±«Óãtv R&D has descended on Edinburgh to set up and run trials of a selection of broadcast production tools and technologies, including , , and some further experimenting in at this year’s .
Hidden away at the back of at George Heriot’s School, the team are hard at work installing the network and cabling that will carry the audio and video feeds to the R&D Festival Lab (a hut), where a series of high-powered computers will process the data to enable the trials to begin as the festival kicks in to life this weekend.
Across the next few days the Nearly-Live Production team will be recording various performances from within - as well as a couple of external venues using a portable rig – using a number of small, unmanned 4K cameras, and as part of a number of tests that aim to .
There’ll be further updates as the festival progresses (assuming the person currently stomping about on the executive terrace/flimsy roof above us doesn’t cause it to collapse in on us), as some of R&D’s most exciting technologies are exposed to their most intensive trials yet…
Despite the long journey, the pen has arrived safely at
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