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IPS Delivers Hybrid Magic with 4K ONE Production Vehicle

It was a post-COVID surge in projects that set Innovative Production Services (IPS) on the road to launching one of the industry’s most cutting-edge broadcast trucks, 4K ONE.

HELMED BY DIRECTORS Jeremy Koch and Brendan Sadgrove, the company has a 25 year history covering all aspects of live production including bands, theatre, TV, art, performance, and corporate events. Up until the end of the COVID lockdowns, the mainstay of its facilities had been ‘The HUB’, a flexible studio technical package that could be deployed in the studio or venue of a client’s choosing.

Equipped with 4K studio cameras, studio pedestals with CueScript and talent monitors, a 6m camera jib, 4K Barco E2 screen management system, a studio lighting system, and bonded cellular platforms, the Hub is effectively a full TV broadcast studio that can be set-up and operational within five hours. With the end of the lockdowns, demand for the company’s services, in the words of Jeremy Koch, went “bonkers”.

“We were having to pack up and set up and pack up and set up constantly, because we had a stream of bookings,” says Koch. “So, we needed a way to do ops without setting up every time. We looked at buses, we looked at side sheds, and we looked at shipping containers.” Finally, an unused Isuzu OB truck owned by Technical Direction Company (TDC) came to IPS’ attention and, after approaching TDC owner Michael Hassett, IPS purchased the vehicle and set about refurbishing it with a 12G SDI/4K backbone a view to realising a hybrid events/broadcast truck concept which would give IPS the flexibility to deliver any project.

Read original article: Pg 14-16 Content+Technology ANZ March-April 2024 by Content+Technology - Issuu