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InStudio

The Show Must Go On
Essentially Blackbird can be used by
anyone, anytime, anywhere and this
flexibility is enormously attractive to
enterprises looking to drive massive
productivity efficiencies through their
operations. It also runs on bandwidth
as low as 2Mb/s which is ideal given
the pressure in traffic over the network
- a situation which has caused Netflix
and YouTube to throttle back their
bitrates.
"As teams become used to decentralised
video
production
and enterprises enjoy significant
infrastructure savings together with a
flexible globally distributed workforce
untethered to source content, we
anticipate an accelerated adoption of
Blackbird," McDonough adds.

Gravity Media wraps 2000th REMI
production in North America

Company President Michael Harabin,
says: "The potential for creating
quality programming at an attractive
price has never been greater, and we
now have over 2000 proof points that
showcase its consistent effectiveness
and our ability to deliver."
Remote Production
Sweden's Intinor specialises in
helping companies overcome the
challenges of remote production.
"As we are currently in lock-down of
travel for personnel, the benefits of
remote production could be felt all the
more keenly," says Daniel Lundstedt,
Regional Sales Manager.
"Instead of having to arrange for
operators to travel on location,
broadcasting companies
could
instead
work
with local talent with
equipment all that needs
to be shipped rather than
staff members."
Intinor is already able
to make going live, from
anywhere, very easy,
without marshalling a small (but
expensive) army to make it happen.
It's all down to the "supreme mobility"
of its Direkt link remote production
pack. With an Intinor Direkt receiver
or router in a control room,
captured audio and video from
a camera or mixer connected
to a backpack can be streamed
over public internet to a Direkt
router and then re-streamed
using other protocols, transcoded
or output to SDI or NDI.
Mobile Viewpoint has a heritage
in remote production solutions,
especially for live streaming. CEO
Michel Bais says the company has
proven to reduce costs for production
companies by not having to send a
wealth of resource to an event.
"As we see companies trying to
reduce their carbon footprint, it has
emerged that it is not only cost savings
that are driving these innovations,"
he tells InBroadcast. "In line with this
philosophy, we have developed remote

For live sports workflows, there
are few production partners more
experienced than Gravity Media.
In February it wrapped its 2000th
remote production, in this case of a
Pac-12 Networks' broadcast of the USC
Trojans 65-56 win over the Washington
State Cougars.
This impressive number includes 'At
Home' centralised productions that
were undertaken under the Proshow
Broadcast (acquired by Gravity Media
in July 2018) and Gearhouse Broadcast
brand.
The benefits of this remote approach
are obvious, with REMIs offering a
cost-efficient modern workflow that is
operationally flexible and durable. By
centralizing the control room, video
switching, audio mixing, graphics,
replays and show production can all
be done 'At Home' in the broadcast
centre. This means that smaller, more
affordable purpose-built mobile units
can be used at the venue.
Only video and audio
acquisition
hardware
such
as
engineered
cameras, microphones and
announcer headsets, as
well as comms hardware, a
transmission interface and
engineering support are
required on site.
Intinor Direkt link encoder

cont'd...

cameras that allow
sports games to be
live streamed but
without the need
for a camera crew
or
an
onsite
production team."
With the IQ-Sports
Producer, an entire field
of play can be recorded
with a single 4x4K camera, while AI
is used to create a virtual zoom of
the play by automatically following
players and the ball. Games can be live
steamed in real time and with different
format versions depending whether
it is for web streaming, or for higher
quality broadcasts requiring HD-SDI
workflows, all at a fraction of the cost
of an on-site production team.
vPilot is another AI driven solution
from Mobile Viewpoint that can
be used for remote newsrooms.
A combination of cameras using
3D sensors and audio cues means
round-table discussions can bet setup without the need for a camera
team or an onsite director. "Both
IQ-Sports Producer and vPilot can be
managed remotely with cameras that
can be semi-permanently installed
to create quality and cost-effective
programming," Bais says.

Mobile Viewpoint VPilot

Mobile Viewpoint IQ Sports Producer

control and synchronisation makes it
a great choice for remote production.
Users include SVT and TV2 Denmark.
"100 percent reliability is key for
remote live production and our
solution offers mechanisms to assure
the content is delivered with perfect
quality regardless of network issues,"
the company states. "Enterprise
customers can use the solution to
deliver live video content to support
internal communications and working
remotely."

Flexible Working
All of Cinegy's software solutions
lend themselves to flexible working
practices. Weigner says: "We have long
been a proponent of virtualisation and
IP - and what is the cloud if nothing
more than using someone else's
computer, hosted somewhere else?"
"Give your office-based staff a
laptop, access to the internet and
Net Insight's Nimbra 1060
access to Cinegy software - locally
Workflow Extension
or in the cloud, and they are ready
Net Insight's plug and play solution to remotely produce content using
Nimbra extends the production Cinegy Desktop, remotely playout
workflow to reach remote venues content with Cinegy Air; remotely
anywhere on the globe, with the same monitor channels with Cinegy
ease of operations as for traditional in- Multiviewer. Whether our customer
house productions. Users include
is at home or at another location and
Nimbra is a high-quality multi-service needs to set-up a pop-up channel in
media transport over IP platform the cloud, doesn't matter.
supporting both native video and audio
"Our customers who already
in addition to standard IP/Ethernet. embraced our workflows are more
Built-in video processing, low-latency prepared and ready to deal with
JPEG 2000 and MPEG-4 encoding as the new business practices that are
well as unique features for equipment emerging," he argues.
"Being ready for this
business process change
is
markedly
harder
than being ready for a
technology change. In this
case, circumstances are
dictating that there must
be change. The barriers
are being lowered and it is
Cinegy 'ready for remote' time to embrace it."
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