All the firepower of new technologies on Cinevideo's new mobile vehicle, Waves 12G

Confirming the layout and general configuration - considered optimal - of the previous and most recent mobile vehicle for television production called “Dolphin 7.0”, here is the launch of the new twin truck by Cinevideo, called “Waves 12G”.

The new trailer becomes the second UHD HDR vehicle of the Pescara-based company, active in the world of television production since 1983, which has made a name starting from a long experience for RAI and commercial TV stations, thanks to the much appreciated triad of reliability, quality and economic optimization.

The new Waves 12G vehicle, built on a Cinevideo project by Aret both in terms of structure (Aret Coachworks) and system integration, is born as an almost mirror-like twin of the already known, Dolphin 7.0, engineered and presented at IBC in 2017.

The two vehicles are built to work as twins in total integration at all levels, audio, video and intercom, so as to increase the potential on productions where two main control rooms and two backups are needed.

In general, the new Waves 12G mobile vehicle is a 14-meter three-axle trailer, equipped with double expansion, which develops a work surface of about 60 square meters in operational mode.

To be able to deal with multiple events at the same time, host broadcasting and unilateral personalized, it provides three separate entrances for technical and artistic staff: Tecnica, Regia 1 and Regia 2.

Andrea Buonomo, Cinevideo technical director and Executive Sales Manager underlines:

"The technological heart of the new Waves 12G is the most advanced the market can offer today as it is entirely made to support current processes in 4K and even beyond in the future, thanks to 12G SDI: a no compromise realization".

Initially scheduled for launch on last June 2020, it suffered heavy delays in construction due to the pandemic that has postponed its launch, first at a scheduled presentation at the IBC fair in Amsterdam, then canceled, and then in November.

A first phase of engagement, almost a test, was thus carried out on 7 November 2020 on the occasion of the Parma - Fiorentina match broadcast live by DAZN.

However, the official presentation of the vehicle coincides with 23 February 2021, the date set for the European launch of the innovative video mixer implemented on board by the manufacturing company, Ross Video.

The new Ultrix-Acuity video mixer is in fact an innovative equipment, completely 12G and incorporated within an Ultrix matrix, chosen precisely because all the on-board technology operates in this format and includes all Ross Video material.

Ultrix on board matrices have up to 152 12G / 4K inputs / outputs.

Ross describes this new mixer calling it “the best performing on the market” since it was created precisely to avoid reducing the inputs by 4 when operating in this format.

Up to now, in fact, even when operating, for example, with a high-end mixer equipped with 160 inputs, working in 4K these inputs were reduced to 40, with a further reduction of resources such as mix effects / ram recorder / keys.

Andrea Buonomo resumes: "This Ross Video mixer, which is at the first official implementation in EMEA with Cinevideo, was born from a very innovative perspective: exactly as we needed it is native to 4K and therefore it is also native to resources and was created for this format also as mix effects.

In a 4K production we will not have to reduce the available resources since it comes with 4 4K effect banks, 6 keys for each effect bank, 3D DVE 4K, up to 4 ram recorder fill / key for each effect bank usable on the whole system (therefore 16 ram recorder fill / key in total). Each effect bank can be split in two to get 8 4K banks.

Until yesterday we did not have adequate machine computing capacity available and therefore we had to manage resources in the best possible way."

Everything on board is double and redundant starting from the double audio gallery, double video gallery and many are the technological gems adopted: among these the new IP matrix Riedel 1024 for the intercom and two Audio control desks by Calrec, an Artemis and a Brio.

Equally important, on board, is the Riedel Bolero wireless intercom system, already implemented on the Dolphin 7.0 and which allows to work in total synergy between the 2 ObVans.

The slow motion and production server section adopts EVS equipment; all monitor is by Sony and the latest addition, the Sony 4K PXW-2400 HDR monitor, is also hosted.

The entire conversion section for HDR is performed by Sony HDRC 4000 equipments.

Andrea Buonomo concludes: "On the Doplhin 7.0 a part of the matrix operates in 12G, but on the new Waves 12G everything is created with 12G technology and, at the moment, it is the only vehicle that mounts a matrix with main layer from 152 X 152 to 12G (comparable to a 608x608 HD3G), plus a second matrix, that of the mixer, of 80X80, always 12G.

On all the inputs De-Embedder are provided and on all the outputs Embedder up to 16 audio channels each, as well as a number of flexible licenses for 12G frame syncronizer to be assigned to inputs as needed.

Thanks to Ross Gator Sync systems, on the cameras we can create delays in 4K for the insertion of virtual advertising.

This procedure which is now acquired in HD, until yesterday was much more difficult to carry out on a 4K signal.

Ross GATOR-SYNC Gearbox Cards allow to perform frame syncronizer and delay of 4 12G signals for each card up to 79 frames in HD and 14 frames in UHD.

All Sony 4300 cameras are licensed in 4K and are 3X slow motion on board equipped; two of the cameras on board were licensed to shoot 8X and then Cinevideo is historically well known for its expertise in Hyper Slow Motion up to 2000 FPS since 2012, and still provides UltraEmotion systems on all the most important Serie A matches.

The last event played on the pitch by Waves 12G OB vehicle is the Champions League match on February 23rd at the Olimpico Stadium between Lazio and Bayer Monaco, as a 4K integration for SKY Italia.

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