Engineering - Talent Showdown

Talent Showdown:
This is a pre-recorded programme (due to be shot on the 28th March) and the producers have asked for a hand with the flyaway and the rig. The plan is to build the flyaway at Coopers Technology College from which they can shoot their pre-recorded content, this will then be posted online for a viewer vote which dictates which "talent" will perfrom during Rave Live at Matter.
We accompanied them on a site visit last week to see what would be required. In order to minimise the fuss we are aiming to keep this as simple as possible, a basic 4 camera rig with a vision mixer, 2 VT Decks and monitoring. While on the site visit we drew up the rough system diagram shown below to give us a better idea of what we would need.


Several points arose during these initial planning stages:

• We would need to provide an SPG to keep everything genlocked

• The cable runs to the cameras were around 100m, this would have to be done over coax as the only cameras available were DSR500's and 570's, we now need to find out whether these are digital out or composite out, this would dictate the nature of the entire flyaway.

• Would we take both the monitoring and TX feed from the cameras (requiring twice as many cable runs) or would we just run the signals through a DA before the vision mixer thus eliminating the need for these cable runs.

Other than these points the rig should not be too difficult, as such we have notified the rest of the engineers and are waiting to see whether anyone would be willing to plan and then rig this show by the 26th March.