Red Bee Media Powers and Supports Remote Production for Canal+ During Cannes Film Festival 2019

Red Bee Media Powers and Supports Remote Production for Canal During Cannes Film Festival 2019 posted: 01/08/2019

CANAL were keen to use remote production in their operations during the Cannes Film Festival 2019; broadcasting shows from TV Festival , managing all post-production for the CANAL Group in Cannes and providing all opening and closing ceremonies at the festival to international broadcasters

Red Bee Media facilitated and supported higher-quality workflows for 32 feed remote production with an optimized contribution network platform in order to remotely produce their coverage of the Cannes Film Festival - May 14-25, 2019 using the V-Nova P.Link equipment.

V-Nova P.Link, powered by PERSEUS Pro, enabled low-latency, frame-synchronized HD feeds at significantly lower bitrates compared to JPEG-2000 solutions

The solution from Red Bee Media and V-Nova, enabled CANAL to send higher-quality video at a reduced bandwidth and achieved feeds with frame-accurate sync. In reducing the bandwidth required for linear feeds, CANAL were also able to transfer edit packages between Cannes and Paris significantly faster than in previous years.

Reliable transmissions are mandatory to properly operate remote production from Paris; latency compression is key, says Ralph Atlan, Broadcast CTO at CANAL . We delegated this part of the workflow to the V-Nova solution delivered and supported by Red Bee Media.

Remote production is becoming increasingly important for broadcasters and media companies in order to provide high-quality coverage of live events , says David Travis, Chief Portfolio Officer, Video Services at Red Bee Media. Through the solution we deployed together with V-Nova, we were able to provide CANAL with a more efficient and higher-quality remote production workflow and we are proud of having taken part in delivering this high-profile event to their audiences.

Red Bee Media offered on-site support to setup and commission the platform and provided 24/7 support for CANAL throughout the festival.

During the 11-day festival, CANAL distributed a total of 32 live video feeds. 20 of those feeds were delivered from the Cannes red carpet to the CANAL central facility in Paris, and 12 feeds were operated from Paris directly back to Cannes.

About Red Bee Media

Red Bee Media is a leading global media services company with a staff of more than 2500 media service and broadcast experts. With the head office in London, UK, Red Bee Media provides services from 11 main hubs around the world. Every day, millions of people on all continents watch television programs prepared, managed and broadcast by Red Bee Media staff. Every year, the business delivers 4 million hours of programming in more than 60 languages for over 500 TV channels. Red Bee Media's OTT services include live transcoding of 233 channels for broadcasters and 119 standalone channels provided to 1.7 million subscribers. The company's content discovery portfolio spans more than 10 million movies and program titles, covering over 25 languages, and includes an image database with over 90 percent of all programming available across traditional TV, VOD and SVOD. Red Bee Media also provides over 200,000 hours of captioning each year - more than 70,000 hours of which is live. Red Bee Media is an equal opportunity employer, with a clear focus on embracing diversity and creating an inclusive workplace throughout the entire organization.

About V-Nova

V-Nova Ltd. is a London-headquartered technology company providing next-generation compression solutions that address the ever-growing media processing and delivery challenges. V-Nova provides solutions spanning the entire media delivery chain, including content production, contribution, storage and distribution to end users. V-Nova's award-winning PERSEUS is the only cross-media codec format and delivers on the promises of next-generation image and video compression, today. Using PERSEUS technology, media and entertainment companies can now monetise unmet consumer demand for higher definition video everywhere, on existing devices and infrastructure, by a simple software upgrade.

The PERSEUS technology works in 2 ways: PERSEUS Pro is an Intra codec for mathematically lossless and visually lossless professional production, contribution and imaging workflows. PERSEUS Plus is a temporal codec designed to enhance a base codec such as H.264, HEVC or AV1, adding additional layers of detail for unbeatable distribution efficiency to consumers.

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