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Remote Production

Remote production is clearly THE hot topic of the moment during these COVID-ridden times. Keeping staff safe whilst allowing the show to go on is paramount, and we can all be proud at how quickly the industry has reacted in order to develop these solutions. Many of these techniques are likely to become a permanent part of the production landscape as they cut down the number of staff required onsite, which reduces travel and time away from home – and that benefits everyone.

Among those technologies and standards originally targeting real-time production workflows in local or corporate network environments (such as AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110), RAVENNA clearly is the most suitable technology, as it offers the widest flexibility in assigning important operative parameters such as packet times, latency (to cope with higher packet jitter and transport delays), encoding options, QoS choices and synchronisation parameters. Thanks to RAVENNA’s layered architecture and open technology approach, even error recovery methods (i.e. SMPTE ST 2022-7) or other transport protocols (i.e. SRT) can be added to establish reliable WAN connections.

The RAVENNA team and its partners have been running a series of webinars on remote production, starting with the basics on the challenges of running RAVENNA/AES67 streams across a WAN, touching on synchronisation issues and introducing a number of recent projects, cumulating in an all-live demo of intercontinental real-time transfer of RAVENNA/AES67 streams across the Internet.

Below you can find out everything we’ve been discussing over the last few months; you’ll also find topics on remote production from RAVENNA partners further down.

The RAVENNA “Remote Sessions” – Our Webinars On Remote Production

Each 60-minute webinar is a must for engineers, system designers, solution architects, decision makers and anyone interested in the versatility of RAVENNA/AES67 applications, particularly in remote production scenarios. Downloads of the slides and the session recordings are freely available from our wesite.

Remote Production Offerings From RAVENNA Partners

Ross Video and Remote Production

Remote production is top-of-mind today, as companies around the world race to maintain their existing workflows with their talent and contributors dispersed in many different off-site locations. While many solutions have been cobbled together, Ross has focused on enabling an intuitive and seamless remote production experience with high quality and low latency that integrates easily with your existing infrastructure and workflows. Simple to use, secure, with zero footprint installation for operators or remote talent, the solution can be used in your own private cloud or on-prem equipment.

DirectOut and Remote Production

Is it possible to transmit uncompressed audio via WAN when dedicated network connections are not available and standard domestic internet connections such as DSL are the only possible option? Yes, it is.

Inspired by the success in different ‘Lockdown Rock’ projects DirectOut and Vivivaldy® offer an ‘out-of-the-box’ solution to allow artists and audio professionals to work together remotely in real-time. A team of experts from both companies can assist the customer in taking all the necessary steps in building a tailored solution using DirectOut’s RAVENNA enabled products in combination with Vivivaldy® routers and VPN services.

Meinberg and Remote Production

In this video Meinberg explain how their technology provides the precision timing between locations to allow remote production to operate with perfect synchronisation. Crew can work all over the world and streams can arrive in the same way, as if they were working in one place.

More material will be added over the coming weeks – please check back again soon.