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Whispers of a new hub
A key deliverable is a magazine show series, covering snappy turnaround highlights of midweek events by a challenging Friday morning deadline. The Collectv has built a system comprising six dedicated edit suites, running Adobe Premiere Pro along with one audio suite/VO – with a remote working integration handled by Editshare. “It’s provided us with a great space to deliver Whisper’s ambitious and entertaining sports output,” said director of production at Whisper, Bethan Evans.
Sports and unscripted production company Whisper was selected by broadcast workflows consultancy, The Collectv, to design the facilities in its new broadcast and production hub. Installed on a dedicated floor of Whisper HQ in Kew, the solution was delivered in a time frame of seven weeks. “We had to react and move fast many times during the build,” said Collectv project manager Nick Long. “It was vital that we were there on the ground as the walls were going up, so we could identify any issues.”
Viva Vitality!
A day at the races Earlier this year saw the annual Randox Grand National at Aintree. Boasting three days of high- level jump racing, the event is known as one of the world’s biggest steeplechases. Singular.live and Reality Check Systems (RCS) teamed up to power the coverage on the Racing Post YouTube Channel. On top of this, Coral’s evening show In The Know previewed the next day’s races, while breakfast show Good Morning Aintree provided viewers with the early news. All three of these shows used graphics built in Singular.live, with RCS offering a Singular.live composition and RCS Cobb control application, allowing users to call up templates and populate them with live data. David Peacock, senior project manager at RCS, believes the collaboration with Spotlight Sports Group is the shape of things to come, in terms of creation of innovative programming on YouTube and other platforms. “There is understandably a drive to maximise the amount of content created in the glow of major sporting events, especially online,” Peacock said. “But it's crucial for producers and sponsors that increases in quantity don’t impact quality."
the management of those feeds back to Gravity Media. Its remote production gallery received the feeds and handled the production – commentary, graphics and anything else required – before distributing to London Marathon’s YouTube channel and the BBC Red Button service. Ryan Goad, head of communications at London Marathon Events, said: “The coverage achieved at the Vitality London 10,000 was excellent. The motorbike-based footage was crystal clear and helped bring to life a fantastic collection of elite races, as well as give a real sense of the varying emotions of the thousands of mass-participation runners that took part in the event.”
UK-based production company Over Exposed turned to LiveU for this year’s Vitality London 10K run, to provide 5G remote production coverage of the event. Over Exposed began using LiveU eight years ago and has continued to expand, moving from small streaming projects through large-scale streaming events to broadcast. The production company is known for remote productions and outside broadcast. It owns four units and expanded this to six to create the dynamic mobile coverage of this event. Over Exposed deployed a mix of LU300 and multicam LU800 units. It provided the on-site technical facilities, acquisition of the feeds via LiveU, and then
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