44 TVBEurope The Workflow Global Production’s 30-camera HD OB truck Infinity
www.tvbeurope.com December2013
To Infinity and beyond
Turin company Global Production recently took its new 30-camera truck, Infinity, on its first outings, covering the World Cycling Championship in Florence and the Ferrari Challenge at the Mugello circuit. Mike Clark took a look inside Italy’s largest HD OB truck
INFINITY IS the fourth HDTV OB production truck currently fielded by Global Production, whose high profile sports coverage in recent years has included the 2006 Winter Olympics, Beijing Olympics and the World Alpine Ski Championships. Global Production’s Infinity is pulled by an Iveco Stralis 480 tractor, has four expansions and measures 46x8.3ft closed and
49x17.5ft when fully deployed, with an impressive 70sqm of comfortable stylish workspace. The Infinity truck is the
world’s first based round the powerful 4K-ready Harris Platinum IP3 576x1024 multi- format 3G matrix (351x240 HD SDI 3G, 32x32 analogue video, 128x128 analogue audio and 128x128 AES audio) and, as far as scalability is concerned, has the largest capacity on the
market. The impressive system also features six HView SX PRO 64x6 multi-display management modules and 32 Magellan Router Control Panels (24 LCD, four RCP-48LCD and four RCP-64 LCD). Glue includes seven Harris 8900 mainframes, 40 HD/SDI/3G DA-DHR 6804 distribution amplifiers, 14 HMX 6803 HD/SDI/3G video embedders, 10 HDX 6803 de-embedders, 20
VEA6800+ analogue video DAs and 20 ARG6800+ audio remote gain Das.
Setting the bar high On the reason behind investing in such an impressive project in a period in which the economic pinch is pretty widespread, Davide Furlan, Global Production’s business manager and one of the company’s founding partners, explains: “When there is a big
shrinkage in the market, there’s obviously more supply than demand, so we decided it was best to set the bar high – we’ve always had innovation at the core of our corporate strategy and for years have invested all the company profit on machines and human resources.” The high profile rig (most of
which is 4K ready) includes a 96-input GV Kayak HD300 4.5ME vision mixer while audio is mixed on a Digico D5 Live console and Dolby E processing facility. Intercom is courtesy of a Riedel Artist 128 matrix with 24 LCD-panels and 92 4-wire ports.
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