A Collectv Christmas
Merry Christmas to all our clients, suppliers, supporters and followers. Thank you for all your help to get us up and running in our first year! Best wishes and Happy New Year!
The light goes down on the 2014 Formula 1 Season
Following 18 races around the world this year, it has come down to the last round of the Formula One World Championship in Abu Dhabi for the title decider. We are on air for an extended period, with some shows also watchable on Sky 1, to cover this exciting weekend with Sky Sports and Timeline Television.
Keep an eye out for a behind the scenes walk through of some of our systems, due to be televised on Sky Sports during the weekend. This is our last race using this technical set-up and an exciting opportunity to see how we’ve all helped make it happen over the last three years. Over the last year we have recorded over 1900 hours of material into the OB system to aid the Sky Sports Production team remain Formula 1 Broadcaster of the year.
Tungsten Tension
We're at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton for the Grand Slam of Darts 2014 on Sky Sports. The big names have been battling it out all week and we're left with only 8 contenders ahead of the final on Sunday night. All the action is live on Sky Sports 1. This week also saw the launch of a Sky Sports Darts channel, which goes live on 18th December, the first day of the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace. We're delighted to be involved in such a massive event over the festive period. Check back for more updates this week, as we head to Abu Dhabi for the culmination of the 2014 F1 season!
The Collectv signs Sky Sports contract
We are proud to announce that we have secured a contract with BSkyB supplying location edit and media management services covering all major Sky Sports’ Darts events from 2014, throughout 2015 and into 2016 in Hamburg, Dublin, Wolverhampton, London (Alexandra Palace), and Blackpool. The contract has scope to include other sporting events on an ad hoc basis. We've been working with Sky to establish a new workflow using EVS IP Director integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, a pioneering workflow in this area of the industry. Also, using Pixstor storage allows editors and the production team to access the same media simultaneously, cutting down significantly on storage costs and transfer times that can be problematic in existing workflows.
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October Peak
This week has been the busiest of the year so far for The Collectv with a number of jobs happening across Europe.
We started the week flying straight from Japan to Russia while trying to avoid the typhoons, for Sky Sports F1 with Timeline Television, for the debut Russian Grand Prix in Sochi.
Meanwhile we have had a team in Dublin working on the week long World Grand Prix of Darts for Sky Sports. Using our latest system, which has seamlessly integrated into CTV OB’s infrastructure to help provide fast stable turn around edits, media management and prep stations. Halfway through the week we saw a stunning match with two nine-darters from a single match for James Wade and Robert Thornton, from a competition that had only ever seen one nine-darter previously!
Our consultancy work at BBC has continued with the successful delivery of the first DPP compliant programme going to air on Sunday 12th October, The Antiques Roadshow. Also our first long-form logging, record and edit solution based at an independent production company in the south of England has been carrying on, now well into their edit schedule, we will be releasing more details on this soon.
At the same time we’re providing people for Horse of the Year Show for Sky Sports at the LG Arena in Birmingham, working closely alongside our friends at Telegenic. Who will be crowned Leading Show Jumper of the Year at The World’s Most Famous Horse Show on tonight’s live programme?