Axon?s Cerebrum provides routing control for Open Golf Championship

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Axon s Cerebrum provides routing control for Open Golf Championship --

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:07

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Cerebrum, Axon Digital Designs customisable control and monitoring system, played a significant part in helping CTV Outside Broadcast deliver a much smoother service to its broadcast customers during this years Open Golf Championship in St. Andrew s, Scotland. For the second year running, CTV was responsible for live mobile production services for both IMG Media/ESPN and The Golf Channel. To meet the demands for wider coverage, the team drew on lessons learnt in 2014 to improve the workflow and established Cerebrum as the nerve centre for routing control for this year s event.

Hamish Greig, CTV OBs technical director, says, Due to the scale of this production and the increased number of sources and destinations, particularly on the ESPN side, we needed to simplify the operation and make it more manageable. We worked hard to improve the flow of information on the technical front, and brought Axons Cerebrum into the heart of the workflow to support us. It s perfectly suited to this complex production environment and gave us much smoother control over elements such as tally, UMD and cameras. It truly was the nerve centre of the production.

Live broadcasts, especially complex productions that involve a fleet of Outside Broadcast vehicles, benefit hugely from an always on control and monitoring system that can deliver comprehensive system management in an easy and operator-friendly way. By linking together all the main broadcast equipment from major manufacturers, Cerebrums advanced functionality and broad range of features simplifies multi device control onto one easy-to-use interface. It supports a wide range of devices including routers, production switchers, servers, audio desks, camera control units, receiver decoders, multiviewers and waveform monitors using either Simple Network Management Protocol or third party protocols.

CTV has equipped two of its OB trucks with Cerebrum and both of these vehicles were integral to the production of the championship at St Andrew s. Primarily, we used Cerebrum for tally, UMD and multi-viewer control and monitoring, remote colour balance and the control of both the bunker cameras and the Panasonic pan and tilt cameras, Greig explains. In total, the system supported 80 external sources, each individually pre-set on the panel. This meant that just one operator was able to manage set-ups, signal routes, QC, tally and multi viewers in a very smooth and efficient way. Cerebrum enabled our engineer to achieve tasks in minutes that previously would have taken hours to complete that s impressive.

Adrian Richmond, Axon s director of sales UK and Africa, says CTV OB is just one of a number of broadcast companies that are realising the benefits that Cerebrum can bring to their productions. The Open is a great example of how Cerebrum can make light work of large, complex events by integrating seamlessly with other technology, providing reliable, scalable and flexible control and monitoring, simplifying workflow and significantly reducing the workload, he says.

Cerebrum s recent installations including Indonesias 24-hour news channel Metro TV and News UK, which has installed Cerebrum in its state-of-the-art broadcast facilities in London. Now that the Open is over for another year, CTV will be deploying Cerebrum with its OB3 to deliver coverage of the Barclays Premier League football season for BBC s The Match of the Day.

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