Whitepaper: Grass Valley explores remote productions with lower bandwidth requirements

Remote production allows production teams to manage events from central control rooms, minimising the need to transport staff and equipment to venues. The choice of workflow depends on the infrastructure, budget, quality requirements and specifics of the event. Many remote production workflows require significant bandwidth to transmit image signals between the venue and the production site. However, high-performance IP connections, necessary for transmitting many uncompressed signals, are not available at many locations.

Even with sufficient bandwidth, high compression rates can lead to unacceptable signal delays. An alternative approach is to process signals on-site and send only selected high-bandwidth signals to the production center, reducing overall bandwidth requirements.

This whitepaper presents and analyses various options for decentralised production, including their advantages and disadvantages. Innovative solutions such as low-latency codecs and edge computing, which enable more on-site processing and less data transmission, are discussed. Cloud-based solutions for scalable remote production are also explored. Case studies highlight successful low-bandwidth remote productions, providing insights and best practices for adapting workflows to different scenarios and ensuring high-quality broadcasts despite limited infrastructure.

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