Dreamtek delivers progressive A/V, reside manufacturing and publish workflows with Blackmagic Design to energy lots of of reside periods for a main expertise consumer.
The numbers recommend the dimension of a latest Dreamtek’s undertaking: the multi day company occasion for a main expertise consumer not solely included 20 phases, 18 breakout rooms, 307 reside periods, 950 presenters and 30,000 onsite attendees, but in addition 60 onsite crew members, 35 flypacks and 22 distant editors all over the world creating upwards of 300 on demand movies broadcast to a world viewers of greater than 300,000 reside and 1 million on demand viewers. According to Dreamtek’s Jeff Eggleston, change is the one fixed…
Eggleston is the director of studio productions for Dreamtek, a video expertise and manufacturing firm that gives progressive broadcast options throughout inventive video manufacturing, reside occasion streaming and managed companies. While reside streaming is a core service that Dreamtek gives, this specific undertaking had a little bit of a twist.
“The client didn’t want the remote audience to tune in and see the presentations and sessions in real time via a live stream. They wanted everyone to have access to the edited content as fast as possible, but via VOD,” defined Eggleston. “We devised a workflow where we streamed the content to our own custom streaming servers, with our editors collaboratively working on it in near real time. With the aggressive turnaround time for the VOD content, anywhere between a few hours to 72 hours, we had editors across continents working around the clock.”
Live streaming and ISO seize
So, with out additional ado, right here is the entire story shared by Blackmagic Design and Dreamtek:
Dreamtek deployed 18 ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO reside manufacturing switchers for the road minimize, reside streaming, and ISO seize of digital camera and presentation feeds throughout every of the 18 breakout rooms, with a number of Blackmagic Web Presenter 4K models per room used to ship SRT feeds for seize and monitoring to the grasp management room (MCR). Two highlight rooms internet hosting extra shows had been every outfitted with an ATEM SDI Extreme ISO reside manufacturing switcher additionally used for reside streaming and ISO seize.
“ISO recording was a huge success across hundreds of sessions, and the ATEM Television Studio’s internal 2TBs of storage served as a great backup solution in a pinch. Having the ability to remotely inspect the files on each of the ATEMs across the network was very useful,” stated Saqib Razaq, Global Head of Technical Operations at Dreamtek.
“Similar to the ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO, we used the compact ATEM SDI Extreme ISOs for multi SDI ingest, streaming, and recording, and the Web Presenter 4Ks facilitated performance metrics and status to our MCR,” Kashaan Butt, Global Head of Solutions at Dreamtek, added.
While streamlined and profitable ingest of the shows was a essential step in growing the VOD content material, a main problem was nonetheless forward.
A crew of twenty-two distant editors
“A big part of Dreamtek is innovation,” famous Eggleston. “We rarely say no, but we never blindly say yes. This project was global in scale both on the production side and on the distribution side: more than 300 pieces of content shared with a team of 22 remote editors spread across the globe and made available to a worldwide audience on demand within 72 hours, some even within a few hours.”
That started within the grasp management room the place two Blackmagic Cloud Store 20TB community storage options uploaded content material to Google Cloud Storage, accessible by the distant publish manufacturing crew inside seconds of session seize being stopped.
“Our team found the Cloud Stores easy to work with, and the network performance was as advertised, making quick work of ingesting footage from so many different sessions across the three days,” stated Razaq.
With the extremely profitable undertaking below its belt, Dreamtek was introduced onboard for subsequent occasions, not solely recreating the workflow however including to it, growing the undertaking’s scale and scope.
“In addition to executing the same substantial workflow for the new event, we also had a team that simultaneously captured 130 red carpet interviews, produced an awards gala and captured high end sit down interviews with execs, partners and customers that were onsite for the global conference. For these deliverables, we heavily relied on the color correction and keying abilities of DaVinci Resolve Studio,” stated Eggleston.
“Dreamtek is very much a production agency soup to nuts, so we’re able to leverage our 25 years of industry experience and apply that knowledge when creating new solutions,” concluded Eggleston. “With flexible and feature rich products from Blackmagic Design, we’re able to build out innovative workflows to help address all our clients’ needs.”
