SPECIAL | SPORTS CAPTURE
ABOVE Next year’s Olympics is a UHD HDR standard broadcast across all venues
For MMA, they use lipstick cameras to capture crowd reactions to pre-fight weigh-ins
paint and shade each camera over RS-485 serial control. Additionally, adjustments can be made using Marshall’s RCP Camera Controller or free downloadable software, allowing operators to provide similar looks across many cameras in the production and to adapt to weather or environment changes from the truck or control room. Nationally broadcasted boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) matches have also been able to integrate similar unique action shots with Marshall’s CV200 series lipstick cameras. Boxing trainers
For ACS, this means moving cameras, from Sony’s HDC-P1 to the new UHD and HDR-enabled HDC-P50. The Sony P50 is being introduced throughout ACS’ remote designs and is a box camera without the need to route through an outboard CCU. This is ideal for the live OB environment, however it has meant that ACS has had to develop a new UHD fibre transmission system to support these new cameras. There is also an option coming from Sony this summer, which will offer up to six times the speed for a handy slow motion option in HD, without having to employ a specialist server. SIMPLIFIED CAMERA CAPTURE Sport games at the collegiate and professional level are among the most watched programmes on television. To guarantee they’re presenting the best programme possible, sport production teams aim to be fully equipped with high- quality broadcast equipment that won’t drain their budgets. Broadcast companies, such as Marshall Electronics’ affordable and compact POV cameras, can be operated and positioned to capture perspectives at every corner of the stadium, field, goal, court, track and course. A unique feature of Marshall POV cameras is the ability to remotely match,
BELOW CourtVision is seen as a step forward in how we watch sport
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