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In today’s anemic and highly volatile economy, choosing the right school for a student has become more important than ever. Gone are the days where college & universities are chosen based on prestige and reputation, or “that’s where Mom or Dad went…..”. Now decisions are based on very specific skill sets that can be offered to students, and help prepare them to enter a competitive work force.
For every level of collegiate entity, Television and more specifically, Sports Production are at the forefront of this demand. Recently the Sports Video Group ran an article about how Kent State University has implemented their Sports production.Schools need top notch media services for their athletic programs and academic offerings. Curriculums are being designed around this while keeping the student’s best interests in mind. Often times, budgets are tight and getting the most out of dollars spent on these endeavors is the key.
One-way schools are looking to maximize their budgets in choosing equipment that can pull double duty. The first key in any production chain is acquisition. Schools today are looking for alternatives to the traditional “hard” studio camera, and opting for an ENG style Instead. However, giving up those Operational Studio luxuries is hard to do. The Telecast Copperhead Series, Fiber enables these ENG Style Cameras, yet offers the Flow of signal compliment found in traditional Studio Camera configurations. As most of today’s Eng cameras offer on board recording, now the camera itself is free to be utilized in any production style environment.
Another big demand in university & college production setups is the ability to have a centralized control room with connectivity to stadiums, arenas and other points around campus. To do this effectively, Fiber Runs are the only choice. Telecast Fiber Systems have a full Compliment of equipment to address this, like our Adder II System for Audio, Data & Intercom on to Fiber. Our Viper II Terminal Gear, which handles a full compliment of HD/SDI, SD, Ethernet & Audio needs. Also, offerings of Multiplexing Gear like our Teleport & Telethon Systems round out & simplify very complex System Designs.
This last weekend I went to see WPRI-TV using our equipment at the Rhode Island Country Club in Barrington, RI for their expanded news broadcasts from the rain soaked CVS Caremark Charity Golf Classic. WPRI needed to set-up an announce position next to the course for two reporters, two guests, and a jib camera for beauty shots. The system operated for three days, much of it in the rain. As the broadcast area off the fairway turned into a swamp, it spotlighted fiber’s immunity to water; no hum buckers, no plastic bagging of connectors, no shock hazard, etc. The entire interconnect was accomplished on a single 500 ft. run of TAC-4 cable between the announce set and production trailer.There was some old and some new equipment on site. A legacy Ethernet Viper was used for the heart of the announcer system, moving HD program video, return video, six program audio channels, IFB , and ClearCom channels. One of the new Sony EX-3 cameras was fed through the Viper Mussel Shell while the second set camera was connected through the spare Mussel Shell fibers to a new, Telecast Copperhead equipped to interface with the Sony EX-3. The Copperhead provided full camera signal interface, remote control functions, operator intercom, and tally. The third Sony EX-3 jib cam was fed back to the production trailer using a Telecast Rattler system.At the very end, you should have seen the Jumbotron Truck trying to leave, driving up the muddy hill. A lot of money changed hands with each attempt up the slippery slope.
See Broadcast Engineering Magazine coverage.
On the SpectSoft web site there is a very nice photo and diagram story of this hands-on open house at StereoScope. Several manufacturers helped bring together a technology demonstration of workflow in standard and 3D production. Our Sales Engineer, Aaron Latham-James, helped with the Telecast (Viper and CopperHead) fiber optic video interconnections that were central to this event.
It was a real treat to have Jeff Silverman demonstrate and explain the amazing Digger Cam in Telecast's NAB booth this year. Inertia Unlimited Ltd. makes a lot of wonderous, high performance camera systems, and we're proud that Jeff uses products like our HD/POV links and CopperHeads on them. Learn more about Digger and Inertia Unlimited at http://www.inertiaunlimited.com/
Interesting article in TV Technology on the Grass Valley cameras at the NAB 2009 Show next month. Stop by the Telecast booth at the show to find out more.
The company will unveil a new integration between GV's Infinity Digital Media Camcorder and the Telecast Fiber Systems Copperhead camera transmission system. Grass Valley will also spotlight its LDK8000 SportElite, 2X HD slo-mo camera, capable of capturing progressive HD images, natively, in multiple formats and frame rates; and the LDK4000 Elite single format HD cameras.
