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Tally (UMD, Camera Delegation)

The modern broadcast system contains a vast array of devices that either produce, display or ‘consume’ tallies. Most of these devices will produce or receive the tally information in different ways using different protocols and interfaces. Tally requirements can be very small and contained, but some can be very large systems that are spread across geographical locations.

TSL is the world leader in tally control. It enables the flexible configuration of tally signals to meet the needs of even the most complex broadcast environment or production. TSL Control accommodates small centralised systems that can communicate with a huge number of third-party devices, to large distributed, multi-studio systems accommodating dynamic room and resource delegation.

All these systems can be specified to be redundant and resilient, local, or geographically distributed to suit each customer’s requirement and deployment environment, with a simple and well-understood system for the control of tallies across the entire broadcast operation.

Use Case: 7 Production

7 Production, a leader in 4K and HD Broadcast solutions and Live technical Event support, faced the challenge of finding a comprehensive Broadcast Control System for their 4K OB Truck.

With operations across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Lebanon, Finland, and the UK, they needed a system that could control all devices, including vision mixers, routers, and multiviewers, and required installation and commissioning. Collaborating with BSS Dubai, 7 Production chose TSL Control with its integrated tally solution, deploying it into their OB truck for complete signal and signal chain management.

In the demanding world of live broadcast production, reliability and flexibility are key. 7 Production found TSL Control to be an ideal solution, offering both robustness and versatility. Tony Jabbour, Head of Engineering and Operations at 7 Production, praised the system for its simplicity, competitive pricing, and excellent support from the TSL Team. The familiarity of their engineers with TSL Control, already being used in their other OB trucks, further eased the integration process. TSL’s ability to incorporate protocols native to major manufacturers was a significant advantage, providing seamless connections and control over third-party equipment.

The implementation of TSL Control enabled 7 Production to connect and control various devices, enhancing their workflow efficiency. For instance, the Kahuna 9600 Production Switcher could be fully integrated with real-time signal flow information and dynamic updates.

The Sirius 800 Router offered a comprehensive overview of signal flows, while the Lawo MC2 36 allowed external control of the matrix, fader gains, and events. Additionally, the Snell MV Series Multiviewers benefited from instant updates and system alerts.

This unified control and tally system not only streamlined operations but also offered both capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) savings. The flexibility of TSL’s solution meant that it could be comfortably used in traditional, software-defined, or hybrid transitional systems, reducing rework errors, supporting system expansion, and simplifying maintenance, thereby minimising total cost of ownership.

Virtual Control Rooms

TSL Control demonstrated the power and flexibility of virtual control rooms. With a virtual control processor deployed in the virtual private cloud (VPC), real-time production control and tally are running alongside the media processing platform GV AMPP. Connected to the virtual control processor, physical operator panels, such as the USP3-16, are used to control routing and media processing, providing operations with a traditional workflow across the virtual media processing platform for Fuse Technical Group and All Mobile Video at Chelsea Studios in New York.

The TSL control processor was used to monitor and control AMV’s on-prem equipment and their Grass Valley AMPP-based capabilities, bridging the gap between virtual media processing and fixed studio resources. This allowed TSL Control to provide comprehensive broadcast control for the event, without the need for a traditional control room.

Bridging the control and tally gaps across major media platforms on-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

Bring live tally back on-prem to light lamps, trigger actions and events, and provide status to real people making the live production decisions. TSL Control supports control and tally across major media platforms:

  • Grass Valley
  • Panasonic
  • SONY
  • Viz and more…

Reach out to TSL today and discover how we can transform your live production workflow, taking your broadcasts to the next level.

 

“Bring live tally back to your control room, lighting up your production with real-time insights and empowering decision-makers on the ground.”

Ian Godfrey, CTO, TSL

Effortlessly manage AMPP processing across diverse environments – on-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

Elevate Your Live Production Experience with TSL’s Innovative Integration with Grass Valley AMPP This seamless integration is more than just a technical enhancement – it’s your gateway to revolutionising media processing while retaining the essential workflows that live operations demand.

TSL goes the extra mile by offering GPIO monitoring and control for GV AMPP, ensuring even your legacy systems can play a pivotal role in this modern ecosystem. Our router control panels, both hard and soft, enable precise signal routing within AMPP. Plus, our robust hardware control surfaces grant operators unparalleled mastery over switchers, mixers, and playout processing within the AMPP environment.

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Router Control

Modern broadcasting technology offers a huge range of signal types which can vary hugely in complexity and that can have a big effect not only on the supporting engineers but the operational staff who are making the content. TSL Control offers a manufacturer-agnostic and cost-effective approach to the control of routing media regardless of format. Discover more

HMI Interfaces

TSL hardware panels give you solutions to niche problems in a simplified way, allowing control of external devices from the button panels without having to go via a control system. It’s direct control. They have their own logical functions and GPIO. Plus, a wide variety of comms mechanisms, that can talk of over IP, over serial and over GPIO. With a small footprint and big performance, the panels can control any GPIO, IP, RS422, or RS232-enabled device, located anywhere, with a single button push.

VIRTUAL PANELS

The TallyMan Virtual Panel (TMVP) is an incredibly powerful addition to the TallyMan control system. The fully customisable user interface brings signal flow management, monitoring and device management to users in an intuitive control surface, enhancing operational workflow to bring flexibility to outside broadcast and transmission facilities throughout the world. Discover more

Tally (UMD, Camera Delegation)

The modern broadcast system contains a vast array of devices that either produce, display or “consume” tallies. Most of these devices will produce or receive the tally information in different ways using different protocols and interfaces. Tally requirements can be very small and contained, but some can be very large systems that are spread across geographical locations. Discover more

Orchestration

Broadcasters deploying ST 2110 infrastructure face complex challenges in orchestrating media flows across diverse IP endpoints. TSL provides a scalable and cost-effective control layer that simplifies IP routing, reduces training overhead, extends the life of legacy systems, and accelerates adoption of ST 2110 without operational disruption. Discover more

Anything-to-Anything (Machine Control Routing)

A broadcaster may wish to have an array (or pool) of devices that can be dynamically allocated or routed flexibly on a production-by-production basis. These devices may be from different manufacturers (EVS, Evertz, Grass Valley, Black Magic etc) and have different control panels, interfaces, and protocols. Discover more

Dynamic Insertion (SCTE)

For broadcasters navigating the thrilling world of live sports and news, the unpredictability of highly reactive content can make signalling ad insertion challenging. Rapid changes in content increase the likelihood of failing to deliver ad breaks at the right time, risking reputational damage with advertisers. Discover more

Facility Control

The modern operator can be faced with a bewildering array of control surfaces, web pages and graphical user interfaces to control even a simple production. This can lead to delays and errors, affecting production values and output, and perhaps even causing a financial penalty (service Credits) from the broadcasters' customers. Discover more

Protocol Translation

Most broadcasters have a wide variety of new and legacy equipment that they need to work together in one cohesive system. These devices will utilise a vast array of different protocols and interfaces, everything from GPIs to xml. Do you need to use your old Evertz control panel with your new Grass Valley Router? Do you need to control your graphics keyer when it is routed to air? This all requires some form of protocol translation. Discover more

Monitoring (SNMP)

Monitoring the status of devices within a broadcast system is vital to its operation: Do you want to know where a fault occurs with a broadcast chain, which device has lost its input or reference, and whether there has been silence on a channel for too long? Has the power supply failed in a key unit? Discover more

IP Transition

More and more broadcasters are moving to IP-based infrastructure over traditional SDI. The promise is that the equipment required (IP switches, router etc.) are more cost-effective than their SDI equivalent as well as opening up broadcast to a huge amount of industry standard tools that are used in the IT industry. The problem is that doing reliable real-time media over IP is hard. There is a significant learning curve and a very different methodology used than with SDI. Discover more

Server/Clip Control (DDR)

Broadcasters may have a number of record/replay devices (DDRs) that they wish to control from a remote operational position, this device could be from a number of different manufacturers (EVS, Blackmagic, Evertz and GrassValley to name a few). It is common practice to bring in rental equipment for some productions, so the make and model can change frequently. Discover more

Disaster Recovery

Many broadcasters need to provide a disaster recovery playout chain but cannot afford a full additional channel of automation from one of the larger broadcast manufacturers. Discover more

Control Room Snapshot and Recall (Presets)

Modern broadcast systems often require reconfiguration, for example, where a production gallery switches the studio floor it has been assigned to or where you switch to a backup system. This action requires the reconfiguration of multiple devices or systems, which can be complex and time-consuming. Discover more

Graphics Management

Modern live news networks will prepare many graphics ahead of time for potential future events, such as various outcomes of elections or sporting events. Managing this workflow and ensuring that the proper versions of graphics make it to air can often fall on the graphics department which can make their daily work more complicated. Discover more

Scheduled Actions and Secondary Events

One of the primary pillars of modern broadcast workflows is reducing the number of manual functions that operators are responsible for. Many functions happen on a daily or weekly basis at specific times of day and can be easily automated to free operators up for more important tasks. Discover more

Control Servers and Other Hardware Solutions

From signal routing to remote device control, by grouping multi-level actions into a single, user-configurable interface, you can do things that will make your production much more efficient. By providing just the controls needed, from simple interfaces for specific tasks to unleashing the full power of a system built on a logic-based and open control layer, customers are able to maintain complete ownership of their systems.

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