Fox News brought in The Systems Group to implement a “21st century operations suite” as part of a turnkey production facility. The addition of the studio allowed Fox News to expand its current programming to include live audience production. This suite of control and production operations rooms includes production control, audio control and a voice-over booth; a tape and server playback area; satellite equipment room; and a glass-walled street-level studio in the Rockefeller Center district of New York City.
The facility incorporates some of the latest in multiviewer monitoring, hybrid audio mixing and network-connected production systems technology.
Key technology: Thomson XttenDD production switcher, Thomson LDK-200 digital cameras, Accom Dveous DVE, Quantel Picturebox still store, Miranda Kaleido-K2, TSL USC-21 system controller, Clarity Lion UX 67” display, Calrec Sigma 100 audio mixer, Fujinon studio and ENG lenses, Radamec camera robotics
Runner-up: CNN by The Systems Group
Key technology: Thomson Trinix 256×256 SDI video router, Thomson Venus analog audio router, Thomson Grass Valley 4000 three-M/E production switchers, Yamaha O2R digital audio mixer, Vinten Quattro studio pedestals, Telex KP32 intercom key panels, Sony HDC950 cameras, Sony PVM and BVM video monitors
This eBook provides both new and veteran shooters an in-depth understanding of the technology that lies between the camera lens and the recording medium and how to maximize a camera's performance.
File-based technologies have replaced video tape methods for a majority of production and broadcast operations. The worlds of AV and IT are coalescing to create new methods and workflows for media
Video compression, editing and displays is an in-depth tutorial on MPEG compression technology, editing MPEG content and evaluating color video monitors written by long-time video expert, trainer and writer Steve Mullen, Ph. D.
2012 will be the year of mobile DTV. That’s the view of Erik Moreno, who along with Salil Dalvi, senior VP for Mobile Platform Development at NBC Universal, is co-general manager of the Mobile Content Venture.
Hear snippets of podcast interviews done throughout 2011 with Pat McDonough of The Nielsen Company, Glen Friedman of Ideas & Solutions!, Danny Wilson of Pixelmetrix and Greg Herman of Watch TV. Pictured is Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix.
