36 TVBEurope The Workflow NEWS INBRIEF
Calrec into AVnu Alliance Calrec has joined the AVnu Alliance, an industry consortium dedicated to the development and promotion of a professional-quality streaming standard for networked audio and video content based on the IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging standards. “We know a lot about audio networking and have brought two solutions to the table because we want to ensure that our customers’ needs are well-represented in the new protocol,” said Calrec technical director Patrick Warrington.
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Levira expands server hosting Levira is building a new high-level server centre to increase its activities as a hosting provider. The new server room will meet the highest ISKE (three-stage baseline security system) and other international security and quality standards. “ The recent severe failures in telecommunication services from some of the data centres in Tallinn show that there is a need for higher-quality server hosting,” commented Tõnis Kulm, head of Levira’s cloud services.
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location. The appropriate video cables have HDTV specs compliant with regulations regarding frequency response for HDTV and 3G, so ready for future upgrades.
Finished reports One-hundred-and-sixty Rai journalists took part in training courses for Interplay Instinct and Assist, with which they prepare rough cuts, or do account-only editing. Their sequences then go to the editing rooms to be finalised. Each room has an Avid NewsCutter Nitris DX workstation connected to the Avid Isis 7000 system, a Utah 16x16 matrix routing incoming and outgoing signals, Sony XDCam 1500, Blu-ray mastering unit, IMX player (for as long as required), two Dynaudio loudspeakers, a Sony 42-inch LCD and 2+2 monitors (editing + vision). In the future, much more
work will be done directly in the journalist area than in the past and certain functions such as the playout of finished reports won’t always involve the editing
channels arriving from the matrix and there are suites for P2/XDCAM/eVTR ingest (EVS Opencube) and file-based ingest (Telestream Vantage), both integrated with Interplay. The impressive TG2 facility
also features four multi-format editorial viewing rooms and, as far as network component and system management are concerned, an HP Operations Manager, integrated with Avid Health Monitor is constantly monitored by TG2 maintenance technicians. Guido concludes, “We now
Up to 24 different video feeds or one large image can be displayed on the main studio’s vidi-wall, comprising 30 track-mounted Samsung 46-inch LED elements and six NEC 55-inch LCDs
rooms, so there is a change in modus operandi — for example the evening edition of the news no longer requires all the editing work necessary with the old system and staff can concentrate more on preparing dossiers, magazines, etc. Journalists’ workstations are based on an HP platform and the systems on Cisco Catalyst network architecture.
The Teleport is manned 22 hours a day and acquires all the video signals fed to the Avid system. Three workstations can operate simultaneously on the control of the 16 ingest channels and other external channels, so each operator can activate ingest procedure and control matrix routing via Interplay Capture. They have at their disposal more than 64
have great potential at our disposal and are facilitated in opening up new workflow possibilities — for example, preparing web content is less complicated and material already available can be clearly viewed by all staff, thanks to the work of import and export and inclusion of metadata.” Rai has already announced
that the TG2 project will be followed by TG1, TG3 and TGR regional news programmes, at a rate of six or seven per year.
www.tvbeurope.com April 2013
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