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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 11 | November 2017

InFocus

Flypacks & Live Events cont'd...
Trickbox TV, a leading supplier of
equipment and services for studio and
location multi-camera productions
has announced a major expansion of
its facilities. The company has opened
the doors to its new warehouse HQ in
South East London, close to its fully
equipped HD Tower Bridge TV Studios.
The new facility allows the company
to further expand its broadcast and
production services business, which
provides broadcast quality 4K/UHD
and HD bespoke flyaway solutions.
With more room for kit, Trickbox TV
will be able to provide clients with
even greater choice and a faster
service when choosing equipment for
outside broadcast jobs, events and live
video streaming.
"We're really excited to announce
this move to larger premises,"
says Liam Laminman, Trickbox TV
Managing Director. "The company has
been consistently growing over the
past seven years and this move further
highlights our strong commitment
to the outside broadcast market. We
look forward to sharing some further
announcements in the coming weeks."
Among this summer's events
employing Trickbox's services were the
Eden Sessions. Based at the famous
Eden Project site in Cornwall, Eden
Sessions feature a series of one-day
concerts from world-class artists
"We have a lot of experience
providing outside broadcast facilities
at music venues and festivals
across the UK," says Laminman.
"The pressure is on at these events,
organisers have to plan meticulously
and they want to know that they
are getting the best OB service and
ultimately the highest quality material.
That is what they get with us."
Blackmagic Design reports that
a live production solution featuring
the ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K,
Teranex Express and HyperDeck Studio
Mini is being used for video production

and IMAG projection on the 2017
OneRepublic Honda Civic Tour.
Live director and company owner
Stuart Merser of Vis-a-Vis Media
designed and specified the video
rack along with Jeff Nolte of OCD
Labs around switching, routing and
monitoring hardware from Blackmagic
Design, enabling him to create unique
live video manipulation of the band's
performances,
including
touring,
festival appearances and corporate
commitments.
"The rack is designed to be powerful
but portable; it's a very modular
system, with everything we might
need for a show. However, we can
easily connect to additional hardware
components or integrate our system
into a venue's existing infrastructure,"
explains Stuart. "That means we can
fly into a venue or festival, connect

The ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K,
Teranex Express and HyperDeck Studio
Mini is being used for video production
and IMAG projection on the 2017
OneRepublic Honda Civic Tour

Gearhouse Broadcast's latest Flyaway production units

the cameras there into the rack over
BNC, giving me instant control over the
show."
The rack has been used to deliver
all live video for the band's US and
Asia legs of the tour, in which Stuart
vision mixes the headline act content
from the rack's central ATEM 2 M/E
Broadcast Studio 4K. Content for
supporting acts James Arthur, as
well as Fitz and the Tantrums, is
produced on a supporting ATEM 2 M/E
Production Studio 4K.
Three cameras, one 86x at Front
of House (FoH) and two wide-angle
14:4:3 cameras in the pit, capture the
action, while four micro cameras are
positioned onstage for fixed closeups of drums, cello, piano and synths.
All seven channels are routed to the
switcher and several media servers as
well as to a live video manipulation
engine, VideoDust, to create stunning
graphics from the live inputs.
Gearhouse Broadcast's Gearhouse
Broadcast recently launched two
identical 12-camera HD all-in-one
flyaway production units. Building on
Gearhouse's heritage of delivering
innovative
portable
production
solutions, the new light weight
modular units provide up to ten
workstation positions for operational
and technical crew within a small
footprint. They can be deployed

Gearhouse OB Lite

anywhere in the world and are
ideally suited for live sports and
entertainment productions, or to
enhance existing production or studio
set-ups.
The flyaways are fully integrated to
include video and audio distribution
and routing capabilities, camera
control, communications systems
and master control rigs. A high
specification of design and build,
they support up to 12 Sony HDC-1700
cameras, and two EVS XT3 Channel
Max servers, with various sound and
talkback possibilities.
The new customisable Flyaways
come in robust 32RU or 20RU flight
cases, depending on a customer's
requirements. Their modular design
means that the systems can be scaled
up or down as needed, and come with
detailed technical drawings so that the
infrastructure can be seen at a glance.
Gearhouse also provides extensive
onsite support and experienced
production crews if required.
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