48 THE LIVE LIFE Children’s Hospital
captures... I think they did that when they bought Livestream and gained all those live streaming capabilities.” Ben estimates that, each week, the studio produces around 400GB of content, “whether it’s our shows, or stuff we’re editing or producing for our channel. We also go out into the community and film.” He spoke to Feed having just returned from a day covering the Minnesota State Fair, which created not only live material but also 300GB of rushes to be edited on the studio’s Mac Pros in Adobe Premiere. Until three years ago, the studio’s media server was “a Mac mini with a hard drive attached to it. iXsystems donated a TrueNAS Z20 that has allowed us to produce more content. Now we have an enterprise-grade data solution that gives us up to 20Gb of data from the server so we can edit on all our machines over the network.” SAFE AND SOUND Audio is handled by a Behringer X32 mixer in each studio, fitted with Dante cards to allow the studios to communicate over the hospital’s Ethernet infrastructure. Audinate’s Dante Domain Manager is key to managing audio connection and routing. “When we reached out to Audinate to get Domain Manager, we were just getting into
IF WE DIDN’ T NEED TO BE INTERACTIVE, WE’D CRANK THAT DELAY UP AND MAKE THE PICTURES LOOK GOOD
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