The synchronization of Watchout and Ovation makes the Ghoemas Music Awards ceremony possible

The delivery of the Ghoemas Music Awards 2013 counted, for staging and dissemination, integration of Dataton's Watchout production and playback system and Merging Technologies' Ovation multi-application control system.

The annual Ghoemas music awards ceremony in South Africa 2013 It is a large event that requires a high-performance audio and video system. The company in charge of staging this show, Penmac Audio Visual, I was looking for a solution that would allow this great production to be carried out both on a technical and audiovisual level..

The integration of the Watchout production and reproduction system Dataton with the Ovation multi-application control system Merging Technologies It was the solution I needed to carry out this great show.

Merging Technologies has a solution, TCP/IP based, which allows synchronization of playback and cursor positioning of Ovation timelines and cues with Watchout multi-image presentation software. Combining Watchout's video power with Ovation's management of audio and control information was the ideal answer for this type of AV event..

Awards Transmission

The ceremony lasts about two hours and in order to carry out its transmission, 16 High quality audio feeds running around Watchout images.

Once the program has been loaded on the servers all that is needed is to set the IP addressing, naming track of grouped audio file with same names in auxiliary timeline in Watchout. When images are played, audio remains in sync with video.

Ovation also offers the ability to become the primary controller, then it will send triggers to the Watchout timeline and the video will be saved synchronized with the audio content.

Although the communication is through TCP / IP, Programming is necessary because the drivers are already integrated into the main applications.

The initial linkup (Ethernet) between the two systems was achieved in less than five minutes and remained stable for the duration of the event. Plus the link to Watchout, Ovation provides great flexibility to integrate with modern digital audio mixing consoles through any of the multichannel IP audio streaming platforms., now available over fiber or copper.