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EBU members to show off their technical versatility
Conference Preview
By George Jarrett Evidence showing that broadcasters are fast becoming the masters of developing their own answers to tricky technology issues will be on show in the EBU’s Saturday afternoon event Public Service Media: Innovation and Inspiration.
Setting the context for six very
different projects, EBU Director of Technology & Innovation Simon Fell said: “Public broadcasters play a central role in civil, social and political life, but aren’t always seen as being at the leading edge of technology. “Through this unique session we’ll show clearly that innovation is thriving in public service media. Right across the EBU membership there are organisations breaking
new ground with services, platforms and projects of all kinds,” he added.
Per Björkman of SVT will discuss how the Swedish broadcaster streams almost its entire output online. Xavier Jacques-Jourion of RTBF will explain how the Belgian broadcaster has developed a tool that uses the power of semantic web and open linked data sources to change the way that journalists
engage and work with content and data from multiple sources. Representing Radio France, Hervé Dejardin will talk about the cutting edge of immersive audio technologies on the nouvOson platform. NRK’s Jorn Jensen will explain why and how the Norwegian broadcaster is moving quickly towards switching off its FM radio platform, with a fully digital market expected as early as January 2017.
The way that apps and tablets have opened up new avenues for broadcasters to explore and exploit will be given a Dutch perspective by Joost Negenmann of NPO. Spain is represented by Pere Vila Fumas of RTVE, who will talk about Europe’s first tests of UHDTV over DVB-T2. The EBU is also looking closely at cloud-based infrastructures and at the role of software development. Talking about its first developer conference (EBU DevCon, 18-19 November), Fell said: “We are hoping to invite software developers to share techniques and stories so we can benefit as a whole. This is another front where public service media excel.” 8.F48
Stratus expands sphere of influence Workflow suite Grass Valley
By David Fox Stratus, Grass Valley’s “uniquely flexible” production and playout system, has several upgrades on show, including a multi-site feature that will allow multiple locations to share the system. Multi-site works across low bandwidth and high latency networks and enables K2 Dyno (with K2 Summit) systems in OB trucks to be seen by other GV Stratus sites as yet another site. “Stratus can deal with sites that come and go, such as an OB truck or ENG vehicle, which can vanish without crippling the rest of the system,” explained Ed Casaccia, GV’s director, marketing. There is also a “very simple
remote access client, which can
with Avid Newscutter and Media Composer, but the new upgrade will add Adobe Premiere Pro CC. “It is not just file transfer, they can edit in place on any of those NLEs, all connected to the same storage and same clips, and at the same time, and even working with growing files,” explained Said Bacho, senior VP of EMEA. There is also an interface with
Casaccia: Upgrade offers “smooth and satisfying search and browse experience”, even at low bandwidth
get an extremely smooth and satisfying search and browse experience, even on a relatively low bandwidth system”, he added. Stratus can already be integrated with Edius and Final Cut Pro, and via the latest update,
Telestream’s Vantage transcoding products, and it can enable migration of database information from legacy Avid systems. There are now almost 100 Stratus installations worldwide, with more than 2,600 seats, supporting 600-plus edit stations and 2,000 channels of ingest and playout.
The new upgrade should be available immediately after IBC. 1.D11, 1.E02
Updated Live+ sounds better
Dejero By David Fox
The latest update of the Dejero Live+ cellular newsgathering platform is its largest ever and includes new remote control capabilities, and improvements to audio quality, performance and transmission reliability. “Each new feature in this
release was added based on feedback from broadcasters using the systems in real-world newsgathering,” said Dejero CEO Brian Cram. “For instance, our customers requested the ability to control a mobile transmitter remotely to configure changes and settings, which allows the reporters in the field to focus on getting the story. The result is our new remote control feature.”
It is available as a free upgrade to customers with a current Dejero support contract, and gives broadcast operators an easy means of controlling Dejero’s Live+ 20/20 Transmitter and Live+ VSET mobile ENG systems from any studio or remote location using any HTML5-enabled web browser, including mobile devices. It will enable joint field/studio operation and provides the ability to control multiple transmitters at once. The system also enables confidence monitoring through a low frame rate video preview. Version 2.9 also features an updated codec that produces much better audio quality than previous versions at similar bitrates. Further quality improvements come from Dejero transmitters applying adaptive bitrate encoding — a technology previously applied only to video — to the audio transmission.
Remotely interesting: V2.9 of Dejero’s Live+ makes the most of its remote connections
The Live+ 20/20 Transmitter and vehicle-mounted Live+ VSET both now gain system and video stability improvements for increased quality output, especially at low bandwidths, and a new user interface that indicates when the systems are under remote control. There are also improvements to the Live+ Portal intelligent online management system and Live+ Broadcast Server. 11.C21
Evertz By Michael Burns
Evertz is focusing on the cutting- edge at IBC, including introducing a suite of new 4K/Ultra HD Live workflow tools. The suite components offer compression, routing, processing/conversion and monitoring as well as a unified control system using Magnum. The company is also
showcasing new functionality for its 4K/Ultra HD replay system, Dreamcatcher, such as Mosaic and 4K zoom. The Mosaic feature allows realtime viewing of simultaneous camera angles. This is in addition to various tools that the company claims will help to simplify the workflow for creating highlight packages. Evertz says it is offering
broadcasters a cost-effective method for HD and Ultra HD remote production through its
Slow motion dreaming: Dreamcatcher benefits from multiple simultaneous angles
CXP contribution encoder/ decoders and ATP media transport platform. The Evertz booth is also showcasing 10GbE and an IP- centric facility workflow. Highlights include the 3080IPX integrated switching fabric for routing video over 10GbE. Combined with Magnum and VistaLink NMS for control and management, Evertz says 3080IPX is versatile enough to be used throughout a facility, in production, playout and distribution. 8.B40
Prototype RGB+Z camera ARRI
By Adrian Pennington
On display at the IBC Future Zone is the ARRI Alexa SCENE, a prototype RGB+Z camera that couples an Alexa Studio with a time-of-flight camera, allowing it to capture RGB images fused with depth information on the Z-axis. This is part of a ground-
breaking European research project, SCENE, which aims to develop novel representations and tools for digital media beyond sample-based (video) or model- based (graphics) systems. By delivering synchronised video data and depth data, the camera will permit video images to be
manipulated in the same way as CGI. Work by project partners will allow CGI models to be animated “with all the naturalism of real actors and real locations”, it is claimed. The prototype presented here is
a set-ready RGB+Z camera equipped with the newly-developed integrated time-of-flight sensor and capable of recording RGB and Z information synchronously. Both image sensing devices capture their respective images through a common entrance pupil, resulting in a naturally occlusion-free representation of RGB and Z video, with the same field of view. Hardware, optics, electronics and software have been built to adapt the Alexa into what might be termed the first ‘motion scene camera’. 8.G41
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