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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 3 | March 2016

InStudio

LEADER 'Year of Sport' T&M
Rental Promo

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EADER has announced a special
'Year of Sport' promotion on the
company's products, one that reduces
the cost of renting LEADER equipment
from its distributors, preferred dealers,
and system integrators.
"2016 is a major sporting year,
including the Rio Olympics and UEFA
European Football Championships,"
comments
European
Regional
Development
Manager
Kelvin
Salvidge. "The resultant pressure on
mobile broadcast services puts rental
companies in a dilemma when it comes
to investing in test and measurement
equipment to support their customers
at these events. Do they simply
purchase more HD equipment and
ignore the growing demand for 3840
x 2160 UHD? Or do they protect their
investment by selecting products
which can be upgraded at any time to

UHD?
"Our new rental promotion initiative
allows rental companies to propose
LEADER products with confidence. It
includes our LV 5480 multi waveform
monitor and LV 7390 4 x 3G/HD/SD
SDI rasterizer.
"Both are fully upgradable to handle
UHD and the various 4K digital cinema
formats. LEADER's product reliability
is unrivalled. Both instruments include
our unique intuitive CINEZONE and
CINELITE measurement tools which
allow production staff as well as fully
trained engineers to identify and make
the necessary adjustments quickly and
easily."
2016 sports events encompassed by
this promotion include the Australian
Open Tennis Championships, Winter
Youth Olympics in Norway, the UK
World Track Cycling Championships,

LV 7390 4 x 3G/HD/SD SDI rasterizer

ICC World Twenty20 in India,
French Open Tennis, UEFA
Euro in France, Wimbledon
tennis tournament, the Tour
de France, British Open Golf,
the Summer Olympics in Brazil,
plus the UCI Road & The World
Cycling
Championships
in
Qatar.
Based on the award-winning
LV 5490, the LV 5480 is
a
multi-format
waveform
monitor capable of displaying
and evaluating signals from up to four
3G-SDI input channels simultaneously.
The LV 5480 provides the features
needed for HD shooting, postproduction and technical support.
These include waveform, vector and
picture monitoring, an event log, data
dump and four-channel timing display.
An SDI signal status facility looks for
cyclic-redundancy-check errors and
embedded-audio errors. The LV 5480
can be upgraded to the full 4K feature
set of the LV 5490.
The LEADER LV 7390
is
a
3G/HD/SD-SDI
rasterizer which can be
used to measure up to

The LEADER LV 5480
multi waveform monitor

four source channels simultaneously.
It occupies just 1U and can be
deployed for desktop or rack-mounted
operation.
Designed for easy connection
into 3G-SDI, HD-SDI and SD-SDI
systems, the LV 7390 incorporates
full-resolution 3G/HD-SDI and DVI-I
rasterized outputs which allow
detailed video and audio parameters
be checked on a separate monitor
in full 1920 x 1080 HD resolution.
Measurements can be displayed as
waveform, vector, picture, audio and
SDI status.

Enex Upgrades Workflow To HD

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nex recently completed a major
infrastructure project to create
a full HD workflow, together with a
customised MAM, and an editorial and
playout platform that would meet the
needs of the global news provider.
Christos Schizas, Deputy Managing
Director of Enex said: "This project
represents the most important
investment decision in the recent
history of Enex and required a
long investigation period and deep
discussions with our key members. We
are very happy to have opted for the
BCE proposal and excited with the final
result.
"What has started as a purely
technical upgrade from SD to HD has
resulted in developing an innovative
media management and editorial
platform. It is the platform that
automates a large part of our daily
work, and lets our staff focus on value
and service for our members.
"At the same time it's a solid base
that provides enormous flexibility for
the future and can grow with Enex.
Finally by combining industry best

practices, open source software,
and BCE custom solutions; we
have managed to keep the overall
investment at low levels, in line with
the frugal nature of our organisation."
The heart of the platform is a news
MAM system developed by BCE. It
features library management tools and
advanced automation that is combined
with the editorial platform (NRCS)
and the playout platform under one
common user interface. Solely Webbased, the system can be accessed by
Enex staff from any of its offices.
The solution is built around a central
storage system from Harmonic, on
which all production tasks, such as
content review and editing are carried
out.
Two types of servers are used for
playout. Harmonic Spectrum servers
are used for content recording with
channel ports for advanced playout.
Loop playout and announcements are
made available by D.Playout, a BCE inhouse developed playout server.
Media processing is controlled
through the News MAM where

Terence Jarosz (Enex), Léa Krieger (BCE), Sven Weisen (BCE), Julian Neundorf (BCE),
Tobias Matzat (BCE), Daniel Resslinger (BCE), Sascha Quillet,
Steve Heiles (BCE), Christos Schizas (Enex)

Telestream Vantage is the core
transcoding and workflow engine.
The transcoding farm, in a solution
put forward by BCE to enhance cost
efficiency and provide scalability, uses
open source software.
Video and editorial metadata
exchange between Enex partner
newsrooms is based on the BCE
Newslink solution. Satellite bookings
and recordings scheduling is done

in ScheduALL. BCE automation,
Au2System, enables the use of
ScheduALL as an ingest management
system.
Founded in 1994 as a cooperative
of leading commercial broadcasters,
Enex has 53 full members, including
Europe's
largest
commercial
broadcaster, RTL Group, Sky News in
Great Britain, CBS in the U.S. and 11
broadcasters in Latin America.
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