REMI — you may have heard the term. Simply, it is a broadcast workflow where video content is captured live at a remote location while the switching, audio, graphics and other control is performed at a remote studio. REMI, needless to say, is a major advance in video production services.
REMI, short for REMote Integration, is a workflow where live event content is captured and sent via IP to a centralized remote broadcast production facility. From there, the final broadcast is produced, switched and distributed to traditional broadcasters or streaming platforms. REMI allows broadcasters to leverage a single production studio with multiple control rooms and produce multiple events simultaneously. This creates a massive cost difference from sending an OB truck, crew, and equipment to the events.
Multi-camera programs can be created in much less time with stability and zero latency. In addition to live switching, powerful graphics and audio mixing can easily be integrated remotely into a program. Any video production is not only suitable for broadcast, but can be streamed on all social media platforms simultaneously.
In the past, remote production required expensive outside broadcast mobile units with satellite uplinks. Now, with the evolution of IP technology, most venues are equipped with broadband connections. Streaming video over these IP networks has lower latency than many satellite workflows and has become a major new option for remote television production.
Let’s say you have a large corporate trade show or event that you want professionally produced on video. Save the high-cost of bringing a full remote production rig to the location. Instead, feed the cameras over an IP network to the Broadcast Beat Studio’s control rooms in Ft. Lauderdale.
It’s the same for sports broadcasting, live events, news and documentary programming or any other remote television production. Want to mix a remote production with live production elements from a sound stage. We have four of them — two with LED walls and motion tracking to create virtual sets. We can also produce audio, insert precision graphics and do a whole slew of other visual effects.
This is all done over IP networks or satellites. We have redundancy many times over. We use Zixi’s modular Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP), the industry leader for enabling dependable, live broadcast-quality video over any IP network, protocol, cloud and any edge device. We also use LTN Global and Digicaster, a tool for transmitting broadcast-quality video content over the internet, plus five fiber lines. With Broadcast Beat Studios, failure is not an option.
In addition, we offer KU-Band Satellite and various IP uplink technologies for network live shots. From a live feed for guest interviews to major video productions, our four studios can handle any size job.
Broadcast Beat Studios offers all sorts of remote video production technologies for broadcasters, enterprises, over-the-top video providers and service providers around the world. We make it simple and economical to source, manage and distribute live events and live linear channels.
The economics of using REMI control is a no brainer on many levels. By using a central broadcast hub like Broadcast Beat Studios, producers can decrease setup time and simplify the on-site technology needed at any location — whether a major stadium or small theatre.
Deploying mobile units and on-site production equipment is a very expensive proposition requiring massive investment in logistical planning, video hardware and support personnel.
Setup times can be long and there can unexpected obstacles on any location. Then there is the coordination of staff schedules, travel and hotel arrangements. REMI eliminates all of this. With fewer people deployed in the field, producers can focus on using their existing resources to produce better programming.
The recent pandemic has forced video producers to decentralize production workflows to include multiple production locations as well as home-based staff. This trend has enhanced low latency IP streaming and contributed to this overall shift toward remote programming.
This shift has also resulted in bi-directional streams for live interviews with remote subjects and talent. Executives and other staff also access low-latency streams to monitor live production from a laptop or mobile device using an encrypted connection to a cloud or on-premise stream gateway.
Remote production has come at a time when consumers demand more live content and are willing to pay for it. For example, live sporting events, even niche ones, are a huge draw. Traditionally, the challenge with these events has been the high cost of sending remote production resources onsite. By harnessing REMI, sports coverage can be expanded to meet viewer demand while keeping production costs in check.
Remote transmission of production over the internet not only enables broadcasters to reach audiences with niche content, it allows them to increase coverage of a major event by permitting more feeds from multiple cameras around a venue. With no cost restrictions around broadcast feed time, producers have greater flexibility in building programming around an event.
REMI redefines video production services. It is limited only by the human imagination. It reduces the movement of both people and video equipment; increases production resources; and maximizes what a production team can accomplish in less time.
REMI offers video producers the flexibility to produce remotely, distribute and monetize more video content with fewer resources and at an amazing price point. Broadcast Beat Studios provides the best suite of remote production services anywhere.
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