ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

Grass Valley (GV) HD production and distribution technology once again played a big part in the live Grammy Awards telecast, presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in January this year. The 52nd annual gathering of the music industry’s finest was broadcast on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA.

For the first time, the Grammy HD telecast featured a 3D video of the environmentally conscious song Earth Song, made by Michael Jackson before his death for use during his comeback concerts in London in July 2009.

The video was broadcast in 3D using the Grass Valley Kalypso HD Video Production Center, as part of a ceremony honouring Jackson with a lifetime achievement award during the live tele-cast.

Outside the Staples Center, NEP Supershooters supplied on-site mobile production trucks which were equipped with a Grass Valley Kalypso HD production switcher and a Grass Valley Trinix video router to handle the multi-camera broadcast. NEP also deployed its ND4 truck in Los Angeles, which produced the Red Carpet Show for the E! Entertainment TV channel. The truck also featured a Kalypso HD switcher and a Trinix router.

In addition, AEG Digital Media, which owns the Nokia Theater and the LA Live complex where it is located, purchased a Grass Valley K2 Summit production client server to record, store and prepare HD video segments for inclusion in the Grammy Awards Show. The K2 Summit recorded baseband video and created clips in the XDCAM HD 50 4:2:2 format. These files were then transferred to Final Cut Pro workstations, where they were edited in the same XDCAM format, and then made immediately available to the NEP production truck producing the Grammy telecast.

The K2 Summit production client includes HD/SD operation, smooth slow-motion playback with up to four bi-directional channels in a rugged 2RU chassis. The server features agile playback of DV, MPEG, HD and SD content with built-in aspect-ratio conversion, and can provide 60 hours of HD internal storage. It can be used as a standalone device or connected to a shared storage area network.

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