Newsletter from 24/03/2015
Tata Sky Delivers Cricket World Cup in 4K
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MOBILE PRODUCTION
MTVG Selects LYNX yellobrik for its Critical CWDM Outside Broadcast Fiber Needs
MTVG purchased two feature-packed yellobrik CWDM fiber systems to address a key challenge: they needed to link two production trucks to function as one fully integrated unit - a main equipment truck (MU) and a second companion truck (VMU) that serves as a user interface - all while using fiber instead of traditional coax. With this side-by-side dual mobile unit solution, MTVG is using yellobrik solutions to transmit and receive up to 56 HD-SDI signals flawlessly using only two fiber links. The main mobile truck houses the key equipment control room and electronics, and the second truck functions as an operator interface and monitoring vehicle connected to the main truck. This model provides an advanced technological solution for both home and visitor sports production teams.
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TV-Film Chooses Ikegami HDK-970A Cameras for OB Truck Ü6
TV-Film, a Vienna-based company specialising in providing mobile television production services, outside broadcast vehicles and related equipment, has purchased Ikegami HDK-970A and HDK-97A cameras for its Ü6 OB truck. The sale was negotiated by Ikegami's Austrian dealer, Avisys Electronics GmbH, which is also located in Vienna. "TV-Film's Technical Director, Thomas Völkl, chose the HDK-970A cameras to meet expanding demand for high-definition broadcast production," comments Avisys CEO Keigo Yoneda. "Each camera was purchased complete with a CCU and 3G optical fibre transmission adapter.
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Cobham's SOLO7 HD Nano TX transmits live footage from Imperial Eagle flight in Dubai
“Darshan”, a male Eastern Imperial Eagle with a two-metre wingspan, was equipped with a 300 gram Sony ActionCam and a Cobham SOLO7 HD Nano TX, which was used to capture and transmit stunning live footage of Darshan’s circuitous descent from the summit of Burj Khalifa to his trainer from Freedom Conservation, Jacques-Olivier Travers. Two falconers, accompanied by two support staff hanging from the spire at the very top of Burj Khalifa, set Darshan and his payload on his way on a bright, cloudless March day; the results of which have now been seen on multi-platform news and feature programmes around the world.
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XL Video Supplies TV Studio Setup for GSMA’s Mobile World Live TV
Every year tens of thousands of visitors visit the GSMA Mobile World Congress, widely considered the “must-attend” event in the mobile industry calendar. To ensure all of the news from across the show is shared daily, the GSMA created Mobile World Live TV (MWL TV). For the 2015 show, MWL TV Executive Producer Jacquie Luscombe contacted XL Video Project Manager, Nick Askew, to be part of a competitive bid for the studio setup for MWL TV. Prior to joining XL Video, Nick had worked with the client for the previous four years. For this year’s event XL supplied a package that included HD cameras, onsite production studio, HD recordings and media servers, as well as LED truck screens for the exterior of the Fira Gran Via venue.
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STUDIO PRODUCTION
More Pointes for Grand Production TV Studios in Serbia
Robe’s Serbian distributor Studio Berar Projekt has supplied the country’s leading music and TV production company Grand Production with 32 x Robe Pointes which have been installed at Studio 1 of the Filmski Grad studio complex in Kosutnjak, Belgrade. The company produces a host of different ‘Grand’ branded TV programmes including all the popular music television shows in the region including The Fantastic Show, People Pie and Grand Stars which are broadcast on the First Serbian TV channel, on OBN in Bosnia & Hertzegovina and Kanal 5 in Macedonia. Grand Production also manages some of the best known Balkan pop and folk artists.
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Discovery Networks Denmark Meets Growing Demands with Studer Vista 5 M3
Discovery Networks Denmark, Copenhagen, has undergone a major upgrade of its studios, control rooms and equipment to meet the requirements for larger and more demanding sports productions, while also using the opportunity to rebuild the physical environment as well. As most of the equipment had to be replaced, the overall decision was taken to use a hybrid video router that should be connected via MADI to the audio infrastructure as well as the intercom system. The audio console chosen to facilitate the various scenarios of Discovery is a HARMAN Studer Vista 5 M3 with 42 faders.
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Ross Video Opens Studios of the Future
Ross Video, a leader in virtual solutions for live production announces the opening of three instances of the Ross Studio of the Future. The Ross Virtual Studio in Ottawa features a complete turn-key virtual studio with a small footprint (20 by 22 feet). The Ross Studio space represents emerging customer requirements for small studios with a big look to enable both lower cost, automated production environments as well as dramatically reduce the cost of studio space and operations. Concurrently, Ross Video has opened a Ross Studio of the Future at the Ross EMEA HQ at Pinewood Studios in London and at Infinite Studios, a Ross business partner, near the Ross Asia HQ in Singapore.
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SPORTS
Biathlon WC in Kontiolahti: Entering the Winner’s Rostrum with Lawo IP Technology
Held in Kontiolahti, Finland, the Biathlon World Cup 2015 came to a close on 15 March,with the German team winning three gold and two silver medals, and finishing the contest second to France in the final medal table. Alongside the world’s elite biathlon athletes who had put themselves to the test in the competition, Lawo technology had also proved to be at the top of its game. Finnish public broadcaster YLE had used an IP-based Commentary System with ten Lawo Commentary Units (LCU) –including onsite support – from rental company Audio Broadcast Services (ABS) for television coverage of the event. The fully digital Commentary System is based on RAVENNA Audio-over-IP networking technology that enables the use of standard IP networks for interconnecting venues and devices.
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Vizrt and deltatre to offer data-integrated live broadcast graphics package for Rio 2016
Vizrt, a leading provider of production tools for the digital media industry, is working with sports media services company deltatre to deliver an end-to-end solution for producing rich data-integrated broadcast graphics. The new package is designed for broadcasters carrying live sporting action from Rio 2016 and will be available for them to rent through a dedicated Games rate cards. Dr. Stephan Würmlin Stadler, Executive Vice President of Sports for Vizrt, said: “With an event the size of Rio 2016, there’s so much going on at the same time that the narrative is constantly changing. Using the ODF ensures that a broadcaster carries the latest official data."
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Rogers Sportsnet doubles its Enterprise sQ system for NHL coverage
Canada’s leading sports media broadcaster, Rogers Sportsnet, has doubled the size of its Quantel Enterprise sQ fast-turnaround news and sports system to handle its growing workflow after acquiring the exclusive national rights to NHL coverage for the next 12 years. Sportsnet consists of four regional channels and the nationally-distributed Sportsnet ONE and Sportsnet World. The Quantel system, installed at The Rogers Building in downtown Toronto also covers baseball, basketball, American Football and soccer. The huge system now supports a total of 72 ingest ports, 56 playout ports and 350 editing seats. At the heart of the system is 7500 hours of online storage on sQ servers. Sportsnet has also expanded its QTube global workflow system allowing its remote editors to access and edit content stored on its central Toronto-based Enterprise sQ system wherever they are located.
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SHOWS
BMFLs & CycFX 8s for Maroon 5 V Tour
US rock band Maroon 5 have begun their latest world tour in support of their chart-topping fifth studio album 'V', with lighting, visuals and stage design by Leroy Bennett. The massive rig includes eight Robe BMFL Spot and 96 x CycFX 8 moving lights supplied by leading US rental company Upstaging, together with the rest of the lighting and rigging equipment package. Bennett's creative starting point was that they wanted something totally different. With the distinctive 'V' of the album artwork as inspiration, the trussing and set architecture - including 19 (9 x each side, one center) eye-catching cascading Plexiglass columns upstage - was all evolved around the concept of conventional and inverted Vs.
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Expressing power: grandMA2 dances with Morphed
Morphed is a work by Tero Saarinen circulating around eight dancers showing the expressive power of the human body and liberating movements in their performances. While Esa-Pekka Salonen created the music, Mikki Kunttu, who has been working with Saarinen for many years, was responsible for the set and lighting design. Morphed is currently touring through different venues in Europe accompanied by a grandMA2 light console that is owned by the Tero Saarinen Company.
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Alan Jackson Partners with Elite Multimedia to Keep It Country for 25th Anniversary Tour
After dominating the country music charts with 35 number ones, more than 60 career singles and a dedicated fan base, Alan Jackson has chosen Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions (EMP) to handle all lighting, video and LED for his 25th anniversary, “Keepin’ It Country” tour, which is sponsored by Kubota Tractor Corporation. The tour, which kicked off in early January in Fort Myers, Fla. and continues through the summer, has production needs that vary with the vast amount of different types of venues it plays. Lighting and video play a huge role in the country icon’s production so that audiences feel the camaraderie that is driven home through Jackson’s songs.
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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.
Autoscript - Axon - AVID - Broadcast Pix - ChyronHego - Clear-Com - Drone Pavillion - DVEO - EVS - FFV - FOR.A - Fujifilm - G&D - Grass Valley - Hitachi - I-MOVIX - IABM - Imagine Communications - Lawo - LiveU - Microsoft - Phabrix - Rohde & Schwarz - Quantel + Snell - Riedel - Ross Video - 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 - Elation - Martin Audio - Martin Lighting - Teldec
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MEDIAPRO uses EVS solutions to boost production capacity for new F1 Channel
To provide 24 hours of content 11 EVS XT series production servers receive up to seven feeds directly from Formula One Management (FOM), including the principal transmission, redundant and personalized signals, on-board camera feeds and information about the circuit. Files are ingested directly into an EVS XStore shared storage of 200TB – after being logged and enriched with metadata. The addition of XTAccess and Xedio CleanEdit has readied the workflow for the launch of the new channel. The EVS-equipped studios and the new integration of Xedio CleanEdit in the production workflow means editors are able to instantly work on content as soon as it’s transferred to the SAN shared storage.
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3D/4K ARISING
Elemental Chosen for Tata Sky’s Latest 4K Video Service
Elemental Technologies, a leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, announced that Tata Sky, India’s leading direct-to-home operator, is using Elemental software to process Ultra HD live linear content in high-efficiency video coding (HEVC/H.265) for delivery to Tata Sky 4K-ready set-top boxes. Selected by Tata Sky based on its reliable delivery of high-quality live 4K content in HEVC, Elemental is the sole video processing software selected for the subcontinent’s first commercial 4K service delivered to end-users: Tata Sky Delivers the Cricket World Cup in 4K.
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Fletcher Sports Brings 4K Action to Worldwide Audiences with I-MOVIX X10 UHD
Chicago-based specialist camera supplier Fletcher Sports has deployed I-MOVIX X10 UHD cameras in Australia and New Zealand to bring live Cricket World Cup 4K coverage to theatre audiences in the host countries and in India. “The images are crisp, the replays are fantastic, and the X10 UHD slows down the action to a degree that can’t be achieved with any other camera”, said Dan Grainge, Vice President, Fletcher Chicago Inc. Shooting at 1000fps during daylight to capture the intricacies of fast-paced World Cup action, Fletcher Sports’ I-MOVIX systems are reconfigured to 300fps when the floodlights come on for the latter stages of day/night games.
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