Multi-Camera Setups

Here is how this works in practice. Our multi-camera setups across Australia field 6-16 camera live broadcast and recorded packages with Sony HDC-3500 system cameras, Grass Valley LDX 100, Panasonic AK-UC4000, and ARRI Alexa Mini LF for cinematic A-units, fibre-tethered through NEP Australia and Gravity Media OB trucks (the country's two dominant outside broadcast vendors).

Here is the short of it. Standard event coverage includes Sydney Mardi Gras (Feb-Mar — world's largest LGBTQ+ celebration in the Southern Hemisphere), Vivid Sydney (May-June light festival drawing 3M+ visitors), the Royal Easter Show Sydney, the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse (first Tuesday of November), the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (800K+ attendance each January), the F1 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, AFL Grand Finals at the MCG (100K-capacity largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere), NRL Grand Finals at Allianz Stadium Sydney, the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, and the Bathurst 1000 Supercars Championship at Mount Panorama.

Here is the breakdown. Concert and festival multi-cam covers Splendour in the Grass Byron Bay (annual July), Bluesfest Easter, Falls Festival, Laneway Festival, and the major Australian touring market in Sydney and Melbourne arenas. Studio multi-cam runs out of Disney Studios Australia Sydney and Village Roadshow Gold Coast for talk shows, panel shows, and broadcast drama.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The Australian broadcast heritage runs from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics through the Sydney 2000 Games, the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and the 2006 and 2018 Commonwealth Games (Melbourne and Gold Coast), building deep multi-cam skill across Seven, Nine, Ten, ABC, SBS, Fox Sports, and Kayo. We set up ACMA wireless frequency licensing, venue authority approvals through Venues NSW, Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust, and Stadiums Queensland, MEAA crew agreements with reciprocal IATSE/SAG-AFTRA recognition for global productions, and APRA AMCOS music licensing.