TBS ACT Explores New Applications for Cinema Cameras in Broadcast in Collaboration with RED

RED Digital Cinema and TBS ACT have collaborated on the Broadcast Color Pipeline now featured on the V-RAPTOR and V-RAPTOR XL family of cameras and works with RED’s all-new Cine-Broadcast module. The color management broadcast workflow will enable productions to use RED cinema cameras for broadcast with live painting capabilities.

The V-RAPTOR offers exceptional image capture capabilities for cinematic productions, a powerful tool in creating cinematic images for live events, broadcast and sports. TBS ACT helped guide the development and testing of the Broadcast Color Pipeline which provides a seamless integration for video engineers tasked with color management.

RED’s advanced Broadcast Color pipeline enables live painting of RED cameras in broadcast or streaming environments, enabling on-demand adjustments and multi-camera color matching using traditional broadcast controls. The latest firmware-enabled functionality utilizes industry-standard RCPs to control painting parameters in real-time over IP while saving information per frame in the recorded file’s metadata. This updated option comes as a standard firmware update for all V-RAPTOR and V-RAPTOR XL cameras. Broadcasters can also enhance their workflows with up to 4x super-slow-motion at 4K and 8x at 1080p, as well as AI/ML augmentation and live to headset using 8K 120FPS R3Ds by using RED’s license-enabled RED Connect feature.

As part of their ongoing collaboration, RED and TBS ACT will continue to refine the broadcast color pipeline, optimize and enhance these new solutions to unlock these unique image capture benefits like wide dynamic range and realization of diverse color expression in Rec.709 and Rec.2020 to pioneer the use of cinema cameras in the broadcast industry.

The RED lineup of cameras, its CINE-BROADCAST Module and the groundbreaking Color Pipeline, will be on demonstration at NAB 2025 in Las Vegas.