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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 8 | August 2017

InMedia

SAM In The Isle Of Wight
Festival Mix

CTV Outside Broadcast partnered with SAM for
the world's first UHD broadcast of a major music
festival...

S

nell Advanced Media (SAM) has
announced that its LiveTouch
replay and highlights system and its
Kahuna 9600 production switcher
were central to the first live UHD
production workflow of the 2017 Isle of
Wight Festival.
OB Facilities
CTV were selected to supply UHD
OB facilities for this year's Isle of
Wight Festival and selected three
of SAM's LiveTouch replay and
highlights systems to complement
its UHD Kahuna production switcher
at the heart of its existing workflow.
Produced by CC Lab, this year's event,
featuring Rod Stewart, Run DMC,
Arcade Fire and David Guetta, was the
first major music festival to be

SAM LiveTouch
replay and highlights
system
Six UHD streams were recorded

broadcast in both UHD and HD with
5.1 audio. Because of Kahuna's multiformat capability, CTV were able to
deliver mixed formats including UHD,
HD, SD and for VOD.
Two of the LiveTouch systems were
used to record the live feeds from
the two main music stages, and the
third was used to handle live replays,
interviews, voxboxes and daily
highlights. In total, six UHD streams
were recorded, accounting for 36
hours of UHD content on each of the
four days of the festival.
Hamish Greig, Technical Director,
CTV explains: "SAM's LiveTouch was
selected for its ability to deliver a
fast turnaround workflow and for the
networking capability that it offers.
The systems joined together and
networked easily. The native XAVC
support offered by the LiveTouch and
its built-in Rio editor meant it was very
fast to drop in shots almost live."
UHD Cuts
The Presentation programme
mix, Main Stage mix and the Big
Top mix were captured by
multiple Sony HDC4300
cameras. Directorial
programme
cuts
for each mix were
carried out - in
UHD - using the
remote panels of a

CTV supplied UHD OB facilities for the Festival coverage

6M/E SAM Kahuna switcher. The main
panel of the switcher was used to
simultaneously produce the combined
live programme output.
In a dedicated OB unit, content from
the stages was also recorded on to
CTV's three LiveTouch servers and
used by three independent replay
operators who were responsible for
clipping acts and creating highlight
playlists for end-of-day programming.
All UHD content was streamed
between the three LiveTouch systems
in a 2in/2out set-up. Throughout the
live festival days, graphics, bumpers
and stings were created in Adobe
Premiere and imported via SAM's
Fileflow transcode and delivery
workflow using XAVCi Class 300 codec
wrapped in an MXF container.
CTV's Greig adds: "The ability
to record, transmit and edit
three productions in UHD and 5.1
simultaneously was a big ask, but the
workflow stood up to the pressures,
delivering an enjoyable and immersive
UHD experience. It would have been
impossible to complete this project
without Kahuna's unique multi-format
capabilities. LiveTouch and Kahuna

exceeded all expectations and was the
perfect workflow that this operation
required."
Technology Milestone
Neil Maycock, EVP and General
Manager, Media Software Solutions,
SAM, says: "We're very proud that SAM
technology has been central to such a
milestone for an event with the history
and legacy of the Isle of Wight Festival.
The UHD workflow used for this
year's event perfectly illustrates that
LiveTouch and Kahuna can cope, not
just with the demands of a live sports
environment, but have the flexibility
and robustness required to handle the
challenges of a complex operation like
this one."
Based in High Wycombe, UK, CTV
Outside Broadcast is one of the largest
and well-respected independent OB
companies in Europe. CTV has 12
trucks in operation and has provided
live coverage for sports events
including The European Golf Tour, The
London Marathon as well as primetime
studio-based programmes including
Strictly Come Dancing and The Brit
Awards.

SAM Kahuna 9600
production switcher
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