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and the need to carry multiple
devices,” explains Sales Director,
Ewan Johnston.
Compactness of equipment
means there are opportunities
for sound mixers to double up as
audio routers. “A sound mixer with
a madi interface linked directly into
a comms system could be used to
replace some of the functionality of
an audio router.”
Johnson adds: “The modern
take on a ‘flyaway’ kit would be the
use of the BBC R&D Stagebox at
Glastonbury, allowing the comms
to be integrated with the studio
systems in London. This required
us to develop a direct link from
Stagebox to the Trilogy IP matrices,
without the requirement for a
base station.”
Panasonic’s compact
AW-HS50 Vision switcher
Making The Switch
Panasonic’s Series 50 Production
Unit is well suited for flyaway packs.
The sub-compact, multi-format live
HD/SD AW-HS50 switcher provides
10-bit processing, four HD/SD-SDI
inputs and one HD DVI-D input, as
well as a chromakeyer, aux bus and
1080/29.94PsF support.
The built-in MultiViewer allows
users to view four, nine, or 10 images
on a single display – significantly
reducing the cost, size and weight
of a complete HD production system.
Other functions include dedicated
hardware for picture-in-picture with
dissolve transitions, switchable upconversion,
colour correction, auto
or manual video transitions, 13 wipe
patterns and frame memories.
The accompanying AW-RP50
Remote Camera Controller can
control up to 100 AW-HE50 or AW-
HE120 series cameras via IP control
and up to five cameras and pan-tilt
heads using RS-422 serial control.
The half-rack-width RP50
connects to the HS50 switcher via
IP for synchronised use at a distance
or by a single local operator.
Studio-In-A-Box
TriCaster ‘studio-in-a-box’
eliminates the need to carry loads of
specialised equipment and requires
just one operator. It is available in
four and eight camera input, rack
mountable models with a wide array
of I/O possibilities.
“It’s far more than a camera switcher,
with built-in audio mixing, graphics
and titles, effects and transitions,
integrated digital media players,
animation buffers, mix and effects
buses, virtual sets, full proc amp
controls, ISO recording capability,
and much more,” reports Chris
Waddington, NewTek’s Director of
Sales East, EMEA.
NewTek has launched the
TriCaster Mini that, according to
Waddington, has great potential to
be a real game changer for OBs.
“The Mini is an ultra-portable, all-
HDMI, four camera input device with
nearly all the functionality of our rack
mountable TriCasters. Weighing only
nine pounds, the Mini is the size of
a lunch box that easily fi ts into a
backpack that can be placed in a
plane’s overhead bin.”
No Limitations
Brian Clark, Commercial and
Technical Projects Director,
NEP Visions, says: “Production
personnel need to concentrate
on capturing and telling the story,
not on the thought of using a
flypack or its perceived limitations.
However, larger flypack operations
demand a level of redundancy just
like OB trucks.”
Clark believes that lightweight
designs for monitors and multiviewers
combined with aerospace
technology in desks have provided a
move forward: “Also, the increasing
use of fi bre cable to reduce the
heavy copper cable. And frames
for equipment are getting smaller,
lighter and more reliable.
“There is also a move towards
more remote production, where we
supply the core kit to capture on
location, while most production staff
remain back at base operating the
equipment remotely, saving costs
on flights or hotels.”
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