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    Brazil’s largest pay TV service Globosat, the pay-TV division of Grupo Globo has implemented Vizrt's Virtual studio Viz, broadcast graphics, sports analysis and media asset management tools for multiple operations at the summer Games. Globosat operates 16 linear TV channels for both satellite and online delivery.

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    Globo is running two channels with Viz Opus, with production crews for the two channels working side by side in the same control room, each using Viz Opus to control the entire channel.

    Typically producing an average of 70 different live sports events each weekend, Globosat has expanded its operation this summer with 13 (so what is it 13, or 16 as we are told by Tektronix, or 12 as offered by at least one European broadcaster, Globo acts as host broadcaster on the event) temporary channels dedicated to covering sports events from the summer Games. Each channel is running entirely on a Viz Opus control-room-in-a-box system which manages live sources, video, graphics, audio and commercial break content. Viz Opus has been integrated with Globosat’s traffic system, IBMS, to manage content for the commercial breaks, using Vizrt’s Showmaker rundown management tool for Viz Opus to organize and play out the content through the Viz Opus system. At the same time, Showmaker is also exporting and updating the as run commercial breaks list in Globosat’s traffic system.

    In 2015, the broadcaster installed Viz Mosart studio automation systems in all 12 production control rooms at its permanent Rio de Janeiro-based production center. All are currently being used to produce live coverage of the Games and feature real-time graphics and video controlled by the Viz Trio playlist controller which is played through Viz Engine.

    “We needed a fast and efficient way to easily manage the massive amount of content coming in from the Games. This will include video, audio, data and multiple live feeds for the 8 of the 16 dedicated channels,” said Mr. Lourenço Carvano, Engineering Director of Globosat. “We’re very confident in Viz Mosart’s ability to manage our existing control rooms, while using Viz Opus allows us to use minimal staffing to maintain a consistent graphics design across all of our additional channels, simultaneously feeding live video streams with local audio and adding custom commercial breaks from a single, cost-effective solution.”

    Showmaker that runs thecommercials is also used to create the playlist of events that are triggered in Viz Opus.

    With such an in-depth archive of programming, Globosat uses Vizrt’s enterprise-level Media Asset Management (MAM) system Viz One to manage its extensive amount of content. For the summer Games, Globosat is using Viz One to manage a huge amount of content for use in its analysis shows. The production teams are using the system throughout production for ingest, cataloging, archiving and editing. Viz One includes powerful logging capabilities which let users enrich metadata by adding new markers, keywords, annotations and scene descriptors. All of this functionality lets Globosat streamline the workflow and helps editors, producers and journalists find the right files as quickly as possible.

    All the video content from Viz One is being played live on air through the same Viz Engine video servers that will be outputting graphics from the control room.

    To further enhance Globosat’s Games programming, augmented reality (AR) graphics systems have been implemented into the broadcaster’s studio on location in Rio. The AR graphics, powered by Viz Virtual Studio, feature scoreboards, explainer graphics and several other designs to help presenters illustrate post-event analysis.

    “For such important cultural events like these Games, audience enrichment is paramount,” said Petter Ole Jakobsen, Vizrt CTO. “In order to deliver this to its viewers watching the Games in their home country in Brazil, Globosat has created an extremely powerful, but very efficient workflow using the strengths of each of our tools".

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    Globosat, one of Latin America’s biggest pay TV players and Brazil’s leading multi-channel broadcaster and content provider, is using Elemental video processing to stream live and video-on-demand (VOD) coverage, including catch-up TV functionality, of this summer’s biggest global sports event to its estimated 50 million subscribers.

    Additionally, the Rio de Janeiro-based cable and satellite company plans to use solutions from Elemental to support the future deployment of SMPTE 2022-6 (SDI over IP) to efficiently transport media signals over IP networks for reduced complexity and cost.

    “With Globosat’s unprecedented coverage of the competitions this summer, we are setting a new landmark to the live televised Olympic Games. Subscribers can have access to one hundred percent of the events - whenever they like and on whatever device they like,” said Roberto Primo, Chief Technology Officer for Globosat. “Elemental gives us the flexibility we need for our multi-channel, multi-platform approach to showing every moment of the action. The scalability of Elemental is also key.”

    Multiple premier broadcasters, pay TV providers and sports programmers plan to use Elemental gear to power the streaming of this summer’s largest sporting event. Globosat is producing the worldwide signal for the event and is part of the Grupo Globo portfolio of media companies, which reach 99.7 percent of the Brazilian territory. The Brazilian pay TV leader is broadcasting the sports event to its viewers in Brazil via satellite, cable, fiber, 3G, 4G networks and streaming live and VOD IP video channels. Globosat channels reach about 50 million viewers throughout the entire national territory, distributed to more than 16 million subscriber residences. According to Globosat, more than 17.2 million viewers watch its channels daily.

    To meet massive consumer demand for live-streamed coverage of the events, Globosat is adding an additional 8 high definition (HD) channels – for a total of 16 HD channels – to its output and an additional 40 services. Signals are generated at an international broadcast center located in the center of Rio de Janeiro and then transmitted to the Globosat broadcast center, also located in the city. Elemental Live software encodes the content for live over-the-top delivery, including programming in 4K.  Elemental Live will also record and trim catch-up TV deliverables for distribution over different VOD platforms, including Net Brazil.

    A further innovation on the part of Globosat is the use of IP transmission from the international broadcasting center to the Globosat facility. The workflow employs both HD-SDI and SMPTE 2022-6, a standard for transporting high bitrate media signals over IP networks, to packetize and deliver 1.6 Gb/s streams for each channel over standard fiber, which reduces the capital cost of installing multiple dedicated video circuits.

    “Globosat sets a new standard when it comes to innovating immersive viewer experiences,” said Dan Marshall, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Elemental. “Our support of Globosat demonstrates clearly that, through what may well be the most-watched television programming of the year, Elemental is absolutely built for prime time video workflows. We can provide – on-premises or in the cloud – encoding, storage and packaging solutions that deliver quality, performance and reliability.”

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    • #3
      Elemental (acquired last year by Amazon Web Services) provided a full suite of live video encoding and packaging solutions to enable NET, a leading provider of pay TV and broadband Internet access services in Brazil, to offer additional services and increase content variety. The platform allows NET to deliver 40 IP-based channels to multiscreen devices and hybrid set-top boxes, which are also handling multiple HD channels broadcasted in traditional DVB technology. This represents the first time NET is using both DVB and IP for live broadcasting services, including a dedicated experimental transmission in 4K in conjunction with one of the world’s largest sports events.

      Multiple premier broadcasters, pay TV providers and sports programmers plan to use Elemental video processing and delivery software to power the streaming of this major event.

      NET is part of America Movil, the largest telecom service provider in Latin America and the fourth biggest globally in terms of equity subscribers. In Brazil, the group also holds Embratel, with strong leadership in the B2B segment, and Claro, one of the biggest mobile companies in the country. The group is a leading local player in pay TV, fixed broadband and mobile data.

      Additionally, NET is using AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Service’s serverless compute offering, to insert static images into broadcast channels during “blackout” periods, when there is no event or content is unavailable. The Lambda function inserts a static image with a custom message into the video stream during such periods, which keeps viewers informed and engaged during event transitions.

      “We wanted to give our subscribers the freedom to watch whatever they choose, at home or on the go. From events that generate massive simultaneous audiences to long tail programming, mixing broadcast, cloud and IP technologies” said Marcio Carvalho, Marketing and Products Director for NET. “Our video platform has to scale rapidly to provide as many streams as our subscribers demand, with quality, flexibility and complete reliability. Elemental demonstrated to us that its solutions could deliver this.”

      One of Brazil’s largest pay TV content producers, Globosat - which also uses Elemental video processing solutions – is sending 40 raw channels over IP to NET. Embratel provides the network backbone for channel transport and also the cloud infrastructure, where the signals are transcoded to multi-bitrate services using Elemental Live virtual machines instances. After encryption, channels are ready for distribution over the NET content delivery network (CDN) to hybrid set-top boxes and multiscreen devices.

      Elemental Live is also being used to burn in the SporTV application logo into signals at the appropriate resolution for multiscreen delivery. For additional workflow streamlining, the Elemental Delta video delivery platform is being used for just-in-time packaging functionality to create streams as they are required, for many different type of devices and platforms.

      “Host nations of major global events have particularly high expectations of live television coverage. At Elemental, we are pleased to be involved with multiple broadcast, pay TV and OTT customers supporting the major sports events in Brazil,” said Dan Marshall, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations for Elemental. “The same technology from Elemental is already powering services globally, day after day, year after year.”

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