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Solution TVN decided for equipment from Rohde & Schwarz DVS: VENICE is an ingest and production server for When TVN went looking for a perfect solution for highly optimized TV production workflows. Broad- its two newly set up studios, the broadcaster was casters deciding to migrate from a tape-based to a specifically asking for a solution that would offer file-based environment have trustfully turned to supreme multi-format capabilities. VENICE already. The new TV production workflows Being such a large facility, TVN handles the ingest generated by VENICE offer considerable time savings from several different sources, e.g. live cameras, and allow broadcasters to respond more quickly and studio cameras, studio stream, live signal, VTR, editing flexibly in their current and future broadcast operations. workstations – just to name a few. Of course, these This is possible because VENICE exceeds classic come along with different file formats. This is a video server functionalities by far. Rohde & Schwarz challenge most broadcasters are very well aware of. DVS’s ingest and production server allows TV stations TVN produces several major shows – e.g. Polish and broadcasters to excel in all required media versions of “Who wants to be a millionaire” or “The operations: VENICE is able to ingest, transfer and X Factor” and takes great pride in delivering high- transform media and then to play it out. The keys quality news and a current affairs program to more to its success are VENICE’s ease of use, its than 30 million viewers. Thus, redundancy of its infrastructure was a clear must-have. Moreover, the central ingest had to be equipped with some additional systems that would allow the staff at TVN to operate more freely. Flexibility was the keyword here. In order to manage all the equipment and the planned new channels, TVN was also keen on a monitoring device that would clearly display all necessary data to facilitate its busy work schedule.

2 Case study TVN in Poland: Studio production multi-connectivity and its capability to handle all allows for easy integration and flexible system arrange- these assignments beyond the boundaries of pro- ments – in the beginning and in the future as well. prietary solutions, formats and codecs. TVN’s main studio was equipped with two VENICE, At TVN, first, four VENICE systems were installed in each of them with 6 TB. Here, VENICE is responsible the two separate studios. After successfully working for both ingest and playout. When playing out, with the systems from Rohde & Schwarz DVS, another VENICE is used as the main source. The second set of two VENICE was added to TVN’s central ingest. VENICE then acts as redundant signal source. In total, six VENICE systems (i.e. 12 freely configurable When the studio is used as production environment, channels) were implemented in TVN’s sophisticated VENICE processes the ingest files from all available workflows. VENICE’s structure and integrated features cameras. The redundancy concept here is very suc- were very attractive to TVN – e.g. using VENICE as cessful, granting high flexibility and security. a VTR with intelligent batch ingest features. This set of VENICE and its assigned tasks is mirrored TVN was especially charmed with the in a second studio with an identical setup of control Rohde & Schwarz DVS’s philosophy of openness that room and cameras.

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3 Case study TVN in Poland: Studio production

Description All VENICE systems are connected via 10 Gigabit/ Ethernet for high data throughput and via 1 Gigabit/ Ethernet for control. Together with SDI connections this grants maximum flexibility and security. This, too, can be seen in TVN’s central ingest. Here several systems are allocated, e.g. VTRs, card TVN clearly benefitted from VENICE’s main ideas: readers, a QC system, and, of course, the live signal. being open, flexible and future-ready, Poland’s leading Two VENICE systems were implemented here with TV station was able to run an easy integration with major tasks: VENICE, optimize its complex workflows and to profit from the redundancy idea put into practice. The file- ı Ingest files from cameras based workflows in question are now running with ı Ingest all other files, e.g. external material state-of-the-art equipment and grant TVN the flexibility via USB or cards and security they were looking for in the first place.

ı Transcoding Benefits ı Tape recording (ingest from VTR) ı Multi-format capability ı Recording of live programs ∙ Simulcast: SD/HD operation in parallel ı Recording of incoming live feeds ∙ Integrated hardware scaler for real-time up- and downscaling ı Recording of studio production isolated cameras ∙ Simultaneous proxy file generation Again, TVN benefits from the flexibility of the Rohde & Schwarz DVS systems: VENICE allows for ı Numerous formats easy integration thanks to its connectivity options. ∙ All relevant broadcast codecs such as Sony Moreover VENICE enables TVN operators to freely XDCAM® HD, Panasonic AVC-Ultra, Avid DNx- switch between tasks, codecs and formats. The HD®, Apple ProRes, MPEG-2, etc. engineers in TVN’s central ingest are able to decide if they want to use additional channels – e.g. from ∙ Numerous file formats like MXF OP-Atom, MXF the VENICE systems in either studio 1 or studio 2. OP-1a, QuickTime®, TGA, TIF, DPX file sequences Having the same systems placed at both studio and ∙ Alpha channel support central ingests allows staff to switch between workplaces easily – allowing TVN to run its staff ı Sophisticated and comfortable multi-viewer very efficiently. software: Concise monitoring of all available VENICE channels and their status When accessing up to 12 channels operators need a good overview. This is why TVN decided for ı Easy to use: User interface with comprehensive Rohde & Schwarz DVS’s new multi-viewer application feature set (playlists, data management, transcoding) VENICE View. Being part of the VENICE software, ı Flexibility: Complete openness to storage VENICE View provides TVN with the possibility architecture to monitor video overlay, channel name and status. Moreover, timecode information as well as audio ı Easy integration into existing infrastructures peakmeter of every connected VENICE video channel thanks to complete openness to heterogeneous is available as well. environments

4 About Rohde & Schwarz DVS For more than 25 years, Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH has been very successful in the profes- sional lm, video post production and broadcast markets. The specially developed and manufactured hardware and software are applied to the pro- duction of popular TV series, Holly wood block- busters and in Digital Cinema. R&S®CLIPSTER was the rst system in the world to make real- time 4K processing possible. The future-proof in- gest and production server R&S®VENICE o ers a  exible solution for modern, le-based work-  ows in broadcast environments. www.dvs.de

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