Neil Finn’s Latest Infinity Sessions Completed With Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic PYXIS 6K, ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO and Cloud Store Max 24TB used to live stream and provide immediate post production.
Blackmagic Design today announced Neil Finn’s latest incarnation of his Infinity Sessions series – “Make Us Feel Good About Life”- were captured and live streamed using a full Blackmagic Design workflow, including Blackmagic PYXIS 6K, ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO, Blackmagic Cloud Store Max 24TB, Web Presenter 4K and DaVinci Resolve Studio. Following the live HD stream, the 4K footage was quickly made available, allowing more than a dozen artists the ability to quickly create unique experiences for their own fans and social media channels.
The “Infinity Sessions” are the brainchild of world famous musician Neil Finn. Taking place at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, New Zealand, “Infinity Sessions” are live performances by Finn and a variety of musicians and bands from around the world. Each session is a high quality multi camera shoot that is streamed and recorded live, with each artist given access to high quality recordings from each of the cameras as well as a final line cut.
Hugh Sundae, owner of Sundae Pictures and stream producer of the “Infinity Sessions,” created the workflow for the Infinity Sessions and handles live switching and post production for the events. Since the start of the performances in 2016, Sundae has moved from a small live AV set up to a full Blackmagic Design workflow.
Sundae explained what has made the “Infinity Sessions” unique: “Roundhead and the Infinity Sessions have been the physical location for Neil’s live streaming projects, and so many amazing albums have been recorded here. Neil came up with this idea for the two week Mufgal (Make Us Feel Good About Life) series and he emailed all these artists with the idea that they would be part the project and in return for that we would be able to give them great looking and sounding footage which they could use how they wish.”
“Infinity Session” participating artists and bands, which have included artists such as Jimmy Barnes and Reb Fountain, have gone on to create a huge amount of unique videos across their own social media platforms. One example is a song posted on the YouTube channel of Tinariwen, a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali, which has gained more than 300K global views.
The recent “Make Us Feel Good About Life” sessions took place over several days in August, 2025, and included Sir Dave Dobbyn, Lawrence Arabia, Vera Ellen, The Beths, Don McGlashan and 10 other performers.
Sundae explained his workflow: “With the session streams, it is always about the live event itself. But what we put up online after is super important as well. Which all means that we have to capture as much as possible at the highest quality. We had two camera operators using the Blackmagic PYXIS 6K cameras, and then we had three lockoffs which were Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6Ks. I was operating the ATEM Television Studio. The physical panel and feel of the ATEM is what I needed to be creative with the t-bar.”
When the session ended, Sundae created unique videos from in camera recordings and DaVinci Resolve files from the ATEM Television Studio HD8 ISO. Footage is stored on Cloud Store Max 24TB network storage, which Sundae uses in conjunction with DaVinci Resolve.
He explained: “The sessions are always recorded in camera at the highest resolution we can. We did the stream and the audience would leave, and then we could easily sit around and watch the stream back playing it out of resolve. The ISO files play right from the Cloud Store to my Mac instantaneously and there is no buffering. Even when I converted the timeline into full res multiclips I could play in real time from the Mac Mini – and it only has 16 gig of ram!
Using the Cloud Store, everything is on the network and being able to copy things over fast is a game changer. I have a server at home but having one in the rack on location when handling this much data is great piece of mind. It all makes editing super helpful. The workflow has become super slick.”
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