AJA Video Technology Converts Signals For 'Conan'

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Feb 11, 2011 4:48 PM

With their live-to-tape uncover mandate varying probably every day, producers and organisation is to "Conan" uncover on TBS have to attend to varying problems involving monitoring, computers, new camera feeds and infrequently even video element that guest bring onto the show. A considerable complement of AJA Video mini-converters is used to adapt whatever needs arise.

The one-hour accumulation uncover is shot in front of a live college of music assembly in Burbank, CA. While the uncover is prerecorded, it's constructed and edited as if it were live since the East Coast feed is transmitted a hour after taping wraps. The uncover uses more than 90 mini-converters, inclusive the AJA Hi5, HA5, HD10CEA, HD10C2 and HD10DA products.

Chris Savage, lead camera application on "Conan," mentioned the greatest gain of using AJA mini-converters is their portability.

"Being able to block and unplug, and not have to go to a shelve or furthermore to other office building to vegetable patch and downconvert or reclock, is a outrageous advantage," Savage said.

In the studio, there are more than a dozen 60in LCD monitors mounted on top of the assembly in the seating area. The theatre was primarily written to run an SD vigilance to those monitors, but in production, the feed interfered with fluorescent lighting on theatre and caused a hurl in the picture. The uncover incited to AJA Hi5 mini-converters to modify the HD-SDI vigilance to HDMI to expostulate an HD feed of the module on the monitors. The Hi5s supposing a quick, easy and cost-effective answer that was simply integrated with the existing prolongation infrastructure.

For the show's "Conan Video Blog" segments, the AJA HA5 mini-converter is used to lift a video vigilance from a laptop used in the broadcast. AJA KONA 3 and KONA LHi takeover cards are also used as segment of the show's Apple Final Cut Pro modifying workflow, and AJA VTR Xchange software is used for remote rug manage around the KONA card's RS-422 interface.

The rigging was commissioned in a new prolongation college of music built on Stage 15 on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank. Systems integrator Keycode Media written and commissioned all post-production systems is to project, inclusive modifying and server systems (including a Grass Valley K2 SAN, Apple Final Cut formation and Chyron graphics). NEP Broadcasting commissioned multi-part Grass Valley K2 media servers, 3 K2 Summit prolongation customers running ChannelFlex, 3 K2 Dyno replay controllers on a K2 prolongation SAN, a K2 Dyno prolongation helper and a 180 x 256 Trinix NXT router.