Author: Tanya Rai

InBroadcast – global broadcast industry monthly magazine | Article

Written by Cristian Recoseanu, Development Lead at Pebble

One of the consistent rules of our industry is that every broadcast engineer and content producer needs to connect equipment. Whether working in SDI or IP, signals need to be routed and switched around your setting, be that a production facility, a playout centre, a regional broadcast station, or an OB truck.

In the world of SDI there are lots of options to help you do this. But in IP environments connection and device management becomes a whole lot more complex. For every device joining your network, you need to set an IP address so it’s visible to the network, and then for each output on each device you need to allocate a multicast address and a multicast port for video, for audio, and for ancillary data.

In an IP environment, it’s also more difficult to lock and synchronise all these sources together. You can’t simply run a genlock cable and plug it in as you would in the SDI world — you will need to set all the PTP (precision time protocol) parameters for each device. You can, of course, do all of this manually for every client that joins the network, but this is cumbersome, time-consuming, and provides an increased likelihood of making errors. And given some broadcast environments where you only have a couple of buttons and a very small display on which to work, it can be extremely fiddly, challenging, and time-consuming…

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IBC 365 Article

Written by Michael Burns with contribution from Director of Sales & Marketing at Pebble – Alison Pavitt

How are vendors and manufacturers making sure their products and services support broadcasters, platforms and content creators in their efforts to make broadcast and film a more sustainable operation? Michael Burns finds those who serve the media industry are ready for climate action.

How are vendors and manufacturers making sure their products and services support broadcasters, platforms and content creators in their efforts to make broadcast and film a more sustainable operation? Michael Burns finds those who serve the media industry are ready for climate action.

“Being green in the movies is no longer something reserved for The Hulk. It is a responsibility for every one of us in the industry,” says Bill Admans, SVP Operations at Ownzones.

“Environmental sustainability is an essential cultural pillar for many of our customers. They expect their vendors and suppliers to… 

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Column | Newscast Studio – US trade publication for broadcast production

Written by David Kicks, VP of Sales for The Americas at Pebble.

Listen up, class. There was a time when runners – actual people – would physically carry a tape from the local production house to the broadcast studio just to ensure a commercial played at the scheduled time and kept the advertisers happy.

That sounds like a ready-made seminar lecture in Broadcast 101, but it’s a lesson worth learning. To understand the future, and the importance, of broadcast automation we first have to appreciate its history….

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