{"id":4045,"date":"2021-12-13T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestudiomap.com\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:56:39","slug":"timeline-television-launches-new-ealing-broadcast-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestudiomap.com\/timeline-television-launches-new-ealing-broadcast-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline Television launches new Ealing Broadcast Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timeline Television has had a base at Ealing Studios for some time but recently have launched a major new broadcast facility which will be known as the Ealing Broadcast Centre<\/strong> (EBC). Timeline has collaborated with MOOV TV, specialists in broadcast graphics and virtual studios, on the build of the virtual studio.<\/p>\n

The state-of-the-art 9700 sq. ft broadcast facility is set over three floors and includes:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A flexible 2000 sq. ft virtual reality studio with a 4.5m high lighting grid and a fully configured multi-camera VR system using Unreal Engine and Brainstorm InfinitySet
\n\u2022 Mo-Sys StarTracker system enables full 3D VR tracking on all types of cameras
\n\u2022 Predesigned and customisable high-end VR studio sets
\n\u2022 Green Cyc for virtual studios or black Cyc for physical sets
\n\u2022\u00a0Dressing rooms \/make-up rooms
\n\u2022 Large production offices
\n\u2022 Green rooms
\n\u2022 Spacious full online edit suites
\n\u2022 VOBooths
\n\u2022\u00a0Triple-row production control rooms
\n\u2022 Large VT replay room
\n\u2022 Large tier-three data centre
\n\u2022 Global connectivity to all major hubs including BT Tower, NEP Connect, TATA
\n\u2022 Satellite downlink capability<\/p>\n

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An insightful article on ibc.com titled “How We Built It: Timeline\u2019s Ealing Broadcast Centre<\/strong>” details the expansion of the new studios and production facilities near its home base in Ealing, west London, and how they designed the studio to cater for both hard sets and virtual studios:<\/p>\n

“Outside broadcast and facilities company Timeline Television is expanding, with new studios and production facilities near its home base in Ealing, west London.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ealing Broadcast Centre is the next phase in Timeline\u2019s studio and production gallery offering,\u201d according to David Harnett, its Head of Operations.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the basement there is \u201ca 2000sqft studio, with a 4.5m-high lighting grid, that\u2019s supplemented with four dressing rooms, VR room [because it\u2019s got a big virtual studio element to it], and a vision and lighting control room\u201d. To add to the flexibility, the dressing rooms can also be used for voiceovers.<\/em><\/p>\n

On the third floor there is a large triple-row gallery, a spacious production office, eight edit suites, a Master Control Room, a VT\/replay room, edit support room and two voiceover booths.<\/em><\/p>\n

The expansion has been driven by demand for large-scale studio shows. \u201cWe were turning down quite a lot of work over previous years where we didn\u2019t have a large studio facility this side of London,\u201d he explains. While Timeline runs BT Sport\u2019s technical facilities in the Olympic Park in east London, and have been using those studios for third-party clients, not having anything in its Ealing centre \u201cwas causing us some commercial issues\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Timeline is based at Ealing Studios, but it was difficult to get to use those studios because they are so busy doing feature films, and trying to fit in a sports show over a weekend isn\u2019t really commercially viable. Timeline needed greater flexibility and to be able to bring a show in on a Thursday, out on a Monday, \u201cand that\u2019s where the virtual studio side comes in really nicely.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hard sets always take quite a lot of time to rig, and while we can absolutely do hard sets, we\u2019ve designed the studio to do both hard sets and virtual studios, but the offering we feel is better for the market generally is a virtual studio.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Timeline doesn\u2019t do virtual graphics so partnered with Moov, which has installed the Mo-Sys StarTracker tracking system, calibrated all the lenses, and put in Unreal Engine and Brainstorm InfinitySet.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey do some fantastic design and development, and they did the BBC Olympic set and they\u2019ve done Wimbledon, so they\u2019re able to produce some really amazing content and we have built the studio around that,\u201d says Harnett.<\/em><\/p>\n

The studio \u201cwill work really nicely\u201d as both a green virtual set or a hard set, \u201cbut one of the real significant upsides of the virtual set is you can just turn it on and we\u2019ll have it all rigged, ready to go and we can change the sets. We can roll people in and out, and all you\u2019ve got to do is move the desks in and out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However, Timeline\u2019s investment in the Ealing Broadcast Centre (EBC) isn\u2019t just to give it more studio space. \u201cWith an increasing number of remote productions coming in, we\u2019re finding that we were running out of space rapidly at Ealing Studios [where it has five galleries].<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201dWe\u2019ve expanded a lot in that site and it\u2019s been a fantastic home for us, and we\u2019ll still continue to be there in some form for a while, but we needed larger gallery spaces. We needed big production offices and lots of edit suites, and we also wanted it to be contained in one building\u201d, as it is now spread across several buildings.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the other major advantages [of the EBC] is we\u2019ve created a data centre where we can expand up to something like 60 racks in the space that\u2019s there.\u201d It has significant uninterruptable power supply infrastructure, including generators on the roof. \u201cIt really is at the cutting edge of redundancy and backup technology,\u201d he adds.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read David Fox’s complete article, on ibc.com, here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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