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Eue screen gems studios7/30/2023 ![]() The camera can be preprogrammed with pan, tilt and zoom capabilities, or operated manually, using a joystick and software interface. The Shuttle, an overhead camera system made by Innovision Optics, offers overhead shots from a curved rail attached to the studio's lighting grid. All cameras are on triax and are controlled with Sony camera control units. Three Sony BVP-900 studio cameras with Canon Super 21 lenses are operated in the studio on Vinten fluid heads and studio pedestals. Two Sony BVP-950 cameras with Canon 11 × 4.5 wide-angle and 16 × 8 zoom lenses are used hand held as well as on Steadicam mounts. Signals are routed with a Sony HDS-X3700 serial digital router switcher (64 × 64 I/O), which handles serial digital signals with embedded audio. This design also enables all sources to be displayed, including daily tally and naming changes, anywhere in the building. Using four Evertz MVP 12 SD, HD and analog rasterizers feeding four Mitsubishi MDT461S LCD control room screens, the design team has installed a system via Cat 5 wiring for digitizing and distributing groups of images to master control, audio, the tape room and the production bridge. This current design includes LCD monitors for distributing multi-image displays throughout the control and production areas. Because of Joseph's preplanning and current equipment choices, the upgrade will only involve the installation of new HD cameras, a new HD production switcher and an HD-capable router. King World has tentative plans to move the show to HD sometime after 2008. Joseph said his mandate was to design and implement a studio and production infrastructure that was serial digital today and could serve as a cost-effective upgrade to HD in the future. These segments are recorded to videotape with a Matrox MXO unit, providing a cost-effective alternative to the traditional remote truck. ![]() This allows Ray to conduct a two-way A/V dialog via the Internet. Some of the live remote interview segments are conducted through an Apple PowerBook running iChat software. Graphics are generated with a dual-channel Pinnacle Deko 3000 CG. ![]() Six Sony DVW-M2000 Digital Betacam recorders are used for program and ISO record, as well as one DVW-A500 and one MSW-M2000 (IMX) for playback. Daily roll-ins are handled directly from tape or are ingested into an Avid Thunder server. ![]() On the fourth floor, four editing suites with Avid Adrenaline workstations, (three for show segments and a fourth for on-air promos), along with four Apple G5 workstations, are networked to an Avid ISIS storage array that enables editors to share clips and retrieve elements digitized into the system. The show's team of 90 production execs, producers, researchers, coordinators, assistants and communications staffers occupy adjacent offices. Meridian Design Associates installed a professional prep kitchen and surrounded it within an audience holding area and talent support space adjacent to the studio. The challenge was that the audience is sometimes on camera, so all areas of the studio have to be lit all the time. The set was designed by Joe Stewart of Shaffner/Stewart and fabricated by Showman Design, with a lighting design by Alan Blacher that features a variety of fresnels, gels and fluorescent lighting instruments. Some are fed by Sony MAV-555 video disks for on-set LCD screen loop feeds that serve as on-camera video wallpaper for the ever changing, creative and colorful sets. This creates a nice on-air ambiance for the show and ensures that the audience is always facing the action, no matter what corner of the studio Ray is performing from.Ī variety of large LG LCD screens are mounted throughout the facility. It's complete with a working elevator for special guests to arrive on camera and a revolving audience seating area in the middle that allows for full 360-degree camera views. The main studio, where the show tapes two - and sometimes three - episodes per day for three days a week, features four distinct staging areas, one in each corner. For confidence monitoring, there are several 14in and 20in Ikegami CRT monitors with SDI inputs and Leitch VTM-3100 SD LCD-based waveform and vectorscope rasterizers. The new control room features a Sony 3.5 M/E DVS-7350 digital video switcher (32 input with 13 aux busses), two Sony DME-5000 DVE units and 64 PatchAmp SDV/HD serial digital video DAs with analog test outputs. In a mere three months - from demolition to first shoot day - the original Studio 6A and its control room were gutted and refitted with all digital equipment, new lighting equipment and a highly innovative, rotating audience platform. No stranger to revolving clients, each with their own individual production requirements, the EUE design team worked with Rich Cervini, vice president of production and technical operations for King World, to make a home for “Rachael Ray.” Timing was critical.
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