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Hi, I am
Paul Rutten. I am a AV Systems Maintainer. Hi, I’m Tom Dalderup, I am Technical Manager
of RTV-Runmond. Hi, my name is Ina Van Os, I am Chief of Operations
and from the camera crew and _ I am a director of the TV shows here at RTV-Runmond here in
Rotterdam
What I see on a daily basis is that OverDrive is in fact a great tool, to make television,
basically, you give this tool to a director and he can operate a show completely on his
own. If you are thinking about automation, taking it to a very high level, then I can
really certainly recommend, considering OverDrive because it can make it happen, you can do
it in a simple way. If you take your preparations, it will make your show on a daily basis really
easy.
Take 5. The great thing about OverDrive is that I use to have 8 people, from 8 people,
to get a show running, and now I can actually do a live show on my own in 50 minutes. I
can, well, that is the great thing about OverDrive. I would recommend OverDrive to small or big
TV stations because you can be up on the air in 50 minutes with everything as in GEO of
satellites or UMTS or everything.
The Netherlands is divided in13 regional stations. Our area consists of one million, six hundred
thousand viewers, potential viewers, but nine hundred thousand of them view our station
every week. So here at RTV Runmond we are making programs with the Ross automation system,
and we do shows like sports, news and multi-camera. My facility has 110 employees and we are making
both radio and television. So that is made by 66 journalist and 30 technical guys, holding
cameras, and editing stuff and doing the dishes. When I was on exhibition in 2005 in Las Vegas,
I had to select new gear for our new facility. So I looked for new work flows and I finally
decided to go with Ross OverDrive system. My experience with Ross people are that they
are fine people. The CEO has worked with the switchers so they know what they are talking
about, and they know a little bit more than the competition how to make it work, and how
to make it work for the people. When we first selected the mixer only our operators, did
choose the Ross Panel and on top of that, later on, we choose the OverDrive system.
The Ross system gives me confidence. From 2007 we never missed a show, thats good for
my nights rest and it is good for my confidence as a technical manager.