Essential Guide: LED Walls For Virtual Production August 20^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

This Essential Guide explores the technology of LED wall displays for virtual production. It discusses fundamental requirements and the relationships between the LED wall and the other equipment required for virtual production techniques.

Essential Guide: Location Sound Recording May 22^nd 2024 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide examines the delicate and diverse art of capturing audio on location, across a range of different types of film and television production. A group of seasoned professionals discuss their art and the how it can dramatically elevate the immersive experience for viewers.

Essential Guide: Next-Gen 5G Contribution March 19^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide explores the technology of 5G and its ongoing roll out. It discusses the technical reasons why 5G has become the new standard in roaming contribution, and explores the potential disruptive impact 5G and MEC could have on the infrastructure deployed on site for remote production.

Essential Guide: Network Observability March 6^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide introduces and explores the concept of Network Observability. For any broadcast engineering team using IP networks and cloud ecosystems for live video production, it is an approach which could help combat a number of the inherent challenges of using such dynamic systems.

Essential Guide: Comms In Hybrid SDI - IP - Cloud Systems February 6^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

We examine the demands placed on hybrid, distributed comms systems and the practical requirements for connectivity, transport and functionality.

Essential Guide: Flexible IP Monitoring April 16^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

Video, audio and metadata monitoring in the IP domain requires different parameter checking than is typically available from the mainstream monitoring tools found in IT. The contents of the data payload are less predictable and packet distribution more tightly defined leading to the need to use specialist media stream centric…

Essential Guide: Software IP Enabling Storytelling March 17^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

Television is still a niche industry, but nonetheless, one of the most powerful story telling mediums in existence. Whether reporting news events, delivering educational seminars, or product reviews, television still outperforms all other mediums in terms of its ability to communicate to mass audiences.

Essential Guide: PTP V2.1 – New Security & Monitoring For IP Broadcast Infrastructures January 27^th 2021 - 09:30 AM

Timing accuracy has been a fundamental component of broadcast infrastructures for as long as we’ve transmitted television pictures and sound. The time invariant nature of frame sampling still requires us to provide timing references with sub microsecond accuracy.

Essential Guide: HDR For Cinematography April 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

High dynamic range and wide color gamut combined with 4K resolution and progressive frame rates have catapulted broadcast television to new levels of immersive experience for the viewer. As HDR and WCG are relatively new to television, we need to both understand their application and how we monitor them to…

Essential Guide: Improving Comms With 5GHz January 15^th 2020 - 01:00 PM

As broadcasters continue to differentiate themselves through live programing and events, intercom is gaining more influence now than ever. This is especially true for large arena events where mobile crews demand the freedom of wireless connectivity. But as RF technology grows, the 2.4GHz band is becoming saturated.