THE HMS MCU:

 

HMS has designed and implemented its own custom 24Ft Mobile Control Unit, or MCU for short.  The HMS MCU is designed and built to be 100% modular and completely customizable and scalable for applications from Live Event, On-Site Mobile Control Room/Video Village, Location/Studio Playback/Post Trailer for Broadcast Remotes, Film Sets and Stages, and much more.  

 

Unlike a traditional Broadcast Production Truck or OB Van, HMS utilizes Fiber, Ethernet, Wireless point to point send and receive, and many other transport solutions to custom tailor and outfit the MCU specifically to suit the needs of your project.  The engineering section houses 5 fully accessible 42RU racks.  These can be populated with whatever equipment is best suited for the task at hand.  The MCU’s design is completely open frame and modular to be easily tailored to any job, as well as easily modified and expanded even during a production.  The MCU utilizes state of the art transport interfaces to get all the signals that make up your show between control/village and set/stage over as few as 1 cable at distances up to 6.5 miles away.  The MCU is designed with versatility and scalability as its primary focus. 

 

COVID-19 REMOTE PRODUCER’S/EXECUTIVE VIDEO VILLAGE:

 

With all the developments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the needs for expanding safety protocols and reducing on-set cast and crew sizes are coming to light.  What will be our “New Normal”? Exactly what those new protocols will be is ever evolving, but large on set video villages seem likely to be something that will be at least reduced, if not eliminated, at least in the early stages of returning to production.  As members of both Locals 479 and 695 with over 30 years video engineering experience, the team at HMS are eager to partner as and system designers and integrators with the talented Video Assist Operators and D.I.T.s on set.  Utilizing the existing MCU infrastructure and modular design for a dedicated on location and on lot DP trailer, or remote video village location seems a logical progression.  This will both aid in the reduction of individuals on the set, as well as providing a safe, clean, comfortable viewing location with live communication to and from set.  We look forward to helping to design and provide solutions to get our industry back up and running and doing it in as safe and responsible a manner as possible.

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POTENTIAL REMOTE VILLAGE CONFIGURATION:

 

ROUTING OPTIONS/ IN ANY COMBINATION:

• BlackMagic Design 40x40 12-SDI Router

• Sierra Lassen HD 32x32 Modular HD/SDI router

• Sierra XL 32x32 Analog Audio Modular Router

• Sierra Lassen HD 16x16 Dedicated Monitoring router

 

- All include dedicated single bus control panels for switching to dedicated

  monitoring.

 

MULTI-VIEWERS/ IN ANY COMBINATION:

• Decimator Design MD-Quad

• Decimator Design DMON-16S 16 Channel 3G/HD/SD-SDI Multi-viewer w. SDI/HDMI Out

 

AUDIO NETWORK:

• Aviom 16x16 Bi-Direction Audio network over Fiber as Below:

 

• Aviom AN16i Analog 16 channel/input interface w. Ethernet to Fiber Conversion/ Bi-Directional feeding AN 16o on stage/set

• Aviom AN16o Analog 16 channel/output w. Ethernet to Fiber Conversion/ Bi-Directional fed from AN16i  on stage/set

Allows for up to 16 Line Level signals to and from Set including dedicated push to talk mics from Village to Video Assist Operators/Stage or Set

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SDI TO FIBER CONVERSION/INTERFACES:

• Telecast Python 8 Channel 3G/HD-SDI/SD-SDI Transmit and Receive package for 8 discreet signals from set to the MCU

• AJA Fido TX and RX pairs for additional expansion between Set/Stage and the MCU easily configurable as transmitter or receiver pairs to/from the MCU to/From Set.

• Ethernet to Fiber conversion for long distance IP networking between Set/Stage and the MCU

• Time code over analog video/audio over fiber from master clock in the MCU to Set/Stage

 

MONITORING OPTIONS:

 

PRODUCERS CLIENT VIEWING VILLAGE MONITOR OPTIONS:

• 55” Sharp Aquos 1080P/LED with dedicated control panel/router output for ISO or Multi-viewer routing

• 43” LG/1080P LED-LCD 

• 42” Panasonic LFE-7 Series Pro LCD

• Flanders Scientific AM-210 21” Broadcast Monitors

• TV-Logic LVM-173W-3G Broadcast Monitors

• Panasonic BT-LH1760 Broadcast Monitors

• Boland PVB-17 17” Built In Monitors at main bench, can be substituted with any 17” models

- In addition to any and all floating monitoring solutions provided through video 

  assist operator

 

ENGINEERING:

• TV-Logic LVM-173W Engineering QC monitor for monitoring all sources and destinations w. built in Waveform/Vectorscope

 

• 14RU Front End Rack for Receive and Send of all Audio, Video, as well as Ethernet 10/100/1000*** networking between village and Stage/Set over Fiber

 

*** 1000Mbps Ethernet network components available on request 

 

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14RU MODULAR I/O PATCH PANEL FOR FIBER, VIDEO, AUDIO, ETHERNET/NETWORKING, TIE INS.

• Completely customizable to suit the specifications of your projects configuration

 

BASE TRAILER PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 100Amp 120V/AC service via 2 50Amp Breaker Panels

• 2-Honda EU6500is 65Amp Invertor/Super Quite Generators with hookups

• Seating for up to 12

• 2-13,500BTU AC/Heating Units

• 2- 4’ Bench Tables for Script Supervision, Producers Station, etc./ Can be removed for larger client space upon request.

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