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InStudio
Distributed Live Takes Hold
Adoption of remote production over the past two years may have been born out of necessity,
but as we return to a sense of greater normality, many workflows that have been driven by
innovation are here to stay - by Adrian Pennington...
R
emote production is
growing
fast, and more and more events
are starting to utilize it. However,
traditional workflows are likely
to
persist because people still need
cameras and monitors locally, even
if the processing is in the cloud.
Productions
are also looking to
limit their carbon footprint on-site
therefore the industry
is
leaning
toward a more sustainable hybrid
model of half remote, half on-site.
" While remote production has
gained
serious
momentum over
the last two years, calling it the new
norm would be a bit premature, " says
Lawo's Christian Scheck. " Similarly,
SDI and OB trucks are going nowhere
anytime soon. Nor do they have to,
for almost
all
remote production
setups still involve SDI-based devices
which can be controlled in the same
way as open-standards IP natives.
And new OB trucks are still being
built. "
Nonetheless, as
one of
the
companies that pioneered IP-based
remote production, Lawo is confident
that remote production will one day
become the norm.
" An IP network usually
involves
edge devices that take care of signal
ingress and egress (gateways), " he
says. " They allow users to mix and
match SDI solutions with IP-native
devices, the only
difference being
that SDI signals are converted to IP
at one edge, and back at the other.
The decision to base operators at the
production hub, who then control
edge devices stationed on-site cuts
travel
costs
and
allows
talented
operators to produce more shows. "
Lawo's groundbreaking HOME management platform
proud of
Lawo is
still
Kitchen and decentralized
its Mix
audio
production approach, but its most
groundbreaking development so far
has been the release of HOME, which
is designed to make IP operation
both intuitive and secure.
" Many live event productions have
requirements to capture the camera
feeds
into
replay
and
highlight
package, creation workflows, "
explains Alan Repech, Director of
Marketing, Telestream. " If cameras
do not have wireless connections
back to the home studio or broadcast
centre, capturing content
requires
systems on site. However, the editing
and processing can occur remotely
even to the point of being able to
edit growing files only a few seconds
delayed from the action. This means
creating highlight
packages
is
other derivative content can be done
while the live event is in progress.
In other words, what
done today with many
and a large technical staff on site
is now more practical
Radio France has integrated
Telestream monitoring and
T&M equipment within its core
broadcast infrastructure
often
creatives
than ever
PTP timing issue with a distribution
stream, being able to explore the
issue immediately, and with a single
mouse click being able to dive as
deeply as you need into every aspect
of the ST 2110 streams until you have
found and fixed the problem. The
result is an environment with lower
stress, in the already stressful world
of live event and sports production.
It
is that kind of solution-oriented
innovation, that thinking about how
to make life easier for users, that
we have now; more of which will be
continually forthcoming. "
and
from offsite locations. Some of the
remote processing steps may include
creating proxies and archive files,
frame rate conversion, and HDR-SDR
conversion. All of that can be, and
is being, done today. In addition,
as test, measurement, monitoring,
and
increasingly
synchronization solutions
offer fully
functional
remote user interfaces, the quality
assessment
of
becomes increasingly practical.
Telestream offers both a flexible
waveform monitor/network analyzer
called
PRISM and product
exception of ST 2110
called
Inspect 2110 designed for monitoring
by
video
and audio streams. These can be
integrated into a complete solution.
" Imagine monitoring all of the most
critical contribution and distribution
feeds in a live, distributed
production environment with the
only human effort being to observe
a single computer screen, " says
Steven Bilow, Product Marketing
Manager, Telestream. " Imagine
being automatically
notified
of a
these workflows
Sky Germany leveraged Vizrt and NDI to deliver real-time 5G for
a recent Bundesliga Handball Final
NDI,
the
group developing the
Network Device Interface protocol
and part of Vizrt,
is bringing new
enhancements that will allow even
better usability and integration.
" We are working on refining the
latest version NDI 5 to enhance the
use of audio, NDI Bridge, switching
and routing while simultaneously
addressing the need for flexibility
in determining bandwidth, quality,
and
latency
to enable limitless
content creation for all markets, "
says Michael Namatinia, company
President.
NDI points to the use that ATP
Media with AWS and Gravity Media
made
of the signal
protocol
complete a large-scale proof
concept virtualised live production
for the Rolex Paris Masters. The
project
broadcast experts test various AWShosted
live
production solutions.
David Sabine at AWS reported that
freelance experts didn't notice any
difference between using
to
of
saw multiple freelance

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