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Grass Valley played key role in live Oscars broadcast in HD |
iThe pristine HD images of the recent 79th Academy Awards was broadcast live around the world with a host of Grass Valley equipment from Thomson, just as they have been for the past five years. This year’s HDTV telecast of the Oscars was from Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, USA, via ABC in 720p HD format.
Mobile production facilities were pro-vided by NEP Supershooters, which operated two of its all-digital HD mobile units, Silver and Gold, on-site for the main awards-pre-sen---tation transmission. The company’s SS25 production truck was also employed to cover celebrities’ arriv-al as part of ABC’s pre-show Red Carpet segment. All three trucks used were equipped with Grass Valley multi-format HD produc-tion equipment and sys-tems, including HD cameras, switchers, servers, routers and conversion modules.
More than 20 Grass Valley LDK 6000 mk II WorldCam HD cameras, deployed throughout Kodak Theatre, were connected to the Silver and Gold mobile units, along with two Grass Valley Kalypso video-production centre switchers — one handling the 16:9 HD broadcast and the other the 4:3 SD show for analogue-broadcast viewers.
The two trucks also employed several Grass Valley PVS 2000 HD Profile XP Media Platform servers, Grass Valley SMS7000 and Concerto Series routers, as well as a full complement of Grass Valley Kameleon signal processing-and-conversion modules.
Aboard the NEP Supershooters’ SS25 were a dozen LDK 6000 WorldCam cameras, and a Kalypso HD switcher. This truck was also equipped with the new GeckoFlex HD signal-processing system for the Oscars broadcast.
For the live stage show inside Kodak Theatre, video-server company ProQue operated four Grass Valley PVS 2000 HD Profile servers and a mix of five PDR 200 and PDR 300 MPEG SD servers. All servers were controlled by ProQue’s Prodisk proprietary system. The servers provided random-access playback for the show’s pre-taped segments, commercials and billboard packages, as well as the dozens of film clips that were shown on-screen during the telecast.
ProQue has been using the Profile server to support both the Academy Awards and Grammy telecasts (initially in SD and more recently in HD) every year for the past 11 years.Labels: academy awards |
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