March 8, 2021 - There are more options than ever for getting a signal from point A to point B (and even C, D, and E) and transport technologies continue to evolve rapidly.
Signal transport service and technology providers discuss some of the latest developments that can make a difference to your production.
Bonded cellular now is working really well for multi-camera at-home production, REMI production. We do have devices that have multiple inputs, up to four cameras in one appliance. But where our customers are using our technology is camera mounted units that is all over the field. They could be all over the golf course, the PGA, the golf channel, NBC are using our tech. And the cameras are not tethered to a single box. The field encoder mounts on the camera.
We're able to maintain frame-accurate genlock on mobile, portable cameras similar to an RF workflow that BSI would employ. Or some of our customers are using a hybrid approach. They might use BSI for the RF to the truck, switch the show in the truck and then use bonded cellular out of the truck. But we've been promoting for more than five years even before COVID the idea of fully portable, fully autonomous portable cameras. We're able to do frame-accurate genlock.
So, the PGA will deploy on some events up to 12 cameras and we can keep them all in perfect genlock. They could have 30 microphones open at the same time. And if they were out of sync with each other, the show would be horrible. In a live event, as we all know, you can't fix timing issues in post-production because there is no post-production. So, VidOvation and our partner, AVIWEST, it's the safe streams transport protocol that we do a form of precision timing protocol over an unmanaged network to keep all the field encoders in sync, to keep all that camera's in sync.
Check out the video of this discussion featuring:
Speakers:
Janel Fleming, LiveU, Director of Sales and Sales Group Manager, Sports
Jim Jachetta, VidOvation, CTO and Co-Founder
Peter Larsson, BSI, President
Moderator:
Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services
