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New F&F Productions Truck with Grass Valley Live
Multi-Format HD Production Technologies to Debut at 2010 U.S.
Open
August 31, 2010
Source: Grass Valley
F&F Productions, based in Clearwater,
Fla., will officially debut its new GTX-16 mobile production
truck in New York on August 30-September 12, to help televise
the 2010 U.S. Open Tennis tournament on CBS Sports.
The sophisticated, HD-capable production truck features a
Grass Valley Kayenne Video Production Center and a Grass Valley
four-channel K2 Summit-based ClipStore System, for producing
both sports and live entertainment programs in HD.
During the final week of the world-famous tennis tournament
in September, the Grass Valley Kayenne will be at the heart
of the GTX-16 truck, which will be on-site outside Arthur
Ashe Stadium managing dozens of camera feeds and animated
on-air graphics. GTX-16 is the fifth truck in the F&F
Productions fleet to be based around a Grass Valley HD video
production switcher.
“We continue to choose Grass Valley switchers because
of their reliability factor, which is most important to our
clients,” said Ryan Hatch, Senior Vice President at F&F
Productions. “We also like the Kayenne’s features
and color-coded control panel, which is easy to operate for
the crews and gives us a lot of flexibility to produce all
types of live productions.”
Once it completes its assignment at the U.S. Open in Flushing,
N.Y., GTX-16 will work with CBS Sports on a number of college
football games, to be televised in 1080i HD.
“F&F Productions is always very careful about the
equipment we choose for our trucks,’’ said Marc
Orgera, Vice President of Sales at F&F Productions. “Our
experience with Grass Valley technology has been very positive,
both financially and technically.”
The Kayenne ClipStore replay system installed in GTX-16 is
based around a 4-channel K2 Summit production client, providing
a platform for instant, non-volatile replay of more than 10
hours of video, key, and audio clips.
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