L-S-B Broadcast Technologies, a German company which manufactures control systems for radio and television production, will demonstrate the key features of its Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) in a simulated master control room (MCR) environment at the Cabsat professional content management event in Dubai from 11 to 13 March.
VSM services a wide range of demands, whether for 4K, remote production, streaming, signal path visualisation or multi-channel broadcasting. It is mainly used in television and radio studio environments, MCRs, mobile production and remote production environments.
The demonstration at Cabsat will show many aspects of VSMs use in practice, including the ability to prepare and store production settings offline for manual or scheduled recall into any available studio’s resources.
MCR environment
VSM manages OnAir and rehearsal requests for studios, and monitors the signals and devices. As it is able to represent an additional studio as a virtual resource, productions settings and workflows are able to be created and tested without using the physical resources. The stored settings can then be recalled to any available physical studio and control room using VSM’s boxing function.
Pooling helps simplify and automate signal management within a MCR. VSM is able to integrate a collection of devices between a signal source and target by automatically recognising, simplifying and automating them in the signal path out of this pool. Should one of the selected devices fail, it is identified as faulty until the fault is remedied while VSM automatically re-routes the signals to other devices in the pool without any operator involvement.
Other studio set-up features include the routing of video signals, tally, labelling, intercom control and Video Server control.
Operational environment
Individually configured graphical user interfaces, which also represent streams in real time, are how control and monitoring is achieved in an operational environment.
By pressing a single button, the boxing function is able to store hardware and software configurations of complete studio and production units as a single entity for retrieval.
Production environment
Boxing is therefore the ultimate solution for disaster / recovery and production preparation in a production setting, enabling every available studio to be used as a back-up studio, even when the hardware installed isn’t the same.
Visit the L-S-B Broadcast Technologies Cabsat stand at Booth 420 in Hall 4.
Visit the L-S-B Broadcast Technologies website for more information.
