Eagle Research chosen for Iron Maiden DVD

Posted by Shaman on October 23, 2003 @ 19:10

The following item was published on September 2 at the IABM web site regarding a possibly Iron Maiden DVD recorded during Download Rock Festival, in Donnington Park:

"Eagle Research chosen for Iron Maiden DVD 02 September 2003

Donnington Park was the venue for this year’s Download Rock Festival. Headline band, Iron Maiden called upon Trimedia Broadcast, Eagle Research authorised reseller for the UK, to provide a solution to footage acquisition for a live DVD.

Producing a tour DVD is a complex procedure. After a gruelling year out “on the road” bands amass literally thousands of hours of raw footage – all of which needs sorting, cataloguing, digitising and eventually editing. A huge and time consuming job.

Trimedia Broadcast introduced Iron Maiden Crew to studiopro from Eagle Research. Using the Donnington festival as a real world trial, Eagle Research and Trimedia Broadcast engineers installed a five camera studiopro (studiopro 5000).

The band were being filmed by a number of cameras around the stage and displayed on two huge LED displays, known as “Jumbo-Trons.” The output of these cameras was being mixed by a vision mixer in a truck back stage. The output of each of these cameras was also sent to the studiopro along with the vision mixer operations. Immediately the concert finished, all footage was ready for further enhanced editing without having time consuming processes of digitising material etc.

studiopro is a 4U rackmount system with seven SDI video inputs and considerable storage. Each camera was recorded at broadcast quality, directly to hard drive. As the vision mixer switches camera a signal is sent to the camera that lights a red light in the operator’s viewfinder. studiopro monitors this signal (called Tally) and records every cut the vision mixer makes. Instantly this is displayed in a nonlinear editing package’s timeline.

This means that the band can review the footage of a concert, instantly, after the gig. All the cameras were recorded, so if a cut was late or if there was a better camera angle it can be changed instantly. Whereas if it had been conventionally recorded to tape, the rushes would have to be digitised and a second generation copy made to fix any mistakes. Using studio Pro has meant that the band can have instant access to a rough edit; removed the need to lay-off rushes and increased the quality of the end product –at the same time reducing production costs.

www.eagle.gr"

Thanks to well-i-never

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