In Part 1 of this series we looked at how availability zones improve reliability and business continuity, in this part we look at improving systems further using chaos engineering and SLAs.
Although we’re freer to use the camera and lens combination of our choice than we would be with traditional VFX techniques such as greenscreen, we discuss the changes that do need to happen around the camera, what information we generate, and how that informs the pictures rendered on the screen.
In parallel to its role entertaining the audience via the programme output, audio is the central nervous system of all broadcast infrastructure, ensuring everybody can hear what is happening and communicate with each other - without it everything rapidly breaks down.
_operating_on_Court_18_460_207_70.jpeg "Leanne Lewis operating an NEP/Sony UHD camera on Court 18 at this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament.")
This year’s coverage of the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament is the biggest and most comprehensive production ever for the event, starting with the hundreds of technical crew working on it.
How VLAN’s enable the division of an Ethernet network into multiple smaller logical networks.
Japanese broadcaster Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has upgraded its ‘202’ outside broadcast truck to create a 5.1.4 immersive environment. The upgrade relied on a combination of Genelec’s ‘The Ones’ three-way coaxial monitors and GLM calibration software, and has provided ABC with a futureproof OB solution for the next generation of broadcast standards.
Video and audio production using IP networking is on the threshold of widespread adoption and may soon become the default way of working for live production. But nobody expects a total switchover to IP production anytime soon, even though, on the face of it, that would seem to be the ideal outcome. Practical considerations such as backwards compatibility and failover to more traditional methods are likely to require hybrid solutions for some time to come.
Design your monitoring system to be self-installing and maintain just one single set of source files that are cloned to your target systems. Implement self-configuring logic to avoid manual reconfiguration when new systems are added.
