Festival relies on ATEM Constellation 8K and URSA Broadcast G2 for combined livestream and IMAG delivery.
Blackmagic Design today announced that live production specialists oXyFire Media and dwmedia collaborated to deliver livestream coverage of Reggae Land 2026’s main stage, while live event production company PRG handled IMAG for festivalgoers. Blackmagic Design technology formed a core part of the shared production workflow, allowing the teams to exchange camera feeds and signals across both productions.
Staged at The National Bowl Milton Keynes, the production covered a large festival site, requiring long cable and fiber runs back to the OB trucks. Front of house was also split, with sound on one side of the stage and video, graphics and lighting on the other.
“We needed to make the livestream feel like an extension of being at Reggae Land, rather than only documenting the performances,” explained dwmedia’s Operations Director Daniel Wilkinson. “As well as the main artists, we wanted to capture audience reactions, atmosphere and the overall scale of the festival for a micro/macro feel.”
Camera positions were carefully planned, with three Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 cameras stationed front of house: one as a roving camera moving between the pit and stage, a 24 foot jib mounted camera for sweeping and top down shots, and a long lens unit at the back of the crowd for long and wide shots.
Additionally, three Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2s were used in fixed positions front of house and on stage.
“We could configure the cameras for very different roles across the site, with talkback, remote camera control and shading helping us manage them as part of the wider production. That also helped us maintain a consistent look with the cameras being used by PRG,” said oXyFire Producer Jay Rozanski.
The livestream OB trucks and IMAG production area were only 10 meters apart backstage, but their systems also had to exchange signals across the site. A 24 core multicore fiber link connected the two production areas, with Blackmagic Mini Converter Optical Fiber 12Gs providing the connection between the fiber infrastructure and SDI equipment.
PRG shared nine additional live feeds with the livestream production, supplementing its own camera positions and giving both productions access to more angles without duplicating cameras. An ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher handled vision mixing and helped link the two systems, with sources and tally shared between them while each production component retained its own workflow.
The team also recorded camera sources in 2160p50, while transported signals ran at 1080p50. Eight HyperDeck Extreme 8K HDR broadcast decks captured the program and ISO sources, using its four channel recording capability to bring multiple 4K sources into each unit.
“With the addition of a Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini 16TB to our network, we used the HyperDecks to record growing files of each ISO, allowing the external social content team to access material while capture was still in progress,” said Rozanski.
The livestream extended the reach of Reggae Land’s main stage performances to a further 1.2 million viewers across YouTube, Instagram and Facebook during the three day festival.