16 TVBEurope News & Analysis NEWS INBRIEF
Content expansion Loft London, an independent digital media facility, has reached an agreement with media management and workflow specialist Nativ to offer its recently launched Mio SaaS platform as part of the range of services that Loft London can provide for its clients. Loft London’s clients can now take advantage of Mio SaaS, which represents an entirely new way of accessing Nativ’s asset management, workflow and collaboration solution MioEverywhere.
www.loftlondon.co.uk
The Matrix grows
Object Matrix, the developer of secure nearline storage solutions for file- based workflows, has appointed three new resellers that further extends the company’s reach in Europe, and also offers its first foray into the Asian sub-continent. The new resellers are Dreamwalks in Germany, Video Promotion in Belgium and Thinkout Media in Korea. “Video promotion has been in the market since 1975; Dreamwalks is a leading provider for the broadcast industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; while Thinkout Media is led by Byung Kyu Oh, a respected broadcast sales professional in the Korean market,” commented Nick Pearce, co-founder of Object Matrix.
www.object-matrix.com RSG iPad control
Roland Systems Group has released the iPad app for the M-300 Digital Console . This app has been designed to control the parameters of the M-300, enabling the user to store scenes and edit the Channel Strip (EQ), GEQ and Sends on Fader. “The success of the iPad as a tool in live audio applications is clear. This dedicated App for the M-300 builds on the success of the M-480 app released last year and is an important addition to our range of remote controlled applications,” commented Simon Kenning, sales manager RSG UK.
www.rolandsystemsgroup.co.uk
VidiGo with AVKOM Turkey’s Avkom Teknoloji is the new partner of VidiGo broadcasting software. “VidiGo is the most innovative company we have seen in years,” said Avkom CEO Zafer pekçi. “All products are user friendly, easy to use and very creative. The Turkish broadcasting market will be very pleased to meet VidiGo via Avkom. VidiGo products and solutions impressed me from the start. That is why we want to combine Avkom’s 18 years’ experience in the broadcast technology market and the innovative technologies of VidiGo.
www.avkom.com www.provideo.com.tr www.vidigo.tv
www.tvbeurope.com May 2013
NEP Visions had two scanners on site (HD2 & HD4), both double-expanding
was “to give us enough vision space for the 50 cameras that needed processing and racking, but also to assist with the additional sound requirements,” explained Harris. “Every fence of the
Winner alright: Steadicam operator leads Grand National victor Auroras Encore into the enclosure
Band of bothers
“The RF requirements were a particular challenge this year. In February we lost the 2.5-2.7GHz band [to mobile network use],” said Fuller. “This had the effect of squeezing everybody into not enough channels,” added Broadcast RF’s sales director Chris Brandrick. Previously they would have had access to another 19 channels in this band, but instead they had just 11 channels to call on in the 2.0-2.3GHz frequency. There are a total of 20 channels available in this band, but eight of those are permanently assigned to the UK’s news broadcasters, who need frequency at a moment’s notice. What was left “wasn’t’ enough
frequency to do all the cameras we had at Aintree,” said Fuller. “So, we had to move two channels to the 3.5GHz band, which meant we couldn’t share a single infrastructure, so we had to duplicate everything.” He is worried that this is just a
precursor of further changes to follow. The Ministry of Defence, which has primary call over these frequencies in the UK, is set to relinquish large portions of its spectrum in 2014, and Brandrick believes this band will also be sold off to mobile phone networks. “It may mean us having to re-equip
to move up spectrum to 5GHz or 7GHz bands, and those frequency bands don’t work as well for mobile cameras,” as they don’t offer the distance or ability to work around corners as the lower bands. “If we have to go with that band, it may mean an even bigger antenna infrastructure to get the same performance,” he added.
The Visions thing
NEP Visions had two scanners on site (HD2 & HD4), both with double-expanding sides. This
Grand National had effects microphones and there were a number of crowd mics available at various areas of the course, together with numerous camera mics on the radio cams. Therefore, a dedicated effects submix was setup to feed the main mix, which took care of everything else. The second production area was also used for ‘the rerun’, which is a specific part of the Grand National coverage where alternative camera angles of each fence are replayed and analysed in sequence. This is a complex VT operation and therefore has a dedicated production team.” Pegasus is its studio
dedicated to C4 Racing, and provides a mobile five-camera studio, with full lighting rig and studio facilities for up to five presenters. “There is an interactive touchscreen table
providing VT integration and analysis facilities for the presentation team,” added Harris. “With a large window for a backdrop, the use of polarising filters enables us to vary the light levels for the cameras depending on the weather. The studio was located near to a busy public area so allowed the viewers to get a real feel for the event. There is also a roof garden, which provides a great in-vision position for presenter links. Visions also had two of its
multi-purpose Voyager Portakabin-based units, which were used to house the seven edit suites that Visions provided, and its Mercury VT truck with eight EVS LSM machines. Each transmission day it did a Morning Line Programme and then did four hours of racing coverage in the afternoon. It also provided a highlights programmes for the Grand National.
www.aerialcamerasystems.com www.broadcastrf.com www.civolution.com www.dvs-sport.tv www.visions-ob.com
Second Screen with SyncNow By David Fox
CHANNEL 4 also launched a Horse Tracker 2nd screen app to allow viewers to track the position and speed of the horses, for the first time. The free app, which was available to download from the Apple App Store, utilised Civolution’s SyncNow for 2nd screen to ensure that the Horse Tracker synchronised perfectly with the action on the viewer’s TV. This was particularly critical in a race with a large number of entrants and where positions can change so quickly.
“This was a great opportunity to give our viewers a whole new perspective on the world’s most famous horse race,” said James Rutherford, Channel 4’s Multiplatform Commissioner for Sport. “In the heat of the live action it can often be difficult for viewers to track the position of their horses. Using realtime data from the course combined with the latest audio- watermarking technology from Civolution allowed us to give viewers the chance to exactly track their horses alongside the television coverage.”
Atomos flashes Samurai Blade By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
ATOMOS, CREATOR of the field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai and the Connect converters, unveiled the Samurai Blade at this year’s NAB. “Atomos has now shipped 10,000 field recorders worldwide, and the Samurai has been a great success. For most professional environments it continues to be
the go-to recorder or deck for many customers,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and founder of Atomos. “We are now excited to present the next generation of Samurai — the Samurai Blade. “Blade introduces the SuperAtom IPS screen — super sharp, super bright, super blacks — right down to the last atom. At 325dpi and a million pixels, this screen is spectacular. With full
waveform functionality, the Blade is a monitor that records and a recorder that truly monitors. It’s a partner for the new wave of cinematic cameras,” added Young. Powered by AtomOS 5*, the 1280 x 720 five-inch touchscreen gives the Blade gamma, brightness and contrast control, as well as vectorscope and RGB/luma parade features. “Atomos is raising the bar in the affordable
The Horse Tracker app uses
Monterosa’s LViS second screen technology and TurfTrax data to allow users to access live race information synchronised with their TV coverage of the race — including the position of horses, as well as the speed of their selection; distance to the next horse and to the finish. The app allows users to choose to track one horse, a multiple selection, or track the live positions of all the horses in a race. The app covered 12 of the 15 televised races from the 2013 Grand National meeting.
field recorder segment,” added Young. “We’re the first to combine professional monitor functionality with recording and deck playout, all in a space-saving, camera- mountable portable unit.” Like its Ninja-2 and Samurai
predecessors, Samurai Blade allows the recording of 10-bit 4:2:2 images straight from the camera sensor directly to Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD editing codecs. Atomos makes production affordable by using commodity 2.5-inch computer HDD or SSD drives.
www.atomos.com
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