Dejero – Resilience: a prerequisite in the world of content creation
Ivy Cuervo – Director, Brand and Communications, Dejero
Media & Entertainment professionals find themselves in some strange and sometimes unforgiving environments. The demand for new and high quality content is relentless; and consistently serving audiences with a diversity of new perspectives takes a certain level of resilience, both mental and physical.
Resilience is a prerequisite for the journalists who chase real-life stories, production crews that cover live events, and film and documentary creators whose ambition is to expose their audiences to perspectives and places they have never seen before.
The technology they rely on throughout their epic journeys needs to live up to their ambitions to produce great content, even in the face of challenging physical environments and circumstances. From jungles to mountaintops, from extreme heat to freezing cold climates, or even remote or disaster-struck locations; finding a network signal path to transmit their amazing content seems impossible.
Making the impossible possible
Renowned storm chaser, Reed Timmer and his crew, Team Dominator, were able to push the boundaries of live streaming and scientific data collection from inside tornadoes and hurricanes, with the help of Dejero’s resilient wireless technology.
This time last year in Spalding, Nebraska, Team Dominator captured a 55 mb pressure deficit with its microbarometer in what was described as the best tornado intercept in US history. Even with winds between 160 to 170 mph, inside the wedge tornado, Timmer was privy to uninterrupted internet connectivity, upheld by the resilient Dejero EnGo mobile video transmitter with GateWay Mode. The 2-in-1 unit uses Dejero’s Smart Blending Technology™ to aggregate multiple wireless broadband networks into a single service for uninterrupted connectivity.
Taking the heat
Built with aircraft-grade aluminum in a monocoque construction that’s lightweight and strong, and featuring polycarbonate ABS bumpers for additional protection, the EnGo was also put to the test in Asia when robust connectivity was needed for the live production of multiple and concurrent football games at geographically dispersed stadiums across Malaysia.
Here, the EnGo sent high quality, low latency video to the cloud by combining multiple network connections in real-time during the coverage of each match; from rural stadiums with patchy cell networks, to arenas in Kuala Lumpur where local networks become heavily congested.
Knowing that your chosen connectivity solution is resilient enough to perform just as well in the torrential rain of a monsoon as it is in the scorching temperatures and high humidity of the jungles, can’t be underestimated.
Plain sailing
In Europe, cloud video platform developers with Dazzl Inc. teamed up with Dejero to facilitate the uninterrupted coverage for French production company, Sea Events, as it live streamed the dramatic departures and arrivals of the annual off-shore Solitaire du Figaro race, which takes place over 1,830 miles across some of Europe’s roughest waters.
The production crew didn’t need to worry about the movement and positioning of the boat in order to gain the best viewpoints or signal – no matter how far away they were from the coast or even when crossing borders, because an EnGo was leveraging all available network connections. The combination of Dejero’s mobile transmitter and Dazzl’s cloud video platform enabled the production crew to easily access tools for live production, live clipping, rapid editing and video distribution from the various stages of the race between France, Ireland and Spain, all while maintaining reliable internet connectivity.
The EnGo mobile video transmitter has been deployed to M&E content creators around the world – its compact design and easy to use interface guarantees high quality live video streams no matter where it’s being used. It ensures ultra reliable transmission and reception even in adverse conditions.
Rock solid
Dejero’s resilient connectivity solutions have also kicked off a revolution in the film and commercial production industry, opening new possibilities when it comes to film location, lower production costs, and an increase in the reliability and speeds at which video and data is transferred.
With the Canadian Rockies as a backdrop, at the side of a snow-capped mountain, dynamic shots of driving, skiing and other active footage for a car commercial were streamed to creative and brand agency collaborators in different offsite locations. This was made possible with a Dejero EnGo mobile transmitter that transported camera feeds over a blend of cellular and satellite networks to the cinematic production client headquarters where the stream was sent on to various platforms, including Zoom for real-time, virtual collaboration.
By sending high-resolution, low latency, live video directly from set to the client, agency or other collaborators anywhere around the globe, creative direction and feedback can happen in real time and any changes can be made while the shoot is happening, saving time and preventing costly re-shoots.
Stern environments
i&u TV Produktion has been relying on Dejero EnGo mobile video transmitters and Dejero’s LivePlus mobile apps for a number of years to deliver breaking news to some of Germany’s largest TV stations and digital platforms, from extremely remote and hostile environments – most recently from war-torn Ukraine and the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. With Dejero, i&u teams can go live, even from the most remote parts of the world, and can immediately edit received material in their studios in Cologne, or watch the recorded content directly in the edit and request and receive missing shots in a matter of minutes.
For i&u’s weekly live magazine show, stern.TV, a Dejero CuePoint return video server provides low-latency, live video to on-air presenters, camera operators, and other production personnel in the field to help them stay synchronized with central production.
New horizons
Whether it’s delivered in the form of live news, events coverage, sports or weather reporting, or as documentaries, reality TV shows and film, feeding the appetite for engaging content requires resilience: of people and ideas, and especially of reliable user-friendly technology.
It’s time to open up new horizons. You can go anywhere, stream from anywhere, report from anywhere, film from anywhere with resilient connectivity for limitless creativity.
