TV Azteca, owner of two networks national television and more than 300 stations in Mexico, has chosen Ikegami Editcam as a broad production medium, designed to meet program creation needs Television. The new generation of Editcam, the DNS-33W Editcam3 Ikegami with 520,000 pixel CCD is a camcorder that can record up to three hours of DV50 non-linear digital video (50Mbps) on an 80GB hard drive inside a FieldPak2 cartridge or on RAMPak flash memory packages.
We have a Avid editing infrastructure which we started using for news since 1997, explains Jorge Pickering, director of TV Azteca Production Services. Also we adopted Avid for soap opera production and now we are in the transition from tape to non-linear digital production, which includes news, sports, entertainment and programs Musical. We have standardized our production based on Avid networks and editing systems. Ikegami Editcam3 is a reliable solution for our workflow.
The characteristics of the Ikegami DNS-33W Editcam3 camcorder including innovations such as Retroloop (so traders don't miss a shot), the Timelapse style and intelligent recording, which automatically find space in the FieldPak2 for instant recordings at any time.
In addition, TV Azteca is buying 36 readers 36 SAT-110 to power the laptops of the journalists directly from FIeldPak2 cartridges.
With SAT-110 readers we can edit in field and transfer via IP or via of satellite some sports productions, he says Pickering. Other SAT-110 readers can be used in the Avid area related to the ingestion of material to our Servers. We manage our storage better.
TV Azteca has also acquired 20 Ikegami DNE-31 FieldPak2 tapeless recorders for use in production mobiles, for sports programs, musicals and other special events.
Pickering also notes that Mexico is undergoing a transition to HDTV. Are starting to acquire HD for some productions, we are getting trucks for HD production of sports and in the study we are working to fully understand the aspects behind the construction of HD sets, lighting and workflows for tapeless production environments.
At NAB 2005, Ikegami showed his Editcam HD camcorder, which uses Avid's DNxHD codecs to record high resolution 1920 by 1080 HD images that can be edited in real time on portable systems and Fixed. Editcam HD uses a data range of 145 Mbps for provide 1080/60i, 1080/24p and 720/60p recording and playback using FieldPak2. DNxHD codec supports up to 220 Mbps for future Formats.
