Behind the Scenes: How Teradek Powered the Pulse of a Music Festival
By Jennifer P
BC Live Productions faced a significant challenge when tasked with delivering high-quality, reliable Program feeds from three different stages at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, a sprawling venue with a capacity of up to 80,000 attendees. The venue’s vast expanse and intermittent internet connection posed streaming challenges, making sustaining high-quality and consistent streaming over multiple days a formidable task.
To address this challenge, BC Live leveraged Teradek’s Prism Flex encoders and Core orchestration platform. Prism Flex encoders were placed at each stage’s control room, transmitting feeds seamlessly across diverse locations for monitoring, including local production offices, artist trailers and private event spaces, LED towers around the festival grounds, and off-site monitoring locations. All Prism Flex devices were managed using Core’s on-premise Hyperion server, optimizing bandwidth by keeping everything local and ensuring high-quality streaming.
Core Workspaces were set up with security measures, allowing specific individuals to monitor artists’ performances from local production offices. User-friendly AppleTV4K decoders running the Core Share app were placed at each production station, enabling viewers to easily select which stage to monitor. BC Live also created a custom multiview of all stages and local weather stats, adding it to the Core Workspace using an additional Prism Flex encoder.
For private spaces like the artists’ area, BC Live utilized SRT with a multi-channel decoder, enabling a local technician to switch between stages on multiple screens while feeding the corresponding audio mix into the PA system. LED tower displays strategically positioned across the festival grounds received point-to-point transmissions via Prism Flex decoders, showcasing ads, on-stage feeds, and important messages for festival-goers.
By centralizing all devices on a single VLAN and orchestrating management through an on-premise Core Hyperion server, BC Live optimized infrastructure, requiring minimal internet bandwidth and maintaining the festival’s ISP requirements at a low and budget-friendly level. Hunter Britanisky, Technical Producer at BC Live, praised the Prism and Core solutions as the “Goldilocks solution” to their technical demands, enabling them to transmit all Program feeds with low latency and minimal bandwidth while having remote management through Core.
In conclusion, BC Live Productions successfully delivered an efficient and top-tier production experience at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, instilling confidence among show technicians and allowing everyone to concentrate on the captivating performances unfolding on stage, thanks to the seamless integration of Teradek’s Prism and Core solutions.
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