Event Stream Team improves its broadcasts with the Blackmagic ATEM Constellation

The ATEM Constellation mixer Blackmagic, among other teams, have allowed the production company Event Stream Team considerably improve your work dynamics.

Event Stream Team is a production company dedicated to live broadcasts which has more than 120 active clients. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, this family-owned business operates under the direction of Jimmy Reid, who also serves as chief technology officer. His client portfolio It ranges from nonprofit organizations and museums to regional and federal government agencies. Recently, the company has decided to incorporate an important selection of Blackmagic solutions in order to better meet your various needs.

The Event Stream Team workflow is structured around a mixer ATEM Constellation HD of two mixing banks. As Reid explains: "We needed an SDI mixer that offered exceptional performance. With twenty inputs and built-in Fairlight audio tools, it allowed us to completely modify our production system."

For Reid and his team, the dynamics and equalizer of the tools Fairlight They are essential: "We use them on all of our broadcasts to ensure that the audio coming from the wireless microphones is consistent and consistent between the HyperDeck recorders and the audio mixers. Also, before we had to resort to a huge console for audio, but now we can simply use the ATEM 2 M/E Constellation HD model and we know the quality will be excellent."

In the Baltimore courts

Recently, Event Stream Team broadcast a audience of four hours from the courts in Baltimore County. For this project, the production company decided to use a mixer ATEM 2 M/E Constellation HD along with two units Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro, devices Blackmagic Zoom Demand y Blackmagic Focus Demand, and three converters ATEM Studio Converter.

Reid believes that the team responded perfectly: "The Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro units and the ATEM Studio Converters are an amazing solution when used in combination, especially when it comes to simplifying the workflow and reducing the number of cables. The dual native ISO of the cameras makes the image quality look unmatched, no matter what type of event it is, whether in a well-lit courtroom or a dimly lit environment. The Zoom and Focus Demand accessories are also essential. The possibility Adjusting the focus from the tripod handles is really something new. This way, I don't have to take my hands off the controls.”

Event Stream Team also trusted the model Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro to capture the historical moment in which the painting of William Arthur Smith titled ‘Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker Surveying the Boundaries of Washington, DC’, preserved and displayed at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in the city of Annapolis, Maryland. During the live broadcast, Reid focused a unit Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro in the artwork, while a second was used to record the sign language interpreter.

A flexible workflow

For smaller events or small spaces, Reid has created a portable production system around a mixer ATEM Mini Pro ISO, a recorder HyperDeck Shuttle HD and one unit HyperDeck Studio Mini for live graphics. Likewise, Event Stream Team uses the model HyperDeck Studio HD Plus for clip playback and four units HyperDeck Studio 4K Pro "Blackmagic Design offers trusted equipment that allows us to go anywhere and know that the quality of our work will be superb. This has given us the ability to build our company's reputation as the go-to equipment for live broadcasts," Reid emphasizes.

At the same time, the person responsible for the Event Stream Team has started using DaVinci Resolve Studio 18, the editing, grading, visual effects and audio post-production program: “Editing takes a lot of my time, so I'm looking forward to outsourcing this service with the help of Blackmagic Cloud”.