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Adobe Premiere Pro CC panel launched Pronology is demonstrating its new Pronology Panel for Adobe Premiere Pro CC. The Pronology Panel integrates Pronology files and metadata for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC in order to simplify content creation and distribution. “We are excited to showcase our new Pronology Panel to attendees at IBC, as it provides a pathway into the Adobe Premiere Pro CC workflow,” said Mike Shore, co-founder of Pronology. “The Pronology Panel allows Adobe Premiere Pro CC users to access the Pronology management system content files instantly, enhancing production turnaround times. The Pronology Panel also aids the creative process; by streamlining stored file access, it enables a production team to focus more on content creation.” 10.A26
BT Sport preps new CNG fleet BT Sport has created a fleet of cellular newsgathering (CNG) vehicles using mobile uplinking technology from LiveU. Working with Garland Partners, three Vauxhall Astra cars have been fitted with the LU500 backpack unit and Xtender remote antenna technology. Each LU500 can be connected wirelessly, at distances of up to 300 metres, or via Ethernet, to the Xtender that sits on top of each vehicle. BT Sport chief engineer Andy Beale said: “We now have a fleet- footed and effective way of allowing sports journalists to get the story back to us. We value the flexibility and speed of deployment of the LiveU solution.” 3.B62
Fotoweek: In front and behind the lens As well as highlighting photography exhibitions in Amsterdam and larger photography events such as the Unseen Photo Fair, Fotoweek is an opportunity to get active with the camera – behind or in front of the lens. Take part in photography workshops, show off your work or have your family portrait taken at one of the participating shops. For more information, visit
Iamsterdam.com.
06 theibcdaily Green is go for Formula E IBC honours FAL Systems By David Fox
The first ever race in the new battery-powered Formula E took place in Beijing yesterday. As these are the greenest ever racing cars, the broadcast facilities also had to be lighter, leaner and use less power, which posed challenges for Leeds-based systems integrator FAL Systems, which was commissioned to build the system by Hayfisher Productions, with Formula E as host broadcaster, in collaboration with Aurora Media. The seven pods designed for
inter-modal transport had to be small and light – and because rail is very bad for high- frequency vibration, everything has had to be shock-mounted. The systems centre around a customised Miranda (now Grass Valley) NV8280 hybrid router, which includes audio
embedding/de-embedding and all video routing, “to save space,
Belden, which owns Grass Valley, also supplied all of the fibre cable for the installation and cameras, which amounted to 70 300m drums.
“The support is very good as well,” added Chris Warden, MD. Grass Valley sent two
All electric: FAL System’s Warden and Unsworth in the Outside Exhibit area
weight and cost,” explained Andy Unsworth, FAL technical director. It also chose Miranda multiviewers, “which integrated with the router and control system and gave us a really simple solution.” It has 13 Grass Valley LDK-80 Flex cameras, run over SMPTE fibre, 18-input/3-output K2 Dyno servers, and a Karrera vision mixer, and the merger of Miranda and Grass Valley has meant that the Karrera could be integrated with the router control system, “to give a very powerful, but simple to operate, system.”
technicians to support the event in Beijing, and to the two pre- race simulations in the UK. There are also up to four in- car cameras in each of the 20 cars, with 40 in place for the first race and 80 in use eventually, but just four feeds to the mixing desk. Vislink is supplying both in-car cameras and links, taking a single channel from each car, with data and telemetry information (with remote switching between the cameras), using a diversity fibre- based receive system. There will also be four of the new Marshall miniature cameras used locked off, plus two RF (Panasonic P2) camcorders for pit reporters and ENG use, again using Vislink systems, which can have up to 12 receive points. OE117
Mixed format routing: The Smart Videohub 40x40, the newest model in Blackmagic Design’s family of mixed format routers, includes the company’s visual routing user interface and 6G-SDI technology allowing SD, HD and Ultra HD routing all on the same router at the same time. Blackmagic’s Western regional manager for North America, Kendall Eckman (pictured), noted that this new router is aimed at both broadcasters and filmmakers. It will be available in October for $2,995. The Smart Videohub family of SDI video routers are Ultra HD mixed format routers and include built-in five-inch high resolution video monitoring and spin knob router control. Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design said, “The new Smart Videohub 40x40 brings all of the great features of the Videohub family, plus adds redundant power and a much larger, bright high resolution screen is possible because of its larger two-rack unit design.” 7.H20
Cracking 4K live over IP Sony By Adrian Pennington
Live production is the largest missing piece of the SDI to IP jigsaw but Sony has pieced together an end-to-end IP system demonstrated at IBC transmitting live 4K. “The future is that any product will have a network connection allowing the audio, video and metadata to be sent straight into a standard IP router and back to a studio facility for remote operation,” said Olivier Bovis, head of AV Media at Sony Professional Europe.
The demonstration consists of a 4K 50p live stream from the Luxembourg HQ of service provider Broadcasting Center
Europe, routed over 700km of fibre to the RAI with a two frame delay. The signal is taken out of a F55 camera into a SDI-IP converter board and piped to Level 3’s content delivery network. Signal quality is managed by a software layer called IP Live System Manager. “IP gives a fundamental infrastructure cost benefit,” said Bovis. “An IP router is a tenth the cost of SDI and the cost of cabling is next to nothing in comparison. IP also offers incredible flexibility in production.”
While the conversion board will be needed to transition legacy equipment into IP, Sony is developing a Networked Media Interface for its products and those of third parties under licence.
Olivier Bovis: “IP gives a fundamental infrastructure cost benefit”
Sony products outfitted with the interface are due around Q2 2015. Ten companies have signed to support the effort to create compatible chipsets and modules including Cisco, Evertz, Juniper Networks, Imagine, Vizrt, Matrox and Rohde & Schwarz DVS. As part of this interface Sony is developing its own compression technology to support 4K 60p transmission over 10 Gbps Ethernet. The creation of a SMPTE Registered Disclosure Document for this codec technology is currently in process. Hall 12
FIFA with IHFE This year’s IBC International Honour for Excellence goes to FIFA TV, the broadcast operation within football’s global governing body. The award will be presented this evening to Niclas Ericson, director of FIFA TV. The FIFA World Cup is far and away the most popular single-sport event in the global calendar. Television audiences for its finals rivalled the Olympics in terms of international audiences. Since 2009, television coverage of the World Cup, along with other FIFA competitions, has been in the hands of FIFA TV, ensuring that everyone in the world benefits from the highest quality coverage and innovations in services. That coverage has been in HD since the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In 2010, games were shot in 3D and broadcast live by ESPN. In 2014 both 4K Ultra HD and 8k Super Hi-Vision were available at some matches, along with high frame rate capture and 360˚ immersive video. The International Honour for Excellence is awarded by the IBC Council. Chair of the Council, Peter Owen said, “FIFA TV continues to innovate and to engage with its huge global audience. It brings together the latest technologies and leading vendors to deliver unmatched content to unrivalled audiences.” Ericson said, “I am
delighted to accept this award on behalf of FIFA TV. It pays a fitting tribute to the dedication of our industry-leading service providers who help us deliver the very best coverage of the World Cup to football fans all over the world. “Together, we are able to make the World Cup a truly global experience for everyone. We look forward to continuing this pioneering work with the broadcast industry as we offer the unique platform of the FIFA World Cup to help drive technology forward.” The IBC Awards Ceremony is tonight at 18:30 in the Auditorium. The show includes a lot of remarkable content, much of it never seen before, using the full resources of the IBC Big Screen. Tickets are free to all IBC attendees but be sure to get there early to secure your seat.
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