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Zeros in One hits the road with AJA’s Dante AV 4K-R and 4K-T

In the rock-and-roll business for more than twenty-five years, Jason Harvey, founder of video production company Zeros in One, has collaborated with artists like Madonna, Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Bon Jovi, and Paul McCartney, among others. Zeros in One provides camera and engineering expertise for live concerts and other large-scale events.

From the beginning, AJA gear has played a key role in nearly every one of Harvey’s tour workflows. Most recently, he added AJA’s new Dante AV 4K-T encoders and Dante AV 4K-R decoders into the mix for a concert tour. On his current project, Harvey oversees a twelve-camera setup - four manned and eight robot cameras, which capture footage for in-venue display, and each show is recorded. Footage is captured in 1080 60p using 3G, totaling about 0.5 TB per camera each night (6 TB a show). The raw output goes into media servers, where the concert feed is color corrected and filters are applied; that signal is then fed to LED video screens.

Three AJA Ki Pro Ultras handle primary show ProRes recording, with Ki Pro Go doing backup recording to H.264. Ten AJA Fido fiber optic converters are built into the tour’s rack to run front-of-house optic, while AJA Dante AV 4K-T encoders and AJA Dante AV 4K-R decoders allow Harvey to transmit and receive Dante AV Ultra signals up to 4K/UltraHD, with 12G-SDI and HDMI 2.0 inputs or outputs over standard 1 GigE IP networks. Across projects, Harvey also leverages AJA FS-HDR and AJA FS2 frame syncs.

Post-show, AJA PAK Media solid state drives (SSDs) help simplify data wrangling, allowing Harvey to shift media quickly. “Unlike film shoots, which have shorter takes and fewer cameras, recording live concerts entails hours-long single takes on as many as twenty cameras”, he explains. “That generates so much data, and I need to be able to shift through it all. With a few PAKs, Thunderbolt 3 PAK docks, two MacBook Pros, and two G-Raid 2 24 TB drives, I can move many terabytes of data in a few hours from my hotel room.”

(Photos: AJA Video Systems/Zeros in One)

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