NINE Network go for VSM for new Adelaide facility posted: 04/11/2015
NINE Networks' new purpose built facility in the South Australian capital Adelaide employed a large VSM system to be used for overall control within the newly built facility. Professional Audio & Television, L-S-B's exclusive distribution partner, supplied, configured, and commissioned the system.
L-S-B's Virtual Studio Manager sits at the heart of Channel Nine's new facility in Piere Street as the primary control plane to centralise and streamline facility-wide control. It interconnects with all of the sites primary broadcast systems such as the Imagine Communications Platinum router fitted with SX Pro multiviewers, Grass Valley K-Frame Karrera production switcher, RTS ADAM-M intercom matrix, VizRT's Mosart Automation, IHSE Draco Terra KVM, Imagine Communications X100 and 6800 series gear, Ross Opengear's UDC modular cards and LAWO VPRO8's.
The ability to integrate such a diverse range of products into a centralised and manufacturer agnostic control plane speeds up operational workflows and allows for more time to be spent on content production. NINE's new VSM system offers operational workflow optimisation including Virtual signal paths, Pseudo Rules, Facility wide label exchange, Gadget Control, Alarm management, Scheduling and Storage groups.
A simple example of where the synergy between all the systems comes together was in Master Control. Processing of inbound signals via Lawo V_Pro8's became simplified into a single page of the VSM panel offering the parameters that NINE needed at their fingertips such as: Frame Sync's, Format Conversion, Embedding, De-embedding, RGBY Proc Amp control, and up to 8 frames of delay and indents. VSM streamlines operations by simply routing any processing channel to black, and therefore resetting the entire Proc Amp ready for its next use. Similar workflows were achieved in the control room with delegation lines being able to disconnect hybrids and reset Intercom gains upon switching a delegation line to black.
Through VSM's centralised control plane, VSM offered the NINE Network a centralised control position for a Talent Operated Studio (TOS) to the point that the entire studio could be setup with a single button press by the talent. Building on advanced studio control principles, VSM was also setup to operate Ross OpenGear UDC cards as a standby vision mixer via VSM that would switch synchronous with the Grass Valley K-Frame via Mosart. The advantage of using VSM in this application was that it removed the need for expensive standby vision switchers, while still offering expanded input selection and DSK control from the Co-Pilot's seat via either a touchscreen or a hardware panel.
Nine Adelaides Kate Collins and Brenton Raglass
When NINE began talks with Professional Audio & Television and L-S-B in Germany, the requirement was also outlined to control the new facilities Dante over IP networks through traditional XY style router panels. L-S-B agreed to implement Dante IP network control to its ever-growing list of over 300 integrated protocols. The ability to integrate baseband and IP routing workflows of both video and audio, along with parameter controls, makes for a truly future-proofed control layer where the operator becomes detached from the engineering complexities in a cutting edge broadcast system.
NINE Network's Technology Manager in Adelaide, Don Dyson recalls VSM, through PAT, have been very proactive in assisting us with product development so we've ended up with a system that can be used throughout the Nine Network. PAT have good local expertise which has been crucial to developing a system from the ground up for our new station that suits our operational and technology requirements. This has been a new system to us and as our needs and expertise grow we can see VSM becoming more central to our day to day operations. He continues, As I look back over building our new facility, I believe we could not have achieved what we have, in the timeline we had, without VSM. VSM have certainly provided us with a way forward in both control and monitoring of our studio facilities, and it has become pivotal to the running of our site. As VSM is installed at other Nine sites around Australia, I see VSM being a network integration tool that will enable us to have better control and monitoring, both locally and remotely of facilities.
L-S-B Broadcast Technologies GmbH, Wiesbaden (Germany), is the leading manufacturer of control systems for radio and television production. The company's core product is the IP-based Virtual Studio Manager (VSM), a universal control system. As a single-source solution, VSM works independently of any single manufacturer and thus represents a flexible and powerful answer to technical challenges in the fields of production and broadcasting.
Founded in 2003, L-S-B Broadcast Technologies can draw on an excellent worldwide sales network. A staff of 35 at Head Office in Wiesbaden is responsible for management, project implementation, services and software and hardware development.
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NINE Network go for VSM for new Adelaide facility posted: 04/11/2015 
