September 2012
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Pinewood Shepperton prepares new TV facility
By Adrian Pennington
THE UK studio group, Pinewood Shepperton is putting the finishing touches to a multimillion-pound investment in upgraded and new facilities targeted at increasing broadcast demand for large live event TV. “The trend for broadcasters to connect with their subscribers or viewers and to facilitate very large [studio] audiences of 1,000+ means many productions have simply outgrown the space of traditional TV studio facilities,” said the group’s Head of TV Studio Operations, Simon Honey. “There is a growing
requirement for our large stages at 15,000sqft+ [more than about 1,400sqm], together with ancillary facilities and locations for ‘behind the scenes’ filming.” The photograph is of the new
“This means we not only
provide traditional HD lines for broadcast transmission, but are able to provide secure, fast IT connectivity to enable clients to ‘engage’ powerfully with second screen viewers,” said Honey. “We have to have the ability
The all-HD and fibre networked facility is targetting live television
30,000sqft/2,790sqm Richard Attenborough Stage. The all-HD and fibre networked facility opens officially in September based on Harris infrastructure with an 8-channel DVS Venice server system, connected to two DVS SpycerBox storage servers in a new Digital Content Services department.
“This enables our clients
to record directly to post production providing a seamless delivery from studio recording to editing,” he explained. Client demand to engage audiences via social media platforms means facilities for second screen activity have also been thought through.
to be able to accept any form of media thrown at us, whether file-based or tape and ingest and reproduce the correct format to fit the studio floor.” Flexibility in lighting design is also part of the offer. “For us, initially this means greater development and investment in cabling networks via fibre, ethercon and CAT6a plus additional hard power connectivity in our lighting grids and studio floor, rather than conventional DMX and XLR. We have to make it easy for clients to simply ‘plug in and play’,” he added.
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Satellite images for breaking news By Dick Hobbs
FOR NEWS editors who need pictures to cover breaking stories, Vizrt has launched a new service that gives subscribers access to DigitalGlobe’s vast satellite image library. Part of the DigitalGlobe Online service is FirstLook, which is claimed to be a faster, more cost-effective way to capture events from around the world. As the name implies, Vizrt customers will get a first look at images captured by one of DigitalGlobe’s three commercial satellites. When a major event takes place, DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe has been used to provide images from the Olympics
activates the service by positioning satellites at the location to take new high- resolution images. Within hours these images are available to all DigitalGlobe Online customers with the option to purchase. Customers are sent notifications from Vizrt when this happens to give them the first look. Already the service has been used to provide images from the Olympics, a typhoon in the Pacific Northwest and the Hungarian Grand Prix. As well as using the pictures in graphics, with Viz World designers can manipulate FirstLook satellite imagery to create animated maps,
or use aligned images captured before, during and after an event to show how it developed. “Our collaboration with Vizrt
is a natural fit for DigitalGlobe, because television broadcasters are a primary market for our high-resolution digital satellite imagery,” said Andrea Bersan, international vice president at DigitalGlobe. “Being first to air with valuable content is a key objective for any competitive broadcast news organisation. For reports on perilous events, like a nuclear power plant accident or tsunami, FirstLook can give everyone a birds-eye view from the safety of an orbiting satellite.”
News & Contents Contents
1-26 News & Analysis Going for metadata gold At various London 2012 events, Dick Hobbs learned about the central part played by Olympic Broadcasting Services, primary tenant of the IBC
NBC’s Olympic legacy
NBC has created a winning workflow that it will use as a template for future Games and a huge new sports facility, writes David Fox
12 Magic by Design
Blackmagic Design’s entry into the camera market has caused a stir but should broadcasters be as excited as independent filmmakers are? David Fox reports
18 3D’s emotional depth
Filmmakers are beginning to treat stereo 3D less as a technical problem or cost issue than as a craft. Adrian Pennington and Carolyn Giardina report
28-31 The Business Case Assets to air
One of the fast rising companies in the industry is Signiant, enabling high-speed file transport. Dick Hobbs talked to CEO Margaret Craig 28
33-49 The Workflow TV News from Sweden Philip Stevens learns how automation is essential for one of the latest providers of round-the-clock TV news
ADAM lends a hand
An IBM IT platform and a JORDI robot tackled the archive problem at WDR. David Stewart investigates
44 IBC2012 Preview
Find out what will be showcased at the RAI Amsterdam this year 51-81
82 TVBEurope’s News Review A look back at the month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology arena 82
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