In the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021, held last February in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), Infront Productions, the broadcast partner of the FIS Championships, relied on a host of Lawo technologies, including Virtual Studio Manager as IP broadcast and workflow solutions.
In addition, for IBC/MCR operations and feed distribution, the company deployed Lawo IP broadcast infrastructure with V__matrix, software-defined IP Core routing, processing & multi-viewing platform, and the V__matrix vm_dmv distributed 4K IP multiviewer as major pillars.
The V_matrix system is identical to the one deployed by Infront Productions for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship 2021 in Oberstdorf (Germany) that followed, comprising 24 competitions. Each of the V__matrix setups used for the two championships utilized 41 C100 processing blades for streaming plus seven C100 configured with vm_dmv multi-viewing functionality.
The VSM studio control system not only provides straightforward routing management but, with its configuration, it enables flexibility and modularity so that it does not require reconfiguration for each event. “The operators can create their own individual profiles on the software panel which can be used across all software panels which are available in the system,” explains Filip Vojsovic, System Engineer at Lawo.
Vojsovic adds, “Thus, signal allocations on any of the panel positions can be adapted to the users’ best needs, with all profiles saved and recalled by the push of a button. In contrast to operator views, the administrator management setting opens many different sections that allows for a more detailed technical configuration.”
