SPECSAVERS MANAGEMENT MEETING
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The Brief
Working in partnership with production company Chimera and their client Specsavers to provide technical equipment and staff to live stream their internal Management Conference from a professional temporary broadcast studio in the midst of the pandemic.
The clients wanted to get as close to the look and feel of one of their regular management conferences whilst working in the virtual environment. In spite of the pandemics regular Zoom meeting scenario, Specsavers wanted a higher level of professionalism. They wanted to have the look and feel of a ‘morning TV show’ broadcast complete with set, cameras, teleprompters, comfort displays, studio lights and more.



Our Solution
During the pandemic, we quickly realised that we needed to provide a high-quality alternative to the Zoom webinars. We pivoted our business from a purely physical events one to a virtual and hybrid event production company. We invested in new cutting-edge technology and skill sets that permitted us to operate in this field.
Video Mixing & Streaming
Using our high end vMix workstation we were able to mix between four HDSDI cameras and many computer inputs over our IP network. The vMix system has huge flexibility and it can manage an entire production in the hands of a skilled operator. We also used separate vMix servers to handle the incoming/ outgoing video calls with the remote presenter and this allowed the vision director to focus solely on video mixing and spreading the workload amongst other systems creating added resilience.

The Result
Specsavers were able to host and broadcast a studio quality production using Chimera’s web-based platform to reach their management team across the UK & the Channel Islands.
Our team put real time and thought into our solution and in doing so, we were able to change scenes instantly during the live show, even when their presenters began to improvise during presentations without the need to pause or interfere with the productions scheduling.
Our systems are able to operate at up to 4k resolutions, and this production was running at Full HD. The look and feel of the live stream was very high quality and looked stunning to the audience.
Both the client and our partners at Chimera were very happy with the results and see this as a possible format for their events going forwards.