All under control with flexibility, agility and safety with Ross Video Overdrive

Ross Video presents in Madrid by Unitecnic the possibilities offered by this production control system that allows the user to control multiple devices from a single interface.

Ross Video in collaboration with Unitecnic has celebrated this Thursday at the group building Mediapro In Getafe (Madrid) a day in which the manufacturer has announced some of its latest solutions, focusing on the Overdrive Production Control System.

Oscar just, sales director for EMEA in Ross Video, was in charge of opening this day emphasizing that the manufacturer has its focus on the live production.

"We are unique in the industry in this aspect and in the amplitude and depth of the products and services of our portfolio. No one approaches. This places Ross in a privileged position to offer our customers complete solutions that improve their productions, while saving money and make their most efficient operations."

To respond to the new industry challenges, Juste stressed that Ross Video has presence in a hundred countries (with 9 national offices) in which more than 650 professionals work. Thanks to the company's future vision, and the continuous acquisitions throughout the last decade, Ross accumulates a Continuous growth in sales during the last 26 years.

In fact, this year it will not be an exception since its CEO, David Ross, announced the first day of IBC 2018 that "precisely today, when four months are still missing to conclude the year, we exceed sales throughout 2017".

All under control with overdrive

Carole pigger, Director of Business Development for EMEA and Latin America, focused its intervention on the possibilities provided by the Overdrive technology of Ross Video.

This production control system allows the user Control multiple devices from a single interface. To do this, it is compatible with more than 25o solutions different from both Ross and third parties including video and audio mixers, matrices, video servers, robotic cameras and graphics systems.

Pigeard said that “overdrive facilitates more consistent and repetitive production through the use of a set of User created templates For each of the events that are repeated in a production. These templates are used to build a program.
During the program, the user activates these templates and the system executes the effects in the same way. ”

Another aspect to highlight of this solution is Improvement in efficiency. At a time when Broadcasters and producers have the need to produce more content with the same staff and with multipant output online, non -linear, web, social or OTT, a system such as this capable of increasing the efficiency of the personnel and providing the additional resources necessary to improve the productivity of your equipment is essential.

“Today's programs make a multitude of elements. As an example, the use of dozens of graphics channels, video servers that feed series monitors and multi -chamber choreography for the opening of a program. Overdrive makes it possible Produce content with precisen for situations like this, ”said Carole Pigeard.

One aspect that stressed is the Flexibility in the playout Since "at any time, users can add, modify or separate from the Escalet. Quickrecalls, CustomControl and Directconti macros provide instant access to the device and allow instant modifications or manual intervention."

Overdrive also offers tools backup with Rapidrestore that allows you to create template backups, user settings and diagnostic settings and save project progress.

Another interesting function is the configuration of Smart Macros which can do preview or program mixer resources without the user having to know the current status of the same.

Agility is another Overdrive characteristic since with QuickRecalls, the user can quickly configure shots and events to r a to anywhere in the escalation at any time. In addition, Smart Quickrecalls allows you to filter any ladder and use the shots of the text system such as Quickrecalls to reproduce any clip or graph of any of the multiple skirts open instantly.

As far as graphics are concerned, Graphic elements are treated as "secondary events" that allow Overdrive to obtain a preview of the following mixer event to provide the operators with a real previous view of the next event. In the case of being connected to an Xpression graphic system, users have a miniature view and a preview of the graphics to verify the content. At the same time, Xpression sends the status of each graph to Overdrive so that users can easily see which graphics are online, in pause or with animation.

To close this event, Travis Hawkins, Demonstration Artist & Trainer; y Manuel Paredes, Regional Sales Director for Spain, Italy and Portugal carried out a practical demonstration of the possibility that Overdrive provides.

Success cases

Among the numerous broadcasters that have already adopted Overdrive as a control system, it stands out Sky News In England and Germany that has managed to reduce costs, be more flexible and more efficiently manage its staff. In this case, Overdrive controls video and graphics servers, robborized cameras and Ross Video and third -party mixers.

Another success case is found in the regional centers of France Télévisions. The French Broadcaster needed to do several tasks at the same time and it was difficult to have multiple interfaces to control all devices at the same time.

With Overdrive he has managed to control both video and graphics servers (Xpression), in turn integrating with an owner NRCS. In this way it has managed to simplify the tasks in a single interface and improve the quality of its programming.

Another French company, Equidia, specialized in the production and dissemination of spaces related to the world of horse, has achieved with Overdrive put more programs with the same staff. In this case, Overdrive controls both the video and graphics server, robotized cameras (ROSS), also integrating with the NRCS INCEPTION.

A broad portfolio of solutions

Ross Video facilitates the creation of news spaces, weather reports, television programs and sports events, among others, allowing the stations to distribute high quality content to each of its clients' screens. The diversity of its offer also allows to offer content on the screens of sports stadiums, concerts and educational or political institutions.

In addition to overdrive, in addition to Latest proposals that showed in IBC 2018 The New Ultra Carbonite Mixer, the next generation of carbonite that aims to redefine the capacities of a medium -sized mixer.

It is designed on a completely new 1RU hardware platform with 240% more processing power than the original carbonite. It has 24 tickets and 14 outputs y puede configurarse con entre 1 y 3 MEs, y 2 a 4 multipantallas de 16 ventanas, Frame Syncs & Format Converters en todas las entradas y procesamiento y corrección de color en todas las entradas y salidas.

In addition, Carbonite Ultra follows the production philosophy defined by Ross Video software, which means that more functions will be introduced through free software updates and new software license functions, still to announce, which will lead to Carbonite Ultra beyond a production mixer. In fact, the next version of Carbonite Ultra software will unlock the 12G/UHD support for 2ME and 3ME systems.

Ultritouch

Another of the recent novelties to highlight is the control and monitoring panel of system with touch screen for the Personalized hardware operation, Ultritouch.

It is designed to help operators control and move easily between products and applications, while maintaining the speed and faithfulness of the equipment they control.

Ross has conceived this solution as a Powerful touch screen panel that can be mounted on rack and combines traditional functionality while adapting workflows and customization for operators that dominate the use of smartphones. Ultrithouch adds a new and powerful control option to its ultrix connectivity platforms. In addition, due to its integration with the Ross Video Network and the Dashboard Control System, Ultritouch controls a large number of other Ross Video teams.

This allows you to control almost the entire Ross video portfolio from a single hardware -based panel. Open control with Dashboard provides complete customization based on user's needs.

Finally review that many of the new solutions were in the 12G SDI domain. Ross Video was one of the first 12G champions trusting in 12G as a pragmatic and profitable update route for those content creators who do not feel prepared to make the leap to IP.