Hybrid Event 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 toapex
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 5 desk spaces
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 hand sanitiser and IP phones at eachworkstation
Face masks, gloves and cleaning equipment provided
Free, open guest WiFi

Video

Displays

15×3.5m 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
2 x 23” 1080p monitors on client desks – assignable
3 x 23” 1080p monitors in tech control showing 8 way multiviewer

Routing / Management

Linked Barco s3-4k system managing all sources and house destinations
Blackmagic ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K managing TX output. Multiviewer andTX available as s3 sources for house routing.
All 16:9 sources including cameras, VT and graphics are distributed into ATEM and s3.vMix server receives 3 cameras plus ATEM TX on a 4 channel capture card.

Sources

2 x Custom Media Server running either Arena 6 or PowerPoint for 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

3 x Canon XF405 on tripod – each wired with SDI output, mains, stereo XLR input, XLRfor comms and ethernet for control
1 x Sony PMW350 on tripod
Each XF405 is supplied with a 256GB SD card for on-board recording at either 1080p35mbps or 2160p at 150mbps
Each PMW350 is supplied with a 64GB SD card for on-board recording
Two Atomos Samauri Blade SDI recorders are available at technical control, each withtwo 480GB SSD drives for ProRes recording. Assignable via ATEM auxes.

Streaming System

High spec servers – i7-9700K, 32GB RAM, dual M2 SSD drives, Quadro P4000 graphics
Quad 3G-SDI PCI capture
vMix Pro
All systems NDI enables for capture and transmit
Up to 8 remote callers with return audio and video selection
Remote caller chat system
Streaming to multiple platforms simultaneously if required
Compatible with all major streaming platforms – Teams, Zoom, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, WebEX
Custom overlays/stream designs created in house with multiple windows, logos etc
Lower thirds, logos, titles created in house

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
10 x Sennheiser EW300 G3/4 – lapel/handheld/headset
Wireless IFB available if required

Lighting

Avolites Quartz with external display
ArtNET node and DMX buffers for distribution
Zero88 dimming
6 x 50w LED working lights
LED fire exit signage

Backlight Truss

6 x Elation Fuze Z120 RGBW moving wash
4 x Selecon Acclaim 650w Fresnel (frost & CTB)

Advance Trusses

5 x Elation DaVinci moving LED profile
6 x ETC Source Four 750w 25-50 Zoom (frost & CTB)
4 x 480w RGBW wide LED wash
2 x Chauvet Rogue R2 moving wash

Network

4 dedicated gigabit ports to main backbone switch
All connections 1gbps
Leased FTTP line, 200Mbps symmetrical, uncontested bandwidth. We can increase speed on the fly, up to 1Gbps
Failsafe enterprise backbone switch with 322Gbps capacity
Two load balanced VDSL connections with Static IPs, 80:20
All critical equipment on UPS supply
2 dedicated ports on a priority VLAN for live stream/remote feeds