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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Every year we carry a local Blue Santa parade.  This parade is actually a toy drive for under-privileged children.  It is by far the largest remote production that we do, six cameras…three on the set, one in a crane, a wired camera on the street, and an RF camera on the street…multiple mics, IFB’s, intercoms, and more wireless gear than I care to mention.
Historically, we have covered this event with analog cameras, used analog frame syncs and a GVG 100 switcher.  This year, we were able to use our Sony 270 digital cameras…thanks to Ensemble Designs.
We brought the cameras back to production (SD-SDI) and used Ensemble’s 8500’s to time them and get handles on the levels.  The SDI outputs of the 8500’s were sent to a Ross digital production switcher, the analog outputs were used for monitoring.  The output of the production switcher was then sent to a final 8500 where we embedded the analog audio from the production mixer.  We sent two SD-SDI streams (primary and backup) with embedded audio to our microwave truck for transmission back to our station.  Pure digital from the camera to the viewer…pretty cool!!!
A couple of things that I found note worthy…
On the 8500’s I started with the timing and proc settings at ‘default’.  A couple of clicks vertically brought the cameras in time within ½ horizontal line.  With the procs set for ‘default’ the cameras matched PERFECTLY!  Switching between all 6 cameras (on bars) was completely seamless.  No timing shift, no level shift, nothing…nada.  In fact, switching was practically undetectable on the waveform monitor!  In years past, I would spend more than an hour trying to get cameras to match and would usually have to sacrifice quality just to get them in the ballpark.  Looks like those days are gone!!  Woohoo!!!
One last thing...because of bandwidth restrictions, we can not send HD over our microwave path.  We shot this event in SD-SDI (anamorphic) and at the station we up-converted to 1080i, corrected the aspect ratio to 16x9, and de-embedded the audio...all with a single Ensemble 7910.
Thanks Ensemble for such awesome products!  Not only did you shave at least an hour off my setup time…our on-air product was better this year that it has ever been.  Now, to get those microwave trucks upgraded to HD….

PL Laird
Engineering Technical Manager
KEYE TV
Austin, TX]]></content>
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