Newsletter from 07/04/2015
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
NEP Supershooters EN2
NEP’s newest production unit, EN2, made its major-event debut last weekend for the 2015 premiere of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball regular-season coverage. It’s the first time in a decade that the program has new facilities to call home, and it is the result of a lot of collaborative work between NEP and ESPN. The front wall features 32-in. monitors as well as eight 20-in. monitors, giving the team the ability to pipe nearly 180 images into the main wall. And the video area, which features room for four operators, is also spacious. EN2 builds off lessons from previous NEP trucks, most notably EN1 and ND1, to make sure the production team is as comfortable as possible. It also has small creature comforts, such as USB ports for charging phones and tablets.
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Imagine Communications Anchors New NEP Australia HD Outside Broadcast Truck
Imagine Communications announced that it has supplied the powerful Platinum™ IP3 routing platform to NEP Australia, Australia’s leading provider of outsourced television production services. The router will be deployed in NEP Australia’s new state-of-the-art HD broadcast trailer. In any outside broadcast project, the challenge for the designer is to minimize the rack space occupied by the technical infrastructure and to maximize the functionality while reducing weight. The Platinum IP3 provides a broad range of additional functionality including multiplexing and de-multiplexing, signal distribution, audio MADI and sophisticated multiviewer capabilities. Embedding all this capability in a single router platform saves space, power and weight.
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Let the Games Begin!
Riot Games is an Esports innovator and creator of the competitive, PvP, worldwide on-line game League of Legends. Over 67 million international players log-on per month with over 27 million playing each day, and over7.5 million playing at the same time during each day’s peak play time. League of Legends professional team tournaments are held at various locations throughout the world culminating in the World Championship Tournament viewed live on-line by more than 27 million fans around the globe. The professional team tournaments are streamed live from the Westside Media Center and can be viewed on lolesports.com and 40 broadcast partners in 19 languages.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
TVRI Jakarta Goes Digital with Lawo
With regional stations covering the whole of the country, Indonesia’s state broadcaster TVRI undertook a pilot project designed to improve the audio production quality in the performance auditorium at its Jakarta headquarters by going fully digital. After careful consideration, TVRI Jakarta selected Lawo audio equipment for this major upgrade, including two mc²56 MKII broadcast and production mixing consoles. The mixing desks that have been installed in both the control room and the auditorium FOH are of identical configuration, each equipped with 48 faders and a stagebox with 48 mic/line inputs, eight line in and 16 line out.
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Derana selects Enterprise sQ for fast-turnaround news production
Leading Sri Lanka free-to-air broadcaster, Derana*, has purchased a Quantel Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround news and sports production system to produce hourly news bulletins. Based in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, Derana broadcasts two Sinhalese-language channels; TV Derana and Adaderana 24x7. Derana’s Quantel system consists of around 300 hours of storage with file ingest handled by sQ Load. Journalists can review and select shots via five sQ Cut workstations. In addition, craft editing is handled by five sQ Edit desktop editors and two high-end Qube editors, with playout supported by Quantel’s sQ Play application. The system was installed and on air in less than three weeks.
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Cobham takes on American Ninja Warrior
Cobham has announced the use of ten simultaneous RF video links comprising of SOLO H.264 ENG Transmitters, SOLO BTX SD Broadcast Transmitters, and PRORXB receive stations, for the upcoming seventh series of American Ninja Warrior, an action-packed series that follows competitors as they tackle a series of challenging obstacle courses, in an attempt to reach qualifying and finals rounds that take place across the United States. Cobham’s SOLO H.264 ENG Transmitter, provided by Clair Broadcast, which caters to video and audio productions across the globe, with technology and services for broadcast television, is rugged, and for American Ninja Warriors, it needs to be. The SD/HD COFDM digital video transmitter is specifically designed for ENG applications and is equally at home at live events such as concerts, sports and entertainment productions.
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SPORTS
Powersoft Glides Through its World Ski Challenge in Sweden
Swedish production company DAT AB, working in conjunction with Ljudteknik AB, recently undertook one of its most challenging tasks ever when providing sound reinforcement, including 160kW of Powersoft heavy artillery, for the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun. And the quality of audio they managed to deliver exceeded all expectations over the 50km point-to-point course. DAT’s project manager Robert Nilsson says it is 22 years since the World finals were last held at this site and he was also in the sound team on that occasion. But since then the event (and sound system requirement) have grown considerably, with 320,000 people attending this year (around 35,000 per day). This placed huge demands on the sound company, who were sub-contracted to the event.
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A Fox Sports first!
In the recent clash between Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie, Broadcast Rental helped Fox Sports achieve a spectacular opening shot in the Rotterdam Feyenoord stadium. When the plan arose for cameraman Ben de Graaf to jump out of a helicopter and follow the players as they emerged from the tunnel, join into the huddle and get ready to play, Broadcast Rental was approached to help out. A specially designed gyro-stabilized camera rig was created for the Canon C300 camera. To bring the signals back to the OB truck, Broadcast Rental put 2 helix antennas plus an additional 80 degree antenna on the roof of the Feyenoord stadium to follow the helicopter and the tandem-parachute as it descended into the stadium.
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Hawk-Eye Confirmed as Goal-Line Technology Provider for Canada 2015
The decision comes after a tender process announced in December 2014, when interested FIFA-licensed GLT providers were invited to join an inspection visit to each of the venues in Edmonton, Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Hawk-Eye is a camera-based system, with seven cameras per goal installed as high as possible within the stadium structure. Utilising the latest technology of high-frame-rate cameras and cutting-edge vision-processing techniques, Hawk-Eye is able to locate the ball at all times even if it is only found by two of the seven cameras. The system is millimetre-accurate and indicates whether or not a goal has been scored within one second by a vibration and visual signal on each match official's watch.
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SHOWS
Robe BMFLs Rise to the Occasion For Taeyang
K-Pop singer, songwriter and music sensation Taeyang recently played a show in Singapore with a lighting rig containing 30 x Robe BMFL Spots moving lights, supplied by leading rental company Showtec. The Lighting Designer, Mr. Juhyun Kim of Lite Factory in Korea, used them to replace another product for the show which was staged at the 6000 capacity Singapore Expo. It was the first time Juhyun had used BMFL Spots and the lights were positioned above the stage and on side podiums, and used to flood the stage in white – incorporating the artists and his dancers – and also used for tight-spotting of Taeyang, as well as for beaming out into the audience and filling the space with aerial ‘bursts’ and other effects.
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Sennheiser Delivers First Rate Audio Quality and Reliability at Juno Awards
Sennheiser lit up the Juno Awards of 2015 with pristine and reliable audio, held at the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton earlier this month. The Juno Awards, which have existed since 1970 and represent the pinnacle of Canadian recognition for technical and artistic achievement in music, were broadcast on CTV Television Network and hosted by Jacob Hoggard, lead singer of pop-rock group Hedley. Hedley are regular users of Sennheiser products, and were honored with three nominations including ‘Album of the Year’ for Wild Life. The broadcast reached 1.6 million viewers in Canada and presented a staggering array of talent, featuring live performances and awards in a broad range of genres. Sennheiser was well represented both onstage and off, with Hoggard relying on a Sennheiser SKM 2000 handheld transmitter and MMD 935 capsule for the duration of the ceremony – including for his live vocal performances with Hedley.
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Avolites Sapphire Touch consoles delivers flexible control for All Time Low
Boston-based lighting designer Jeff Maker has utilised Avolites' Sapphire Touch consoles to control 'epic' looks, both pre-programmed and on the fly, for All Time Low's recent UK arena tour. Co-headlining with You Me At Six, the American pop punks played such major venues as the Manchester Phones 4u Arena, and London's O2 and Wembley Arena. Maker specified a powerful rig which included Clay Paky Mythos, Showline SL NITRO 510C and Robe BMFL fixtures, all controlled by an Avolites Sapphire Touch, alongside a second Sapphire Touch as backup. A high performance console, it has more submasters, more flash and executor buttons and the power to control larger, more challenging shows.
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PRODUCTS
NABShow2015
Popular and fresh attractions served up in 2015 will include Connected Media|IP, focusing on the consumer experience; the Drone Pavilion, featuring a fully enclosed “flying cage” for demonstrations; New Media Expo (NMX), hosting celebrity bloggers, podcasters and digital content creators; SPROCKIT, where market-ready startups present their new ideas; StudioXperience, a live studio using all the latest tools; and so much more. Taste the future of media and entertainment being cooked up for the 2015 NAB Show.
Aerigon - Amimon - Anton/Bauer - Artel - Ascendant Engineering - Audinate -- Autoscript - Avid - Axon - Bluebell - Broadcast Pix - Calrec - ChyronHego - Clear-Com - Dejero - Drone Pavillion - DVEO - ETC - EVS - FFV - FOR.A - Fujifilm - G&D - Grass Valley - Hitachi - I-MOVIX - IABM - Imagine Communications - L-S-B - Lawo - LiveU - Microsoft - NewTek - Orad - Pesa - Phabrix - Plura - Quantel + Snell - Riedel - Rohde & Schwarz - Ross Video - SmallHD - Sony - Timecode Systems - TVLogic - Video Devices - Vizrt
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ProLight+Sound 2015
No other trade fair offers as comprehensive an overview of the products and services in the events sector as Prolight + Sound. For four days, this leading international trade fair becomes the meeting place for exhibitors, trade visitors, wholesalers, retailers and professional users from all over the world. The trade and professional visitors, who include event-venue operators, planners, retailers, wholesalers, sound experts, lighting designers, stage designers, studio technicians, events service providers and exhibition-stand builders come to Prolight + Sound to find out about the latest technical developments and products and the complete range of services.
Avolites - Ayrton - d&b audiotechnik - DPA - Eaton - Elation - Lawo - Martin Audio - Martin Lighting - Riedel - Robe - Teldec
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Rentex Adds Four FUJINON Zooms to Equipment Roster
Rentex Computer & Audio Visual Rentals, one of the USA's largest wholesale providers of computer, audiovisual and production rental equipment, recently added four FUJINON XA55x9.5 HD zoom lenses to its highly regarded optics inventory. Rentex already has 23 FUJINON XA17x7.6BRM HD ENG-Style lenses in its stock. Built-in lens support bracket for mounting as well as built-in image stabilization were two of the deciding factors in the selection of the XA55x. “The built-in lens support allows for a much easier set up and tear down without the cost of purchasing a bracket, which is a huge plus for our clientele,” said Don Gaskill, Vice President, Rentex. “Most of our customer applications include events, conferences, and concerts so the built-in optical image stabilization to maintain rock steady close ups for long periods is also a very important feature.”
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JVC Delivers 40 Camcorders for HRT Croatia VJs
To meet the growing demands in quality and topicality of its newscasts, Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT), Croatia‘s public service broadcasting corporation, based in Zagreb, recently made an extensive reorganization of its regional centers. As a part of the restructuring, very sophisticated tasks, which only can be handled with the latest camcorders, are assigned to the video journalists (VJs) responsible for news. Thus, existing equipment was put to test, with the result that about 40 new handheld camcorders were required. Petra Dražić, from department "Integrated Media Operations", was one of the engineers in charge for selecting suitable camcorders. She had to reconcile the requests of VJs and the production team as well as to meet technical and budgetary requirements. In consultation with participants, the JVC GY-HM600 Series of ENG handheld camcorders were their choice.
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3D/4K ARISING
Recorded with PMW-F55 in 4K: Sony and NT Live bring Theatre Feeling to Vue Cinemas
In April, Vue International audiences around the UK will exclusively be able to watch the acclaimed National Theatre Live production Behind the Beautiful Forevers – projected in Sony Digital Cinema 4K for the highest possible picture quality. A landmark in event cinema, the 12th March performance of Behind the Beautiful Forevers was specially recorded in front of an audience at the NT’s Olivier Theatre using six Sony F55 4K cameras. Mastered as a 4K DCP (Digital Cinema Package), the show will be screened as a series of exclusive 4K presentations across the whole of Vue’s 83-site estate. Fully exploiting the phenomenal detail, contrast and colour gamut captured by the F55, the 4K screenings will bring patrons in Vue cinemas closer than ever to the atmosphere of being in the best seats in the house at the actual performance.
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Digigram Announces Industry's First 4K UHD HEVC Live Encoder in 1-RU Chassis
Digigram, developer of innovative audio and video solutions, today introduced a new HEVC encoder. Intended for use in point-to-point broadcast contribution, such as when transporting video from a live event to the studio, the new Digigram appliance encodes in real time either one UHD signal or multiple HD raw video signals using the new HEVC video compression standard. Digigram's HEVC encoder is the industry's first 4K UHD encoder contained in a compact 1-RU chassis, making it suitable for contribution applications in space-constrained OB vans. Digigram's HEVC encoder fits into a 19-inch, short-depth chassis that uses just one rack unit of space — the same form factor as a standard contribution encoder.
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Bluebell Opticom Introduces Caddie-LB 4K
Specifically designed for OB and deployable applications, the Caddie-LB 4K provides a single-cable link between cameras and ENG/OB units. Features include four 3G/HD/SD-SDI video paths from the camera's on-air audio, intercom, and control data. Based on field-proven technology, the units offer the operator a range of signals for camera control and synchronisation, including program video, audio, communications, data, and genlock. All signals are multiplexed onto two fibres to ensure easy and quick system rigging. The position of the camera is limited only by the availability of power and the length of the fibre cable within a given infrastructure. The typical setup uses a pair of portable Caddie-LB 4K enclosures — one for use near the camera and the other for use near the CCU as a "base" unit that offers corresponding signals to the CCU.
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