MAking of – Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | The grandMA3 System

We had the chance to take a very special look behind the system of this years Eurovision Song Contest. 🙌
System Engineer Tue Knudsen himself told us what makes this project so special for him & what challenges had to be overcome.

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[conorbiddle]

Tue has been an incredible help in the move from 2 to 3 and great to see him being recognised for his skills

[MarcoKampfLighting]

Nothing but respect for everybody involved! 💥💥💥

[hardwatergroup]

TUE! So happy to see his platform grow. He's been one of the most influential people in helping folks learn GrandMA3 and it's entire system.

[jordanhenshaw]

In the future, this will all be done with 2 "core" boxes, maxed out Mac Pros probably (2 for redundancy). 0 consoles needed assuming everything is timecode. All the designers design from in their kitchen and then upload to the server for playback. If you need to design lie with the real rig, you just get an ethernet line from the core to commandeer.

It's like, first principles thinking: what is the physical limitation requiring 20 full sized consoles? What is the actual amount of processing TRULY needed? If you quantify it from first-principles, then you realize it's just bytes. That's all it is. Just bytes. Then you look at CPU. It's just CPU. How much CPU do you need just to transmit the bytes? Assuming everything is timecode, all the bytes or manufactured remotely.

Then you look at, what's the most amount of bytes you can send over ethernet? It's a lot of bytes. Look at 4K video for example: that's a crap ton of bytes. If you look at the math, a 4K video signal over cat6 is transmitting the equivalent of like 33, 000 universes. So that's like, a lot. A lot of universes. So the limitation here is clearly not bytes, it's something else.

So that's why in the future this is all done from a single box that you connect to via a media server, cloud, and/or single cable.

[lightingjedi]

As an MA3 programmer, this man is the goat!

[GamerZ-VR]

You guys should definitely make the Eurovision showfile available for people to look at, especially people wanting to improve with MA3!!!

[saiiorsu]

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[gomethrius]

Are you allowed to say how many used parameters in the showfile??

[vanRossi]

The video content is very interesting, but the background music is not necessary, it makes it harder to follow.

[xflux]

fly me out and and let me borrow a console and i’ll be the best one there