98 Friday 07.09.2012
theibcdaily Groundbreaking mobile live broadcast SIS Live
There’s room up top: France Television’s innovative mobile Olympic studio
By Ian McMurray
Outside broadcast, uplink and systems integration specialists SIS Live has been working in a collaborative venture with France Television’s Sports Department to achieve what the company described as a historic premiere in broadcasting, delivering the first ever live broadcasts from a mobile TV studio.
Commissioned by France TV
Sports, SIS Live’s British and French divisions collaborated to design, construct and operate a live moving TV studio to deliver coverage of the London 2012 Olympics.
The vehicle was able to
produce and transmit live TV while on the move, making dynamic use of four fixed receive high points around London which deliver RF coverage on selected routes
Interplay Sphere for journalists on the go
Avid By Carolyn Giardina
Avid has launched Interplay Sphere, its cloud-enabled news system aimed at helping journalists and editors to create complete stories from both locally
acquired and server-based footage, from anywhere there is an internet connection.
Interplay Sphere helps users “craft better stories from where they’re actually happening with a full range of media access and collaborative capabilities,”
said Dana Ruzicka, vice president of segment and product marketing at Avid. Using the system, the
journalist could edit from a portable device with NewsCutter or Media Composer, and access stock footage and clips, as well as file stories, through
connectivity with an Avid server that has the Interplay Sphere software.
The system automatically manages the transcode, upload and check-in of locally acquired footage to any connected Avid Interplay production system and allows users to edit directly from any Interplay asset. Avid reported that with the system, a journalist
around the city centre. This use of technology alleviated the need to employ a costly fixed wing aircraft relay solution, making this type of transmission a more viable prospect. Programmes and inserts from the bus were received by the SIS Live city-wide network and connected directly to France TV Sport’s London Olympic base for onward fibre transmission and subsequent broadcast on TV and online.
Built into the body of a doubledecker red London bus, the mobile studio delivered a 50 minute live morning show each day featuring guests, panelists, live music and discussions concerning the French Olympic Team’s progress through the Games. It was also used to record clips which were periodically inserted live into the main programme throughout the day. 1.C55
can upload media as a story is being edited, prioritise media transfer based upon working content, and deliver proxy files ahead of full- resolution files. Avid Interplay Sphere, along with Sphere-enabled versions of NewsCutter and Media Composer for PC, is now available. Demos are being conducted at Avid’s IBC stand. 7.J20
AdderLink connects Targeting multiscreen
Adder By Carolyn Giardina
The AdderLink Infinity digital KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) extender from Adder Technology is being used at IBC to pipe news and information to attendees. “The fact that the
AdderLink Infinity is being used to stream the Info Channel across IBC means that everyone who attends the exhibition and conference can see what this technology is capable of delivering over long
distances,” said Simon Clew, sales director at Adder. IBC technology sponsor Adder is showcasing the AdderLink Infinity and the AdderLink Infinity Dual in a mock-up of a video control room on its stand.
AdderLink Infinity allows a computer and user to be separated by ‘almost any distance over a gigabit network without any loss in capabilities, reduction in video resolution, audio quality or USB latency.’
Adder says it has the capability to run any size matrix with DVI, USB, RS232 and audio on all ports, with the limitation being the user’s network and how the traffic architecture is configured. It’s aimed at broadcasters, as it would allow any number of studios and control rooms to be connected, wherever they might be located.
Designed with Apple in mind, the AdderLink Infinity Dual provides dual link DVI, allowing it to support very large screens such as the Apple Cinema Display, or dual monitor set-ups. 7.B33
AmberFin By Carolyn Giardina
AmberFin has launched several new products for file- based media ingest, transcode and playback.
“As we move further into the multiscreen era where content delivery to a broad range of publishing platforms is becoming increasingly essential to a far wider range of media organisations then these more affordable, high quality products become much more important,” said Bruce Devlin, chief technology officer at AmberFin. “The development of these products is customer led – they respond to real and current customer needs.”
The new AmberFin iCR additions include the iCR-100 DPP Transcoder and iCR-300- DPP Ingest Station, for ingest
A bear necessity: AmberFin’s iCR Player
and transcode to AS11 workflows in general and metadata support for the Digital Production Partnership; the iCR-100-XDCAM Transcoder and iCR-300-XDCAM Ingest Station, for ingest and transcode of MPEG2 XDCAM and IMX formats; iCR-200-PLY Player/Preparation Station and iCR-200-VTR Player / Tape Layback Station, for playback,
QC review, annotation and metadata entry or tape layback for a range of codecs and wrappers; iCR-100-Proxy Transcoder, a file-based proxy (lo-res) generator; and iCR-500 AS-12 Workstation, a PC workstation for the creation and preparation of MXF-AS12 compliant deliverables, especially the creation of AS-12 commercials. 7.J39
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