BRIDGE LIVE AJA’s IP (Internet Protocol) and streaming video solution.
While some houses of worship (HOWs) have dedicated on-site teams, advanced remote production technologies are enabling more megachurches and other religious organizations to expand their remote capabilities and tap into new resources. Tools like AJA’s IP (Internet Protocol) and streaming video solution BRIDGE LIVE are helping to fuel this development, making distributed, high quality live stream production more accessible to the market.
BRIDGE LIVE, often deployed to facilitate live sports productions and streams, enables AV professionals to easily transport video between locations with low latency while supporting an expansive range of encoding/decoding and transcoding needs. As an example, Kaleidoscope Production and Services LLP (KPS Studios) recently tapped BRIDGE LIVE alongside AJA’s 6-channel openGear audio embedder/disembedder OG-12G-AMA to facilitate remote production on the Durand Cup, one of India’s largest annual football tournaments.
With no room for error, KPS Studios built a rock-solid workflow to support a team of producers, directors, camera operators, sound engineers, and broadcast engineers distributed across six tournament venues in India. It leveraged multiple cameras located across venues to transmit HD feeds to a centralized master control room, where its team processed live match footage and added slow-motion replays, graphics, and commentary.
Then, it distributed the feeds to Sony TV via traditional broadcast, streaming apps Sony LIV and SSEN for over-the-top (OTT) delivery, and social platforms. BRIDGE LIVE allowed the KPS team to move seamlessly between SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) and H.265, while also supporting low-latency streaming demands. OG-12G-AMA also enabled its team to distribute the production in multiple languages, providing cost-efficient, high-quality multi-channel audio embedding capabilities.
“Since BRIDGE LIVE supports low-latency signal processing, conversion, and transmission over long distances, we were able to transmit live footage from each venue to the control room in our production facility in milliseconds and using less bandwidth, given the efficiency of H.265,” explained KPS Studios Technical and Managing Director Rajiv Mehra.
KPS Studios’ work on the Durand Cup only marks the beginning of its IP video journey, as the company plans to expand its remote production capabilities in the coming years to take advantage of the potential cost savings, while also reducing its carbon footprint.
HOWs producing their own weekly high-profile events, some even to an international audience, could easily follow a path like KPS Studios to achieve a robust remote live streaming production pipeline using tools like BRIDGE LIVE and OG-12G-AMA.
