Panasonic: 150 cameras and 31 mixers for Paris 2024

Paris 2024 will have, as has been customary in the last Olympic Games, with a very complete deployment of solutions for Panasonic that will pursue intelligent resource management with less use of hardware and greater operational efficiency.

Panasonic has offered in NAB 2024 the first details of his participation in the next Olympics, an area in which the company has been 40 years pouring their efforts into “disciplines” such as capture, production, sound systems in venues or projection. Looking ahead to Paris 2024, the technology company has been involved in the co-creation of production, the setup of equipment, the construction of the IBC (International Broadcasting Center) systems and the maintenance of equipment. As it could not be otherwise, its teams will play a central role in the production of OBS through 150 camera systems, 31 switchers (including systems Kairos), audio systems in 24 venues or more than 500 screens. All these solutions, detailed Stephen Milley, director of professional imaging Business Unit at Panasonic, will focus on the goal of building “the best Olympic Games in history.”

The search for the resolution, image fidelity y staging will continue to be a central pillar of the Olympic technological commitment, although Paris 2024 will mark a before and after regarding the management of technological resources. Looking ahead to the appointment, Panasonic y Olympic Broadcasting Services will address innovative approaches that seek reduce hardware installation y optimize processes through initiatives such as the implementation of several Kairos systems as a production platform. In the words of Andre Meretian, director of professional video systems business unit for EMEA, each Kairos system “may manage the production of three venues”, which reduces installation costs and hardware space by 60% “compared to other Olympic games.” John Pearce, director venue technical operations of OBS, has placed special emphasis on the deployment of virtual mobile units, detailed in this article by his colleague Isidoro Moreno.

Premieres at NAB 2024

In order to address the new production stage In traditional broadcast workflows, marked by massive demand for content with fewer resources, Panasonic has introduced two solutions to the US market that European users were able to discover at ISE 2024.

The system AT-KC200L1 llega to serve as a bridge from SDI to IP. The system shares the same functionalities as the Kairos Core 200 (AT-KC200), although including pre-installed SDI inputs and outputs, as well as a traditional SDI port that supports 24 inputs and 12 UHD outputs. Ready to advance in the future, the equipment is compatible with the card QSDP 100 NIC.

Panasonic also has Media Production Suite (MPS), a solution that grants access to multiple functions on a single GUI screen in small and medium-sized productions. This innovative solution streamlines camera setup and provides a wide range of features to make it easy to produce high-quality video with small equipment. Among its most notable functions is Device View, which centralizes the management of different PTZ cameras from a single PC or PTZ Control, with which users can adjust the camera's pan, tilt, and zoom, among other features. The system will grow with future paid features such as the plug-in Video Mixer, which will take advantage of AI to eliminate the need for a green background when composing scenes.

As a world premiere, Panasonic has introduced the new PTZ AW-UE30W/K, which combines high-quality 4K/30p video with a 20x optical zoom and a 74.1° wide-angle lens. This “basic” camera is not aimed at the broadcast environment, but rather at corporate environments such as conference systems and streaming services that seek IP and USB outputs.