55 www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 7 | July 2015 InStudio L-S-B's VSM Universal Control System For SuperSport OB1 HD A s part of a continual renewal effort, South-African sports broadcaster SuperSport built a new HD-capable OB Van. As the overall control system the company chose VSM to be implemented during the building process of OB 1. The truck can handle up to 24 cams, five QBall cams and two sprint cameras. OB 1 has been modernised in the UK and started its first production in May last year. VSM works as the main routing and Tally system with additional control over Axon cards and embedded output cards of the Snell Sirius router (576x576). Working on two redundant servers VSM makes use of 25 VSM hardware panels providing a virtualisation of signals to make the work for the operators as simple as possible. The goal of the implementation of VSM is to reduce setup time and to make production Inside SuperSport's OB1 HD Truck SuperSport OB1 HD Truck workflows more flexible. VSM's capability to save and load workflow configurations as snapshots and simple labelling for devices are huge benefits for operators and EICs. VSM allows the user to directly combine the control parameters of the broadcast system into custom and workflow optimised user interfaces thus bringing simplicity and speed to operators. The van is mainly used for sport events and its first production was a Rugby game in May 2014.http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.l-s-b.de/company/company.html http://www.l-s-b.de/company/company.html http://www.createctrl.com http://www.ibc.org/Exhibitor/CreateCtrl-AG http://www.createctrl.com