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Miami Marlins
Production Facility
Winner of new studio
technology - non -broadcast
Submitted by
Avid
ro.
The most challenging part of moving the Miami
Marlins to Marlins Park was not getting physically
into the new facility. It was designing and implementing
the kind of innovative all -digital workflow
we needed to handle a significant increase in both volume
and diversity of content built for, and distributed across,
multiple platforms. Today, we serve as a full in -house production agency.
Starting the process in 2004, we adopted a smaller Avid storage solution set.
Since then, we've pursued an incremental upgrade path that has ultimately led
to the acquisition of a far more robust set of Avid production systems to accommodate
the needs of our new on -site production facility.
This has made our production much faster and more efficient. If we need a
commercial spot, we have the material we need right at hand. In a given season,
we may do more than 400 spots for TV and radio, so we are glad to have the kind
of workflow Avid provides to meet a dizzying schedule of turnaround times.
From creating feeds for broadcast and internal scoreboards, to logging clips
and putting together highlights packages, we cover basically anything that happens
at a game, including ceremonies, first pitches and player presentations.
Our department is a key part of the marketing function, producing media
for every application, from TV spots to in -game entertainment. To give
the fans a better window into the lives of our players, we do scheduled interviews
and put together featured pieces around them. We also do a "Meet the
Marlin" segment to help create a more Fleshed -out picture of our players' lives.
Beyond serving the needs of the Miami Marlins, we do concerts and quick -
turn packages for Comcast On- Demand. This allows us to provide a whole
host of information on more than just the games. If viewers miss a previous
night's concert, for instance, they can catch performance clips on our site or
access it on- demand to view it at their leisure.
KSL -TV
Winner of
station automation
Submitted by
NVerzion
Runner -up
Maharaja TV (MTV)
Submitted by Maharaja TV (MTV)
KSL -TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, operates
two independent network channels under the
same roof. On a daily basis, its engineering department
handles content for the main station, a
separate Comcast feed, local independent station KJZZ and
the Live Well Network, which KSL broadcasts as a digital sub -
channel. Until recently, all programming and commercial content was manually
acquired from eight different content -delivery systems. Master -control operators
would perform about 80 to 100 dubs per day, and each dub would take
approximately five minutes.
To increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, KSL employed an end -
to -end NVerzion automation system that provides a more streamlined, file -
based operation and guaranteed redundancy of the station's main, backup
and archive devices, thereby ensuring continuity for its broadcast operations.
The system includes an NBase SQL media database manager, NView database
viewer, NControlMC Master Control transmission playlists, NConvert manual
traffic interface, NCompass ingest manager, NGest professional dubbing and
recording software application, NTime event scheduling application, NPoint
video- preparation software for segmenting and trimming, NVero on -air verification
and video logger, EMC -Router Ethernet machine control, and TeraStore
nearline storage archive.
Using the automation platform, KSL seamlessly manages a broad range
of equipment, including Omneon Spectrum media servers, as well as Utah
Scientific 400SD /HD routers and MC -2020 SD /HD master control switchers.
Master -control operators use NVerzion's NCompass ingest manager to automatically
acquire content from a variety of different edge servers and transfer
it to the Omneon servers as needed. Operators can set preferences for file naming
and program segmenting, as well as manually drag -and -drop file transfers,
to streamline operations.
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