Four broadcast projects for Salam Media Cast
Published: MEA
MIDDLE EAST: Qatar-based Salam Media Cast is currently involved with broadcast projects at four sites across the Middle East. The systems integrator is providing solutions to Sharjah TV, Bahrain TV, Hejan Racing and Al Kass.
The company has recently completed a mobile studio system for Qatar’s Al Kass sports channel. This project was for the complete supply, installation, commissioning and testing of one portable HD/SDI, SD/SDI broadcast quality mobile camera chain. The main components of the system are a Sony MFS-2000 video mixer, HDW VTR, Harris Nexio server, a Yamaha audio mixer, a talkback system from Clear-Com, and SPG from Trilogy. The camera chain is from TGV-LDK 8000/70 with Canon lenses, Vinten Camera tripods and Tektronix wave form monitors.
The ongoing project at Sharjah TV is for a tapeless solution to enhance its production workflows. The aim of the system is to give journalists the power to produce and edit their own stories while providing different levels of access rights to news and post-production staff. The workflow will also provide a fully non-linear production environment with simultaneous access to material. At the same time, it will give Sharjah TV a long-term facility to store material whilst keeping track with an asset management database.
The project has been divided into a number of areas covering the news room, the news server and non-linear editing system (NLE), production server and NLE, archiving, the graphics system, transmission room automation and the traffic system.
At Bahrain TV, Salam Media Cast was contracted to supply and install a complete virtual studio system and associated broadcast equipment. The system includes a tracking system from Orad-IVSM and infra-red cameras to monitor the camera position in the studios. The Graphics from the processing units are keyed by Ultimatte Chroma Keyers along with the camera signal. Other equipment installed includes three Sony HDC-1450 cameras, Cool Lights luminaires from Arri, a Snell vision mixer, a Yamaha audio console, as well as gear from Evertz, Axon, Harris and Clear-Com. The virtual studio is at the final handover stage, however the system is already in use.
In Qatar, the systems integrator is in the final handover stage for a new broadcast facility for the Hejan Racing Committee, the organiser of camel racing in the country. Hejan already had a small SD facility for covering races – from which some of the equipment for the new site was taken – but the new setup will allow it to broadcast in HD. The system includes a Sony MVS 8000 vision mixer, a Probel audio and video router, a Sony HSC 300 XD Camera system, HDW M 2000 VTR’s, a talkback system from Trilogy, a microwave system from Vislink, a UHF transmission system from Screen Service, a K2 server from GVG and a Soundcraft BB100 audio console.
The new system means that Hejan will be fully HD ready and the UHF system will be DVB-T ready. The Vislink wireless system will be deployed on a moving vehicle to shoot the race and transmit live from the studio to the viewers.