Latin Music Star Juan Luis Guerra Selects Broadcast Pix Slate 1000
to Produce Live Concert in HD for Blu-ray, DVD Distribution
(Billerica, Massachusetts) June 9, 2009. Broadcast Pix™ today announced that Juan Luis Guerra, a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning musician from the Dominican Republic (DR), chose the Broadcast Pix Slate™ 1000 live production system to produce a live HD video recording of his Feb. 14, 2009, concert for distribution on Blu-ray and DVD. The concert, which took place at Estadio Olimpico (Olympic Stadium) in downtown Santo Domingo, DR, was part of Guerra’s “La Travesia” tour.
As a singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist, Guerra has a unique sound that fuses meringue, salsa, bochata, and other Latin musical styles. With more than 20 million records sold worldwide, Guerra is a big draw throughout Latin America—and the 50,000 fans at his Valentine’s Day concert attest to his popularity.
Prior to the concert, Guerra and his son, cinematographer Jean Gabriel Guerra, decided to produce a DVD of the concert, and they turned to Broadcast Pix dealer AVL Tech to package a switcher and cameras for the event. AVL Tech provided the Broadcast Pix Slate 1000 HD/SD integrated production system and 18 Panasonic HD cameras, including AG-HPX500 and AG-HVX200A P2 HD camcorders, for the 720p/24 production.
“When they were planning the production, they knew there would be no second chances to capture the excitement of this live event. If there was a technical failure, the show would go on without them,” said Valentin Colon, president of AVL Tech, which offers sales, rentals, service, and AV integration throughout the DR and Caribbean. “With its ability to handle all aspects of this complex remote production, including input from a barrage of HD cameras, the Broadcast Pix Slate 1000 proved to be the most reliable means for producing a polished live HD show very economically right at the arena. When the concert ended, the video show was so close to finished, and of such high quality, that it required only minimal post production.”
Designed to satisfy the needs of even the most demanding live video production, the Broadcast Pix Slate 1000 integrates the functionality of a video switcher, multi-viewer, Inscriber CG, clip and graphic stores, Fluent™ workflow software, and aspect and format conversion into a single, budget-friendly system that can be run by a single operator.
“Since the Broadcast Pix system satisfied the needs of Juan Luis Guerra’s concert production, other Latin American bands have inquired about it, and are now planning to use it in their upcoming video productions as well,” said Colon. “The Broadcast Pix switcher offers an incomparable value to Latino producers seeking to produce live events in HD video.”
About Broadcast Pix Broadcast Pix is the leader in integrated live video production systems. Its Slate systems create compelling live video far more cost effectively than conventional control rooms. Slate includes a switcher, multi-view, CG, clip and graphic stores, Fluent workflow software, as well as aspect and format conversion. Slate is a fraction of the cost of a conventional control room, even a solo operator can create engaging video, and it is upgradeable to 3G 1080p, the emerging HD standard. Broadcast Pix is based in Massachusetts, with offices throughout North America and in Europe. Customers include over 1,000 leading broadcast, webcast, podcast, cable, entertainment, mobile, corporate, education, religious, and government studios in over 70 countries. For more information, go to www.broadcastpix.com.
Broadcast Pix, Fluent and Slate are trademarks of Broadcast Pix, Inc. Patented.
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