The pillars of À Punt's most groundbreaking studio: an integration of Unitecnic
Halfway between a visual radio studio and a broadcast one, At Punt has promoted an innovative studio, which operates offering significant cost savings to the Valencian broadcaster. Higinio Añó Sanz, exploitation and engineering director of À Punt, and Francisco Javier Periáñez, project manager at Unitecnic, help understand the success and challenges of a single study.
At Punt faced several challenges when launching your multipurpose studio. “We wanted to make the most of the technical and human resources,” says Añó, who, leading the engineering team from Valencian television I wanted to design a concept that takes advantage of the latest technical solutions on the market to merge radio and television environments: “We studied how we could make a radio program, televise it, and in this way we could also cover our linear programming in the mornings.”
After several months of work, and the corresponding tenders, At Punt awarded a Unitecnic, engineering company MEDIAPRO GROUP, the integration of all the lots that would make up this transversal project, halfway between a top-level visual radio studio and a television studio. It is not a transformation, nor an update: it is the creation from scratch of a set with all the necessary solutions to broadcast live, including its corresponding control room. A process, which according to Añó himself, went “very well and was completed with all the necessary training” before putting all the effort machinery in operation.
The cherry on top of this technological bet is a designed scenery inch by inch by the team EN Technology, dominated by a custom-made table that has ended up giving rise to an environment spacious, bright and that allows transmitting closeness with the spectators.
Technology everywhere
The versatile study of At Punt, located at its headquarters in Burjassot (Valencia), does not renounce cutting-edge technology despite its hybrid nature. Certified to work up to 12G SDI under the standard SMPTE ST 2082, this space of 50 m2 bet on the interconnection: far from being an island, it represents a solution completely integrated into all production processes of Valencian television.
Unitecnic has integrated an important selection of top-level equipment, including four PTZ cameras Panasonic AW-UE150; Brio and Cube systems The valley, integrated into the À Punt production ecosystem; Aston and On Demand graphics solutions from Brainstorm; a Prism waveform monitor Tektronix; audio monitoring system Wohler AMP1-16V; the Brio 36 audio console Calrec; audio recorder codec Quantum Lite de Prodys; the intercom system Riedel, and the Systel IP16 multi-conference system from AEQ.
The company of MEDIAPRO GROUP has been responsible for providing several essential solutions for the study of Ross Video.
In addition, the GRUP MEDIAPRO company has been in charge of providing several essential solutions for the study of Ross Video: the video mixer Carbonite Ultra, the panel TouchDrive 2M/E, the video matrix Ultrix UHD of 32×32 and the system glue. These teams, Periáñez details, contribute important advantages like its architecture around 12G, so that the future and hypothetical jump to ultra high definition of this study can be carried out without losing capabilities or resources, as happens when 3G products with licensable UHD capabilities are chosen.
On the other hand, Unitecnic has also delivered several switches Huawei S5732-H48, network core of the multipurpose studio that provides VoIP, Internet, Dalet, Brainstorm, Dante, DHCP, control, management, codecs and IPTV services.
A paradigm shift
He multipurpose studio of À Punt It is currently used for the broadcast of various magazines on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning and The Morning News: and informative program three hours long that is broadcast simultaneously on DTT, radio and streaming, details Añó.
Higinio Añó Sanz, director of exploitation and engineering of At Punt: “This project shows that you can make programs of radio, television and streaming in the same study and with the same equipment”.
In both cases, the study is responding to the perfection, offering a first level visual finish and “greatly reducing the production and exploitation costs” thanks to the versatility of its control room and his commitment to robotic cameras. For the director of engineering and exploitation of À Punt, this project shows that it is possible to make radio, television and streaming “in the same studio and with the same equipment.”
The barriers are blurred
The Á Punt project, integrated by Unitecnic, brings to the fore not only the extreme versatility of production systems, in which solutions intended exclusively for the universe broadcast coexist with more imaginative solutions, but a new way of think that advances with firm steps among televisions and radios throughout the State: the barriers between verticals, windows and technologies blur.
And, at this point, the technology is already prepared for offer unprecedented solutions and adapt to every situation, to every moment.
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