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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 3 | March 2018

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Grass Valley
Infrastructure
KOR / USA: NBC Olympics selected
Grass Valley's SME-1901 Streaming
Encoder to provide multiformat
video/audio over IP.
An XVP-3901, handled up/down/
cross conversion, colour space
conversion, frame synchronisation, audio embedding and deembedding. NBC Olympics used
Grass Valley's iControl customised
end-to-end facility monitoring and
control system. Grass Valley also
provided: Densité Remote Control
Panel; three NVISION 8500 HYBRID
routers; NVISION Compact CQX
router; LUMO Series High Density
Fibre Converter; and 34 Kaleido-IP
Multiviewers for monitoring both
IP and SDI sources on one monitor.

FOR-A Tech Deployed
For 4K Coverage
KOR / JPN: Several FOR-A 4K supported solutions were used during
production of the Winter Games,
including video and routing switcher, multi viewer and video conversion technologies.
FOR-A's frame rate convert technologies have been used in all
recent games. The FRC-9000 frame
rate converter features 4K/3G/
HD/SD multi-format support and
conversion with motion compensation processing, and offers the
option to upgrade to dual channel
conversion in 3G/HD-SDI and store
up to two Dolby E encoder/decoder
optional modules.

ELEMENTS NAS
Media Storage
KOR / AUS: Broadcast Network
Connections (BNC) deployed an
ELEMENTS NAS 60bay plus JBOD
expansion in PyeongChang to
establish a steady connection for
transmissions between onsite
editing and producers in Vienna,
Austria. BNC was contracted
by Austria's ORF for ingest and
content management during the
event. The raw video footage
was streamed through EVS XT[3]
servers to the ELEMENTS NAS
server to be edited by a team of
four editors onsite in South Korea,
utilising Adobe Premiere.

Panasonic EVA1
Firmware Upgrade
JPN:
Panasonic
announces
firmware upgrade to its EVA1
compact cinema camera.
The free upgrade, due at the end
of March, means the super 35mm
sensor camera will now support
Panasonic ALL-Intra codecs1, RAW
output2, time lapse recording as
well as a new HD 422 interlaced
codec3, for TV applications.
In addition, remote operation is
now possible using third-party
wired controllers, allowing focus
and iris control, as well as zoom
control for Canon compact cine
servo zoom.

Bernama News Channel
Installs Auratus
Platinum & Nexus

Bernama News Channel Staff
- Sebastian Anak Renang
and Sulaiman Salleh

M

alaysia broadcast equipment
supplier, Stagetec Asia recently
completed a project for Bernama News
Channel (BNC), a 24-hour international
news channel, supplying Stage Tec
audio consoles and an audio router.
Two pairs of Auratus Platinum and
one large NEXUS base device has been
installed in Wisma Bernama which is
located in the city centre Jalan Tun
Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bernama, the Malaysian National
News agency, is the main official news
provider for Malaysia.
Stagetec Asia is honoured to have
this opportunity in collaborating
with the system integrator, Bernama
System & Solutions Advisor in
completing Bernama News Channel

Project.
The
Stage
Tec
equipment was installed
in a television production
studio which is a brand
new additional studio
build for live broadcast
news and shows. Each
Auratus
Platinum
comes with 24-fader
customisation and it is
ready for a simplified and
optimised interface operation.
The Auratus console is fully
integrated with NEXUS audio network
and can therefore access a wide
variety of supported formats. The
audio router was also installed
together with various format of Nexus

cards to ensure a smooth day-to-day
operation.
Stagetec Asia also supplied a Sonifex
Telephone hybrid 'DHY-03T', Sonifex
Stereo Audio Delay Synchroniser
and Time Zone and RTW TM7 audio
loudness metering devices.

Net Insight Powers NBC Olympics Tx
N

BC Olympics, a division of
the NBC Sports Group, has
selected Net Insight to provide their
ScheduALL resource and transmission
management
solutions
for
its
production of the Winter Games, taking
place in PyeongChang, South Korea.
The announcement was made by Dan
Robertson, Vice President, Information
Technology, NBC Olympics, and Fredrik
Tumegard, CEO of Net Insight.
NBC
Olympics
will
use
ScheduALL, Net Insight's advanced
resource management solutions,
to orchestrate the logistics of

staff members, equipment, locations
and transmission feeds. ScheduALL
manages critical information such as
video router assignments and satellite
uplink scheduling, and automatically
passes the information to downstream
systems to facilitate on-air coverage
for each feed.
"We have once again chosen the
ScheduALL software for our missioncritical operations to manage our

resources and transmissions during
the Games," said Robertson.
"We are very proud to contribute
to the success of the NBC Olympics
production," said Tumegard. "NBC
Olympics will be supported onsite
by Net Insight personnel throughout
the Olympic Winter Games in
PyeongChang, and at NBC Olympics'
office in the United States."
A division of the NBC Sports Group,
NBC Olympics is responsible
for producing, programming
and promoting NBC Universal's
Olympic coverage.

RTS Provide Broadcast Intercoms
N
BC Olympics selected RTS to
provide
broadcast
intercom
systems for its production of the
Winter Games, which took place in
PyeongChang, South Korea.
The announcement was made today
by John Pastore, Director of Broadcast
Communications, NBC Sports and
Olympics, and Denis Castanet, Director
Global Product Management, RTS.
"There are very few TV shows or live
sports event productions with more
overall communications complexity
than an Olympic Winter Games," said
Pastore. "RTS continues to provide
NBC Olympics with the comprehensive

needs of our project. We are very
happy to be working with their
products and support, to make our
coverage of the PyeongChang Games a
total success."
"We are honoured that RTS
continues to be NBC's trusted
brand for broadcasting the
world's
largest
sporting
events," said Castanet. "Our
long-standing
partnership
with the NBC team continues to
evolve with our latest innovations
in intercom technology. The RTS
equipment list for NBC's Olympics
coverage in PyeongChang includes

OMNEO, RVON, IP Trunking, ADAM
intercom matrices, and intercom
panels - all working together to
provide seamless communications,
exceptional efficiency and flexibility
for their production personnel, in
studio and on site."
RTS KP-5032
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