by Inertia Unlimited, was used on the Smart Car as the lead vehicle. A 12G signal was sent to the 4k Agile Ultralink mounted in the car. That signal was received at CP Communications HD-21 mobile unit via a Mobile Viewpoint 4k1 playout server. The 4k video format was then down converted to a 720p signal for WABC Channel 7’s broadcast of the race.
Golf Channel tees up Lawo for Production
Three 64-fader mc256 consoles were installed in Golf Channel’s primary production control rooms for live audio, with an additional three 16-fader mc236 consoles installed in hybrid live audio and post production rooms. In addition to the consoles, Lawo Commentary Units were installed in voiceover booths located throughout the Golf Channel campus. Tying everything together is a Nova 73 audio router and eleven DALLIS audio I/O frames located in Golf Channel studios, control rooms, and equipment areas. Gardner continues: “The beauty of this design is that all the messy cabling only happens near the core or at the edge. RAVENNA allows for a sprawling audio network with clean home runs around our facility utilizing both fiber and copper.”
SHOW EVENTS
UK X Factor Arena Tour Powered by Blackmagic Design Live Production Workflow
Blackmagic Design announced that IMAG projection for the 2018 X Factor live arena tour was produced with a PPU, built around an ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K with ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Panel. Live acquisition was delivered by an HD multicam set up which included the URSA Broadcast. The tour, produced by live specialist, PRG XL Video, took the talent show’s winners to 15 cities across the UK in just three weeks. Vis a Vis Video’s Stuart Merser led on all video production for the tour and collaborated with X Factor’s studio director, Diccon Ramsey, to ensure the live set up matched the format and feel of the popular television series.
HSL Walks Between Worlds with Simple Minds
HSL is delighted to be on the road again as lighting suppliers with Scottish rockers Simple Minds and their long time lighting designer Stephen Pollard who has created another innovative look for the band’s acclaimed new “Walk Between Worlds” album. Released in February as part of a celebration of an incredible 40 year career, the album is a blend of the introspective yet optimistic elements of their music with some huge electronic and stadium rock moments that kept them on the ‘alternative’ side of cool. The performance features the entire new album, bookended by a careful selection of Simple Minds early material and classics.
Adlib on The Script for Freedom Child Tour
Multi award-winning rental and production specialist Adlib is delighted to be back on the road again with Irish rockers The Script, supplying an amazing sounding CODA audio system for FOH engineer Steve “Pato” Pattison. He and monitor guru Marc Peers are also both well-known and talented Adlib regulars who have worked on previous Script tours, and are both assuming engineering roles for the first time. Adlib has provided audio for The Script’s four previous album campaigns which has included three arena tours and some stadium shows. Long term FOH engineer Richy Nicholson has actually flipped roles on this one, after many years of mixing FOH, he’s representing Adlib as the account handler, co-ordinating everything from the office and warehouse perspectives.