32 TVBEurope
www.tvbeurope.com October 2013
Best ofIBC2013: Production & Infrastructure Production & Infrastructure
Hansen: Drive is designed for big
broadcast files, and is faster and more reliable than FTP
Production & Infrastructure Production & Infrastructure
Dirks: Axon sold first AVB equipped OB van to United (part of Euro Media) at IBC
Thunderbolt 2 doubles the bandwidth to 20Gbps for use with UHD on Io 4K
Aspera — Drive: This extends its file synchronisation to the desktop. “It means you are able to use Aspera directly from your Finder on a Mac or Windows Explorer, so it becomes more of a native OS experience,” said Per Hansen, senior sales engineer. It is necessary because “the file sets the broadcast industry is working on are so big other synchronisation can’t keep up.” It also gives users a way of monitoring all that data and establishing an audit trail. It is based on fasp (fast and secure protocol), which gives the fastest possible transfer speed whatever the file size or distance (FTP performance degrades the further the data travels).
www.asperasoft.com
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AJA — Io 4K: This is likely to be the first video/audio capture and playback device to use the new, much faster Thunderbolt 2 connection. The portable device will work with 10-bit 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 4K, has 4x bi-directional 3G-SDI ports, 4K HDMI I/O, and simultaneous SDI and HDMI outputs, with 16-channel embedded audio on SDI, and 8-channel embedded audio on HDMI, plus XLR 12v power for battery or AC use, RS422 VTR control, Reference and LTC Input, and a headphone jack for mobile use. It allows realtime high-quality scaling of 4K and Ultra HD to HD and is designed for use with Apple’s new MacPro (the first computer with Thunderbolt 2), and will ship once the MacPro ships.
www.aja.com
Higher
resolution, smaller price: Ashton with the new 4K Atem
Production & Infrastructure
Blackmagic Design — Atem 1 M/E Production Studio 4K: Its best-selling Atem 1M/E switcher has been replaced by one half the size, with two more inputs (now ten), that is all 6G-SDI for Ultra HD. “It’s also got a touch panel on the front so you can hard switch from the front panel, and it’s got the world’s first Ultra HD DVE, with pan tilt, rotate, and zoom. We’ve also increased the media player to 180 frames in Ultra HD, 700 in HD and 1,600 in SD, for lower thirds or backgrounds. And it costs €100 less than the last version at €1,895,” said EMEA director
Stuart Ashton. www.blackmagic-
design.com
Cinegy —
DANIEL (Digital ANImation Encoder
Library) codec: This is designed to be a reliable, scalable,
Blackmagic’s Mini Converter SDI
Multiplex 4K converts Single, Dual and Quad Link SDI to each of the others
Blackmagic Design — Ultra HD Mini Converters: Blackmagic has introduced three new $495 Mini Converters with 6G-SDI for Ultra HD workflows, including the Mini Converter Optical Fibre 4K optical fibre bidirectional unit with 6G-SDI and 6Gbps optical fibre for automatic switching between all SD, HD and Ultra HD television standards, and increasing the signal distance from 50m to several kilometres. It costs €385 (as does the Mini Converter SDI to HDMI 4K and Mini Converter SDI Multiplex 4K), enabling users to set up a 4K workflow more simply and cheaply than before.
www.blackmagic-design.com
Weigner: The DANIEL codec is small, fast and delivers high quality
performance optimised codec for video with alpha channel, particularly for animation. Other codecs do address this, but until now they only offered two of: quality, speed and small file size. “Customers wanted all three —
professional quality, faster than realtime playback with low performance overhead and small files. The Cinegy DANIEL codec meets all these requirements”, claimed Jan Weigner, Cinegy MD and co-founder. It is available as a $25 AVI (Windows) or QT (Mac) codec and any popular animation or effects software can use it for creating files.
www.cinegy.com
Axon — Neuron: Ethernet-based end-to-end live production is now possible thanks to the open-standard AVB (Audio Video Bridging) network. It is already established for audio use, “but video had to wait for enough bandwidth,” explained Axon design engineer Willem-Jan Dirks. “Now 10G switchers are commonly available, so we can build switchers that can compete with traditional [SDI] infrastructure.” AVB makes it possible to deliver guaranteed uncompressed HD video with no latency (it has a two millisecond delay to match the audio, but as the real delay is much less, a huge number of switches could be added with no impact). Neuron is the first uncompressed AVB video product, with Euro Media its first buyer for a new four-camera OB van.
www.axon.tv
Production & Infrastructure
Stay Active: Canare MD Jun-ichiro Ohno shows a PCB fitted with Active BNC connectors
Canare Electric — Active BNC: This broadcast standard 75 ohms BNC connector won the IABM Peter Wayne Award at the 2013 IABM Awards for Design and Innovation. It should significantly simplify designing a 3G-SDI system with high performance to meet return loss specifications and comes with either a built in cable driver or cable equaliser function. It will mean that broadcast signals device engineers, working on signal processing, will no longer need to spend time adjusting the discrete parts to meet SMPTE standards, which should save time, space on the PCB, and development cost. It has applications across the industry from cameras to transmission equipment.
www.canare.fr
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