SuperSport – OB1 & OB3 24-Camera

SuperSport – OB1 & OB3 24-Camera OB Truck Split Over Two Double Expander Vehicles, Nigeria

THE BRIEF

SuperSport wanted to enhance their coverage of Nigerian sports and prepare for HD. With a developing local skill set in Nigeria, SuperSport needed their new OBs to be as user-friendly as possible. Ease of set-up, ease of use and ease of upgrade were factors that needed to be addressed by the system design. Africa’s roads are often difficult to tackle with large vehicles, being narrow with sharp corners, frequently in poor condition. SuperSport needed all the functionality of state-of-the-art OB units, in a more mobile and versatile form.

Instead of the usual single-truck solution using articulated trailer-lorries, SuperSport wanted the systems designed around two smaller and more mobile rigid-chassis trucks, able to join together once on location and easier to manoeuvre on Nigerian roads.

SPECIFICATION

MAIN TRUCK – PRODUCTION:

Vision mixer – Sony MVS-8000 2.5ME 81 inputs 24 outputs 2 DME
Monitors – Sony LMD-2451 LCD
Multiviewers – Evertz VIPA
Harris clocks with Snell router panels and Telex comms panel
Genelec 8030A audio monitoring

MAIN TRUCK – VT/EVS CONTROL :

Wiring for six VTs and three dual-channel GFX Seven flexible EVS/GFX operator positions with independent audio monitoring
Sony LMD-2051 LCD displays router-driven for flexibility
Multiviewer feeds via the router from EVS MV outs and Evertz VIPA
Tech QC position with Tektronix WVR-5000 rasteriser

MAIN TRUCK – AUDIO :

Yamaha M7CL 48-fader console
Snell Pyxis audio router 144*144 AES set to mono with on-board analogue audio, Madi encode/decode with Dolby
Snell IQ modular interfacing including Dolby E on-card multiplexing Outboard effects
Wiring for 5.1 for two mixes
Two Telex Cronus talkback matrices with fibre linking to a third on the RACK truck
Telex radio and 2wire belt pack systems
Telex telephone hybrids with additional wiring for ISDN base stations
Two web-controllable Glensound commentator systems with AES interfacing

RACK TRUCK – VISION :

Five vision control positions
16 Sony HSC-300 triax camera channels
Three Sony HDC-1550 fibre camera channels with triax adapters
One Sony HDC-3300 super-slow-motion camera
Two Bradley Engineering fibre and PTZ head systems with Sony P1 HD Box Cameras
Sony PVM-L1700 monitoring
Tektronix WFM-5000 monitoring
Sony POE based RCP-1500s with MSU-1500
Genelec audio monitoring

RACK TRUCK – ENGINEERING :

Tektronix WFM7120 and Sony BVM-A14 HD CRT
Bel Audio Dolby-capable audio monitoring
Evertz high-density HD-SDI CDWM fibre solution for 96 paths
Snell Sirius 288×288 HD router with Aurora and Centra control systems
Snell IQ modular interfacing
Evertz MSC5600 SPG and changeover system
TSL control – Tallies, GPI and UMD
Five EVS XT2+ six-channel slow-motion machines with central storage and networking
VIPA multiviewers centralised for both trucks, feeding HD-SDI via router Master server control position