Qvest Media supplies Winter Games 2018 in South Korea
ARD and ZDF used the equipment we supplied to set up a live production platform specially designed for the requirements of live sports production and collaborative work using a robust systems architecture, fast and intuitive production workflows and high levels of data redundancy and availability.
The production platform in detail
In essence, we contributed completing components for a live ingest and playout installation, a post-production environment with non-linear craft editing workplaces for audio and video processing, a central storage system as well as multiviewer systems for production control and transcoder engines for format conversion. Furthermore, ARD and ZDF were able to access a turnkey system from Qvest Media for real-time graphics.
Central ingest, highlight editing and playout were performed with an EVS installation comprising EVS IP Director, XT Access Ultra High Performance systems as well as 25 EVS XT production servers with Multicam Software. In order to increase the production performance of the installation, we invested in four new XT4K-generation EVS systems, further extending our pool of live production servers of this vendor.
Already in the run-up to the Winter Games, we supplied ZDF with a comprehensive Avid Interplay system for permanent integration with their mobile production unit (MPU). File ingest into the Avid environment is effected via XT Access from the EVS network.
In order to further optimise the file-based workflow between audio and video editing, ZDF opted for an integrated Avid solution here as well. So, it was for the first time that Qvest Media equipped the broadcaster for the Winter Games with Pro Tools HD and an Avid S6 console for language synchronisation and film audio editing.
Following the Winter Games 2018, the equipment remained another month in Pyeongchang, where it was used for the Paralympics.
Technical Information
ARD/ZDF
Pyeongchang, South Korea
12/2017 – 03/2018
Professional Products, Rental Solutions & Services
- Integrated Solutions (Extract)
- IP Director
- XT4K Production server
- XT Access Ultra High Perfomance Systeme
- Interplay-System
- NEXIS E4 Engines
- S6 Console
- Pro Tools HD
- Artist Digital Matrix Intercom Platform
- Viz Artist & Trio
- Multiviewer-System 3067VIPX
- Highspeed Formatkonverter Alchemist & Kudos
- Manufacturer / Supplier
- EVS
- EVS
- EVS
- Avid
- Avid
- Avid
- Avid
- Riedel
- Vizrt
- Evertz
- SAM