Category Archives: Broadcast Engineering

Avid ingest without Avid

For many of our users, real time video capture or ingest into an avid shared storage environment is a pressing problem that has typically been quite difficult to solve.  If you are running a so called “rigged camera show”  where … Continue reading

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root6′s SI team off to Lagos

Engineers from the Systems Integration arm of root6 will travel to Nigeria in January to commission the installation and provide training at a new facility in Lagos, set up to digitise the extensive tape archive for the state broadcaster. The … Continue reading

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Graded Index fibre optics

In fibre optics, a graded-index or gradient-index fibre is an optical fibre whose core has a refractive index that decreases with increasing radial distance from the fibre axis (the imaginary central axis running down the length of the fibre). Because … Continue reading

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Extending Sony 8-pin camera remotes

How far can the camera control signals from any smaller Sony camera go? If you talk to Mr Sony it’s around 50m (the longest cable they sell) – but as the pictures (below) suggest it’s at least the length of … Continue reading

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Tektronix WVR5200

During a manic day I was fortunate enough to bump into my old Tektronix mucker Tom Perry who had a new WVR5200 in his rucksack and gave me a quick in-the-street demo! It seems like a much more complete instrument … Continue reading

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Sony BVM-E250 OLED broadcast monitor

I had an hour or so to set up a new Sony OLED grade-1 next to a Vutrix HD Pro-24 (their grade-1 LCD display which I like) – the Sony is much more expensive than the Vutrix . OLED as … Continue reading

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Things that peaked my interest at IBC

I spent just a couple of days over at the RAI in Amsterdam. It was splendid to catch up with some old pals and Bryant Broadcast do an excellent night out. My main observation is that 3D/stereoscopic was no where … Continue reading

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Ever need to slow down Ethernet?

I’ve had a few occasions when I’ve had to force gigabit down to 100BaseT or even 100 down to 10BaseT. My preferred method is to force the NIC down to the appropriate speed but if you aren’t using Windows (OS-X, … Continue reading

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Old SVHS machines, the half line and archive ingest

As every superhero knows it’s the second half of line 23, field one, that active content starts in a PAL signal yet come the start of field 2 line 336 starts as a full line with the corresponding half line … Continue reading

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Rise times in HD TriSyncs

These are two traces from two separate TriSync generators – The blue trace represents a correct waveform and as every superhero will realise you’re looking at the line timing pulse. Here is the diagram from rec-709 (the spec for HD … Continue reading

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