Outside broadcasting is the production of television programmes (typically to cover sports events) from a mobile television studio. This mobile studio is known as an "Outside Broadcasting Van" or "OB Van". Signals from cameras and microphones come into the OB Van for processing and transmission. A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. ...
A typical OB Van can be divided into three major parts.
The first and largest part is where the director and the technicians sit in front of a video mixer and a wall of monitors. The monitors show all the video feeds from various sources, including computer graphics, cameras, video tapes, or slow motion replay machines. The wall of monitors also contains a preview monitor showing the "clean" feed (the edited video feed without any computer generated graphics) and a programme monitor that shows the "dirty" feed (video with overlaid graphics). The dirty feed is what is actually transmitted back to the central studio that is controlling the outside broadcast. The video mixer may be operated by two or more computer specialists who will generate appropriate graphics feeds (such as scores for sports events, or vote counts at elections) to be added to the video.
The second part of a van is for the sound engineer; it has a sound mixer (being fed with all the various audio feeds: reporters. commentary, on-pitch microphones, etc. The engineer has can control which channels are added to the output and will follow instructions from the directors. The engineer normally also has a dirty feed monitor to help with the synchronization of sound and video.
The last part of the van is the video store. The video store has a collection of video tapes and may also house additional power supplies or computer equipment.
Visions is to launch a second high definition-capable outsidebroadcast truck, in time to cover one of the Grand Slam international tennis events this summer for NBC and ESPN, the French Open at Roland Garros.
Broadcasters have found the increased quality delivered by high definition cameras and production transfers well to standard definition recordings, with a marked improvement in what the viewer gets on screen, even when they're viewing in standard definition.
Visions' HD2 high definition-capable outsidebroadcast truck is similar in layout to its HD1 OB truck, which was launched in 2003.
Outsidebroadcast planning needs to be handled by professional to ensure your important corporate message is delivered correctly, here at Beacon Seek we will take that worry out of your hands.
All the equipment that will be used for the broadcast is provided by trusted and reliable suppliers that we have built up a rapport with over the years, we are also able to integrate oyur own equipment for the outsidebroadcast if you so wish.
Outsidebroadcast planning will also involve the planning of the logistics of the event, we will arrange all transportation, which will of course involve administrative details and the customs for any international assignments we may receive.
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