Allbritton Communications Standardizes On JVC ProHD For News

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Apr 14, 2011 8:00 AM

Allbritton Communications in Arlington, VA, is standardizing on JVC ProHD cameras for college of music and ENG work at 6 of its ABC associate stations. The new cameras are segment of an on the whole passing from one to another to local HD headlines prolongation for all stations in the group.

Jim Church, executive of technology, mentioned Allbritton began formulation to ascent its services to HD two years ago and outlayed roughly 5 months researching and contrast cameras. "We had definite things that you indispensable from our cameras; you had definite workflows in mind," mentioned Church.
The hire organisation has purchased 25 college of music cameras and 107 ENG cameras, inclusive GY-HM790U and GY-HM750U shoulder-mount models, together with about 10 condensed handheld GY-HM100Us. The cameras are being distributed to WHTM-TV portion Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA; WCFT/WJSU/WBMA in Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa, AL; KATV in Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AK; KTUL in Tulsa, OK; WSET-TV in Roanoke-Lynchburg, VA; and WCIV in Charleston, SC. In its studios, Allbritton will link up its GY-HM790U cameras around fiber, avoiding the need for triax and extra bundled cables.

Church longed for to sustain an MPEG-2 record format, and the Allbritton stations were already built around a 35Mb/s workflow. JVC's ProHD format supposing 19Mb/s and 35Mb/s workflow options that worked with the existing IT infrastructures.

JVC's use of nonproprietary SDHC cards was a key value of the ProHD cameras, since the cards offer roughly concept access. The new cameras moreover offering local record recording for Adobe Premiere Pro, that was already in use throughout the hire group. With no fritter away time ingesting or transcoding footage, the new cameras give a ample more effective workflow.
The new JVC camcorders are well matched to the varying headlines mood at Allbritton and other hire groups, mentioned Church. "Most of our stations already had one-man crews with multimedia journalists," he said. "JVC's workflow embraced it."

"They gave us the skill to have a lightweight camera that any person can hoop - and SD cards that you could use in any laptop, that authorised the multimedia reporters to amend in the margin on a laptop and feed the element back around FTP," he said.

See JVC at 2011 NAB Show counter C4314.