Hawk-Eye and Sony have collaborated to develop a solution that intelligently streamlines the live production workflow and significantly reduces the price of live sports production – without impacting on the quality of the output.
Hawk-Eye’s Intelligent Production service combines automated player-tracking cameras with an IT based software platform to deliver a fully managed live production service, ideal for smaller sports events that struggle to secure broadcast coverage or larger sports events that want to maximise their output across broadcast and digital channels cost effectively.
With a normal internet connection on-site (30MB) cameras can even be controlled from a remote location and output can be configured to deliver live HD SDI to an uplink, or transcoded directly to an internet connection.
The system’s flexible software can be configured for functions that include:
• Video capture (max of 12xHD SDI, 4xSuper Motion SDI, or 1xUltra Motion 340 fps per server)
• Vision switching
• Replay generation
• Graphics overlay
• Audio mixing
• Colour balancing
• SD/HD SDI output or transcode directly to the internet
• Tally light controls (when manned cameras are used)
• Simultaneous camera replay
