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‘The two DK units have been installed in our new Avid suites in London. We will be expanding our overseas operations later this year and will include more DK units in those buildings for a variety of different roles. We also hope to have a few shared units for our VOD Avid Newscutter clipping suites,’ says Perform Engineering Project Manager Mike Edwards.
‘The PT0710 allowed us to purchase the frame and add cards as required as our workflow and technology changes,’ he continues. ‘For our overseas facilities, we needed something that could be accessed remotely over the LAN. The unit’s LAN control means that our operators can view sources remotely via the network.
Edwards adds that Perform’s VOD teams needed something that could be shared across several Avid newscutter clipping suites for colour correction and audio metering.
‘Our clipping stations don’t usually require the use of a waveform monitor but we realised that at busy times, if the clipping stations had access to a waveform monitor and audio meters, it would reduce time required for finishing in the Avid Composer suites. The DK solution allows us to have a shared waveform monitor on the router which we can access remotely from the suite over the LAN. This means that we don’t have to go down the expensive of route of equipping all of the clipping suites with waveform monitors that will only be used for a few hours a day.’
Established in 2007, Perform is based in the UK and employs more than 470 staff worldwide. The company uses leading production, technical and publishing solutions to power hundreds of digital channels that distribute video, editorial, audio and data content across multiple platforms, to millions of sport fans around the world. Perform currently owns or manages 346 digital channels and streams over 15,000 live events, distributes 15,000 editorial stories and 8,000 video news stories every year.
Perform is now testing its DK units and Edwards reports that they are working well: ‘We are a new media company and, to me, this is a new media product that suits our multi-platform products,’ he says. ‘The fact that we can easily upgrade the software and hardware on the systems – and the LAN control – were major selling points and we hope to get the shared units in the near future.’
