Grass Valley, key to bringing Qatar 2022 to screens around the world

Qatar 2022 stadiums and remote production centers host myriad teams Grass Valley to make an ambitious production of global reach a reality.

All Qatar World Cup stadiums are equipped with switchers GV K-Frame and panels Cain, solutions used to produce videos locally y facilitate match broadcasts. Likewise, half of the stadiums have switchers K-Frame XP C fully equipped with 80 inputs, 40 outputs y 5 M/E further multiviewer; the other half of the stadiums, with switchers K-Frame XP S con 196 entries, 96 outputs y 9 M/E plus multiviewer.

The production of all matches will use another three switchers K-Frame XP S located in a room centralized production. The functionality Independent Suites de Grass Valley allows sharing resources on a single video processor between four different production suites, completely isolating the resources of one suite from the other. Taking advantage of this capability, the three switchers in the centralized control room have each been divided into four suites to make up a total of 12 suites. The six main suites each have a panel Kayenne of 2 M/E, and the others use a Korona 1M/E panel as well as KSP software panels.

Likewise, to produce 1080p non-match content (inauguration, training, reports and interviews), it has been decided to have 48 cameras Grass Valley LDX 150 con Embedded JPEG-XS, which send their signals directly to a central control room. Specifically, the modular card is used XIP-3901 JPEG-XS from the platform Density to decode these streams to SMPTE 2110 for viewing in the multiviewer, camera shading and use in production switchers.

Grass Valley has also confirmed that its solutions will play a huge role in delivering content to users. rightholders of the event. Specifically, for retransmission to United States territory, Alchemist to perform frame rate conversion for broadcasts. For the Caribbean region, it has been decided to use the system GV Playout of AMPP, who will work alongside media cloud of Tata Communications to offer versions of the matches with comments and regionalized advertising.