TV Technology User Report: NEP at the Daily Show
By George Hoover, NEP
"One of the more recent challenges we faced was a fast-track program for upgrading two studios to high-definition operations in connection with the production of the Colbert Report and the Daily Show. Both shows had to stay in production in SD during the HD upgrade.
[...] We have a large plant and there's always a lot of frame syncing, color correcting, embedding and de-embedding being accomplished in connection with the dozens of signals moving throughout the operation. By using Cobalt's openGear™ products with the DashBoard™ control and monitoring software, along with the Cobalt OGCP-9000 remote control panels, we have achieved one of the holy grails of system design--all video and audio processing under a common control scheme."
George Hoover is chief technology officer for NEP Broadcasting. He may be contacted at georgeh@nepinc.com.