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Press the Remote

SVT's remote IP production
partners included Net Insight
and Grass Valley

Increasing audience demands for more content and more
engagement as much as cost, is driving remote production,
reports Contributing Editor Adrian Pennington...

I

n a changing media landscape, live
sports and events remain a huge
draw across all viewing platforms.
Broadcasters and content producers
are covering more live events than
ever - creating greater opportunities
to engage audiences around the
world. However, tightening production
budgets are driving a need for more
flexible and efficient alternatives
to expensive outside broadcast
operations.
"Our customers are continuously
raising the bar and rewriting the
rules for what's possible with live
production," says Mark Hilton, VP, Live
Production at Grass Valley. "Remote
production is the next step change,
opening up new ways of working by
allowing a production team back
at base to have all the resources
they need to deliver high quality,
captivating content."
Remote Pioneers
The idea of 'at-home' production
or REMI (REMote Integration) is far
from new, with the first moves made
a couple of decades ago. The business
reasons are clear. Remote production,
allows broadcasters or production
companies to produce events at
their home studios or purpose-built
remote production hubs. Major driver
is to save cost, since less people

"Remote production is
the next step change,
opening up new ways
of working"
Mark Hilton, Grass Valley

and equipment need to travel to the
actual event. It also allows the same
production crew to handle more
productions by having centralised staff
and technical resources.
Early pioneers were in Scandinavia,
where severe winters mean moving
expensive trucks around was a
challenge.
Practical,
large-scale
implementations have been more
recent, led out of the US and Australia
where large distances can be
economically countered by REMI.
Earlier this year Australian telco
Telstra transported 30 HD live camera
and graphic feeds from the World
Relay Championship, which was held
in the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama to
Tokyo, and then onwards to Sydney,
by using a Distributed Production
Network (DPN).
The broadcast, which spanned the
two-day championship, enabled the
successful remote production of live
coverage and highlights from the
event, using diverse and hitless 10Gbps
circuits on Telstra's DPN. It was the
first time Telstra has demonstrated
DPN outside of its home nation - it
was also the world's first trans-Pacific
remote production.
Scandinavians have also been at
the forefront of change. Swedish
broadcaster
SVT's
remote
IP
production for the broadcast of the FIS
Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre,
Sweden, last February boasted the
largest number of cameras deployed
and the highest volume of remote
signals transmitted to date from a live
location over IP to a production hub
600 km away. Partners included Net
Insight and Grass Valley.

More Engaging Content
What's changing now is that
remote production is not just
about pure cost-efficiency but
increasingly about delivering
on the audience's expectation
of more content and more
engagement.
"The amount of live content
surrounding the event is
continuing to grow," says
Yvonne Monterroso, Director of
Product Management at Dejero.
"Whether it is a live stream from
a fanzone, reports from the team
base camps or athletes' village, or
post-event interviews, reporters and
production teams are continually
finding creative ways to provide top
quality content to audiences."
Remote production, coupled with
the move to IP, is the biggest change
sweeping sports and will be a central
fixture at IBC2019. Indeed, seven of
the ten shortlisted for IBC's technical
achievement awards are sports
related; three of them related to
remote production.
One of those is SailGP, the
international yachting race, which is
remote produced for Whisper Films
by Timeline from locations including
Sydney, New York and Cowes. An array
of RF-linked on-board cameras, shore
cameras, chase boats, helicopter,
data and graphics are routed over
a 1Gb redundant Tata fibre network
using J2K coding at 150Mbps, with the
Broadcast International Feed produced
at a control centre in Ealing.
At the event in Cowes, only 20
personnel went on site, whereas a
conventional OB would have meant

accommodating more than 100,
raising costs and increasing its carbon
and space footprints considerably.
"There are two things you need for
success in a remote production: one's
low latency, and the other is really
good [talkback] communications," says
Timeline MD Daniel McDonnell.
The latency of the fibre isn't
significant; even when the SailGP
races were in Sydney it was only a few
frames.
"Typically, when you are doing an
OB, you have multiple coding paths,
because you decode into the vision
switcher on the OB and then code
for satellite. But we've taken out any
excess coding, and that reduces the
delay to the same value that it would
be were you in an OB truck on site."
Remote Workflows
Red Bee Media is one of the many
companies that will be highlighting

"The amount of live content
surrounding the
event is continuing
to grow"
Yvonne Monterroso, Dejero

SailGP coverage is remote produced

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