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New F&F Productions Truck with Grass Valley Live Multi-Format HD Production Technologies to Debut at 2010 U.S. Open
By Staff
posted Sep 2, 2010, 15:48 |
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(Paris, France/Nevada City, CA.) Veteran mobile production company F&F
Productions, based in Clearwater, Fla., officially debuts its new GTX-16 mobile
production truck in New York (August 30-September 12), to help televise the
2010 U.S. Open Tennis tournament on CBS Sports. The sophisticated, HD-capable
production truck features a Grass Valley™ Kayenne™ Video Production
Center and a Grass Valley four-channel K2 Summit™-based ClipStore System,
for producing both sports and live entertainment programs in HD.
During the final week of the world-famous tennis tournament in September, the
Grass Valley Kayenne will be at the heart of the GTX-16 truck, which will be
on-site outside Arthur Ashe Stadium managing dozens of camera feeds and animated
on-air graphics. GTX-16 is the fifth truck in the F&F Productions fleet
to be based around a Grass Valley HD video production switcher.
“We continue to choose Grass Valley switchers because of their reliability
factor, which is most important to our clients,” said Ryan Hatch, Senior
Vice President at F&F Productions. “We also like the Kayenne’s
features and color-coded control panel, which is easy to operate for the crews
and gives us a lot of flexibility to produce all types of live productions.”
Once it completes its assignment at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., GTX-16
will work with CBS Sports on a number of college football games, to be televised
in 1080i HD.
“F&F Productions is always very careful about the equipment we choose
for our trucks,’’ said Marc Orgera, Vice President of Sales at F&F
Productions. “Our experience with Grass Valley technology has been very
positive, both financially and technically.”
The Kayenne ClipStore replay system installed in GTX-16 is based around a 4-channel
K2 Summit™ production client, providing a platform for instant, non-volatile
replay of more than 10 hours of video, key, and audio clips.
"F&F's GTX-16 is just the latest in a long line of trucks that are
equipped with the Kayenne Video Production Center and the Kayenne ClipStore
system," said Jeff Rosica, Senior Vice President of Grass Valley. "Truck
operators the world over have discovered the operational flexibility provided
by Kayenne and the economical creativity provided by theClipStore system."
Resources:
http://www.grassvalley.com
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