TNDV Crews For Skyville Live Debut

Mobile production firm TNDV has provided crewing and streaming services for the debut of Skyville Live, a new monthly online music series.

TNDV brought its Elevation truck to the event, which featured performances from Gladys Knight, Martina McBride and R&B artist Estelle.

"The debut of Skyville Live required a turnkey mobile production service to support several live, broadcast-quality web streams, along with a full crew to capture multiple camera angles for future use in post-production," said Nic Dugger, owner and president, TNDV. "This shoot required a great deal of creative skill to capture the intimacy of the performances, and utilized our technology, expertise and crewing to achieve the desired production results."

The eight-camera shoot captured the event from three perspectives for the live webcast, which was supported using TNDV's signal encoding infrastructure on board Elevation; and multiplatform streaming delivery from Blue Scout Media, a CDN based in Texas. Viewers could switch between the live performances, captured using six Hitachi HD1000 cameras; a robotic camera following the production team working on Elevation; and a separate robotic camera to capture the performances from the backstage vantage point. All HD streams delivered a live multichannel audio mix produced on board Elevation.

TNDV additionally employed its AJA KiPro video recorders and ProTools audio recording system to capture the feeds for post-production. All multi-camera, multi-tracked content was delivered to Skyville Live producers following the event, with the goal of distributing a program to media outlets in the near future.

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