The Chinese CCTV had Ross Video for the production of its documentary series 'Mission to the Moon'

To help overcome their creative, business and technological challenges, CCTV partnered with Ross Video, who provided a complete 12G UHD workflow solution to support the filming of the 'Mission to the Moon' series.

At the beginning of this year, CCTV from China issued Mission to the Moon, a series of five thirty-minute scientific documentaries commissioned to coincide with the Asian country's lunar exploration mission that managed to land on the moon. Chang’e 4 on the opposite side of the Moon.

The series, created by CCTV-10, examined the structure of our closest celestial neighbor and analyzed the relationship between the Earth and the Moon using some highly innovative and immersive effects. According to CCTV-10, the series also had a number of technical and production goals that went beyond exciting viewers: Programmers set out to create the world's first UHD immersive mixed reality (IMR) production environment for broadcast television that brought together content, technology, creativity and production.

In commissioning the series, CCTV noted that the field of visual effects production is facing unprecedented challenges due to requirements in three areas: creativity, production and technology. Broadcasters are under increasing pressure to be more creative to meet audience demand for differentiated content. On the production side, demands on image quality are constantly increasing (in terms of visual effects and realism), while program production cycles continue to shorten. Technically, the Ultra High Definition has become an irresistible trend in television technology, and UHD/50P/HDR output places new demands on computing, storage and use of network resources.

In order to help you overcome your creative, business and technological challenges, CCTV partnered with Ross Video, who provided a complete 12G UHD workflow solution to support the filming of the series. Featured products include camera motion system Fury, which helps the production team achieve highly dynamic and creative camera movements, the Ultrix-FR5, which handles routing and AV processing, a flagship production mixer from Acuity 12G, Mira Replay Server, and three of the new graphics rendering engines Voyager from Ross Video to help create hyper-realistic, highly immersive graphics on screen. The entire production was also orchestrated by the production automation system OverDrive from Ross to ensure consistent and repeatable results.

Andrew Tan, APAC Sales Director for Ross Video, is delighted that Ross has been able to support CCTV and enable his team of thirty graphics and special effects experts to realize their vision. "This has been an unprecedented achievement for CCTV, and Ross Video is extremely proud to have been so involved. The quality of the interaction between the two teams was critical to the success of the project. The end result was not only a visual triumph for viewers, but we managed to avoid many of the problems and problems associated with older production methods. An incredible production was made with less time and greater efficiency - that is the essence of Ross Video's production approach High Impact, High Efficiency“Concludes Tan.