Entertainment12 CAMERA CHANNELS
Emirates Draw & Primetime Live Shows
High-Security RNG Verification & Redundant Pebble Beach Playout
Media City & MAP Studio Facilities, Dubai
Emirates Draw / Dubai TV / Digital Streams
2021 – 2026 Weekly Live Broadcasts
SAMIR'S ROLE & MISSION
Lead Playout & Studio Systems Engineer
Managed high-stakes, multi-million dollar live lottery draws, game shows, and weekly primetime entertainment (Emirates Draw, Little Draw, Esaad Police, Top Chef ME) with strict regulatory compliance and dual-redundant automation.
180+
Live Weekly Draws
$100M+
Prize Pools Guaranteed
Dual Hot-Standby
Playout Redundancy
100%
Regulatory Compliance
Master Hardware & Signal Architecture
VIDEO FORMAT & ENCODING1080p50 Full HD SDI
VISION MIXERSony DVS-9000 & FOR-A HVS-2000
REPLAY & SLOW-MOTIONEVS XT3 & Harris Inscriber Servers
MASTER SYNC & ROUTINGPebble Beach Marina Automation + Evertz SPG
Technical Approach
Configured Pebble Beach Marina automation for synchronized primary and secondary failover playout channels.
Synchronized 8 multi-angle high-speed ball machine cameras with millisecond timecode burn-in for regulatory auditing.
Integrated real-time graphics automation (Brainstorm & Vizrt) pulling verified numbers directly from air-gapped audit servers.
Signal Flow Chain
01.
Ball Machine Ingest4K high-speed cameras locked onto pneumatic lottery draw chambers
02.
Audit VerificationTimecode burned splits routed simultaneously to government audit monitors
03.
Live Graphics TriggerBrainstorm eStudio CG rendering live winning numbers in real-time
04.
Playout AutomationPebble Beach Marina firing synchronized primary and backup transmission lines
05.
Multi-Platform StreamingSimultaneous TV broadcast and ultra-low-latency YouTube/Facebook live streams
High-Pressure Live Faults & Engineering Solutions
CHALLENGE ENCOUNTERED:Primary graphics workstation experienced a GPU frame-buffer lock 90 seconds before live countdown.
REAL-TIME ENGINEERING FIX:Seamlessly toggled the video router clean-switch to the secondary mirrored Brainstorm engine without a dropped pixel.
Impact on Broadcast: Broadcast started precisely on schedule with 100% graphics fidelity.
HONEST ENGINEERING RETROSPECTIVE — “WHAT I'D IMPROVE NEXT TIME”
“Transitioning to cloud-synchronized SRT backup streams further bolstered international streaming resilience.”
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