What's Inside a MASSIVE TV Broadcast Truck ?

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What's Inside a MASSIVE TV Broadcast Truck ? - Full Tour!

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Zebra Zone

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@zebrazone 4 ай бұрын

Hope you like this tech tour! These OB trucks are out on the field non stop so we had this rare opportunity with a limited time inside, which is why we didn’t cover all the aspects in further detail! Feel free to pinpoint all inaccuracies that I may have said. Thanks so much for all your support and nice comments! What would you like to see next ? 😀

@jonahplayscello 4 ай бұрын

How in the world are these things built?

@blessedjunior6989 4 ай бұрын

Is this not an overkill

@jonahplayscello 4 ай бұрын

@@blessedjunior6989 if they are going for perfection then no, this is not overkill at all.

@blessedjunior6989 4 ай бұрын

@@jonahplayscello when one person has to operate all those monitors i think it is

@jonahplayscello 4 ай бұрын

@@blessedjunior6989 they need to see all of the live feeds, you can drive a car without a backup camera, mirrors, and doors, but you don’t because it is inconvenient. You can operate a livestream with only one screen, but you don’t, especially at this scale because it is incredibly inconvenient.

@MatthewWalster 4 ай бұрын

Better production quality than most mid-budget television shows, with a more compelling host who clearly loves what they do, and a genuinely fascinating subject... That's Zebra Zone for sure!

@farley333 4 ай бұрын

I've worked in OB trucks like this for 8 years. Even collaborated with AMP on few occasions. It's an amazing and endlessly cool job ... but be careful, it can eat up your life if you let it. Very physically, mentally and time intensive. :) ...but also the best multimedia technology school you can imagine. No university can teach you what a year at company like that can give you. Trust me. If you can operate an OB truck, no studio anywhere will take you by surprise.

@joanmiqueltorrensjuan9292 4 ай бұрын

Thats the most acurate statement i had ever read: "If you can operate an OB truck, you have mastered any broadcast environment possible."

@farley333 4 ай бұрын

@@joanmiqueltorrensjuan9292 Absolutely true.

@plunder1956 3 ай бұрын

A most interesting overview. It would be interesting to investigate each section of the work flow and how they interact. I have some experience of the corporate conference and Corporate video production, but from almost 30 years ago, so the technology was very different. I find the way they have nested the systems from at least 5 different production environments together in one vehicle. What is the backbone standard this truck is designed for? 4K or higher.

@farley333 3 ай бұрын

@@plunder1956 Honestly till this day 4K trucks are not as common as it might seem. The one you see in the video probably is 4k, because AMP is very big and very succesful company. But your local TV soccer match won't be shot in 4K any soon. It's just too expansive. Other than that, you usually have 4 main departments. All nicely shown in the video. - The video vision mixing part, where editor and director sits. Also it usually hosts a graphics operator for titles and stats. - The replay part (where EVS operators sit and offer replay shots to director). - The remote camera control part, where they take care of all cameras looking the same, so you can cut between them. - Audio part, where sound gets made. Also they configure intercom systems so everyone hears everyone. All the signals are routed in matrices. Some use distributed multimedia matrices (google Riedel Mediornet), some use dedicated video and audio matrixes. Video one tends to be a standalone device, audio one tends to be a part of audio console. All the audio and video meets in a device called "embedder" that makes a finished stream out of it. That stream then goes to an H.264 encoder. Either mounted in and DSNG truck (a car with satellite dish on top) or goes to some kind of internet based encoder (google LiveU). That's how the signal gets to TV station. Then they process and distribute it any way they fancy. :) (I was too colorblind to work on the vision/camera control part, but I've done all the rest. All the aidio stuff, bit of replays, lots of intercoms and A LOT of dsng satellite transmissions. :) )

@vabiro 3 ай бұрын

@@plunder1956 I agree completely. Within a truck like this there are probably so many sub-groups of expertise.For example, I saw a lot of fibre networking, but there was still discussion about SDI connection, and it made me curious about tech like NDI. Can you so some stuff on that in these environments?

@thesmallterror 3 ай бұрын

I would watch a 6 hour breakdown of the workflow in every chair. So much thought is going into this.

@DeclanMBrennan 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for a fascinating tour of an actual tardis. What an amazing design. It's incredible how much functionality has been packed in.

@itapmedia 4 ай бұрын

We need more of these videos...excellent content

@JKVisFX 3 ай бұрын

That's the first time I have ever been able to see inside a mobile broadcast truck before. Clearly, this one is a true, state-of-the-art system ready for today's digital, 4k standards. I am having a true geek out over this one.

@matthewphillips9083 3 ай бұрын

Videos like this and the comments people post give me so much pride to work in broadcast. It's one thing to tell my loved ones about what I do, but it's even better being able to show them a video like this that does such a good job of explaining everything that goes on in one of these amazing trucks!

@jellebigge 4 ай бұрын

Production value of the charts again. Thanks man!

@hexd0t 4 ай бұрын

The 'normal' translations work better than the AI ones from last video 👍🏻

@ruk2023-- 3 ай бұрын

For now...

@hullinstruments 4 ай бұрын

Hope to see you upload more videos. That camera tear down adventure you took us on last year was incredible. And I look forward to anything you do in the future

@AJ_UK_LIVE 4 ай бұрын

Great to see you again! This truck is truly a marvel. The amount of tech packed in is remarkable. I am also amazed it has enough battery power for 30 minutes run time - that's one heck of a UPS! Thank you for another cool video.

@toamastar 3 ай бұрын

Ive had the privilege of seeing one of these in person and its so cool! What you almost never see is the warehouse team that sort and supply all the extra gear that goes onto another (or several other) trucks that take all the gear that goes to events! :) shout out to those guys! :)

@gamerwoods683 4 ай бұрын

Let's goooo Zebra Zone posted again!

@bill99208 Ай бұрын

It’s amazing how much technology has changed the remote business. I worked as a student at my college and my high school with the same truck where we had to load up the truck for sports recordings. Four cameras and a very heavy quadraplex video recorder that handled two-inch videotape (in college we used three-quarter inch video cassettes-Sony U-Matics) that practically gave us all a bad injury due to weight. We were fortunate to have a second set of camera control units so we just had to load up cameras and the cabling (thank goodness for cable winders for both audio and camera cables) for production. Audio was handled by the old Shure microphone mixers that were very thin and could be cascaded for more channels beyond five. Inside the microphone array was the standard EV 635 and EV RE-20 microphones with a couple of EV shotgun microphones to cover the house audio like crowd noise. We also carried a behemoth Ampex mono reel-to-reel for other sounds such as music (and that thing was well over 125 pounds but built very well. Overall it was a great truck for its time but by the time my college got it, there were several things that were not part of the sale to the college, but we had some engineers there who were able to give us the same thing using less equipment so we had many an exciting weekend covering football and basketball and the best part was that it all counted as Lab Work for our Television classes. But truth be told, I loved the Philips cameras we had in the college studio as they so much sharper. The Ikegami camera we had for a third camera was always a pia as more people had access to it (news classes) and that meant adjustments were always out of standard and we spent twenty minutes getting it in sync with the studio/remote cameras every time. Of course I am talking about the time right before stereo TV audio became the de facto standard, so things were far easier to pull together. The best thing about having the truck was we didn’t have to drag a quad machine out of the studio for taping. The Ampex AVR-1 decks we had were great but would never have survived under student remote operations. Overall, it was a fun part of my life, but I am so glad that I was more of an audio type than a TV engineering type. Yeah, I picked up just enough to make me dangerous with adjustments but I loved the audio program in college and I went on to do radio which was far less stressful on me. But looking at that rig you showed off, I am so glad that it’s not in my hands. It’s that more powerful than anything I could have ever imagined back in my college days.

@Russeljrjs Ай бұрын

The production quality of this channel is fenomenal

@graealex 4 ай бұрын

Babe, wake up, Zebra Zone has posted a new video.

@saumyacow4435 Ай бұрын

As a former network engineer this has me salivating.. :)

@AboveTheTrees00 4 ай бұрын

wow what a company, that's so impressive.

@zebrazone 4 ай бұрын

Yes, they are!

@markholloway9223 Ай бұрын

Fantastic production! These tech tours are tremendous for many of us in this industry. Thanks so much!

@tobytorials 4 ай бұрын

Always excited to see a new video of you! 👌🏽

@computerjantje 4 ай бұрын

forget about all the other subscription posts and youtube recommendations...Zebra Zone has posted a new video so that is the one to sit down for and watch right away with a coffee next to me. Thank you so much for another video. This truck is just a little bit more then my one box on the road kit :)

@grantc8353 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for great video. As someone who does not care about filmmaking but love tech I like your videos and style. You can see you have a great passion and it’s contagious.

@MikeKobb 2 ай бұрын

Awesome truck, awesome tour. That double-slide is really something. You can tell that the truck was really designed by experienced folks because they put that back-of-rack access hatch there so that you can get behind all that gear and add/remove/change wiring wiring easily. 👍🏻

@davidgekler 4 ай бұрын

Very cool, million years ago I worked in trucks in the US, even built them from scratch.

@voiceofjeff 2 ай бұрын

Extremely impressive. The engineering and design that went into each of these mobile studios must be mind-blowing. You very adequately explained each section and how it integrates into a production. Well done. Thank you!

@bastienpabiot3678 2 ай бұрын

9000 shows in a year with 40 trucks means each truk works more than 200 days per year, beyond the technical magic they are doing, it's also impressive because of the crazy reliability of such a complex system

@therealmaxo 4 ай бұрын

I really find it facinating that you don't have more than one million subscibers. The quality and effort put into these videos is on a whole another level. Keep going!

@sarahivsutterb747 2 ай бұрын

Wow that's awesome, amazing, and mind-boggling stunning to see such a beast of high-tech miracle! I am blown away by the huge amount of technology and ingenuity which is inside this semitruck! Thank you for sharing it with us and have a great day! 😍

@ravifleming 4 ай бұрын

Thank you brother for making this video. It's a very rare type of knowledge we are seeing on this platform.❤

@arjunkamble3479 Ай бұрын

Incredible. Loved it guys!! So much information packed in just 14min❤

@njessidivine4774 4 ай бұрын

Your videos are just more than a high tech master piece. I just love everything moments of your clips.

@darnellgarrison1628 3 ай бұрын

I’ve worked on 3 of the big trucks and many of the smaller trucks. Personally I prefer smaller flight packs because they can go in more places and less power than trucks. I’ve been in the business over 35 years as a cable puller/page, production assistant for Detroit word cup 1994 with EBU, as a TD and Director for countless productions

@Steigs 4 ай бұрын

Was just in that truck recently, beautiful build and stellar crew!

@MegaRetr 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for a fascinating tour of an actual tardis)

@UQRXD 3 ай бұрын

As a engineer I am most impressed. Best video so far other than the broadcast camera one. Thank you. The one thing I have not seen is a satellite uplink station.

@paulstubbs7678 2 ай бұрын

They make TV shows like StarTrek etc, and try and blow you away with futuristic tech, however in reality this truck leaves them all behind, no silly 'GNDN' pipes, this is all real, it all does something.

@randomviewer3494 4 ай бұрын

Cool! Glad to hear you're working on more videos again. Also just curious, do you work at AMP visual? cause you know a lot about it.

@zebrazone 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I don’t work there but have spent a bit of time around their trucks and team, for sure they are very humble and talented!

@samuelosterhuber 4 ай бұрын

Danke!

@MalteSpieltYT 4 ай бұрын

Love these behind the scenes videos!

@DylanClarkSallee 3 ай бұрын

That was absolutely fantastic. I can’t even begin to imagine how much that truck is worth - at the lowest end several million.

@francescomartina856 3 ай бұрын

I Can’t express how much I like this 😮 spectacular ! And thanks for the professionalism of all these guys

@OliverOcsko 3 ай бұрын

Me: Hits back of this truck with my car. My insurance company: YOU HIT WHAT?!

@lazymass 4 ай бұрын

I don't even do any video production, but watching videos like this is awesome for me anyway. Love the technology around it.

@ForstPenguin 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video! Always interesting to see what happens behind the scenes, especially when one goes into all the cool technical details.

@GrosAdventures 2 ай бұрын

This channel definitely needs more subscribers

@muscle__rr 4 ай бұрын

Best behind the scene broadcast related channel on KZfaq

@allisonrodriguez4466 Ай бұрын

Such a captivating upload.

@KarrierBag Ай бұрын

IN the mid 1980's here in the UK a mate bought an old ex BBC TV location filming and production truck, ok it was 20 years old at the time and fitted with very old tech, was a solid vehicle but nothing like these monsters.

@tanza3d 4 ай бұрын

very interesting video, love seeing all this stuff! it's insane just how much technology and how many people go into a single broadcast

@videograph 4 ай бұрын

Unique content! Thank you

@justjoe7313 4 ай бұрын

Very, very impressive!

@ISRAADVISUALS 4 ай бұрын

My head cant wrap my head on How complex this system is..Just out of this world

@udayannarayansingh1665 4 ай бұрын

BEST CONTENT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW HOW THESE WORK AMAZING......

@bits2646 4 ай бұрын

You don't know how much I wanted to see that video :D I was going to fake it I have a YT channel and get a mobile production company to do a fake review just so I could see it, I am actually really interested from technology standpoint but also how it is all packed together and also how it differs from normal "studio datacenter" application to withstand the vibrations and shocks in transit so everything works out of the box when on set... Great !!! Thanks !!

@theworkshopwhisperer.5902 3 ай бұрын

Now that is some impressive cable management.

@jonahplayscello 4 ай бұрын

Great stuff man, I love videos like this!

@alexevansuk 3 ай бұрын

This would also be a phenomenal investment for many production companies filming on location.

@LarryRobinsonintothefog 3 ай бұрын

When I worked at a TV repair shop in the 1970s my boss showed me behind the scenes photos of a televised sock hop at his school in Gainesville (TX) showing the camera the truck and maybe a semi, wish I had got copies of the photos. This was awesome.

@nomenclature9373 Ай бұрын

Multi camera field productions were my favorite when I worked in cable tv. The first OB van I drove in the 1980s was based on the typical Ford E350 used by news stations. No microwave mast though, but 4 camera, 6 capable, 12 channel audio mixer. Later drove a Sprinter 3500 with digital capabilities doing a lot of debates, telethons, high school and college sports. Fun times.

@TVJAY 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for making this video!

@codacoder 2 ай бұрын

What a BEAST!! Awesome video! :)

@charlottekopp8321 4 ай бұрын

Amazing! On the road again (and it is the case to say it) ! Can't wait for the next video!

@cristovaonunes4952 3 ай бұрын

Great content and can tell good knowledge about real world of technology!

@megrezpines 4 ай бұрын

I can see you improvise on scene with little scripting beforehands! 😂 Nevertheless, I love your videos, can’t wait for the next one!

@SomeDumUsrName 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Great video....on a very cool subject! Right ON!

@TheDarkSnaffle 3 ай бұрын

Great video, very informative, and beautifully presented. Thank you.

@gabbo13 2 ай бұрын

It's a monster!

@zloinaopako 3 ай бұрын

Lovely. I could not focus on anything else but your windmilling arms. It was nail bitingly stressful, being afraid that you’ll knock something down.

@kimothemo 4 ай бұрын

Yet the network decides to broadcast at 4mbps 🤣

@VagiPeti 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video! So great that you walked around this whole topic from different aspects!

@edmondhung6097 3 ай бұрын

As usual, professionally job

@SamoScopom 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video but also for pointing me towards the new monopod from iFootage, I think I will preorder one.

@Geethepancake 4 ай бұрын

so excited for this video! great video!

@rossritchie7611 3 ай бұрын

Great video thanks for putting so much effort into this! So much behind the scenes!

@fotoworkshop_stuttgart 3 ай бұрын

What a great behind the scenes!

@nick-leffler 4 ай бұрын

The french are awesome. I can't wait to travel there one day.

@mikekolczynski5665 3 ай бұрын

I was working as a maintenance guy for the local university. My maintenance calls were dispatched to me by the security office via walkie-talkie. One of these trucks was out back plugged into our building for electricity.One night during a college men's basketball game, I was told to unplug the truck. I did as ordered. They weren't ready to shut down. I threw the switch within seconds.The door flew open, and people were screaming. We all went to the building management,and they wanted answers. The security officer confessed to having dispatched me. Man, they wanted my fired.

@liviurosca 3 ай бұрын

As a truck driver, tech enthusiast and amateur photographer this was a great video for me. 😅

@davemarsh6912 3 ай бұрын

Nice tour - BUT where was the box of Gaffa tape?

@velociraptor5962 4 ай бұрын

Wow. As usual you've done an amazing video. Love the explanation and tours. Great facilities and trucks. Thanks again.

@adytm 4 ай бұрын

This is so COOL! I wish I could see this in real life. Also underrated content!

@jimbim4405 4 ай бұрын

Another fantastic video Thibaud!!

@achtundsechzig792 4 ай бұрын

Would be nice to get a few more Infos like Model of Switcher, Routing etc. But nice Video

@tomj. 4 ай бұрын

Looks like the switcher is a Sony XVS, routing and glue is handled by Reidel Microns over Mediornet.

@Arcticwhir 4 ай бұрын

What i'm most amazed by is the suspension on that truck, surely all those connections over million km would degrade

@getinsidestories 4 ай бұрын

the dream to work in a OB truck like this

@Dixlive 3 ай бұрын

9:22 First day at work and they welcome you in the office and say one network cable is not working go repalce it😂😂😂😂 i will resign with immidiet effect

@nobodyfps 4 ай бұрын

this is awesome 😍

@ludwig2345 4 ай бұрын

Real next gen is producing remotely.

@Sourdo1 3 ай бұрын

Nice tour.

@nerdegem 3 ай бұрын

I bet even with design and build quality like that, some of the setup time will be chasing down loose/failed connections and wires.

@evie-ether 3 ай бұрын

Hi ZZ. Love the video and long-term fan of the channel. Just a note - when you speak about a role you often use "he" as default. There are girls in F+TV too ;) Much love and keep up the good work!