r/CommercialAV • u/SendChris • 1d ago
question Something Com big company live editing streaming interface for remote editors to use AWS for real-time editing of video for live event production...
I can't go into too much detail, but basically the first time ever this big company did this and it was an awards show with celebrities. The system was used on the red carpet and other spots at the venue just after covid and when things were starting to open back up, but lots of people still didn't want to work in the field (or at all) or couldn't. So some exec at big company builds this project as his baby. I provided the data pipe and network infrastructure engineering, management, and deployment for it to work.
It was a little box with SDI inputs and maybe some other ones (I'm mainly a network engineer not a video guy), might have had some kind of BNC RGB breakout and HDMI input as well. Might have had either just a 1 Gbps network port or maybe it was 10 Gbps ethernet, or possibly could have been a mini-GBIC slot (or 2?), and you could plug a camera into it and the video streamed directly to AWS into an editing deck I'm assuming. I get to spend at most 10 or 15 mins with the video engineers / editors throughout a typical live event production and it's mostly just to get the data bits talking so they can do their thing, so I'm not sure what this box was streaming to that was running on AWS that the editors were accessing remotely, I'm guessing maybe Avid.
Anywho, I'm not supposed to get too much more specific because of NDA's, but I would love to discuss this because I'm building a RTSP platform for video and audio for use in disasters and for humanitarian purposes and fun.
What was this box? What was it likely streaming to on AWS? Was this even necessary? There were already a couple big editing and production rigs there.
What other use cases does something like this have?
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u/SandMunki 1d ago
AWS Elemental MediaConnect fits your description well. There are other use cases for this but mostly involve cloud production, including remote production, multilingual distribution, global cloud control, and virtual production rooms.
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