MG is a major provider of media facilities and services for broadcast in Europe, the US and Australia, and has been a media partner in major international events,
combining power with ease of use, but diPloy turned it into a practical reality. Earlier this year, the diPloy system allowed the team at Infront Productions to deliver the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a full IP network-based set-up. A key component of the diPloy system is Imagine Communications’ Selenio Network Processor (SNP) – a pure-IP media processing platform, supporting uncompressed UHD, based on SMPTE ST 2110. The scalable platform is designed to help media companies transition from SDI to all-IP networks, while adhering to the SMPTE ST 2022-6 and ST 2110 standards. SNP also supports a UHD/HDR-capable production multiviewer personality and adds JPEG XS support this summer. EMG’s CTO, Bevan Gibson, explains: “We use Imagine’s SNP products to compress signals in a lossless way between locations, but it’s a flexible asset for processing that can do many things, depending on what you need. Often, we still have trucks based at venues, but soon we’ll only put the minimum equipment at each location and centralise the processing infrastructure, so crews
including the Tour de France, World Cup and Eurovision Song Contest. Last year, EMG launched diPloy – an IP workflow combining video, audio, monitoring, comms and control data in one integrated control network. diPloy was designed to manage the production of the world’s largest sports events, building powerful, scalable live production architectures from preconfigured IP modules. There’s a lot of talk in broadcast technology about
can operate from one location, instead of having to move from place to place. For us, the SNP is the gateway.” The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships events happened at two locations: one for ski jumping, one for cross-country skiing. The two venues, 5km apart, were connected by dark fibre. The diPloy system allowed EMG to have all the control rooms and most of the core infrastructure – and people – in one location, with only the camera operators at the event sites. Gibson says: “Instead of needing lots of trucks and two full set-ups, we minimised the amount of infrastructure. It was cost-effective, sustainable and was quite easy to set up.” This production centralisation enables more efficient use of resources – primarily, time and money. “Think three football games in a day, rather than one every three days,” says Gibson. “You might need cameras at every venue, but do you need sound desks or vision mixers? We can adapt to whatever clients want to do – the SNP platform is key to making that happen.”
OFF-PISTE Thanks to Imagine
Communications’ Selenio Network
Processor, it was easy to cover the FIS
Nordic World Ski Championships
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