African Energy Week brought over 3,000 delegates to Cape Town for four days across eight parallel venues. Production partner LittleBig was responsible for the AV design and for turning around recordings of every session on the same day.
To achieve that, the team built an end-to-end workflow for the keynote hall and seven breakout rooms. Each space used large-format LED – the keynote hall featured two custom-ratio 9m x 3.5m screens plus an 8m x 3m delay screen, while breakout rooms had 8m x 3m LED walls, all using 2.9mm pixel pitch displays for close-view clarity.
Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 and Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K systems fed an ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO backbone, delivering low-latency feeds for IMAG and streaming while recording clean ISOs. Downstream processing and media servers handled scaling and layered content such as presentations, sponsor branding and animations.
ISO files were written to a Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini over 10Gb Ethernet, giving editors shared access in DaVinci Resolve Studio. “Having 10Gb connectivity and a solid-state RAID allowed for multiuser access,” noted Deon Smit, technical operations manager at LittleBig. “The Cloud Store provided a central location for editors and photo teams to work from, which was key to achieving same-day turnaround.”
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