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Danmon Group UK Completes Control Suite Upgrade for ITN Productions

Danmon Group UK Completes Control Suite Upgrade for ITN Productions

London, UK, September 1st, 2022: Danmon Group UK announces the completion of a studio control room upgrade for ITN at their Gray's Inn Road, London, headquarters. The project included the integration of a latest-generation production switcher, control surface and production server. Transition to the new system was completed over a single weekend to ensure continuity of the facility's daily transmission schedule.

"The ITN engineering and production teams decided to replace a legacy vision switcher and related equipment with a latest generation Ross Carbonite Black vision control platform, TouchDrive operating panel, Abekas Tria Express Duet server and Ultrix router," comments Jonathan Hughes, Danmon Group UK Head of Systems Integration. "A key challenge was the need to ensure that the upgrade could be completed without impacting the facility's normal schedule which in this case included daily news presentations plus Monday through Friday magazine shows.

"As a Ross Diamond Elite partner, we were able to design, deliver, integrate and commission a complete system plus ancillary equipment. Production requirements included the ability for the switcher to interact with the control systems. Graphic cues and spot-on audio cues are controlled directly from the vision switcher which is linked to the sound desk. The vision switcher also interfaces to Avid iNews Command automation for clip replay, allowing the production team to set up and build the shows.

"Based on our long experience of time-critical projects, we pre-installed and tested the complete system into an onsite development environment so that daily studio and control-room operations could proceed without interruption. The development area was also used for preliminary operator familiarisation.

"We were then able to perform a complete changeover on a Saturday followed by full testing and in-situ training on the Sunday prior to the new system going live on the Monday morning. Everything went fully to plan. The new infrastructure is future proof and can be upgraded from HD to UHD and SDR to HDR if or when required."

The Ross Carbonite Black vision control platform incorporates four independent media player channels which are available switcher-wide. Stills, logos and animated graphics are played out from on-board memory and can be loaded via USB storage devices. The attached TouchDrive control panel incorporates 25 crosspoint buttons on a 15.6 inch touch screen plus three mix/effects control rows. Operators can enable functions such as panel mapping without having to step through menus. Selected menus are complemented with touch gestures.

The Ross Abekas Tria Express Duet production server can store over 38 hours of HD 1080/59.94i video at 100 Mbit/s with up to eight tracks of digital audio embedded in each video channel.

Occupying 2U, the Ross Ultrix router includes 16 × 16 HD BNC plus two auxiliary I/O ports, expandable to 72 x 72. The integral Ultrimix allows routing, mixing and processing of all embedded audio inputs plus the ability to support up to 512 x 512 discrete mono audio inputs.

ITN (www.itn.co.uk) has been one of the UK's foremost television production and news organisations for over 67 years. Combining cutting-edge technology and innovation with expert story-telling flair and energy, ITN is recognised globally for its quality, integrity and creativity. ITN makes the award-winning daily news programmes for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, providing comprehensive and impartial news to the British public and reaching millions of viewers every day, as well as television production; sports; advertising; corporate films; education content; entertainment and news footage syndication; and post-production. Each year ITN produces over 650 hours of non-news unscripted content for UK and International broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, the BBC, Netflix, Discovery, Amazon and NBC. ITN's programmes have won hundreds of major awards over the last decade, including Emmy Awards, Baftas and RTS Awards. Documentaries Watani: My Homeland and For Sama were both nominated for Academy Awards.

Danmon Group UK (www.atgdanmon.co.uk), part of the Danmon Group, is an international systems integrator and a world-class supplier of broadcast systems planning, design, installation and commissioning services. Customers include some of the world’s largest television and multimedia networks. Danmon Group UK is also active in the educational and corporate sectors. The company has partnered with many clients in the construction of IT-based automated file workflow systems, high-definition studios, master control rooms and playout facilities, as well as the upgrade of existing SD systems to HD and UHD. With offices in Asia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Danmon Group (www.danmon.com) thinks globally and acts locally to support customers with its highly experienced sales and engineering teams.

Contacts for further information

Danmon Group UK: Jonathan Hughes
Email: jonathan.hughes@atgdanmon.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1462 485 444

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Hiltron Introduces HMAM LEO High Speed Motorised Tracking Antenna Mount

Hiltron Introduces HMAM LEO High Speed Motorised Tracking Antenna Mount

Accompanying image shows the new Hilton HMAM LEO high speed motorised tracking antenna mount.

Backnang, Germany, august 22nd, 2022 – Hiltron Communications, a globally active satellite system integrator, manufacturer and distributor, announces HMAM LEO, a new addition to its HMAM series of motorised antenna mounts. HMAM LEO is a complete system combining the strength, precision, smoothness of operation and internal computing capabilities necessary to monitor low Earth orbit satellites.

Based on over 10 years of Hiltron experience in designing, manufacturing and integrating motorised satellite mounts, HMAM LEO is capable of accommodating parabolic antennas of up to 2.4 metres diameter. Supported on a high-stability ground pillar, it incorporates the computing resources to track satellites using the NORAD TLE (two-line element) data format which defines satellite locations based on their location and velocity. The system can lock onto the desired LEO satellite within the approximately 10 minute timespan where the target satellite is in sight.

The HMAM LEO mount can be controlled and oriented within more than 360 degrees of azimuth and 80 degrees of elevation at the required tracking speed. All elements of the antenna control unit are accommodated inside a weatherproofed outdoor housing.

HMAM LEO systems can be specified from a wide range of options. These include a feed changer allowing the antenna to be switched between up to four microwave bands. Customers can choose between standard steel mounts designed to screw directly to a base surface, or non-penetrating mounts. Control can be performed via an integrated web interface or SNMP. Other options include de-icing, extended temperature range tolerance and increased protection from salt water.

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less, making at least 11.25 orbits per day, and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, with an altitude never more than about one-third of the radius of Earth. The LEO region is the area of space below an altitude of 2,000 km, about one-third of Earth's radius.

HMAM LEO will be make its first exhibition appearance on the Hiltron stand (1.D50) at IBC 2022 in Amsterdam, September 9th-12th.

For further requests, please contact

Jean-Luc George van Eeckhoutte
Sales Manager

jeanluc.george@hiltron.de
Tel: +49 (0) 7191 34357-27
Website: www.hiltron.de

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BRT Vietnam Commissions Expanded EditShare Storage System from Danmon Asia

BRT Vietnam Commissions Expanded EditShare Storage System from Danmon Asia

Danmon Asia announces the completion of expanded digital media storage for Ba Ria – Vung Tau Radio & Television (BRT) which broadcasts across southeastern Vietnam. Based on EditShare® technology, the newly integrated system is designed to enhance the efficiency of BRT’s workflow, increasing the station’s online storage capacity and adding automated archiving.

“We selected EditShare as our preferred storage technology some years ago,” says BRT Technical Manager Le An Thi. “It proved a good choice, expanding the creative potential of our production team. Danmon Asia partnered very effectively with us from the initial design phase and onward through implementation, system testing and staff training. The Danmon Asia team also provides fast and effective maintenance support on the rare occasion that we need it. We recently began studying the potential for automating some of the manual aspects of our production, archiving and presentation process. After researching the various products in the marketplace, we decided to expand our Editshare infrastructure into a complete solution embracing ingest, quality control, storage and editorial vetting right through to transmission. The result is very effective in accelerating our media throughput while sustaining BRT’s high content quality.”

“The expanded system we have supplied and integrated includes four EditShare EFS 300 storage nodes with a combined capacity of 640 terabytes for use in video production,” adds Danmon Asia General Director Bjarne Pedersen. “Each EFS 300 is equipped with EditShare Flow production asset management software. This gives BRTs editors fast access to file-based ingest, logging, cataloging, searching, cuts-only editing and drag-and-drop resources. We have also provided an Editshare Ark content management library incorporating LTO-8 drives which can be accessed quickly from the online servers.”

EditShare’s Flow software serves as a control layer across multiple storage pools, offering fast production tools plus highly efficient asset and metadata tracking. A single EFS 300 can support from one to eight additional storage nodes. Up to 5 Petabytes of total storage can be accommodated by adding dedicated metadata controllers and servers for Flow and Ark.

EditShare Ark allows users to backup essential media assets automatically. Unused assets can be parked in nearline disk and offline tape storage. Operators can also restore backups from nearline and offline destinations. Up to 560 LTO-8 tape slots can be supported. Ark is also compatible with third-party LTO tape libraries.

EditShare’s cloud-enabled remote editing and project management technology was recently recognised by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a prestigious 2021 Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering.

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Join Us at NAB 2022

Join Us at NAB 2022

We'll be at booth #C5018 in Central Hall and are looking forward to seeing you if you attend the show.

If you plan to attend, but have not registered yet, we have a code that you can apply during the registration process, which will grant you free access to the exhibition side of the convention (normal price $159). Please use code 'LV73589' when you register here...

At the booth, you can experience our AD/DA/DD conversion, expansion options, audio-routing and audio control solutions first hand and get a clear idea of just how you can use it to built a stellar and extremely flexible broadcast audio infrastructure from scratch - or expand and take your existing one to the next level across 3G SDI, Dante, MADI, AES and Analog audio streams.

The NAB 2022 Show takes place from 23-27 April, but the 23rd is a conference day only. The exhibition halls open on the 24th:

Sun 24 Apr: 10am - 6pm
Mon 25 Apr: 9am - 6pm
Tues 26 Apr: 9am - 6pm
Wed 27 Apr: 9am - 2pm

Booth #C5018, Central Hall
Las Vegas Convention Center
3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
United States

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TRR | 4K Hybrid Studio Production Solution

TRR | 4K Hybrid Studio Production Solution

TRR wanted to increase the production quality for all connected employees and members and wanted a future secured scalable easy operated high-end turnkey system solution.

RR offers expert assistance to redundant white-collar staff, employers and trade union representatives in the private sector and they do regular TV productions, interactive digital meetings, such as panel discussions and informational educational videos both onsite in their studio and as a request to be available remotely with interactive digital meeting produciton possibility.

Fredrik Fejde, responsible for this project explains: TRR media production is based on two studios as well as outdoor environment production and is controlled from one control room in Stockholm city in order to make interactive media production on the TRR streaming platform for various alliance unions, unemployed etc. which are connected to TRR.

The system solution is based on Panasonic 4K UE150 PTZ cameras and Panasonic ENG camera and Technopoint rail solution. Sennheiser wireless audio, Yamaha TF1 Audio Console with Dante stageboxes and  Blackmagic 8K Constellation switcher to act both as a switcher and router and even partial audio mixing.

FX Blue graphics system, simple graphics system for both designer and operator.

Distribution of SDI and network prepared for 12G based on Blackmagic 12G Optical Fiber converters with SFPs.

Most of the system will be controlled via macros on a StreamDeck panel to simplify production workflow for the operator.

Additional Quicklink STS410 hybrid switcher has been installed to create digitial interactive high-end meetings and productions possible with many simultaneosly participants with high-end both video and audio production at very low latency.

Pre-screen, control and manage guest participants in a conferencing room with additional participants that can view and listen to the live program in a virtual waiting room. This powerful hybrid switcher also includes the power of the cloud with custom overlays, as well as streaming and professional hardware broadcast outputs.

By slowly moving your PTZ camera sideways, you create a whole new depth in the image.

TRR wanted to increase the professional feeling in its productions by adding camera movement sideways. Panasonic Tuning became the solution.

Tuning is a robotic system that adds movement of PTZ cameras with motorized dollies and telescopic columns.

Tuning is fully integrated with Panasonic's PTZ cameras, in this case the AW-UE150 and controller AW-RP150.

The heart of the camera movement system is the Tuning S software and "Presets" can be easily created and recalled, so that the camera movement (Pan / Tilt / Zoom) is synchronized with the movement of the column and dolly.

The system is designed for one-man operation and thanks to a touch screen and a user-friendly interface based on thumbnails and keyframes, the operation is simple and secure.

This will possible be blueprinted as a solution for TRR and other locations in Sweden in the future. The project is done by Danmon Group Sweden AB and Foxway Sverige.

Kontakta Fredrik Fejde for mer information på +46 8544 76 440 eller E-mail: fredrik.fejde@danmon.com

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Penta 720 at Abbey Road Studios’ Atmos and IMAX Mix Stage

Penta 720 at Abbey Road Studios' Atmos and IMAX Mix Stage

Gentofte, November 17th , 2021 – A few years ago, Abbey Road Studios launched their new Dolby Atmos mixing stage, and as part of the solution you will find Penta 720 interfaces, as well as DAD AX32. 

At the core of the solution are 8 Pro Tools systems, and with 4K projection and 44 custom-made Dynaudio speakers, clients can mix all elements including music, dubbing and special effects in a variety of formats including Atmos and IMAX.


Also central to the solution is a hybrid Neve DFC 3D and Avid S6 console, and under the surface, AX32 along with 6 NTP Technology Penta 720 units equipped with MADI, AES and Dante I/O cards play key roles in the audio-routing and distribution side of things.

During the entire project of designing and building this impressive mixing stage, several suppliers were involved. One of the significant partners were our UK distributor, HHB, who among other things delivered a 40-fader Avid S6 console, 8 Pro Tools HDX rigs with Apple Mac Pro computers, a comprehensive library of plug-ins, 6 NTP Penta 720 interfaces , 4 Bricasti M7 reverb processors and a TC Electronic Film 6000 processor.

HHB, Pro Audio Sales Manager Matthew Fletcher comments: “What Abbey Road has achieved with the new Mix Stage is truly impressive, and we’re proud to have helped Simon and the team realise their original vision for this exceptional film sound mixing facility.”

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