Newsletter from 26/06/2018
PURE LIVE 2018: Detailed Presentations of More than 20 OB Trucks
In addition to the OB truck presentations you will find an inside view on the NEP Andrews HUBs in Australia and the first trans-continental live uncompressed broadcast over IP, a review on the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, a review on the TV production of the FIFA World Cup in Russia, a look at the Volvo Ocean Race with wireless cameras, we have been with Vasco Rossi Non Stop Live in Bari, we will accompany the Sky team at the Tour de France, we present the world of Hans Zimmer, highlight the ESL gaming competition, introduce the first OBVan in China with Dolby Atmos and highlight some OBVans in Japan prior to the Olympics in 2020.
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
Hunan TV modernises OBVan with Stage Tec CRESCENDO
The audio technology renewal in the OB van had become necessary because the previous broadcast console was increasingly unable to meet the requirements of large productions. On the one hand this was partly due to lack of capacity and on the other to its rigid bus structure. The newly installed CRESCENDO, however, offers up to 96 input channels with 48 buses or up to 108 input channels with 32 buses and solves all bottlenecks and configuration problems with its flexible routing. The new console has 24 faders and is integrated into a NEXUS network. The STAR router is equipped with two powerful RMDQ DSP boards for maximum console performance.
NEP Belgium Embrace New Design and IP-Workflows with Unit 18
NEP Belgium run their first unit of the Broadcast Solutions developed Streamline OB Van family. Unit 18, the newly added production vehicle, is an S8L and represents a new variant, the German system integrator added to its Streamline Family of OB Vans. With new room concepts and additional interconnectivity technology, the S8L offers more flexibility during productions and adapts to future IP-based workflows. The OB Van is working in HD and UHD format alike and can handle productions with up to 12 (HD) or 4 (UHD) cameras. Due to a change in workplace design (the production bench is arranged alongside the driving motion), the S8L stands out with ten comfortable workplaces. Housed in a self-propelled box-body/truck combination, the OB Van offers three separate working areas: Production, Audio, Engineering. An additional novelty refers to more flexible interconnectivity capabilities, using IP-based audio and video bridging devices.
AVIWEST Enables Broadcasters to Deliver Live Coverage of French Polynesian Elections
AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, today announced that TNTV and Première, the two public Polynesian TV broadcasters, deployed several AVIWEST PRO180-RA bonded cellular uplink systems and StreamHub transceivers for coverage of the recent regional elections. With the assistance of DirecTahiti, a production agency, and using a large range of AVIWEST remote field units, the broadcasters successfully delivered live HD videos over the Internet and to televisions over 3G/4G cellular networks with minimal delay. "Our goal was to follow the voting process as closely as possible, and reliably transmit results in real time," said Jeff Aubruchet, CEO and CTO at DirecTahiti.
STUDIO PRODUCTION
Creating a Voice for Underrepresented Communities
In particular, Okto aims to offer a platform to communities, issues and opinions that are often neglected and underrepresented in the mainstream media. The studio’s output includes Latino TV, presented by Austria’ Latin-American community, 12 Minutes Live: studio performances from indie musicians, Mulatschlag, a rock music magazine show, and Oktoshop, which showcases independent filmmakers and their projects. All of the studio’s live and recorded content is broadcast across the Vienna, Lower Austria and Styria regions via cable TV, as well as streamed via Okto’s website. Okto TV is funded by the city of Vienna and Austria’s regulatory broadcast authority, RTR GmbH.
Gearhouse Broadcast delivers Moscow studios and remote production for Brazil’s Globo
The Brazilian rights holder commissioned Gearhouse to provide it with TV equipment rental, systems integration and local tech support services for its studios in Red Square, where it has concentrated its main production facilities around the World Cup. The two studios are connected by fiber optics links to Globo’s Free TV and Pay TV broadcast centres in Rio de Janeiro, so that its programming can be cut together remotely by its production crews back in Brazil, and thus achieving significant efficiency savings. It has also delivered additional audio/video signal routing, standards conversion, distribution and QC monitoring facilities for TV Globo within the International Broadcast Centre (IBC).
Russia’s Saint Petersburg TV Channel Deploys LDX 82 Series Cameras
Grass Valley worked with systems integrator DNK Corporation to enhance Saint Petersburg TV’s studio production services to encompass SD/HD/3G as well as SDR and HDR content simultaneously. With Grass Valley's LDX 82 Series cameras and XCU base stations, Saint Petersburg TV can now manage any type of production, host signals and support national integration all from two dedicated video and audio control rooms. “Our first priority is always creating top-quality content for our viewers. Innovative solutions and efficient support for those solutions are critical to that mission,” said Iliya Osichev, chief technical officer, Saint Petersburg TV Channel.
SPORT EVENTS
Ideal Systems selected by Football Malaysia LLP for Live Soccer on iflix
FMLLP which is owned by the 24-member clubs of the Malaysia football league and commenced live production with Ideal in February and will continue to November 2020. FMLLP has five Malaysian football entities under its jurisdiction, including; Liga Super, the Liga Premier, The Piala Malaysia, the FA and the Sumbangsih cups. The deal will see Ideal Systems provide live production services including, encoding and transmission of live matches from venues, IP based broadcast grade Multi camera production, distribution of matches to various 3rd parties such as Media Prima, RTM and TM UnifiTV, encoding of all matches to the iflix platform, operating the technical and monitoring facility for all matches, live ingest, editing , asset management and publishing facilities and provide a remote production facility for live commentary, graphics and ad insertions
Dejero Backs Team Sky on The Road to Tour de France
Throughout the UCI WorldTour, Dejero GateWay mobile connectivity is enabling Team Sky to monitor live TV feeds, track live environmental data and social media activity within its ‘follow’ vehicles in order to anticipate the route ahead of its cyclists, buying the team precious seconds to prepare support in case of crash, injury, punctures and other unforeseen events. “The idea was to create an additional communications infrastructure to allow us to better share data from director sportiv to rider and vice versa,” said Dr. Scott Drawer, head of the Team Sky Performance Hub. Team Sky and Dejero have been testing and developing the system in the racing environment since early this year.
Czech Republic’s Sonka wins “home” race in Budapest
With Budapest just an hour flight from his base in the Czech Republic, Sonka considers the classic stop in Hungary to be his home race, and he was unstoppable all weekend, starting with the top time in Qualifying. But Brageot, the youngest pilot in the World Championship at only 30 years of age, challenged hard in his first-ever Final 4, finishing just 0.347s behind Sonka’s 57.502. The other Final 4 contenders were the pair who came into Budapest tied in the points at the head of the overall leaderboard, Hall and American Michael Goulian. When Goulian had a nightmare run with seven seconds of penalties, Hall’s third was enough to give him the standalone World Championship lead.
SHOW EVENTS
Macau City’s Dazzling ‘House of Dancing Water’
Designed by Pei Partnership Architects, the state-of-the-art Dancing Water Theatre created for The House of Dancing Water includes a stage pool that holds a record-breaking 3.7 million gallons of water, equivalent to five Olympic-sized swimming pools. The arena also boasts a 40-meter-high steel-trussed space that provides the generous heights required for the show’s diving and acrobatics elements. The show itself centers on an epic love story and spectacular journey through time, showcasing dazzling costumes and special effects. “A show as complex as The House of Dancing Water would simply not be possible without reliable, stable, and flexible communications between and among our cast and crew members,” said Nicolas Hammond.
Love Ire & Song for Frank Turner & Robe
Folk punk singer songwriter Frank Turner recently played four vibrant and fully sold-out nights at London’s Roundhouse venue, performing four completely unique sets and presenting lighting designer Tom Mason-Smith - who loves challenges - with the task of creating four totally different lighting designs! Tom’s company Dragonfly Lighting provided a Robe specials package including 12 x MegaPointes, 24 x BMFLs, 24 x PATT 2013s and 12 CycFX 8s to cover the four shows and assist him make each one a personal and memorable experience for Turner’s eclectic and loyal fanbase. Tom also used elements of the house rig including 18 x LEDBeam 100s.
The Claypaky Scenius Unico provides eye-opening effects for Katy Perry
Singapore-based show production and equipment hire company The Show Company (ShowCo), supplied 120 Claypaky Scenius Unico fixtures for mega-star Katy Perry's dynamite performance at the Singapore Indoor Stadium as part of her current worldwide tour Witness: The Tour. The singer's Singapore show was hailed as 'one of the grandest Singapore Indoor Stadium had ever witnessed' by online music magazine Bandwagon. Designed by production designer Es Devlin and lighting designer Baz Halpin, who also produced the tour, Witness hooks in audiences with its whirlwind of rich video content, large-scale props and wide-eyed lighting effects, delivered in part by the powerful capabilities of the Claypaky Scenius Unico.
All-weather Elation Lighting for Alabama’s Hangout Music Festival
Nearly 40,000 music fans gathered in Gulf Shores for Hangout 2018, an annual 3-day music festival that Bandit Lites of Nashville has provided lighting for since 2014. Both the Surf Stage and Beach Stage featured weatherproof Elation lighting with a headlining performance by The Chainsmokers on the Hangout Stage also dressed in Elation gear. Bandit Lites’ Dizzy Gosnell designed the festival lighting packages for the Hangout Stage, Surf Stage and Beach Stage, working with headline acts to provide a system that could work for their night performances while giving bands earlier in the day enough punch to support their shows. Some headline acts brought additional lighting packages or scenic and set pieces with them.
PRODUCTS
ITV Completes The Roll-Out of Six HD Regional News Centres Using Axon Cerebrum Control
Regional News is an important part of ITV’s overall contribution to public service broadcasting in the UK. Great attention was given in the system design to provide a template-approach to streamline the workflow so that it efficiently delivers high quality content to the millions of viewers who tune in each week “Robust, reliable control was critical within the system design and simplicity, flexibility and ease of use were the main features ITV demanded,” explained IPE’s Director Ray Bragg. “Cerebrum removes obstacles and over-complication in the workflow and with such operational ease, wide functionality and integration it was the obvious choice in our infrastructure template for all ITV’s locations.”
IBC2018 announces Cyber Security Forum to help media tackle cyber threats
IBC2018, one of the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology show, today announces a Cyber Security Forum to expand its position as the preeminent cyber security destination for broadcasters and media. The event will form part of the prestigious annual IBC show at the RAI in Amsterdam from Thursday 13 to Tuesday 18 September 2018, which last year attracted more than 57,000 attendees from 170 countries. The Cyber Security Forum is a one-day, invitation-only event that will convene Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Digital Officers within media and broadcasting.
France Télévisions chooses Panasonic for major studio camera deal
“The competition to meet France Télévisions advanced specifications was intense,” said Andre Meterian, Director of Panasonic Broadcast & ProAV. “They chose Panasonic based on the quality of our cameras, which following a thorough review were judged to provide the greatest overall value for money. “We have been working with them over the last couple of years to install nearly 300 remote cameras within their regional stations, so for them to show additional confidence in our 4K studio camera lineup is very satisfying. Key to the decision was that our solution allowed France Télévisions to migrate to 4K directly, as opposed to an upgradable HD-based solution.”