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Decentralized live production
For remote production, Avid MediaCentral Stream handles compressed
IP ingest from anywhere, and playout to anywhere
Igor Vitiorets
CTO, slomo.tv
All
Simplylive, a recent
acquisition, provides
defined
and
Riedel
softwareremote
and distributed
production tools, eliminating
the need for massive rooms of
equipment
extensive travel
costs (dollars, time, environmental
impact) of operators. These proven
production tools allow operators to
be anywhere and allow the system to
scale up or down easily.
In addition, Riedel concentrates
resources on user interfaces,
which is evident in the 1200 Series
Smartpanels. These multipurpose
control panels condense separate
functions
onto one user panel,
displacing several disparate singlefunction
panels. Software apps allow
the panel to be an intercom, a routing
panel, an audio monitoring device,
or all the above, reducing space and
bridging several workflows, and to
be repurposed as facilities grow or
change. Finally, Riedel's MediorNetIP
Muons are the ultimate in smallform-factor
functionality, placing
encoding, decoding, gateways, and
other signal processing on an SFP,
ideally
utilized in VirtU frames or
COTS IP switches.
Raúl Alba
Director of Solutions Marketing
Media & Cloud, Avid
One of the biggest challenges we
hear from broadcast customers is
making high quality content available
to everyone who needs to work on it
in a timely fashion, wherever each
team member is based. Another
important challenge is ensuring that
all
team members are coordinated
and aligned, and work
efficiently
together. Broadcasters able to meet
these challenges - with teams set up
to work from anywhere - can benefit
from a global talent pool, and the
ability
to reduce their real estate
costs in prime locations.
Avid's Edit On Demand product as
offering a different way to consume
Avid
products. It
is
the media
deployed
in the cloud as a service, and
accessible from anywhere, to enable
collaboration across
production process.
Edit On Demand provides a full
SaaS-based virtual post-production
environment
in the cloud
NEXIS
-
complete with cloud-optimized
Media Composer software and
Avid
can easily
moment's
storage. Broadcasters
ramp up projects at a
notice, with
no
expertise necessary. For remote
production, MediaCentral
Stream
handles compressed IP ingest from
anywhere, and playout to anywhere.
Web-based MediaCentral Cloud UX
with Collaborate (web, mobile and
applications) enables task creation,
project tracking, and content sharing.
For more sophisticated production
environments, Avid's
Media
Production in the Cloud initiative
provides a complete end-to-end set
of workflows that can be adapted to
the needs of any media company.
Raúl Alba
cloud
produce good
remote solutions
quality
should
video
content, but not diffuse the areas
of responsibility
involved.
Technicians and cameramen must
cameras
stay on site. PTZ
at
even
with AI control cannot fully replace
humans, especially
large and
important events. At the same time,
the workplaces of some personnel
such as directors, sound engineers,
broadcast
operators
producers
be
and
can
easily moved
from OB van to a remote location.
The remote workplace requires a
broadband and fast Internet channel
with minimal latency and the ability
of the server to work in this mode.
Slomo.tv
replay servers with make
this possible.
The challenge is
broadcasting
issues
unlawful
related
by participants,
to protect
from various
to unwanted,
or improper behaviour
or third
viewers
parties. Inappropriate footage on
the air can result in termination of a
broadcaster's advertising contracts,
fines, or revocation of the license.
A specialised 'security system' is
needed. To protect the broadcaster
of the personnel
developed LB Sentinel, a live content
control solution based on Simple
R servers. The LB Sentinel solution
delays the signal and provides the
ability
to overlap both audio and
video with different AV clips on air.
Since audio and video clips can be
different, and buffer delays can be
adjusted from 2 to 60 seconds, these
'overlaps' look organic, and do not
disrupt the viewing experience.
An AI-based detection system can
replay
be connected to the LB Sentinel, but
experience has shown that trained
personnel are currently much more
reliable. The system can run on two
servers in parallel, which provides
maximum security
important events.
for the most
Igor Vitiorets
from undesired
issues, we have
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