Arena and TV Production

Henning Spjelkavik

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Who is your audience?

what the spectators cannot see?

tell the world what is going on?

– Spectators in the arena

– Orienteers at home

– Sports-loving non-orienteers

– Entertainment seeking public

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What’s your ambition level?

• Audio streaming of speaker

• Video streaming

• a broadcast TV productio

• 30 to 300.000 EUR

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Live results

• If you don’t have anything, try the Swedish, open source system:

EmmaClient

Adapters for SportSoftware, OLA, general IOF XML, eTiming (in beta)

http://emmaclient.codeplex.com/

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Case 0 - Audio streaming

• Sound input– Preferred: Audio cable from sound mixer

– Alternative: Well placed microphone

• Icecast on server

• Edcast on a laptop with sound input

• at least 50 kbit/s uplink

• http://www.icecast.org/3rdparty.php

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Case 1 – Really cheap

• USB Webcam

• Ustream

• Good laptop

• Internet connection (> 500 kbit/s)

• Sound from speaker (cable from mixer)

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Case 2 – Small production

• USB Webcams, capture card(s) or IP cams

• Vision switching (“video mixer”) software

– Vidblaster

– vMix

– Wirecast

– Livestream

– Ustream

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Case 3 – Arena production

• ATEM switcher, small SDI mixer

• SDI cables

• SDI/HDMI cameras with converters

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Case 4 - Broadcast

• OB van

• GoPro pre-produced

• Graphics and animations, pre-produced

• follow-cam, “near live”

• real live – links, IP camera etc

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Examples

• Ski-o World Cup, World Cup Kongsberg

• ESOC

• Tiomila

• Jukola

• WOC 2014

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«If sport is not working on TV, is not attracting an audience, is languishing, the problem lies with the people controlling that sport. They either have failed to keep that sport vital and alive, through laziness or mismanagement, or they have allowed people presenting the sport to the public through television to get away with sloppy, lazy or inattentive production.»

David Hill, Chairman & CEO, Fox Sports TV

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Henning Spjelkavik,

henning@spjelkavik.net

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