Emirates Draw & Primetime Live Shows
High-Security RNG Verification & Redundant Pebble Beach Playout
- Venue
- Media City & MAP Studio Facilities, Dubai
- Broadcaster
- Emirates Draw / Dubai TV / Digital Streams
- Dates
- 2021 – 2026 Weekly Live Broadcasts
Role
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
Hardware & signal architecture
- Video format
- 1080p50 Full HD SDI
- Vision mixer
- Sony DVS-9000 & FOR-A HVS-2000
- Replay & slow-motion
- EVS XT3 & Harris Inscriber Servers
- Master sync & routing
- Pebble 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
- 1
Ball Machine Ingest
4K high-speed cameras locked onto pneumatic lottery draw chambers
- 2
Audit Verification
Timecode burned splits routed simultaneously to government audit monitors
- 3
Live Graphics Trigger
Brainstorm eStudio CG rendering live winning numbers in real-time
- 4
Playout Automation
Pebble Beach Marina firing synchronized primary and backup transmission lines
- 5
Multi-Platform Streaming
Simultaneous TV broadcast and ultra-low-latency YouTube/Facebook live streams
Live faults & engineering fixes
Challenge
Primary graphics workstation experienced a GPU frame-buffer lock 90 seconds before live countdown.
Fix
Seamlessly toggled the video router clean-switch to the secondary mirrored Brainstorm engine without a dropped pixel.
Impact: Broadcast started precisely on schedule with 100% graphics fidelity.
On-air footage
Production gallery
What I'd improve next time
“Transitioning to cloud-synchronized SRT backup streams further bolstered international streaming resilience.”
Planning a similar production?
Available for OB truck, CCU, and EVS operations across the UAE and GCC.