Video monitoring for Studios 9 and 10

For the control rooms of Studios 9 and 10 we designed and integrated a complete video monitoring and signal routing system, tied into the existing studio equipment: cameras, the vision mixer, character generators, and playout systems.

At its core is a modular 3G/HD/SD SDI matrix with integrated audio routing, expandable to 288 inputs and outputs and handling embedded, discrete, AES, MADI, and analogue audio. Alongside it we installed a redundant reference signal generator group with GPS synchronisation and automatic changeover.

A multiviewer integrated with the matrix displays SD, HD, and 3G sources simultaneously, each showing its source name, tally, and audio level meters. The display spans six monitor walls with 38 professional LCD screens, mounted on custom support structures with individual tilt adjustment.

The whole system is driven by a redundant control system with hardware and software panels and a link to the existing Kahuna vision mixer, with monitoring, diagnostics, and alarms over SNMP. It is engineered for continuous 24/7 operation, with dual power supplies and hot redundancy on every critical component.