Broadcast Sports, Inc (BSI) is demonstrating a complete 3D wireless camera package on an integrated Panasonic 3D camera, with low delay encoding, and full camera control is. BSI uses its own dual stream mini encoder/transmitter – a device a little larger than a mobile phone – to carry the two signals simultaneously, which ensures synchronous signals from the two cameras used to capture the pictures from the left and right lenses. BSI has also added its in-house developed UHF camera control which allows the operator to adjust the parameters of the camera and control the
convergence between the left and right eyes. 5.B20
Cracking file-based processing Opinion
Audio processing and compliance can be as easy as breaking eggs, explains MC Patel, CEO, Emotion Systems
We started out with a firm belief that there had to be a better way to do file-based processing. Having consulted and listened to a great many customers, we arrived at a proposition for a file-based processing product that was based on values of ease of use, cost effectiveness and processing that could be trusted.
Because so many broadcast facilities are either moving to or actively considering a file-based facility, understanding their requirements well in advance was crucial to our product development. Signal processing for file- based workflow has significant advantages. However, successful file-based processing requires equal attention to audio, video and relevant metadata. We chose to tackle audio first because there were significant challenges, and there was an immediate need. As I mentioned, we talked to many broadcasters about their
issues, and they were remarkably similar. There were audio loudness ‘solutions’ (there, I said it) out there, but whether as a standalone box or a software-based process, none could get around the fact that their solution risked breaking or altering the video wrapper to which the audio files were linked, therefore compromising the mix. Our eureka moment had arrived. We knew we had a better way, now called ‘eFF Audio’, a file-based audio loudness correction process. Think of it like this. Audio analysis and repair is like breaking a video egg. You can crack it open, manipulate the essence and – almost – stick it back together again, but the content and shell will never be the same. For a broadcaster, that’s patently unacceptable. Our approach is to take your suspect egg, extract the essence, examine it and, if necessary, repair it to your specific requirement. The
difference is, we’ll hand the egg’s contents back to in whatever, corrected, form you want, but with its video shell fresh, whole and completely intact.
How do we do it? That’s important only to us. What’s important to a broadcaster is that they can safely analyse and correct audio issues without worrying about ending up with a gooey mess to process through their facility. Arriving at this new
processing method wasn’t easy. Broadcast files get more and more complicated every day and it took a full two years of single-minded pursuit to arrive at where we are now, but that’s the beauty of a small and nimble company. We have yet to encounter a file that we didn’t like, or a broadcaster that didn’t like eFF Audio. The user interface alone is so simple and elegant that our five-minute demo is akin to a satisfying breakfast.
I know it’s a cliché, but all of
MC Patel: ‘Our eureka moment had arrived’
this is because we’ve been customer-driven from the start. In fact, our development and deployment of eFF Audio and other file-based processing products are a direct result of listening, carefully and intently, to what broadcasters actually needed.
Just as important is that we fully understood what they didn’t need. And it’s because we listened that, as a product and a company, we’re now making some noise. Breakfast anyone? 6.C28b
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