Remote Production Services

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1 VIDI Remote Production Services

2 VIDI provides its national and international clients with highquality broadcast solutions and services for the production of major live sporting events. Broadcasters, event organizers, and telecommunication companies turn to us as their professional partner when they need to deliver the action in real time and at the highest quality possible. Major sporting events are a very expensive exercise and require long term planning and preparation. A remote production could potentially change the way such events are managed. With VIDI s Remote Production Services we can offer a cost saving option for transporting multiple camera signals from venues to a central site over long distance telecom infrastructure. This new type of TV production could also become a cost effective way for smaller or minority sports events or other temporary productions such as theatre, song contests, conferences, etc. where up to now such productions did not fit into sensible budgets. VIDI offers Remote Production services in a new turnkey way which could comprise: Planning for necessary bandwidth for all,, Commentary and Control signals Set up at the venue site of adaptation technology and cabling from the cameras to these units. Provision of reception hardware at central site and cabling Manpower support during the event Booking and managing of WAN links with the Telecommunication companies Network design so that camera signals from the venues can be duplicated for delivery to different sites

3 Solutions with technology The following options can be provided for JPEG2000 compression with low delay for each 3G/HD/SD camera signal and the return signals (compression rates 3G Mbps, HD Mbps, SD Mbps) H.264 compression for each 3G/HD/SD camera signal and/or the return signals Un-compressed transmissions for very high quality demands Synchronous transport of 3D and slow motion signals UHD 4K transport compressed or un-compressed Super High Vision 8K transport compressed or un-compressed The following options can be provided for, Intercom and Control Very low delay and synchronous transport of and the corresponding embedded or separate incl. Dolby 5.1 Bi-directional intercom Transport of control signals for almost instant reaction of camera movement and settings REGIONAL SITE 1 REGIONAL SITE 2 MD8000SX MD8400 WIDE AREA NETWORK EVENT LOCATION MAIN STUDIO un-manned cameras Intercom Control MD8000 MD8000 Intercom Control Control Intercom Controlled by VIDI NMS manned cameras XCU GV Connect Gateway Server OCP s Remote Production with and Grass Valley Cameras

4 MD8000 transports all Type of Signals For example the following set of signals could be transported over a 10G link with one single MD8000 chassis of only 7U: 36 x HD videos for 24 manned and 12 un-manned cameras 4 x HD video return signals to cameras (BB, PGM out, etc.) 32 x microphones signals - partially embedded 12 x return signals to manned cameras (for headset and intercom) 24 x Intercom (1x master for all, 23 for individual camera men) Remote Ethernet controls for all cameras above (incl. tally signaling, configuration of base stations, diagnostics) One NeTWork Management System for all components A key element to the success of such examples is the VIDI Network Management System (NMS), which provides a single common interface to all the parameters and adjustments of the transport units, the cameras and other relevant equipment. This allows a user friendly arrangement without the need of several control systems and their platforms. Equipment could be switched on and off remotely and presets uploaded. Macros would be used to store the complete setup of recurring events. In such network environment signals could be duplicated in the network and therefore transported to several different sites simultaneously.

5 VIDI Remote Production in action Examples: VW Arena in Wolfsburg EURO2012 The Deutsche Bundesliga match VFL Wolfsburg vs. Fortuna Düsseldorf on 15 March 2013 was covered in the VW Arena in Wolfsburg. Sixteen Sony cameras in Wolfsburg delivered signals to the MD8000 system, which transported them to the production suite at CBC in Cologne, some 400kms distant. The cameras, incl. slo-mo cameras, were controlled by operators in Cologne. Camera operators confirmed that control reaction times were excellent. (This example illustrates the significant cost saving that can be made by dispensing with the typical OB production truck both technical and production staff can operate from a production centre, removing the need for on site technology & people.) Vasa Race 2012 in Mora (Sweden) Vasa Race 2012 in Mora (Sweden) was an event covered by SVT in the classical sense of an outside broadcast transmission, the VIDI OB vehicle was used. This vehicle was designed by VIDI GmbH especially for such event services (see pictures below). Due to the limited bandwidth of the STM-4 connection, VIDI employed video cards, which were using the JPEG2000 standard. (In this case, the VIDI turnkey approach allowed very rapid deployment, and coverage of remote sites that would normally have been inaccessible to conventional OB trucks) These tests were initiated by UEFA and supported by / VIDI and Grass Valley. The tests used additional cameras in the stadium, including a Grass Valley LDK 8300 Super Slo- Mo camera. The camera base stations were located in an equipment room at the venue but with no camera control. The video outputs from each camera were fed into a encoder, and the two-way fibre circuit also carried the control signals and diagnostics to control panels in the International Broadcast Centre (IBC).The equipment includes JPEG2000 encoding as well as data and dedicated audio services, meaning that this could be implemented immediately. One of the key reasons for the test was to see how the latency through the system affects operations and users. The system introduces only 80ms of video delay, plus any delays down the length of the fibre approximately 5ms per 1000km. The system also included a return video feed. That was useful, for example, if the remote production created a multilateral feed in the IBC rather than on site, but individual broadcasters wanted to use it along with their own cameras to create a unilateral feed.

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