Newsletter from 18/05/2018
PURE LIVE Magazins as Interactive E-Books
PURE LIVE Directory 2016
In PURE LIVE 2016 you find detailed descriptions of 24 new 4K/UHD OBVans from all around the world: Australia, China, Canada, Europe, United States, in particular AMP VISUAL TV, Arena, Clark Media, Croatel, Dome Productions, Euromedia, Gearhouse, Hunan TV, JSBC, Mediapro, NEP, Telegenic, Timeline\TV, TopVision, TV Skyline, TVN, Videohouse. PURE LIVE 2016 also presents portraits of international system integrators, rental facilities and production houses as well as case studies and reports highlighting the areas of video, audio and lighting in TV Live Productions for sports and entertainment: UEFA EURO - Adele - Le Mans 24h - Royal Opera Stockholm - Formula E - Montreux Jazz Festival - Trotting - PAC-12, to only name a few of the Highlights. PURE LIVE 2016 has a volume of 208 pages.
PURE LIVE Directory 2015
The 2015 Directory gives an overview on high end live productions from all around the world: The Volvo Ocean Race, the UEFA Champions League Final in Berlin, The Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, The SEA Games in Singapore, The European Games in Baku, The UK Golf Open in St. Andrews, or The Glastonbury Festival to only name a view out of the 22 case studies we present. In addition you find 20 HD OBVans & HD Studios: _wige HD_one & _wige HD_two, Bayerischer Rundfunk FÜ2, CTV OB11, Gearhouse Broadcast OBPod, Gearhouse Broadcast Supertrucks 5 & 8, JSBC 4K OBVan, Nydalen Studios, OB-Team HD 2 & OB-Team HD 3, OB-Team SNG 9 HD, Oman TV HD1 Salalah & HD2 Muscat, Telerecord Unit 24, TopVision Ü2, TV Skyline Flight Pack, Videohouse HD one & HD two. Included in the 200 pages are also 17 company portraits like OB-Team Norway, Gearhouse Broadcast, _wige Group, Ostankino, or TopVision and finally a preview on NHK's 8K initiatives towards the Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo.
PURE LIVE Directory 2014
The 2014 Directory features 11 worldwide operating Live TV Production Companies: AED, AMP Visual TV, Croatel, Euromedia Group, ISTIL, Lig TV, Mediapro, NEP SABC, Studio Berlin/Hamburg and tpc. In addition to detailed listings of the available OBVans, Studios, FlyPacks, UpLinks and Wireless Equipment we will show the working areas inside the trucks and the studios as well as views of the monitor walls and the floor plans. You also will find a detailed review on the TV production of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil including the description of the multimedia package HBS had implemented in addition to a 34-camera plan for each of the 12 stadiums. Not only in sports mobile devices and apps offer an opportunity to deliver a second-screen experience that delivers the viewer’s demand for an interactive and portable experience. Additionally, the relationship with social media (Twitter, Facebook and more) and its communities enrich the experience and drive ratings. The forerunners in the entertainment sector are the Eurovision Song Contest and the live concerts of Robbie Williams - both events are featured: Because LIVE only happens once.
MOBILE PRODUCTION
JSBC 4K OBVan
As one of the most influential media operators in Jiangsu and in China, JSBC is striving to become a highly acclaimed mainstream media operator as well as an internationally well-known media outlet incorporating comprehensive media services, such as television channels, radio frequencies, newspapers, magazines and Internet products. Moreover, JSBC is turning herself into a leading provider of news, culture and entertainment content as well as a top provincial-level broadcasting network in China. Established in June 2001 out of merger and acquisition, the 3,400-employee Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (Group) or JSBC, adopts matrix management supervising eight administration departments, eight business sectors and five subordinate units.
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EUROMEDIA C42
Euro Media France is a full service company, leader in TV facilities and solutions for media and broadcast organisations. Offering the largest range of studios facilities and mobile video units in France, EMF has developed innovative and flexible services by mastering every stage of the production cycle, from pre-production to broadcasting solutions. EMF also provides additional and specialised high-tech services such as New media, RF, super slow-motion, graphics, 3D, content management, playout, engineering and integration. EMF is acknowledged for its expertise in the fields of sports, live or recorded shows as well as variety, games or entertainment shows. Thanks to the professionalism, expertise and know-how of its teams, Euro Media France has not only gained the confidence of the major broadcasters, production companies and other industry players, but is also became international as a Euro Media Group (Europe’s leading provider) company.
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Gearhouse Australia HD-8
Gearhouse Broadcast Australia is located in Sydney and Melbourne. It provides broadcast services around Australia, specialising in outside broadcast, project solutions and dry hire equipment rental. Gearhouse Broadcast Australia is a leader in HD outside broadcast technology. Its ever-growing fleet currently consists of nine HD units, of various sizes, and one SD unit. The outside broadcast business covers a wide range of sporting and entertainment events, most notably the V8 Supercars, Australian Rules Football (AFL) for Network 7, Super 15s Rugby and A-League Football for Fox Sports. Project Solutions delivers broadcast solutions for major televised sporting events and reality television. Gearhouse has led projects at the Australian Open Tennis, the Commonwealth Games and for I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity “GET ME OUT OF HERE”.
NEP Germany HD34k
Premiere content producers across the broadcast and live events industries turn to NEP to help them bring entertainment to life. NEP provides the technology and know-how that enables clients to capture and display productions on any platform around the world. For more than 30 years, NEP has been delivering solutions for remote production, studio production, video display, host broadcasting, post production, and creative technology/IP services that set the global industry standard. With operations around globe, NEP is everywhere you need to be, with the experience and resources to make your broadcast or event a success.
NEP Switzerland UHD41
NEP Switzerland provides technology and expertise so that its customers can produce the largest live broadcasts and broadcast events in the world. The live broadcast of national and international sport and entertainment events places high demands on broadcast technology. Thanks to three decades of experience, NEP makes each broadcast unique and thus also provides spectacular football in best UHD quality in Switzerland. Following numerous tests and intensive consulting, NEP opted to equip its latest OB truck “Ultra HD-41” with Panasonic AK-UC3000 4K cameras.
NEP Broadcast Services UK Pacific
NEP UK has 30 years of experience in covering the World’s premier events. Ranging from being host broadcaster for The Royal Wedding in 2011 to providing HD fly-packs in Kazakhstan, NEP UK has distinguished itself as one of the leading Outside Broadcast providers in the world. Specializing in the latest technological solutions coupled with experienced delivery crew and project management, NEP UK has an extensive range of production facilities with a full in-house technical development and support crew to back it up. The NEP UK fleet is equipped with the latest remote and mobile production options and can be available anywhere in the world.
STUDIO PRODUCTION
Production Report "The Taste"
As is the case for basically all cooking shows, all season episodes were completely pre-produced. Considering the complex production and the high-quality visual presentation of the dishes – which play a central role in “The Taste” – this would not have been possible in any other way. Nevertheless, the production relied on technology, which in principle also is used in live production. On the production side, one of the largest differences between the third and fourth season was the change of the production site: Rather than previously at MMC in Cologne, the show’s fourth season was produced in Munich at the Bavaria Studios in Geiselgasteig – with a mobile production unit from TV Skyline.
Lawo Gears Up for The Grand Tour
As well as their cars and the road, the first episode featured footage from inside the show’s studio tent while recording in California. As the series unfolds, its presenters are set to become Special Forces soldiers, sign into a secret training base in Jordan, and enjoy a visit to the opera. Accompanying them is United, a full service operator, providing facilities, and technical and creative support for media and broadcast organizations. Lawo’s “all-in-one” mc²36 mixing desk is optimized for demanding broadcast productions, providing excellent sound quality and powerful DSP, as well as being natively equipped with RAVENNA/AES67 technology to integrate into broadcast IP infrastructures.
Blackouts’ rigging team in A League of Their Own
Drapes and rigging expert Blackout, working for CPL Productions, returned to supply Sky One’s sports comedy panel show ‘A League of Their Own’, October 2016. Growing with the show over the last seven years, a team of six Blackout riggers lead by project manager Alex Duke, was entrusted to supply, install and operate a range of drapes and rigging equipment to transform a sound stage in the well-loved TV set playing host to the likes of James Cordon, Jack Whitehall, Andrew Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp. During the week long install, black wool serge drapes were hung around the perimeter of the Elstree studio to improve the TV aesthetics and ensure the audiences’ attention was focussed on the on-stage action, whilst also helping to soundproof the sound stage.
SPORT EVENTS
Robe Makes a Racket at WTA Finals
The 2016 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore tennis tournament was presented by SC Global and staged at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang over a seven day period at the end of October. Over 100 Robe moving lights illuminated the court as part of a lighting scheme designed by Michael Chan and Tom Langridge. While Tom ensured that the court was lit specifically for the TV cameras and special requirements like slomo, Michael looked after lighting for the Opening Ceremony and then for general ambience and effects lighting throughout the schedule of matches, including creating WOW-moments for the player entrances.
HDwireless realizes Live-Broadcast from the Istanbul-Marathon
On the occasion of the “Istanbul Eurasia Marathon 2016” the participating runners looked on the November 13th toward the Bosporus bridge, ready to start. Three helicopters where circling above, prepared for the live transmission of the world’s only intercontinental Marathon. For suspenseful and up-close live images of the runners cameras were mounted on helicopters and motorbikes. The German company HDwireless from Mechernich near Cologne had been hired by the Turkish Broadcasting service “Kamera Teknik” and was responsible for this extensive transmission; HDwireless plans and performs wireless camera projects worldwide.
Video Assistant Referees to be tested at FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016
An important piece of history will be made at the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2016 (8‑18 December in Yokohama and Osaka) with video assistance being used to support referees with “match-changing” decisions for the first time in a FIFA competition. “We feel well prepared after setting everything up with the support of The IFAB, the host broadcaster Dentsu/NTV and Hawk-Eye – one of a number of providers that offer such technology. At the same time, it’s important to remember that we are entering somewhat unchartered territory here, given that we are going live for the first time. Ultimately, these tests should prove invaluable in terms of determining whether the processes are sound or whether any further refinements are needed.”
SHOW EVENTS
TNDV Manages 4K and HD Live TV and Streaming Productions at the 2016 CMA Awards
Mobile production specialist TNDV has taken its recently-launched Exclamation truck around the country over the past few months, powering live, multi-camera productions across TV broadcast, worship, corporate and other events. On November 2, TNDV flexed Exclamation’s 4K muscle for the first time at the 2016 CMA Awards, bringing DirecTV viewers stunning visuals of Red Carpet action and interviews for a live two-hour special. TNDV’s Aspiration truck joined Exclamation on site at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to accommodate additional HD productions. This included the live-streamed ABC Backstage program over ABC’s Facebook page, presenting interviews with award winners and celebrities including Entertainer of the Year winner Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, and Reba McIntire.
Displays on trend at London Fashion Week
Panasonic high brightness displays took centre stage at London Fashion Week as they were used by breakthrough fashion designer Paula Knorr at her Spring/Summer '17 collection debut show. The Council gave the London Royal College of Art MA graduate the space and financial support to enable her to set up an installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Pall Mall, where four 55” Panasonic LCD displays, two TH-55LF8s and two TH-55LF80s, were used to show the video vignettes. Supported by the British Fashion Council German-born Knorr’s new collection ‘COLLAGE OF HERSELF’ revolves around the idea of feminism and womanhood, and features a series of video vignettes filmed with real women talking about their perceptions and attitudes towards feminity.
Kinesys Helps Shape Placebo Tour
Kinesys automation is central to show designer Jvan Morandi’s visual concept for the current Placebo “Retrospective” tour, which features some of the musical highlights and moments from 20 years on the indie rock frontline for the band, known for their intelligent visceral, raw and creative approach to live performance. Ten Kinesys Elevation 1+ vari-speed drive units, used with 10 x half tonne Liftket motors and Kinesys Vector control are being used to move five I-shaped trussing pods rigged in the roof above the stage. The system is a brand new investment in automation by lighting and video contractors Colour Sound Experiment, which made several purchases for this lengthy arena tour to ensure that Jvan has exactly the right elements for the tour.
PRODUCTS
Olympique Lyonnais Boosts Fan Engagement with FanCast
Recognising the growing need to produce broadcast quality content to further engage with fans, the FanCast package has been designed specifically by EVS for sports teams and venue operators. The easily-implemented, all-in-one recording and production multi-screen solution enables Olympique Lyonnais to connect with fans on matchday. This is done by delivering live action and instant replays to the in-stadium screens and monitors as well as fans’ mobile devices connected to the venue’s Wi-Fi. The speed of FanCast means that content, such as multi-angle replays, will reach the stadium’s Parc OL mobile app less than two minutes after the action happens on the pitch, giving fans a comparable in-stadium experience to those watching the match at home.
NewTek and Panasonic simplify IP setup
Panasonic and NewTek have announced NewTek AutoLink™, a new software application which detects and automatically connects to network based PTZ cameras. The presence of IP cameras is automatically detected from NewTek TriCaster® and the IP Series Video Mix Engine. Cameras become immediately available for use in networked video production workflows without any additional configuration, saving valuable bandwidth and system resources. NewTek AutoLink is PC based conversion software that allows camera control, NDI and streaming and is compatible with Panasonic PTZ cameras (AW-HE130, AW-HE40 and AW-UE70), as well as the company’s studio camera systems and 4K box camera (AK-UB300).
AJA KONA and Io 4K Help Color Casa Loma’s “Legends of Horror”
Built in 1911, Toronto’s sprawling Casa Loma is rumored to be haunted, making it the perfect setting for the haunted house experience “Legends of Horror.” The promenade theatre featured dressed sets augmented by fog, sound effects and animatronics, bringing the venue alive for this year’s Halloween celebration; more than 70 actors representing iconic horror characters like Dracula and Frankenstein and 3D and laser projections took the experience to a whole new level. Production designer, independent VFX supervisor, colorist and editor Clark Graff lent his services to the project, including the creation of intricate 3D projections such as a plague ridden tunnel overrun by rats and dead bodies, a hellish fire, a demon possessed tree and more. AJA® KONA 3G and Io™ 4K and were key in the creation of each projection.