CONNECTED CAMERA WORKFLOWS
Maximise your content’s immediacy and credibility
Stay relevant, stay ahead
The competitive pressure on news makers has never been greater. Securing audience loyalty depends on delivering authentic, high quality content even faster and with more efficient use of resources. Sony innovation is transforming news workflows, letting journalists collaborate with studio based teams to produce on premises or in the cloud for streaming, OTT/OTA and multi-platform delivery.
[1] Credibility [2] Efficiency [3] Immediacy [4] Authenticity [5] Edge Processing [6] Connectivity [7] Stream or File w/Metadata [8] Cloud [9] On-Prem [10] OTA [11] OTT
Assuring credibility
In a world of fake news and disinformation, your reputation as a news source may depend on proving the authenticity and integrity of your content. C2PA-compliant digital signatures can be created within the camera, allowing edit history metadata to be embedded within video files.
*C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is an open technical standard that enables publishers, creators and consumers to track the origin and history of various types of media. It has been standardised as a framework for ensuring the transparency of information pertaining to the creation and editing of digital data.
* Requires optional paid video authenticity license.
Setting a new standard for media authenticity
As a C2PA Steering Committee member, Sony is actively contributing to the development of an open technical standard that enables publishers, creators and consumers to track the origin and history of various types of media content.
[12] Signature [13] Provenance management [14] Capture [15] Edit [16] Content submission [17] Verify/ Edit [18] Distribute [19] By Camera Operator [20] By Broadcast Station
Enhanced efficiency
Workflow efficiency is enhanced by powerful AI-enabled features that can reliably automate focus, composition and exposure. This reduces the load on camera operators, helping to ensure consistently high-quality content with less manual intervention.
Subject Recognition AF
Intelligent recognition of posture and anatomical structures allows the camera to identify human subjects reliably, maintaining crisp autofocus even if the subject’s face is turned away, obscured or in shadow.
Auto Framing and Auto Tracing White Balance
Auto Framing can adjust scene composition to keep human subjects accurately positioned in the shot. Auto Tracing White Balance optimises WB for natural looking results, even in challenging lighting conditions such as when subjects are in shadow.
Smarter connectivity
Sony’s innovative wireless workflows reduce barriers to collaboration, helping journalists and news teams build stories faster. Transfer files from the field to base with a high-speed 5G connectivity add-on, or stream live with no other hardware needed.
Faster content transfers, from anywhere
The PDT-FP1 portable data transmitter delivers high-speed wireless communications between camera and cloud at 5G speeds. The Creators’ Cloud for Enterprise mobile app manages transfer of AV files and metadata, making content available for editing, sharing and streaming even quicker.
[21] File Transfer [22] Live Streaming [23] Cloud [24] On-Prem
Benefits of camera-native file transfer workflows
This workflow transfers camera-native files directly, preserving high image quality while leveraging files and metadata generated at the time of capture, such as GPS data and AI-based transcription. It streamlines everything from automatic content sorting to scripting and editing, significantly reducing the time from field to air.
[33] Camera [34]Transmitters [35] Broadcast station [36] Single link [37] PDT-FP1 [38] Bonded cellular [39] Third party products [40] Metadata-driven automatic file organization and script generation [41] Edit [42] ON AIR
*Partner solutions will continue to be expanded overtime.
Fast and reliable digital production with camera-native file transfer
With the vision of redefining how broadcast professionals capture and transmit content from diverse locations, working closely with partners is key to supporting diverse news workflow requirements.
LiveU and Sony have joined forces to deliver an innovative content gathering experience.
LiveU’s field units equipped with video-over-bonded-IP (VoBIP) transmission enables stored files to be easily, swiftly and reliably transferred to Sony’s Network RX Station (model : PWA-RXS).
Please find details of LiveU products here
[43] Sony’s Cameras & LiveU’s Field Units [44] Camera-native File Transfer [45] LiveU’s Decoders with Sony’s Network RX Station
Connection between Sony’s cameras and LiveU’s field units*
USB-C and Ethernet connections
*The connection method varies depending on the combination of the camera type and the field unit type.
LiveU Products
Field Units
LiveU TX1 / LU300S* / LU800* / LU900Q*
Decoders
LU2000 / LU4000
*Additional license required
PWA-RXS
Network RX Station
A software package, deployed on-prem, designed to receive file delivery over IP and provides file access including growing files into NLE for extra-fast access.
Edit while shooting
Chunked file transfers let news production teams begin editing stories while shooting is still in progress. During recording, AV files are automatically split into shorter sections and continuously transferred from the camera.
[25] Capture [26] Preview/ Edit [27] REC [28] MXF [29] Proxy MP4 [30] Transfer [31] PWA-RXS [32] Combined file
