Emma Smith Video Projects Coordinator TNC 2014 Students Broadcasting in 4K, and other Adventures

2 main themes with student involvement: – Streaming NaSTA RSC/Ravensbourne College – Ultra High Definition Leeds University

2 main themes with student involvement: – Streaming NaSTA RSC/Ravensbourne College – Ultra High Definition Leeds University

Royal Shakespeare Company (part of the celebrations for the London 2012 Olympics) Collaborative project Approached by NaSTA - infrastructure for live streaming Streaming – background

1 origin and 3 edge servers (Wowza based) Run on Janet’s behalf by Streaming Wizard Capacity for 3000 HD viewers and 5000 SD total when streaming at 1Mb/s – Or in the case of an audio only stream at a 128kb/s, a potential of at least 15,000 listeners Freely available to every NaSTA affiliated station Used by RSC with university student involvement Future…. …working on a Live Event Streaming Service Current Janet Streaming Platform

NaSTAvision – Over 500 viewers NUTS/TrentTV Varsity Ice Hockey – Collaboration between stations reaching over 1500 viewers 2013 – Over 14,000 visits to the servers More that 3Tb of bandwidth used by all stations combined Some examples

RSC Events nd July – I, Cinna th November - Richard II th and 30 th June - Henry IV part 1 and 2

Benefits Benefits to NaSTA – Access to ad-free streaming servers – Centralised support Benefits to Ravensbourne – International broadcast capability – Student “real world” experience – Working with prestigious client

2 main themes with student involvement: – Streaming NaSTA RSC/Ravensbourne College – Ultra High Definition – Leeds University

UHD Home TV’s 4K/Quad TV (3840×2160)

Ultra High Definition Showcase project Continued support for research and education 4k equipment available Supporting investigation into 4k broadcast streams Investigating software and hardware available

Super Hi-Vision & the Olympics

UHD Special Interest Group Representatives from universities and BBC R&D Aims of the group: To help shape the development of UHD technology on the Janet network Identify an application(s) for the use of ultra high definition within the Janet community Help define the route of a future trial Discuss and identify what is required to provide and eventually improve the technology Identify potential technical, technological, process and usability issues with the technology

Networkshop 42 Annual event Held at a Leeds University Past few years have included demonstrations 2013 – LOLA demo 2014 – UHD demo

5 – 10 minute light hearted film Demonstrating UHD technology Collaborative project Giving students opportunity to use technology Piece for student showreel Student Contribution

Dell T5610 CTO and Nvidia Quadro k5000 Asus PQ321QE 31.5” 4k monitor Sony FDR-AX1 camera – 4 x 32Gb XQD cards Media Composer 7 & Da Vinci Resolve Janet Equipment

Weekend shoot at Janet – 6 Person film crew – 2 Make up artists – 2 actors Remainder filmed in Leeds – Music and sound effects created by music students Supervised by lecturer

Film

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