Responsible for much of Italy’s leading commercial TV programming, Videotime has completed the refurbishment of Studio 10 at its Milan HQ – moving to a Dante Audio-over-IP infrastructure with SSL’s System T broadcast audio production environment at its heart.
Used for entertainment and talk shows, as well as one-off large-scale broadcast events, Studio 10 runs up to 12 HD cameras, along with two live translation booths. The System T installation comprises three-bay, 48-fader S500 control surface, redundant T80 Tempest Audio Engines, plus SSL Network I/O stageboxes and SDI bridges, supplied by Italian SSL distributor and systems integrator CaBlaTeam.
One particular aspect of System T that appealed to Videotime was its control interface; specifically, the flexible nature of control across the S500 surface suits Studio 10’s busy production schedule. ‘Processing control particularly,’ says Videotime Project Engineer, Luca Gherardi. ‘It can be approached in different ways – different “control modes”. Quite a few different engineers use the System T in Studio 10, and each one has their own particular configuration and approach.’
Another advantage is the slimming down of the overall infrastructure that comes with System T’s network-native architecture and routing system, incorporating network-wide Dante routing.
‘System T has made the whole installation much simpler,’ adds Videotime Service Engineer, Marco Cosso. ‘We’ve removed almost all patchbays and we no longer need the audio side of our studio’s A/V matrix. All audio routing is done by System T via Dante – when you load a show file, you load all audio routing. That’s a big advantage.’
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