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UK Facility Molinare and Production Company VTV have been using a revolutionary PictureReady! based infrastructure for highlights editorial for ITV's coverage of the Tour De France. Peter Wiggins & James Venner joined forces with UK Dealer Root 6 and Molinare to design and install the system which includes the largest XSan in Soho, The system is used to capture 3 live satellite feeds with timecode for 8 hours per day directly into QuickTime DVCPro50 using PictureReady!. These files are immediately available on the XSan for FCP or VirtualVTR/9100 editorial - less than 5 seconds after capture begins, without stopping the recording. As the day proceeds, the QuickTime movies automatically grow dynamically inside the FCP browser. Finished packages are reloaded to the server as rendered or reference movies, and can then be played to air directly from the XSan using VirtualVTR.
The XSan server was also pre-loaded with highlights footage of several previous year's Tour De France coverage, making the entire palette of source material, past and present instantly accessible in DVCPro50 format via Fibre. Apple Article on Le Tour De France |
The UK Tour De France coverage required a sophisticated collaborative infrastructure, ready to deliver a highlights show each evening based on the day's events, plus additional weekly roundup and special shows.
TOUR DE FRANCE SAN INFRA-STRUCTURE PictureReady! is highly scalable, and equally suited to a much smaller version of the same system which was used by Studio-71 for the German TV highlights, operating out of an OB vehicle following the race with 2 x XServe PictureReady! systems, 1 x XServe Raid and 1 x G5 Final Cut Pro Edit Station connected via Ethernet to the PictureReady! recorders. |
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