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´óÏó´«Ã½NI Business Operations offers complete production packages designed to address any production requirement for any event across any genre.

Services include:

• Outside broadcasts and studio events
• Post-production, dubbing, and finishing
• Graphic and visual effects
• Radio studios and audio dubbing
• PSC camera crews
• Media Central: Full end-to-end workflow support to include data manipulation, file delivery, transfer and storage coordination

From location sourcing and technical planning through to shooting, post-production and audience interaction we provide a full broadcast service to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ as well as to local, national and international broadcast partners and media companies.

Contact

While our primary customer is the ´óÏó´«Ã½, we are very keen to explore opportunities to trade on our marginal capacity.

Please contact ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland  Business Operations for more information on how we can help you to deliver your programme or event.

To book facilities & for further advice please contact Paul Naughton on 07802 185962

Email: paul.naughton@bbc.co.uk

Business Address:

´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland Business Operations

3rd Floor, Broadcasting House

Ormeau Avenue

Belfast

BT2 8HQ

Studios & Outside Broadcasts

Studio One

Studio One is in the iconic ´óÏó´«Ã½ Broadcasting House building located in the centre of Belfast. At 2200sq ft, Studio One is ideal for magazine type programmes and smaller events of up to 100 people, smaller more intimate interview sets, radio recordings or transmissions and single camera shoots. It can also be used for media training exercises.

Studio A

´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland Studio A is Northern Ireland's largest purpose built television studio located at Blackstaff House, Belfast. With 5000 sq ft of floor space, Studio A can accommodate 290 people on retractable seating and has been used for sitcoms, drama, light entertainment, orchestral performances, current affairs, news, children's programmes, an election hub, chat shows, radio programming as well as providing a space for non broadcast events.

There are seven dressing rooms, a make-up room, costume area and a green room with audio visual equipment. The Blackstaff Audience Reception Area (BARA) is an ideal space for welcoming your audience and has full audio and video facilities available. The television production control room for Studio A is provided by ´óÏó´«Ã½ NI4, and the studio also has a dedicated lighting control room and production offices.

´óÏó´«Ã½ NI4

Introducing our ground-breaking outside broadcast vehicle in Northern Ireland!

New OB vehicle presents game-changing broadcast opportunities

We’re thrilled about the completion of the Northern Ireland team’s new multi-functional outside broadcasting vehicle—an industry-leading mobile production gallery, utilising cutting-edge IP technology and delivered by a ´óÏó´«Ã½NI-led design team working with a Systems Integrator, Megahertz.

Valued at approximately £3.5m, this vehicle functions as a main gallery for studio productions such as Mastermind, and provides outside broadcast coverage of a wide range of events, particularly sport.

The vehicle is designed to have very high levels of versatility to meet modern production demands. Carefully optimised technical and design choices were made to ensure unparalleled flexibility and functionality, whether supporting a studio production or on site at an event. It is a fully-equipped mobile production gallery, offering fully IP video and audio architecture, including 14 high-definition Sony cameras, Sony vision mixer, Calrec sound console and EVS record/replay facilities.

Mervyn Middleby, Business Operations Director for Northern Ireland, would like to thank and congratulate Business Operations staff in Northern Ireland who had a pivotal part to play in the rollout of the truck.

"One of the key objectives of the Belfast Transformation Project was to provide a mobile IP production capability to deliver ´óÏó´«Ã½ NI’s broadcast strategy – this is a fantastic example of transformative design, driven by local experts, which will flexibly deliver the nations production demands"

´óÏó´«Ã½ NIHD2

´óÏó´«Ã½ NI HD 2 is our mid sized OB vehicle. It is specifically designed for smaller OB venues while still packing in most of the facilities of our full size double expanding OB unit.

It incorporates 5 CCU controlled Cameras ( plus additional camera sources), Vizrt graphics and EVS facilities including 6 channels and Slomo .

The Vehicle also includes a Satellite 2.4m dish  with dual HD encoders.

Broadcast Connectivity

Business Operations Engineers deliver outside broadcast connectivity from our fleet of HD digital satellite vehicles.

Our NIHD2 is a multi-camera production vehicle for smaller outside broadcasts that can provide up to four satellite paths for distribution.

Two Mercedes Sprinters, SNGs, provide the chassis for our quick reaction multi-path, on-location satellite communications for newsgathering, sport, and other events.

Both are multi-camera capable, providing dual Mpeg4 satellite paths, as well as establishing high bandwidth IP paths over satellite connectivity.

With an onboard LiveU encoder incorporating several Mobile 4G SIMS, or using IP paths, this ensures that no matter where the story breaks, our editorial colleagues are guaranteed high quality video links back to the studio.

From GAA finals at Croke Park, US Presidential visits to Ireland and coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second from Royal Hillsborough, our satellite vehicles provide the vital link in high definition around the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network.

Sound Control Vehicle 1

Sound Control Vehicle 1 is a multi-purpose audio vehicle, custom built for ´óÏó´«Ã½NI, designed to provide high quality digital mixes for both live broadcasts and recordings. Based around a Yamaha PM1 Digital desk, this has been used as a mix truck on everything from orchestral concerts such as Proms in the Park, to festivals such as Oxegen, Electric Picnic, Belsonic and T-Vital, as well as comedy and current affairs.

Normally used for radio, it is also ideal for providing complex mixes for television programmes. With a quad split widescreen monitor permanently rigged, and space for other preview monitors, sound for television is easily catered for in the air conditioned control room.

Media Central

Media Central are responsible for managing the end-to-end Post Production workflows across ´óÏó´«Ã½ NI.

The team of Media Operators help ensure that all media is effectively handled and ingested by using Avid Media Composer and a range of third-party Post Production tools. They are also on-hand to provide support to the Editors and Production staff at all stages throughout the Post Production process and to ensure the completed programmes are delivered in a timely fashion. For the most part this involves overseeing the DPP Delivery of files, which are Tech Reviewed and tested in-house using our AQC and PSE software, to ensure compliance with the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Technical Delivery standards. In the case of live content, the team are also capable of recording incoming material through the use of Avid’s Fastserves, and for late Current Affairs deliveries, where DPP Delivery is not possible, the team are able to playout completed programmes to other broadcast centres across the regions.

As well as assisting in the delivery of programmes, Media Central are also responsible for providing access to Remote Edit Facilities through either physical hardware kits or by supplying a software based solution. This is supported by the integration of Avid Cloud UX, an online viewing platform where Edit material can be accessed safe and securely from any location. Through this end-to-end workflow, the Media Central team have been able to successfully support Productions from all over the world while based entirely in Northern Ireland.

Post Production

´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland’s Business Operations Post Production facilities can offer you a complete end to end solution covering Studios, Media Handling, Off and Online editing, Graphic Design, Protools Dubbing, Tech Review Facilities right through to final Full DDP File Delivery, all without leaving the building.

Audio Post Production

Our two dubbing facilities have been completely rebuilt and now run ProTools S6 mixing consoles, directly linked to our Avid Nexis Storage. Further improvements include an additional voice over booth allowing for more flexibility.

Post Production Graphics

Our award winning Graphic Design department offers a full broadcast design service. The creative team will provide initial concepts all the way to the finished product. This can be tile sequences, content graphics, VR and AR studio design as well as full OB live graphics production. Graphics output is created using Adobe Creative suite, Cinema 4D and Vizrt broadcast equipment.

Video Post Production

Our award winning team of editors use our fully Avid infrastructure backbone of Media Composers, 750TB of Avid Nexis Storage, Production Management (Interplay) and 12 Channels of Fastserve (able to record live from our Blackstaff studio) to turn your thoughts into reality. whether you need On Prem, over-the -shoulder via Teams or fully remote editing we can provide this. We also have a team in Media Central who deal with all the media ingest and exports etc and are staffed *15hrs a day, so your editor can get on with what they do best – Editing.

Technical Review

Our dedicated Tech Review suites are equipped with a range of full broadcast spec picture and sound monitoring equipment and the Avid Symphony has software which allows editing of the DPP file; negating the necessity of a re-export, This and our standard booking time allow for limited corrections if required – no need to go back into Online.

Single Camera Operations

´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland's lighting camera staff are among the best and most creative in the business.

Not only do we have a wealth of experience and expertise, gained from filming in some of the most challenging of conditions across the globe and across all genre of broadcast programming, but we have a deep level of technical ability enabling us to provide professional advice and a high standard of personal service and support to our clients.

We also have a range of crew available for single camera operation, with experience in multi-camera operations, programme making, newsgathering and sports coverage. Some also have experience as Shoot Editors and drone operation.