Guildhall School Makes New Connections with NewTek and NDI Mix
By Jamie G
Streaming Media Producer covered NewTek’s recent case study with Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Guildhall School delivers world-class professional training in partnership with distinguished artists, companies and ensembles of musicians, actors, and production artists. Giuldhall School faced challenges during the Pandemic when madnates took place. They were able to turn to the NewTek TriCaster and NDI to make their performances possible in the safest way.
Check out some highlights from the case study that shows how the NewTek TriCaster and NDI solved a pressing issue for Guildhall School and also opened a world of possibilities.
“We’ve got performance venues split across two buildings including two world-class concert halls. On any given day, we could have up to five gigs happening simultaneously across the school that needed to be recorded and broadcast. Previously, we had an SDI-based system with cameras and a vision mixer connected point to point. Without spending a lot of money drilling holes into walls to run more fiber cables, in Grade II-listed buildings, there was no option of interconnecting all these spaces, putting more cameras in extra rooms and easily accessing them.”
Sam Ziajka, Guildhall Recording and AV Network and Systems Manager
We had to allow all our performers to play synchronously across the buildings. We found that NewTek could offer us a low latency system with sensible data rates, which was high quality and was easy to operate. With its (VMC/TriCaster) support for up to 40 NDI inputs and outputs, we could route a large number of cameras across the network to deliver the experiences we wanted.”
Sam Ziajka, Guildhall Recording and AV Network and Systems Manager
Guildhall School of Music and Drama was able to overcome their challenges and are looking forward to future of the school. The campus is a wolrd of opportunites thanks to NewTek.
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