Grass Valley debuts live highlights and replay production system

The LiveTouch 1300 is said to bring enhanced flexibility to 4K UHD production

Grass Valley has debuted LiveTouch 1300, the latest member of its live highlights and replay production system.

The new solution is said to bring enhanced flexibility to 4K UHD production, allowing users to capture video directly from IP sources, and to deliver expanded collaborative workflow capability, making it ideal for mobile production.

Designed for mobile, outside broadcast (OB) productions and sports venues, the system features the new HTML5 LiveTouch dashboard to make system monitoring, control, start up and basic configuration straightforward.

Chris Merrill, Grass Valley’s director of product marketing, said: “The demand for captivating, stunning quality content is at an all-time high. We developed LiveTouch 1300 to help our customers efficiently create immersive 4K UHD and HDR replays in any production scenario. Now more than ever it is crucial to allow broadcasters and content owners greater freedom to cover live events regardless of their location. LiveTouch 1300 makes distributed production and collaborative workflows easy and fast.”

For efficient content production, the LiveTouch Panel now includes an integrated creative tool set that eliminates the need for external PCs. In addition, this latest version of LiveTouch enables multiformat production without changing the operator workflow. With inputs that support up to full raster, single stream 4K UHD/HD processing and HDR/SDR up and down or cross-mapping LiveTouch works across production standards. Concurrent operators may have access to all cameras and servers to instantly create, edit and playout highlights packages. Simplifying content creation even further is Fileflow 4, a new streamlined UI that allows operators to quickly create rules for automated file delivery to social media, archive and other network-based destinations.

Built with the latest native IP environments in mind, LiveTouch 1300 simplifies 4K UHD requirements with dual redundant 50G SMPTE ST 2110 IP interfaces with NMOS IS-04 and IS-05 that allow operators to use standard IT network connections to quickly identify and connect the system. For flexibility, panels connect over IP, allowing operators to be miles away from the event and the LiveTouch server, making the LiveTouch 1300 the ideal REMI/At-Home replay system, Grass Valley believes.