Japanese festival Fuji Rock comes to YouTube with solutions from AJA

Various solutions AJA desplegadas por la compañía New wave de Tokio han permitido al festival Fuji Rock celebrar su 25º aniversario con la emisión vía YouTube de varios de sus conciertos más destacados.

Para este festival de tres días, New wave desarrolló un workflow que incluyó la captura de los cuatro escenarios principales del recinto y la producción completa de la retransmisión oficial del festival, que sintonizaron 200.000 telespectadores. Aunque la calidad de la retransmisión era primordial para el éxito del evento híbrido, el equipo también quería capturar la máxima fidelidad de audio at all performances, as the recordings would also be given to the artists for promotional purposes.

Masayoshi Ikeda, vice president and director of Nouvelle Vague, actively collaborated in the design of the workflow that united the venue of Fuji Rock (Naeba Ski Resort) with the main control center of the production service company. For this purpose, Ikeda used the FS4 of AJA to convert video sources to 29,97p para la ingesta y el streaming; Fist 6464 to route signals; Io 4K Plus for editorial I/O; Ki Pro Ultra 12G y Ki Pro GO for redundant recording of Apple ProRes and H.264 files; AND-DANTE-12GAM for audio keying and keying using Dante; T-Tap Pro for output from the emission system, and Bridge Live for SDI encoding and RTMP streaming outputs.

AJA Workflow at Fuji Rock

Para el sistema in situ del festival, Nouvelle Vague transmitted 59.94i SDI signals from each of the four scenarios to FS4, que las convirtió a 29.97p for its intake and transmission. To route the converted signals, they used Fist 6464, which provided the flexibility to distribute a single video signal to multiple channels. The ingest system included Apple Mac Studio with Softron MovieRecord to continuously capture and record three channels of the four stages (in total, seven sources) to a NAS storage. To prepare for any issues with the NAS network, the team used Ki Pro Ultra 12G para redundant recording and simultaneous capture in baseband without connection to the network. They also recorded sources from the four scenarios with Ki Pro GO like backup.

To embed and deembed audio, the team used eight cards AND-Dante-12GAM, an audio bridge openGear 12G-SDI embedded to Dante IP. They used two cards for audio embedding in each scenario, two for the broadcast, two for embedding the program output, one for embedding the looping videos (which would be broadcast during the broadcast intervals on YouTube), and one for the backups.

During the festival, editors would put together performances for broadcast immediately after capture. At this point, Io 4K Plus It was used to ingest network recordings into DCCs. For the broadcast, the team generated the final videos edited with the solution OnTheAir the Softron for live production, with T-Tap Pro managing the exit. Bridge Live handled encoding and simultaneous streaming on YouTube with three RTMP channels.

IP, key for Fuji Rock

New wave began the transition to IP workflows last year. Today, it has already established an audio system that uses Dante to easily manage large-scale networks, helping to reduce system costs. The team integrated AND-DANTE-12GAM to eliminate the process of converting SDI to analog audio while minimizing deterioration in sound quality. The team integrated Bridge Live for a flexible streaming solution that works with HLS, SRT y RTMP. “We chose Bridge Live because we prefer AJA products for offering broadcast-grade compatibility and stability,” notes Ikeda.

The AJA team considers that the Fuji Rock 2022 broadcast was a success, as it represented an improvement in network bandwidth and the incorporation of Mac Studio to record up to eight channels at 60p, offering greater system stability. In the near future, Nouvelle Vague aims to further integrate the IP workflow technologies into its system and expand its capabilities to offer SRT transmission with on-site operations. By linking event venue sources to your nOOb Studio en Tokio, the team will continue to develop a remote workflow for recording, editing and streaming, while reducing production costs. As emphasized Ikeda: “The important thing is to consider all the possibilities of your production environment and implement new technologies or products to innovate your workflow and produce first-class content.”

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