We offer a number of pre-racked Portable Production Units (PPUs) to deliver the best, most cost-effective solution for any live event. We shoot on engineered system cameras, vision-mixed to provide an output feed in any format including composite, component, DVI, SD-SDI or HD-SDI.

We record to our tapeless Live Ingest and Chase Edit™ system, allowing up to 8 streams of SD-SDI or HD-SDI video and up to 32 separate audio tracks to be recorded. Better still, an editor can be editing your event whilst live, so that an edited version can be available the same day as the event.

For larger jobs, we can arrange facilities for Outside Broadcast trucks. We can also provide specialist camera equipment including jibs/cranes, track and pedestal cameras and Steadicam.

On-site we ask for a 16A power feed, audio from the sound desk and production comms, and we provide back a mixed picture feed and recorded media.

And best of all, we are happy to provide any part of our PPUs as separate unit. Need a vision mixer rack with tally DA? No problem. Have your own cameras but need us to record and edit on-the-fly? No problem.

Here is a sample list of kit that exists in our PPUs:

• Sony DXC-D55 SD Triax Camera Channels
• Sony HXC-100 HD Triax Camera Channels
• Vinten 100 and 250 tripods
• Panasonic AV-HS400 10-channel Vision Mixer
• Quartz and Jeff 5000 Tally DAs
• Kramer video and audios DAs
• Blackmagic Design Micro and Compact Videohubs
• Sony SD CRT and HD OLED monitors
• Apple Mac Pros with fibre RAID hard drives Tools On Air just:in software for mutli-stream Live Ingest recording
• Sony DVCAM VTR decks
• FACE systems 4-wire talkback
• Canford Tecpro 2-wire talkback
• Peltor and Beyer ear defender headsets
• Large selection of Blackmagic Design mini converters
• Large quantity of digital glue, including DAs, matrices, TFTs, headphone amps, adapters, DI boxes.

For PPU enquiries, please call the office on 01784 441147 or email ask@zest4.tv