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17/12/2014

Gearhouse Completes Native 4K Supertruck

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Gearhouse Broadcast has completed building its new 4K native OB supertruck which will be used by its Australian OB division.

Known as HD8, the supertruck will handle all processes from acquisition to production. 12 of Hitachi’s new SK-UHD4000 ultra-HD cameras, of which Gearhouse purchased the first 50, are the star attractions of the new OB truck.

In addition to these cameras, the HD8 supertruck boasts a Sony MVS-7000X 4K mixer, Sony 4K monitoring and a 4K EVS replay system. While being a native 4K truck, HD production is still a high priority, so HD8 is also capable of 2K, HD 1080i, HD 1080p and SD. Its HD specifications are similar to those found in the HD5, HD6 and HD7 trucks within Gearhouse’s growing Australian fleet. It features the same 64 fader MC56 Lawo 5.1 capable audio desk, Riedel Artist 192-port talkback system and NVISION NV8576 hybrid main vision router as the existing trucks and is capable of supporting 30 cameras (24 CCU and 6 POV) during an HD production.

An audio mixing and control room, replay area, production gallery, CCU and vision control and engineering space provides Gearhouse's clients with everything they need from signal acquisition to finished programme transmission. HD8 is ideal for large-scale entertainment and sports and can facilitate a simulcast production outputting a 4K cut and a HD cut at the same time. Clients can also shoot in 4K and take the HD images from the CCU. It’s perfectly aligned to work in any upcoming HD productions and can easily make the switch to 4K when demand arises.

www.gearhousebroadcast.com

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