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LIVE MUSIC AND MOBILE EDITING | CONTENT CREATION


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The use of Blackmagic kit meant it took only three days to establish TV Rennes’ HD broadcasting system


TV Rennes’ system provides native support for HD, while providing it with the ability to broadcast in both SD and HD


It had to be technically easy to manage, but with professional quality


Philippe Baudet, through his company PAD in Luxembourg, creates production workflows for regional television stations. He offers ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions including engineering, software consulting, delivery and installation, training and support. PAD’s latest project is the complete overhaul of French local TV broadcaster TV Rennes’ workflow. After 25 years, it “needed a breath of fresh air, especially with the transition from 4:3 to 16:9 HD,” says Baudet. PAD developed eight ‘shooting units’, based on Apple Mac Pros, which were given to each journalist to do their own editing. Final Cut Studio was installed on the workstations, with shooting done on SD cards, directly recorded in QuickTime.


On top of this, “Everything


was re-done [in the studio] with cold lights, tracked cameras and


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four Mac Pros with DeckLink HD Extreme 3D cards distributing live coverage edited by journalists.” PAD also created a small outside broadcast unit for TV Rennes, designed to be operated by just two people. The cameras used for its outside broadcasts are the same as the shooting units, and it also has a Mac Pro, DeckLink HD Extreme 3D cards and a video hub.


“It had to be technically easy to manage, but with professional quality,” explains Baudet. “With the system set up with Apple and Blackmagic Design products, we have this high- level broadcast quality – there’s only one level of compression (in-camera, during the shooting process), then teams work in native format and avoid adding any additional compression”.


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French artist Yannick Noah for a DVD release. “We worked on two sessions of recording, which meant two different strategies,” says Baiesi. “In the first session, we had an OB Van and six cameras, including a XDCAM, an HDV and a Canon 5D.”


“For the second recording,


Jean-Pierre Baiesi is one of France’s video pioneers, having started out in 1980. He worked for 10 years with French Director Mathias Ledoux, which led to work on concerts by artists such as Johnny Halliday and Vanessa Paradis. In 2003, he created the


company Atelier Clandestin, to be “independent, especially with the choice of technology.”


After selecting Apple Color and Final Cut Pro Studio as his main software, he opted for an Apple- Blackmagic Design pairing. “I use the Multibridge Eclipse system for HD and DeckLink HD Extreme 3D for 3D.”


And, in 2010, he switched from Color to DaVinci Resolve for his whole production workflow. He is currently working on recording the final concert of


there were two isolated XDCAM cameras, an HDCAM, an HDV camera and a Canon 5D,” he adds. “The main challenge was to connect all the data from various sources, especially in terms of the colourimetry.”


Baiesi believes Resolve


provides him with around a 20% increase in speed compared to many other colour grading products on the market.


Baiesi is also excited by the new


features that Resolve 8 will bring, including processing tools for noise reduction, curve grading and multi point stabilization.


20% increase in speed compared to many other colour grading productions on the market


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Resolve 8 provides a range of new features, such as noise reduction and curve grading


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