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AJA Gear Helps Lutz Conneus
Adapt to Client AV Demands
N

o working day is ever quiet the
same for Hamburg, Germanybased Freelance Technical Director
Lutz Conneus.
A live production chameleon, he's
able meet a range of live streaming
and AV needs using a small arsenal of
AJA gear, including the HELO H.264
streamer/recorder, the Io 4K audio
and video I/O device, and the Ki Pro
Ultra Plus digital recorder, among
other tools.
When German Public Broadcaster
ARD wanted to create a parallel feed
of its live programming for Facebook
Live, it called in Conneus for an assist.
Having worked with the AJA HELO on
previous projects, he introduced the
device into the workflow two years
ago and it's been going strong
ever since. The setup consists of
several cameras and incoming
signals that are run through
on-site servers and a router as a
single HD output to HELO which then
streams through to Facebook Live,

Periscope and YouTube
using streaming service
ContentFlow.
"It's been a game
changer
for
their
workflow," Conneus says,
"because it's so easy to
use that even the social
media reporters are able
to access and use the
web GUI to start and stop
streaming,".
One company enlisted
his help to stream an
Packing a small arsenal of AJA gear
employee
intramural
sports match to YouTube. For this cameras, each with SDI
project, Conneus used three Sony outputs, which were fed
through an AJA Io 4K
video and audio I/O box to a Mac
running Telestream Wirecast. The
switched signal from Wirecast
comprising all three camera feeds
was then sent out of Io 4K as one
output and run through HELO, then
encoded, streamed to YouTube, and
AJA HELO H.264
streamer/recorder
recorded to a USB drive.

Riedel Under Starters Orders for
German Horse Racing Coverage
R

iedel
Communications
has day one," said Thomas
teamed up with horse racing Riedel,
CEO,
Riedel
organisations German Racing and Communications. "Our new
German Tote to create future-oriented partnership with German
formats for broadcasts of the country's Racing and German Tote
horse racing.
is a prime example. The
Through the partnership, the three future of German horse
organisations are committed to racing starts now, as we
delivering significant added value for work together to create a
both viewers and broadcasters.
unique viewer experience
One result will be new camera and pave the way for
solutions and high-end equipment entirely new production
for more effectively capturing the formats."
fast-paced action of the
horse races, with real-time
visuals that explain and
illuminate the action for
viewers. With this visual and
editorial redesign, broadcast
coverage of horse racing will
become even more attractive
and accessible to broader
audiences.
"A focus on innovation,
with an eye to the technical
possibilities, has been a
Riedel
trademark
from Future oriented: German Racing and German Tote - ©Marc Rühl

Conneus' clientele also includes
musical artists and groups looking
to live stream concerts to Facebook
Live, YouTube and other social
streaming platforms. For local band
Mom's Pride, he recently deployed a
workflow in which three
iPhones captured the
on-site
performance,
footage that was then fed
through the NDI camera
app into Wirecast via a
WiFi connection, and the
output was ultimately sent
through Io 4K into HELO
and then to Facebook Live.
"The HELO and Io 4K
are some of the best
investments I've made.
They're easy to use
and extremely reliable,
especially compared to
other solutions out there.
AJA gear is a great deal for
the quality and functionality you get;
you easily recoup costs in just a few
uses," Conneus noted. Some of his
jobs also require playout of pre-made
content, for which he's come to rely on
AJA's Ki Pro Ultra Plus. Whatever the
project at hand, Conneus continues to
find use for AJA kit.

race production. A central element of
this new technical infrastructure is the
Riedel Atmosphere Media Cloud, which
combines digital content management
and internal production systems in a
single OTT platform. The powerful and
intuitive platform enables
convenient management of
all data, graphics content,
and video streams, as well as
direct playout for live streams
on social media outlets.
The
Riedel
service
includes a MediorNet media
infrastructure to control all
camera signals and processed
world feed signals, as well as
centralised and decentralised
Riedel's Atmosphere Media Cloud platform intercom systems to ensure
will underpin the coverage - ©Marc Rühl smooth production processes.
As an integrator of
"In Riedel, we have found an
innovative
technologies, excellent partner for cutting-edge
Riedel will enable state- sports broadcasts that leverage the
of-the-art
production best aspects of thousands of sports
and programme formats, productions.
Riedel's
pioneering
assuming
responsibility technical solutions will bring new
for all aspects of video perspectives to horse racing," said Jan
production
in
close Pommer, Managing Director of German
cooperation with its partners Racing (www.german-racing.com). "In
and content agencies. To cooperation with our partners from
this end, Riedel developed German Tote, we can now take the
a comprehensive, IP-based transmission of our telegenic sport to
premium service for horse a new level."
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