BBC shooting the Commonwealth Games on RED

[Simon Dunne]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28440076

There's a picture in the article showing a cameraman using a RED. I'm unaware of the full scope of the trail, but it's interesting to see that the red is being used instead of (from what i can tell), Panasonic or Sony kit. I'm guessing the broadcast module is beginning to get into the right hands, plus, it's got the advantage of HFR. I'd be keen to know what they're doing about colour space and if they've got a desk of OCP's in a racks room. Or just any live production work-flow info would be great

 

[Matt Ryan]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28440076

There's a picture in the article showing a cameraman using a RED. I'm unaware of the full scope of the trail, but it's interesting to see that the red is being used instead of (from what i can tell), Panasonic or Sony kit. I'm guessing the broadcast module is beginning to get into the right hands, plus, it's got the advantage of HFR. I'd be keen to know what they're doing about colour space and if they've got a desk of OCP's in a racks room. Or just any live production work-flow info would be great

That cameraman is using a Sony F55, not RED... The sony spits out a 4K signal over SDI which is what it looks like they are using. They are probably dual recording to the internal 4K XAVC codec as well.

 

[Simon Dunne]

My bad. Didn't look closely enough! No wonder Red and Sony ended up in court! More on the tech here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2014/07/bbc-rd-at-the-commonwealth-games-2014