Join Jim Jachetta CTO of VidOvation and Jesse Forster Director of Product Development & Western Region Sales at MultiDyne to learn about how you can use fiber-optic camera adapters to incorporate large image sensor digital cinema cameras into live multi-camera production with remote power and bidirectional signal transmission on a single cable.
Find out how…

* To address different formats and signal requirements with a single adapter
* to choose the right fiber-optic camera adapter for various camera types
* to use the same tools and workflow implemented by state-of-the-art studios and mobile production units to achieve a unique look and feel.

Jim Jachetta:
Good morning everyone. Jim Jachetta here from VidOvation. I’m the co-founder and CTO. Today we have a very special guest. My friend Jesse Foster from MultiDyne, he’s the director of products in Western sales. He’s going to lay some fiber optic knowledge on us, particularly how to use studio cameras in a multi-camera production environment, a live production environment, right, Jesse?
Jesse Foster:
Correct. That’s right.
Jim Jachetta:
All right. So lay some knowledge on us.
Jesse Foster:
Okay. So thanks for joining everybody. So I am located in the Los Angeles area and report back to the MultiDyne headquarters in Hauppauge, Long Island, New York. And a little history on the company. We’ve been around since 1977 and over the years we’ve focused primarily on these markets and with these applications that are on the right hand side of the screen. For the sake of this presentation, we’re going to be focused on these areas of venues and stadiums and live stage events, primarily with the studio signal extension side of things. And touch on what we can do with PTZ and POV operator lease cameras, if that’s a real phrase.
Jesse Foster:
Other areas of interest that you might see here, follow up with myself or Jim afterwards, we can get into what we do in the military space and streaming and so forth. One of the main through lines that you’ll see through this presentation is our leveraging of the SMPTE fiber optic spec in the United States. It’s this SMPTE 304M connector. You see it’s an international standard. It’s an international technology that’s been standardized by multiple bodies, that I have listed here. The connector is then utilized with the SMPTE 311M spec of cable, which you can see on the right hand corner of the screen there. It is comprised of two single mode fibers, which means your bandwidth is theoretically, it’s limitless to some degree.
Jesse Foster:
There’s also two power cables and two low voltage signal wires. So it’s a all in one a connection that if you just imagined once you start seeing the breakout of signal IO that we can do on our products, what that would be traditionally in the copper sense, it would just be a very large loom of copper, that’s very heavy and is very distance limited. So this technology is, it’s streamlining and it enables workflows that are not achievable with copper. And in the cases where we don’t have the SMPTE 311 cable, whether or not it’s an older stadium or a studio facility, we have techniques to get the payload onto a single fiber optic tactical single mode cable, and inject power at the receive side, or at the camera side.
Jesse Foster:
So the message of we can turn any camera into a SMPTE camera, it really is applicable to any type of video source that you might have. It could be a VTR that we could hang on the end of our transmission system. So it’s a throwback VTR server or something like that. So you’ll see that we have a very not platform specific. We’re very universal in our solution. So really you guys will probably find some applications that I don’t m...