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Expertise France · Broadcast series episode, multi-location
Expertise France: Rendez-Vous de l’Expertise in Mexico City
Five locations in three days, in-person and outdoor interviews and remote experts on Zoom, delivered as one mastered program.
Delivered by Castelein AV, the team behind First Impact.
Project facts
- Client
- Expertise France
- Format
- Broadcast series episode, multi-location
- Location
- Mexico City
Five locations across Mexico City - Date
- May 2026
Who did what
- Expertise France
- Client. Producer of the series “Rendez-Vous de l’Expertise”.
- Castelein AV
- Multi-location broadcast production and mastered program delivery.
Overview
Expertise France produces “Rendez-Vous de l’Expertise”, a series built around conversations with specialists. For an episode on decent work, the production moved across five Mexico City locations in three days: the French Ambassador’s residence, a studio session, a muralist’s work in La Magdalena Contreras, an outdoor interview in Coyoacán’s Jardín Hidalgo and a round table with international experts joining by Zoom.
The challenge
Each location had its own light, acoustics and constraints, and none could be reshot. The final program had to read as one broadcast, with remote guests treated as full participants and institutional graphics matching Expertise France’s standards.
Agreed scope
- Six segments across five locations in three days
- Matched camera and colour treatment across very different spaces
- Remote guests by Zoom integrated into the live production
- Clear audio in open-air segments
- Institutional branding, lower thirds and identifiers applied live
- A finished, mastered program file on handover
Technical workflow
Multicamera package
A full-frame Sony FX6 led coverage, with a Sony FR7 PTZ and two secondary cameras.
Zoom in the signal chain
Remote participants joined through Zoom Webinar routed directly into the live switcher.
Live graphics
Branding and lower thirds ran on a Barco S3 and Resolume Arena, separate from camera feeds.
Audio at every location
An Allen & Heath SQ5 mix with multitrack capture in Reaper at each location.
Preparation and testing
With no option to return to a location, recording protection was designed into the chain.
- ISO and program recordings at three points in the signal chain
- Multitrack audio capture at every location
- Portable lighting controlled from one console across all locations
Equipment by function
Only equipment verified in the project documentation, grouped by the job it did.
Cameras
| Equipment | What it did |
|---|---|
| Sony FX6 | Primary full-frame camera |
| Sony FR7 | Remote PTZ angle |
| Sony PXW-Z190, Panasonic AG-CX350 | Secondary coverage |
| Flycam 5500 | Stabilizer for moving segments |
Switching, graphics and recording
| Equipment | What it did |
|---|---|
| Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio Pro 4K | Live switching |
| Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio HD Plus | ISO and program recording at three points in the chain |
| Barco S3 + EC-30, Resolume Arena | Branding, lower thirds and identifiers, applied live |
| Zoom Webinar | Remote experts routed into the live production |
Audio
| Equipment | What it did |
|---|---|
| Allen & Heath SQ5 | Mixing console |
| 6× Shure SLXD, 2× DJI lavalier | Wireless microphones for talent |
| Sennheiser 2000 series in-ear | In-ear monitoring |
| Reaper | Multitrack recording at every location |
Lighting
| Equipment | What it did |
|---|---|
| 8× Elation KL Panel | Portable LED panels for consistent light across locations |
| High End Systems Hedgehog 4 | Lighting control |
Operational challenges and response
Open-air segments with wind and street noise.
Wireless and lavalier microphones with multitrack capture kept dialogue usable.
Five different lighting environments.
Portable LED panels gave consistent, controllable light from the residence to the garden.
Confirmed outcomes
- A complete multi-location program was delivered from five Mexico City locations over three days.
- International specialists joining by Zoom were integrated into the round table.
- No reshoot was required at any location.
- A mastered program file was handed over on schedule.
Outcomes as documented in the published case. We do not add figures the project did not record.
The lesson
When a shoot cannot be repeated, protection has to be designed into the signal chain.
Original source: First Impact case study (firstimpact.live)
Questions this project answers
General answers, with this case as a real example.
Can an event be recorded without being livestreamed?
Yes. Recording is its own deliverable and does not require a stream. We can record the switched program, each camera separately, the presentations, or a combination.
Agree the file formats, audio channels, storage and delivery date in the proposal, and say whether the material will be edited later. For Expertise France, ISO and program recordings at three points in the chain produced a mastered program with no reshoots.
Case study: Expertise France: Rendez-Vous de l’Expertise in Mexico City · Live Streaming & Broadcast Production
Can remote speakers participate?
Yes. We bring remote speakers into the room and the program through Zoom, Teams or a similar platform, with return audio so they can hear the room and follow cues.
Results depend on the speaker’s connection, camera, microphone and lighting, so we recommend a technical check with each remote speaker before the event and keep a fallback for their content, such as a pre-recorded version, when the moment is critical.
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Do you work with Zoom and Microsoft Teams?
Yes. Zoom and Teams can bring remote speakers into the room, carry the program to remote employees, or both. We connect them as production sources rather than leaving a laptop pointed at the stage.
Meeting settings, host rights and audio routing need testing with the account owner, because two meetings on the same platform can behave differently. ITP Aero’s All Hands ran on Teams; ICON’s Mexico hub connected into DV4’s Zoom studio.
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Can you connect multiple locations?
Yes. We connect rooms, floors, offices or cities into one program, either by producing each location or by building the local hub inside a wider workflow.
Multi-site work depends on clear rules: which location sends what, who directs, how timing is handled and how teams talk to each other during the show.
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Hybrid Events & Multi-Site Production
Remote speakers, Zoom or Teams integration, and several rooms or locations connected into one program that works in the room and online.
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