anasonic technology sits at the centre of so much broadcast infrastructure, the company has dedicated team members, whose job it is to help customers get the most out of their
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transition. One of these is Jaume Miró, who heads up the project management team at Panasonic. A 20-year veteran at the company, he gets the call when someone needs to come in and work with an end user, or integrator, to ensure Panasonic kit is specified correctly and performing optimally to help deliver the project at hand. Based in Barcelona, Miró is the obvious go-to for Panasonic’s technology relationship with Mediapro, one of Europe’s leading audiovisual tech and service providers. The company offers solutions for audiovisual and broadcast projects, from design to distribution. “In 2020, Panasonic started a new department inside our division to deal with client projects,”
says Miró. “This was something that didn’t exist before, at least in our business division. One of the reasons for starting the new division was Kairos. Another factor was that we have started including robotics systems in our portfolio.” Panasonic cameras are well known, but working with its tech partners, the company also provides automation and robotics systems for these cameras. From the moment a new studio is designed, Miró starts discussing with customers how they’re going to configure the new build. A lot of these are migrations from SDI to IP, which is where Panasonic’s new Kairos platform comes in. Kairos is an IP-centric live production switcher, developed at Panasonic’s European R&D centre in Germany, which uses CPU and GPU power to process live, uncompressed video. The platform operates fully in the realm of IP as a video scaler, processor, mixer or server. The Kairos core is a 1RU hardware unit running Linux, but its software- based architecture means it ultimately isn’t bound by specified hardware at all. “Kairos isn’t just a switcher. How it’s integrated powers what is controlling it – and what it can control. There are many different parties out there and we need to make sure we have compatibility, so we work closely with systems integrators and other manufacturers.” Since Kairos is, at heart, a software product, it is able to live in a continuous development cycle, with new functions and improvements added on a regular basis, in response to customer needs. From a simple demo, to a customer who has already purchased the system, every encounter is an opportunity for more insight. “There is common feedback from every customer, but there are also things specific to a certain workflow and environment.”
WHAT A SAVE! Kairos was deployed with Mediapro for the eLaLiga Santander FIFA tournament
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