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News Review By Holly Ashford


The royal baby arrives: Remotely-controlled Q-Ball equipment from Camera Corps televised the world’s media as they reported in vast numbers on the birth of the new heir to the United Kingdom throne in London. The BBC used the system to capture high definition footage of the entrance to St Mary’s Hospital on 22 July and of the media covering the event. “Q-Ball gave the BBC crew much greater freedom in where the camera was positioned,” explained Camera Corps managing director Laurie Frost. www.cameracorps.co.uk


tITN picks Custom Consoles for its HQ Independent Television News has chosen a large studio control desk from Custom Consoles as part of an upgrade at its headquarters in Gray’s Inn Road, London. Measuring over 8.8m, the desk occupies almost the full width of Studio Control Suit A. “The new control desk is based on Custom Consoles’ Module-R series which enabled us to configure exactly the structure we needed without the expense of a fully bespoke design,” said ITN’s head of Broadcast Engineering, Paul Flook. “The desk is wide enough to accommodate a production team of up to seven people. To achieve this within the space available, we specified a configuration giving extra front- to-back depth to the camera control and lighting section at the right-hand of the desk, a Strand lighting mixer being mounted at 45° across a corner section.” The desk is fitted with 10 individually adjustable Ergotron LX monitor arms plus dual monitor support. www.customconsoles.co.uk


deltatre scores Premier League Graphic and data services for use in the production and distribution of the Premier League’s international programming will be provided by deltatre. This includes design,


ADVERTISER INDEX


Adder.......................................................19 AJA..........................................................12 Annova ...................................................20 Anton Bauer............................................67 Aveco America ........................................68 BCE...................................................42, 43 BlackMagic................................................5 Bridge Technologies ..................................3 Canon........................................................9 Cinegy .............................................13,15,17 Digital Rapids .........................................IFC


DVS.........................................................32 Egripment ...............................................72 Ensemble.................................................23 Evertz......................................................83 EVS...........................................................6 Fischer Connectors...................................16 Fujifilm.....................................................21 Gefen.......................................................79 Genelec ...................................................66 Harris.........................................................1 HHB........................................................37


rendering and delivery of HD graphics for the 24 hour, seven day a week content service offering made available to Premier League broadcast licensees in 212 territories worldwide. As well as providing live match graphics, the company is offering augmented reality graphics and a touchscreen for use on-air. deltatre’s graphic platform, Magma, will be used and graphics will be played out directly to air via the Magma Play-out application or pushed to a rendering queue. www.deltatre.com


FIFA Confed Cup


mixed with DiGiCo The party atmosphere at the colourful closing ceremony at this summer’s FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil was mixed on a DiGiCo SD8 console. Loudness Sound Rental & Services supplied the audio system for the ceremony, choosing the console, as well as an L-Acoustics PA and Shure wireless microphones and IEMs. “The sound quality and reliability of the SD8 were major reasons for choosing it, of course, but in these circumstances its fast setup and user-friendliness were very important,” said Loudness Sound Rental & Services’ Fernanda Lemos. The SD8 was used to mix live audio for the stadium audience, as well as


sending feeds to FIFA-appointed host broadcaster HBS. www.digico.biz


John Lennon bus with Digital Rapids The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is using Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD encoding system to educate students and deliver online streams of its live productions from the mobile audio and HD recording and production facility. The Bus has travelled across the US and Canada for the past 16 years, providing young people with free access to music and video creation. The non- profit organisation provides studio tours and workshops and streams live performances and productions. The StreamZHD system encodes high definition source signals into multiple concurrent live output streams ranging from mobile to HD resolutions. “We’re thrilled that the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is using StreamZHD not only to bring their live productions to their online audience, but also to train their students on the same premium media transformation solution used by the world’s leading studios and media organisations,” said Brent Ross, director of Sales, North America at Digital Rapids. www.digitalrapids.com


Holdan .....................................................61 IBC ..........................................................26 Ikegami....................................................81 Kit Digital .................................................31 Lawo..................................................49, 51 Lemo.......................................................73 Lite Panels...............................................77 LSB.........................................................62 Matrox......................................................11 Matrox Graphics.......................................14 Media Excel .............................................56 Media Power ...........................................38 MediaGenix..................................53, 55, 57 Miranda...................................................54 MOG .......................................................44


DPP updates standard The UK’s Digital Production Partnership has revealed key features of its common industry Technical and Metadata standards for file-based delivery of TV programmes, which go live in early September. The company’s Metadata Application, which allows users to enter and embed the required data into the MXF programme files, making them compliant with the AS-11 DPP standard, has been updated to support these revisions to the Standards. Kevin Burrows, controller of Technical Broadcast and Distribution, C4 and DPP Technical Standards chair, said, “Having an agreed UK standard for file-based delivery across the industry that we can build on, is of great benefit in ensuring ease of exchange and the ability to incorporate future requirements.” www.digitalproductionpartner ship.co.uk


nobeo installs Riedel in @-car German broadcaster nobeo has integrated the Riedel MediorNet Compact realtime media network, Artist digital matrix intercom, and Performer digital partyline systems into its @-car. The @-car is a new production vehicle designed for internet broadcasts. Germany’s sono Studiotechnik designed and


integrated the @-car for nobeo. The MediorNet Compact PRO system supports 12 HD-SDI inputs and four HD-SDI outputs. The mobile unit also features an Artist 32 digital matrix intercom system and Performer digital partyline, along with control panels, beltpacks, and professional headsets from Riedel. sono Studiotechnik also provided nobeo with 100m of Riedel’s Pure XTR-Q fibre cabling. www.at-car.de www.riedel.net


Technicolor expertise for Channel 4’s The Mill Technicolor worked closely with the production team of recent four-part mini-series, The Mill, to provide colour grading and the VFX. Commissioned by Channel 4, the drama was written by BAFTA winning John Fay, is set in 1833 and is based on real events. “The Mill was shot using a Arri Alexa digital camera system and the grade was performed earlier this year using Autodesk Lustre,” said Paul Ensby, principal colourist, Technicolor Creative Services. Technicolor credits include Paul Ensby, senior colourist; Simon Giblin and Richard Cradick were responsible for the VFX and Dan Mulligan for on location services. www.technicolor.com


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Hairy Bikers in the cloud: Arrow Media is using the cloud video production and asset management platform from Aframe, to produce the BBC’s The Hairy Bikers’ Restoration Road-Trip. “We have made Aframe an essential step in our production process,” said Thomas Viner, the series producer. “Using Aframe to store all our tapeless media also saved us on buying another 3TB hard drive.” www.aframe.com


Murraypro................................................10 Neutrik....................................................50 Newtek......................................................7 OKNO......................................................33 Omnitek..................................................28 On Ramp .................................................75 OSEE.......................................................45 Phabrix ...................................................40 Pixel Power.............................................60 Playbox.....................................25, 27, OBC Quantel ...................................................65 Riedel......................................................39 Ross ........................................................35 Screen Subtitle ........................................76 SGL.........................................................36


SI Media..................................................48 Snell ........................................................47 SSL.........................................................24 Studiotech................................................71 TC Electronics..........................................78 Telemetric ...............................................34 Thales Angeniex......................................52 TV Logic....................................................8 UAB.........................................................41 Videssence..............................................46 Vinten .....................................................59 WTS........................................................63


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