Sony Europe and France Télévisions are putting wheels to tarmac, as Mobile Unit 1 goes into production – with two more to come
new OB production truck, the Mobile Unit 1 (UM1), was recently kicked into operation gear by France Télévisions.
Sony HDC-3500 portable system cameras are on board and a Sony XVS-9000 vision mixer with four mix/effects bars is installed in the main video control room. Its resources can be shared with a second independent control room in the truck. Sony PVM-X2400 (or PVM-X1800 for the audio control room) UHD/HDR reference monitors equip the vision engineer stations and screens (preview and final) of the two video control rooms. All other workstations are fit with Sony LMD-A240 monitors. “The beginning of the project was the renewal of a 2000s OB van which was 20 years old”, says Laurent Vindevoghel, project manager at France Télévisions. “Specifications for UM1 were straightforward: 25 cameras capable of shooting in HD, 4K UHD and HDR, and SDI and IP compatible.” “This van, made to last about ten years, can be maintained over time,” says Skander Ben Attia, CTO of France Télévisions, “so that we can use it across our different events.” “The production operations of France Télévisions include both mobile and fixed means,” according to Norbert Paquet, head of live production solutions,
UM1 is based on hybrid SDI/IP architecture and provides UHD and HDR images with a 25-camera capacity and two video control rooms that each work simultaneously. The new OB van rolled out during the summer of 2022, with the broadcast of the French National Day concert from the Eiffel Tower and coverage of the European Athletics Championship in Munich, among others.
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