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TRT takes PlayMaker Turkish national broadcaster TRT has used Orad’s PlayMaker super slow motion replay servers with Orbit realtime storage extensively for its Olympic and major football productions. PlayMaker and Orbit provided TRT with the tapeless workflow necessary for fast paced Olympic and sports environments. For their Olympic coverage, TRT relied extensively on PlayMaker’s unique flexible eight channel configuration, to ingest multiple satellite feeds for fast highlight editing, as well as playout craft editing of files, clips, editorials, new stories, headline sports news, and more. Clipping and logging of material for NLE environments were done in DVC Pro HD. TRT used PlayMaker’s PlayNet feature to browse through the remote server clip list and select one to preview, copy, or playback instantly. Orbit provided TRT with an additional 50TB of realtime shared storage.
www.orad.tv
MEDIA BROADCAST moves with Signiant MEDIA BROADCAST has introduced a new high-speed file transfer service for its broadcast and production customers based on Signiant’s Managers+Agents software. The European media service provider is extending its existing broadcast network with the Signiant technology to enable clients to transfer digital media in a fast, secure and managed fashion. “This new service is a true win for our company. Using Signiant, our customers have the ability to share critical media files over our realtime network at speeds five times faster than they could using a basic internet connection, and exponentially faster than old-style, tape-based workflows — with assurance that their content is protected and secure,” said Rafael Dornes, product manager of Broadcast Next Generation Network (NGN) Solutions at MEDIA BROADCAST.
www.signiant.com
Major advance for SMPTE standard
By Dick Hobbs
BXF, THE Broadcast eXchange Format, has now reached version 2.0. SMPTE published the new standard, together with supporting documents and XML schema, earlier this month. This follows extensive work by a broad group of industry participants. The standard has already been adopted by a number of vendors and integrators as a means of exchanging information between business and media management systems. BXF provides the framework for standardised, timeline-based data exchanges around
dynamically changing content. One of its primary purposes is seen as managing advertising sales and the subsequent fulfilment on-screen. “Representing a collaborative
effort by some 80 companies and already seeing widespread adoption, BXF is a success story for everyone,” said Peter Symes, SMPTE director of standards and engineering. “BXF 2.0 and future extensions also underscore the vital role SMPTE plays in driving collaboration and standardisation in support of new technology advances and creating new revenue opportunities across the digital media ecosystem.”
The project has been led, since its inception in 2004, by Chris Lennon of Harris. The company has already implemented BXF in 11 of its major products including ADC and D-Series automation, OSi-Traffic media software, and Invenio media asset management. “It is very satisfying for us
at Harris to see the fruits of the BXF effort,” said Lennon. “It demonstrates the value of working with our customers and partners as well our competitors in fixing endemic industry problems.” He added that the group is now working towards BXF 3.0.
Marquis Broadcast’s Medway software tool kit delivers integration between its broadcast content applications
e.tv. integration with Medway kit
By Jake Young
SOUTH AFRICAN broadcaster
e.tv. has installed Marquis Broadcast’s Medway software tool kit, which delivers integration between its broadcast content applications. “Medway unifies multi-vendor systems,” explained Chris Steele, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. “At
e.tv. Medway now integrates the
broadcast and editing systems ensuring technical and operational workflows are optimised between Pebble Beach Systems MAM and automation with Mac-based Avid editors and Omneon video servers. “This allows the systems to capture and manage the media before sending material across to the Avids for editing,” continued Steele. “As a result, the file-based integration of
the MAM and production departments have been enabled with increased flexibility and speed of production.” “Marquis was selected because Medway is the only solution that had the capability and the flexibility to integrate the required elements without compromising the performance/capability of the individual systems,” said Dave Stewart, group chief engineer,
e.tv. “Pebble Beach Systems creates EDLs that detail a shot list of material required within the editing system using their MAM/browse systems and then passing the EDL to Medway. Medway then moves the hi-res content into the chosen Mac based Avid workstation. Once the editor has completed the work the finished sequence is sent back to Medway which in-turn sends a flattened version of the sequence back to an Omneon video server. Pebble Beach Systems sees the newly arriving material and makes it available to its automation systems.”
www.marquisbroadcast.com
www.tvbeurope.com September 2012
Erez Hadar (Danor), Ofer Jacobi (LD) Yaron Shoosh (lighting operator) and Eyal Kayzerman (Danor technician)
Israeli quiz comes to light with Robe
By Jake Young
ROBE LIGHTS, including 20 ROBIN 300E Beams, 10 ColorWash 700E ATs, six ColorBeam 2500s and 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs, are being used for Israeli quiz show Fly On The Millions.
The 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs
use a variety of colours and effects to backlight each of the contestants. The ColorWash 700s are used for backlighting the audience, while the 20 ROBIN 300E Beams are placed around the lower level set rings. The six ColorBeam 2500s are also on the floor behind the contestants. They provide an alternative layer of effects, colours and textures. Operator Yaron Shoosh
controls all the moving lights via a CompuLite Vector Red, which is also running video content out to all the various LED panels. Generic lighting is controlled by a CompuLite Spark 4D.
All the lighting and video cues
are triggered via MIDI from the show games machine. Lighting Designer Ofer Jacobi commented, “Using Robe has definitely made my life easier. I am very happy with the new LED ranges.”
www.robe.cz
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