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Channel 4 Playout Red Bee Media CASE STUDY Channel 4 Playout Red Bee Media Summary Red Bee Broadcast Centre in White City, London is dedicated to providing a centralised playout facility for UK broadcasters. Custom built in 2003, its clients include the BBC and BBCHD, Channel Five, Virgin Media and Channel 4. One of the IDS displays in the new playout facility. The brief In 2009, Red Bee Media won the contract to host the playout services for Channel 4 and its family of channels including Film 4, E4 and More4. To fulfil the operational requirements, a large new central playout area was commissioned, supplemented by two reactive playout suites, each with an associated continuity booth with a third continuity booth situated outside the main area. We were asked to install an IDS system that met two main requirements: 1. Provide a visual link between network directors in the various playout positions and continuity announcers in their isolated booths. 2. Develop an IDS interface for the Snell Morpheus automation system to derive and display relevant next-event count-down information for in excess of 20 simultaneous channels. CASE STUDY What is IDS? The Network Director’s playout screen showing live streams from two continuity booths and a Continuity IDS is an extendable, network-based Announcer’s screen with visual link to Playout. control and display system designed specifically for the broadcast industry. The solution Consisting of dedicated software and Providing the visual link between the network directors in playout and the isolated hardware devices that use a standard TCP/IP backbone, IDS can be scaled continuity announcers was a straightforward exercise using our configuration software, to suit any installation, delivering IDS Core. anything from simple timing and tally IDS hardware consisted of six Axis IP cameras, each with an associated 24” IDS information to complex station-wide control functionality via networked display, an IDS Squid and a server running IDS Core. The system used a dedicated VLAN displays and intuitive touchscreens. on the Channel 4 playout IT infrastructure. It integrates with essential broadcast Each display screen was designed using IDS Core to suit its particular application. For equipment, interfaces with third example, the screen in the main playout position was more complex than in other party control, automation and areas, as the director needed to be simultaneously monitoring multiple channels with playout systems, controls cameras, contributions from two different continuity booths. DMX lighting, mixers and many other common devices; while its In addition to the video streams, typical display elements included a high resolution intuitive software enables simple user analogue clock, tally lights and a count-down to next event. configuration and workflow changes. A seventh IDS display was positioned by the door of a third continuity booth, which was remote from the main Channel 4 playout area. As this was a shared area with other clients, it provided additional programme status information derived from the automation system. The interface developed for the Snell Morpheus automation system allowed IDS to derive and display next-event count-down information, collecting the relevant information from the Channel 4 MOS server using an XML protocol. This presented quite a challenge as Channel 4 is responsible for the playout of over 20 individual transmission streams, each of which can playout from any network desk position and be working to one or more of the three live continuity booths. Lobby screen IPE Products, Saxon Way, Melbourn, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DN, UK tel: +44 (0)1763 269066 • email: [email protected] • www.ipe-products.com.
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