Premier Studio – Technical Specifications

We have built the Premier Studio to a very high standard, its kitted out with everything you need to walk in and start recording!

Our team are here to help you during your booking and you can book as many or as few of them as you need, we always recommend a minimum of 3 technicians however to ensure the smooth running of the studio.

The space/general:

14x14m overall internal size. 4.2m clear height to horizontal braces, 6.5m height to apex
Ceiling and walls fully blacked out with 320gsm black wool serge drapes
Large entrance – 2.53m wide x 2.93m high with BWS curtain drapes
7m wide client area with 3 desk spaces and low seating
Custom curved stage at 9.7m wide x 5m deep, 0.3m high
Mid grey carpet finish to stage, black skirting
Studio floor area finished in anthracite carpet tiles
Water cooler
A4 colour printer/copier/scanner
Perspex screens between all workstations
Lamps, power sockets, network cables and hand sanitiser at each workstation
Face masks, gloves and cleaning equipment provided
Free, fast, open guest WiFi

Video

Displays

15×3.5m curved Unilumin UPAD III 2.6mm pitch LED wall – 5760×1344 pixels. Up to 4 PIP sources
Samsung 98” QM98F (2160p) presenter monitor on wheeled lifter, up to 4 PIP sources
2 x Panasonic 50” monitors (1080p) on trollies – assignable
3 x 23” 1080p monitors on client desks – assignable

Routing / Management

Linked Barco s3-4k system managing all sources and house destinations
Blackmagic ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K vision mixer with 1 M/E Advanced Panel. Multiviewer and TX available as s3 sources for house routing.
All 16:9 sources including cameras, VT and graphics are distributed into ATEM and s3.

Sources

2 x Custom Media Server running either Arena 6 or PowerPoint for native full screen outputs
2 x 15” Macbook Pro running QLab or Playback Pro
2 x Windows Laptop for graphics
2 x Windows Laptop at client area (timer systems or similar)

Cameras & Recording

4 x Canon XF405 4K Camera on fluid head tripod with dolly – each wired with SDI output, mains, stereo XLR input, XLR for comms and ethernet for control
Each XF405 is supplied with a 256GB SD card for on-board recording at either 1080p 35mbps or 2160p at 150mbps
Atomos Samauri Blade SDI recorder are available at technical control, with two 480GB SSD drives for ProRes recording. Assignable via ATEM auxes.

Broadcast

FOC use of one of three broadcast studios
Primary & hot backup vMix TX system
Primary & hot backup PC based streaming system
vMix Call system
Primary & hot backup PowerPoint system
Remote internet clicker system
Timer system
Yamaha HS5 or similar studio monitors
Fully ventilated and air conditioned
Full backup UPS power
Either 3 x 65” or 4 x 43” display depending on studio
SDI, comms, analogue audio and network patch to Premier Studio

Audio

2 x L-Acoustics X8, flown, individual amp channels – stage foldback
2 x L-Acoustics X8, flown, individual amp channels – house
2 x L-Acoustics SB18, on separate mix – house subs, behind LED screen
Yamaha QL5 (32 x 16 local IO)
Yamaha Rio 1608D (16 x 8 Dante IO) – behind LED screen
Dante routing up to 64 channels
4 x Sennheiser EW300 G3/4 – lapel/handheld/headset
Single channel Tecpro wired comms to each station & camera – overall 2 circuits with master station

Lighting