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Core units; two VSM servers and around 40 VSM panels; and two A__madi4 units. All of these were configured remotely using TeamViewer – either in real time or by uploading configuration files. NEP set up four TeamViewer sessions. TeamViewer session one was dedicated to network configuration; session two to IP- networked audio and video; session three to VSM; and session four to assignments performed by NEP. Configuration tasks and the matching TeamViewer sessions were distributed every other day during all-hands video meetings hosted by Klingman. Microsoft Teams was used for internal group chats among the Lawo team, and a video conference bridge was available three times a week to coordinate among Lawo engineers and NEP’s SS4 project team for regular updates on how the project was evolving. Furthermore, some Lawo engineers had access to NEP’s Basecamp channel, which NEP used to communicate with the Lawo team as a whole. On the Lawo side, several additional tools, like Lawo VisTool and theWALL, were used to manage specific tasks. Joseph Signorino, vice-president of systems integration at NEP USA, notes: “I feel a large part of the success of the remote set-up is due to Lawo understanding our design and workflows, and the NEP teams having a very good working knowledge of the Lawo hardware and software. One of the challenges for us was finding the proper space to set
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The truck’s video switcher is an ST2110-capable Grass Valley K-Frame X and the up to 20 Sony HDC-4300 cameras are built out for parallel SDI and ST2110 workflows. Also, the eight 16-channel EVS replay systems and the Spotbox accommodate parallel SDI and ST2110 operation. The V__matrix C100 blades loaded with the vm_udx app will provide up to 64 up/down/cross format-conversion paths between SDR/ HDR SD, HD and 4K formats, plus audio embedding/de-embedding, frame sync, proc amp and RGB colour correction. Game Creek’s decision to use Lawo as its supplier was a big one, given the investment it had made in basband gear by another manufacturer. “We asked our former supplier, ‘How much performance can you deliver to us in this much space?’ And the answer was, ‘We can’t do it in this much space’,” says Pat Sullivan, CEO of Game Creek Video. He adds: “We didn’t start this trend. The first Lawo and Arista truck was probably NEP for its Bay Area operation. They wanted an IP infrastructure to get a certain amount of performance out of a certain amount of space.” With five IP trucks, Game Creek isn’t looking back on its decision: “Lawo has a really terrific product called the V__matrix C100, which is a frame that can be whatever you want it to be; it can shift gears, it’s a really
up all the gear, even though we already have a separate building for set-up and configuration. Normally, not everything is set up and switched on at the same time, but we are proving that this can be done successfully. It will most likely become the norm moving forward to save money, travel time and allow the Lawo team to spend more time at home.” GAME CREEK VIDEO’S BIG FLEET Elsewhere in the US, Game Creek Video’s ‘Bravo’ and ‘Colombia’ 53’ Expando trucks have been complemented with a full array of video and audio routing, multiviewers and overall orchestration and control software from Lawo. There’s also another truck, ‘Gridiron,’ in production, and it will have the same design but will feature an additional B unit. Two more trucks featuring the same design are scheduled for winter 2020. For signal routing, Game Creek has installed an on-board Lawo/Arista ST2110 network based on the Lawo V__matrix IP routing and processing platform. The software-defined V__matrix C100 processing blades handle all IP/SDI conversion, video/audio processing and multiviewers. Each truck features a total of 83 C100 processing blades hosted in eleven frames, providing the truck’s IP video core infrastructure. The blades are connected through redundant 40GbE (or 4x10GbE) Ethernet interfaces to the network and form a distributed IP routing and processing matrix that provides frame- accurate, clean switching just like a legacy baseband matrix. For integrating legacy equipment, the V__matrix installation provides a 432x528 SDI gateway solution.
clever design. I don’t believe we’ve even scratched the surface of how powerful these new trucks can be,” concludes Sullivan.
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