Creamfields, the UK’s largest dance festival, which takes place across the second August bank holiday weekend in Cheshire, UK, deployed a multi camera live production workflow from Blackmagic Design to provide live streams and IMAG feeds to the event’s Apex Stage.
With a capacity of 30,000, the Apex Stage is billed as the largest indoor festival space in the world. Tasked with delivering the live video solution was facilities company Video Village. Using its custom built OB van centred around an ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher and a fleet of Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 cameras, Video Village was able to scale to the unique needs of each artist.
A Blackmagic Videohub 80×80 12G router handled signal distribution, supporting 32 fibre inputs using ATEM Talkback Converter 4Ks as interface points, enabling bidirectional video, tally, and intercom over single mode multicore fibre. The ATEM Constellation 8K was paired with an ATEM 2 M/E Advanced Panel 20 for vision mixing, while an ATEM Camera Control Panel provided camera control and shading.
Two of six URSA Broadcast G2s, rigged with Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder G2s, were set at front of house. Those feeds ran over 12G-SDI or duplex single mode fibre to a Blackmagic Mini Converter Optical Fiber 12G with a 12G-SDI SFP Optical Module.
