Newsletter from 19/05/2015
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
WDR Boosts Flexibility and Agility of OB Vans by Installing Riedel MediorNet Compact
Riedel's MediorNet Compact is a multimedia stagebox that offers the flexibility of a true real-time media network, including integrated signal processing, at the cost of simple point-to-point products. Together, the seven MediorNet Compact frames installed in each WDR OB van serve as a decentralized routing infrastructure with an optical topography governed by common control software. In addition to providing eight HD inputs and eight HD outputs with each Compact frame, the resulting solution features integrated "glue" including a frame store synchronizer, embedder/de-embedder, test pattern generator, on-screen display, and timecode inserter. With a network bandwidth of 50 Gbit/s, MediorNet Compact includes eight HD-SDI video inputs and eight outputs, two MADI interfaces and three Gigabit Ethernet ports, and multiple audio channels or intercom ports.
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Bavaria Studios selects BFE for Bavaria OB1 Van
The OB van was realized as a semi-trailer with a 3-axle chassis. The five work areas are divided in sound room, video control room A and video control room B, image technology with Avid work place and a central equipment room. The construction comprises of an expandable side panel over the entire length of the vehicle which expands the space by around 1,60m. The Bavaria OB1 is designed for a total of 16 cameras. The trailer has an automatic level control and also the extended part is hydraulically controlled. A specialty is the set-up time of the trailer which is less than 15 minutes. All cabling intensive devices are located in the fixed part and thus ensure a long life time of the cable connections and reduce the risk of failure to a minimum.
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CP Communications Hits The Road With DiGiCo SD10B Six-Pack
After a careful analysis of available console options, CP Senior Vice President Kurt Heitmann chose to standardize on the “B” broadcast version of DiGiCo’s popular SD10 by purchasing half a dozen new desks along with eight SD-Rack I/O racks and two 32x16 D-Rack stage interfaces. Identical SD10B setups can now be found in CP’s new 53-foot expando fiber transmission HD11 (NBC) and HD21 (Fox Sports) trucks, as well as its fully refurbished 53-foot RFHD5 and RFHD7 trucks—which work Golf Channel events—and an overhauled 40-foot trailer known as DSM1, which typically provides digital submixes for MLB and NBA all-star games.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
ARD Berlin Studio uses IP-based Lawo editorial workplaces
As a result of the modernization, every workplace at ARD Capital Studio Berlin is equipped with a workstation running Lawo’s JADE editing software with two screens for visualization. Each workstation is connected to a crystal console base unit, which serves as the platform for a tablet computer running Lawo’s VisTool software (whose touchscreen operation is modeled on a mixing console). An Ember+ interface provides control of the JADE software, which makes the tablet computers the central switching station and the workstation function as the routing center. The crystal base provides audio I/O breakout and microphone integration, as well as supporting loudspeaker and headphone monitoring and other peripheral connections. Source selection is managed via the IP network.
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Australia's ABC Upgrades Communications Across Cities and Sites
Australian broadcast network ABC has installed the Riedel Artist Trunk Navigator system to support a VoIP-based communications network connecting producers, journalists, and presenters working at ABC bureaus across Australia. By simplifying the networking of geographically diverse Artist digital matrix intercom systems over 80 VoIP trunk lines, the Artist Trunk Navigator facilitates simpler, more efficient, and more reliable communications between sites during production and broadcast. Riedel's Artist Trunk Navigator software enables each of ABC's existing Artist intercom systems to be connected to a central trunk master via a WAN connection. The Riedel solution dynamically allocates either analog or digital (AES3) audio trunks between up to 32 Artist intercom systems on VoIP lines.
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RTVA Andorra: 15 years of success with VSN’s solutions
Ràdio i Televisiò d’Andorra (RTVA) is the main mass media company in the country, and it manages the main platforms for information, entertainment and education of the citizens: the public TV, radio and online news platform. For that, it uses a complete end-to-end system based on VSN’s solutions and products. The whole workflow is orchestrated from ingest, studio rooms and continuity to collaborative edition and archive, thanks to VSN’s solutions, that are responsible of guaranteeing that the mass media works in a safe, efficient and easy environment. “We decided to install a digital news production environment with archive and we found that VSN was an excellent solution that met our needs and requirements. We have been working with VSN’s system until the very last MAM generation, with perfect results”, declares Joan Ruiz, RTVA’s Technical Director.
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Egripment Support Systems Rises to New Hights on the Voice of Holland
When Talpa Productions, the company behind the hit singing competition The Voice of Holland (TVOH), was looking to provide its viewers with a unique television experience, it turned to Egripment’s 15-meter-long Telescopic Camera Crane and Generic Track Rail System for the program’s augmented reality shots. Egripment Support Systems, manufacturer of high-end camera support systems and remote broadcast solutions for the film and broadcast industries, is a leader in camera support solutions for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) productions. Egripment delivered a "full service" package comprised of the Telescopic Camera Crane, Generic Track rail system, technicians, crane operators, and data for and calibration of the equipment and studio mapping.
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SPORTS
The IAAF/BTC World Relays at The Bahamas 2015
The IAAF/ BTC World Relays is the biggest sporting event to be held in The Bahamas. The event is under the aegis of the International Association of Athletics Federation. For the second consecutive year The Bahamas hosted this "Bahamazing" event. The event was held at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium with a seating capacity of 15,000. This second staging of the event took place on May 2nd and 3rd, 2015. XD motion supported the BTC World Relays with a X track Stab C Compact low cradle version with an HD camera with a 22x lens. The X track was 120 meters long (the longest ever on athletics). It started at the Athletes line-up and was running to 10 meters after the finish line. 3 technicians from XD motion were running the system.
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Clay Paky Sharpys at the College Football Playoff Weekend
The first College Football Playoff (CFP) was marked by a series of exciting events, including the weekend’s premier concert series, “AT&T Playoff Playlist Live!” headlined by Lenny Kravitz and Sting. Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures played a key role during back-to-back nights of shows at the American Airlines Center, Dallas. For organizers at CFP and ESPN, it was crucial that the events taking place during the inaugural College Football Playoff weekend be just as exciting as the game itself,” says Matt Foucheaux, Director of Production Design at Solomon Group. “It was also crucial that the CFP brand play front and center. We chose a production design for the stage that drew heavily from the brand’s sleek, new logo. Once we settled on a football shape for the stage design, we added various football-themed creative elements throughout.
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Polecam takes its place at the ‘Olympic Games: Behind the Screen’ exhibition
Polecam, the lightweight and portable carbon fibre crane system, has been used extensively for the broadcast coverage of many genres of sport, increasing the viewing experience and excitement by getting close-in action POV shots and moves that would not be possible by any other means. This success has been facilitated by the low profile camera and remote pan and tilt head, which can deliver broadcast HD to the feed without blocking the view of spectators and not getting in the way of the participants. In addition, health and safety issues are minimal because of the lightweight boom, head and camera, unlike many other crane systems, and the fact that it can be rigged or derigged in times as low as 10 minutes allows it to change viewing positions even during an event.
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SHOWS
Robe BMFLs for Yukari Tamura at the Budokan
Popular Japanese singer, voice actress and anime (animation) artist Yukari Tamura played two shows – ‘Lantana in the Moonlight Live 2015’ - for 20,000 devoted fans at the iconic Nippon Budokan venue in Chiyoda, Tokyo … which were lit with around 250 Robe fixtures including 24 x Robe BMFL Spots in a design by Mr Kenichi Taira. Lighting was supplied by rental company M-Tech Style, and as well as being the LD and operator, Kenichi also project managed the event, which was staged with audience sitting 360 degrees all around the back of the stage. Kenichi is one of the country’s leading Lighting Designer / Directors, and has used Robe products in his work for around 10 years. This was his first chance to use the BMFL Spots on such a major and high profile show … so he jumped at the opportunity!
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Martin Professional’s MAC Viper AirFX Hybrid Lights Pay Tribute to Classic Queen Shows
Legendary British rock band Queen have worked with several vocalists since the death of front man Freddie Mercury in 1991. On the most recent world tour, original band members Roger Taylor and Brian May recruited American Idol’s Adam Lambert, whose flashy onstage presence was complemented by 97 HARMAN Martin Professional MAC Viper AirFX lighting fixtures. Lighting Designer Rob Sinclair was approached in 2012 and asked to do lighting for the Queen Extravaganza, the official Queen tribute band. His work caught Queen + Adam Lambert’s attention and they asked him to come and work for them on the upcoming tour. “It was a case of being at the right place at the right time,” said Sinclair.
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XL Video Plays The Game with McBusted
XL Video is sharing in the runaway success of supergroup McBusted, an energetic fusion of two of the most popular pop-punk-rock bands from the early noughties - McFly and Busted - which is delighting generations of both original and new fans, all equally exuberant, on their latest UK arena tour! The show’s design and set concept is a non-stop, high-octane narrative set in a classic 1980s arcade games machine, which was the brainchild of Artistic Director Paul Caslin. He’s known both bands for around 10 years and has a background in video and filmic art, so visuals and moving image were always going to be prominent in the aesthetic, which also includes snippets inspired by renowned cult movies of the 1980s and 1990s like Wayne’s World, Back To The Future, The Mighty Ducks – the formative era in which they all grew up.
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PRODUCTS
Power, Accuracy and Intelligence with Genelec’s 1234 SAM™ System
The Genelec 1234 SAM System packs cutting edge specification and intelligent technology into a powerful main monitoring solution. All electronics, amplifier circuitry, drivers and enclosures are designed, assembled, tested and individually calibrated at the Genelec factory in Finland. The 1234 SAM System has a system frequency response from 29 Hz to 21 kHz and is capable of delivering 125 dB SPL at 1 meter through a combination of efficient Class D amplifiers providing 2x 750 W, 400 W and 250 W of short term power for the woofers, midrange and tweeter channels, respectively. It is ideally suited to recording studios, post-production houses, digital mastering facilities, radio and TV broadcasting.
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Chile’s Santo Tomas Professional Institute Turns to Grass Valley
The Professional Institute signed the partnership agreement during the 2015 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Equipment installed across the two studios includes six LDX Flex cameras, one Karrera K-Frame S-series switcher with two control panels, two Kaleido-X16 multiviewers and Densité modular interfaces. VGL in Chile performed the installation and will provide service. “After looking at all the equipment in the market and evaluating our options, we chose Grass Valley for the outstanding quality and reputation they bring to the table,” explained Dario Cuesta, national director communications area, Santo Tomas Professional Institute. “Also, the opportunity to form a true partnership was a major factor. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.”
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Hitachi Z-HD6000 HDTV Cameras Facilitate Mobile Production Workflows for TNDV
According to TNDV President/Owner Nic Dugger, Hitachi integrates superior sensor and processing technologies within the Z-HD6000 for exceptionally high performance in challenging conditions, especially during live events with added visual elements or varied weather conditions. “Hitachi has answered the challenge of providing affordable, high-performance HDTV broadcast cameras that elevate the level of image quality to its customers with a mid-range budget,” said Dugger. “The Z-HD6000 operates consistently across different conditions, delivering pristine quality while up against the dynamics of LED lighting, direct sunlight, overcast conditions and more. A great example was the recent NCAA Final Four Concert Series, where TNDV used these cameras to shoot outdoor musical performances outside the venue. The network cut between the concerts and the Final Four broadcast feed, with no change in picture quality.”
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4K/8K ARISING
Ikegami Experiences Rapidly Growing Interest in 4K UHD and 8K SHV
"Increasing affordability of 4K UHD consumer television displays is encouraging broadcasters in practically every country to adopt this resolution for new high-budget studio productions," comments Mark Capstick, General Manager of Ikegami Electronics UK. "This helps to ensure that new programmes and series retain their value well into the future. "Also making its first appearance was the Ikegami SHK-810 8K SHV Super Hi-Vision camera," adds Michael Lätzsch, Broadcast & Professional Video Division Manager at Ikegami Electronics Europe. "Preparations are currently under way in Japan to introduce a Super Hi-Vision television service in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. This has a horizontal screen resolution of nearly 8K and will make television viewing a highly immersive experience, potentially comparable with a front seat at a live stage event or in a cinema.
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JVC’s GY-LS300: First Success Stories from Turkey
“JVC’s innovative 2K/4K camcorder GY-LS300 is starting to be very popular in Turkey,” says Ismet Bozkurt, JVC Sales Manager, South/East Europe. Albert Fresko, Managing Director at JVC Professional’s distribution partner, NEFAN, is pleased about the delivery of the first two camcorders, destined for his customers, STÜDYO 24 SAAT and PLATO YAPIM. Ismet Bozkurt explains: “In a country at the top end of television production, we always value customer feedback, and we have already had positive feedback from these two companies after using the cameras professionally. Their comments provide important information on quality, handling and possible applications for the new GY-LS300 camcorder.”
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