ToolsOnAir Plays Critical Role in 59 Eurovision Song Contest

just:live used for real time graphics at red carpet opening ceremony

ToolsOnAir Plays Critical Role in 59th Eurovision Song Contest

Copenhagen - May 6th 2014

Its song contest week as Copenhagen plays host to the 59th Eurovision Song Contest. In the largest song contest in the world, artists from 37 European countries are competing for the title that will be decided in the final round on May 10th.

The week got off to a grand start on Sunday evening. At the red carpet opening ceremony broadcast live from the Copenhagen City Hall Square ToolsOnAir played an integral part in ensuring that the initial broadcast was a success.

Working from OB vans, ToolsOnAir partner Best Broadcast Hire used ToolsOnAir just:live production software to streamline the playout of artist interviews and video clips. In live interviews with each contest direct from the red carpet, lower thirds with artist information were integrated in real time with the video feed. This was then simultaneously broadcast live and streamed over the web.

In discussing his decision to use ToolsOnAir Michael Krautwald Technical Director of Best Broadcast Hire stated: We chose to work with ToolsOnAir products in our OB-van setup, because of their straightforward approach to live production needs, their swift setup times, their great support and the stability of their applications.

In talking about the functionality of just:live Georg Deisting, product manager for playout solutions at ToolsOnAir commented: just:live delivers the high-quality video and audio playout you expect from a professional broadcast environment. Our integrated playout engine provides supreme quality and back-to-back playout of mixed codecs, aspect ratios, pixel sizes and field orders. On top of that, interactive real-time graphics can be used to display live source-data (i.e. news tickers, stock exchange, weather feeds). The tight integration with composition:builder, our graphics template creation tool, enables pre-produced templates on top of the video layer, allowing content changes to be made during playout and delivered in real-time.

Stay tuned to the Eurovision Song contest this week and the great real time graphics being brought to you by ToolsOnAir.

To learn more about ToolsOnAir please visit http://www.toolsonair.com

To learn more about Best Broadcast Hire please visit http://www.bestbroadcasthire.com

To learn more about the EuroVision Song Contest please visit http://www.eurovision.tv

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