Central London Studios / Associated Press, London, UK

THE BRIEF

Fully HD-capable studios located in the heart INTEGRATION of central London, AP’s new facility needed to be state-of-the-art. They wanted to provide a real-life cityscape backdrop rather than green-screen, with a number of different-sized studios. The twelfth floor at New Zealand House gave the perfect 16-Camera aspect, overlooking London’s most recognisable landmarks, including Buckingham Palace, Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster and Big Ben. OB Vehicle A P commissioned C2S to design, build and maintain a five-studio news, play-out and edit facility, with multi-camera, single-camera and robotic-camera studios.

SPECIFICATION

• HD infrastructure with multi-definition Evertz video processing and Evertz 962 video router
• Sony HXC-100 Triax cameras and Sony HDC-P1 cameras on Bradley Engineering robotic heads
• Three individual control rooms (studio 1/studio 2/studios 3, 4 and 5), with Ross Video vision mixers and graphics, a combination of Soundcraft and Allen & Heath audio mixers, Bradley Engineering robotic controller, Grass Valley T2 DDRs and Sony HVR-1500 VTs
• Apple Final Cut Pro 7 workstations with Sony HVR-1500 ingest/record VTs and the ability to play out/record directly to and from transmission
• Custom-designed and fabricated technical furniture
• Custom-designed studio furniture with flexibility to personalise based on client requirements
• Remote colour temperature switchable LED studio lighting
• Five HD-SDI fibre in and five HD-SDI out, to and from A P switching facility to send and receive from anywhere in the world