El País gains flexibility in its television studio with Vinten robotics

The Vantage robotic camera head and μVRC controller (microVRC) allow the newspaper El País to improve live production from its studio in Madrid.

The diary The Country has deployed the Vantage robotic camera head and the μVRC controller (microVRC) Vinten to reinforce its operation of producing live programs from its studio located in the heart of its newsroom in Madrid. Together, Vantage and μVRC offer a solution for pan-tilt-zoom zoom camera (PTZ) that saves space and work to capture and publish more than 1,000 live videos per month on the El País Facebook channel both from the studio itself and wherever the news is produced.

With the aim of saving space and optimizing personnel costs, El País has installed three Vantage heads integrated with professional cameras JVC. At the same time, operators use the μVRC in an attached control room.

Carlos de Vega, deputy director of video and photography at El País, recognizes that “the three words that best describe Vantage are flexibility, effectiveness and quality. Vantage is a compact camera system that is just the size we need for our studio located in the newsroom as well as being able to take it with us somewhere. And it works perfectly with μVRC, which gives us all of Vinten's motion control and stream quality expertise in a cost-effective system designed for small studios.”

"During the Catalan elections last December, we were on the air for approximately 12 hours. Vantage and microVRC make it possible to carry out coverage like that with efficiency and relative ease," he adds.

The Vinten Vantage head is designed to accept a wide range of traditional studio, POV or even digital cinema cameras from a wide variety of manufacturers, giving the user the ability to choose the camera and lens that best suits the requirements of each project. As the first controller of its kind, the μVRC is the perfect companion to the Vantage, giving the camera head greater versatility and flexibility for video capture and allowing operators to control multiple units from various angles.

Vinten systems have contributed to El País three main benefits: space saving in its bustling newsroom initially designed for story collection and not program production; the possibility of use the system both on set and in the field, maximizing the return on investment in equipment; and the possibility of work remotely via the μVRC controller, whether production takes place on set or anywhere outside the newsroom.

In the development and integration This project has involved both SDI Video as Moncada.