STREAMPUNK 12 Red Bull Gaming Sphere
EVERY EVENT HAS A UNIQUE CHALLENGE , AND IT’S ALWAYS A NEW LAYOUT The Sphere has made every attempt to put professional tools in the hands of the gamers using it, even including chromakey facilities with one of the studio spaces having a blue screen. “We’ve tried to take all the equipment up to the next level, so it’s not just a PC with a webcam. There’s a huge amount of capability that we’ve put into that space, so that they’ve got the ability to broadcast out to as many outlets as they want to.” SHOOTING AND DELIVERING The broadcast infrastructure for the Sphere is built on two racks full of broadcast equipment, which gathers feeds from all over the facility into one central gallery where it can be vision mixed, using Blackmagic Design’s ATEM 4 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K. The team also uses vMix software-based video mixing and switching too. Blackmagic’s DeckLink 8K Pro capture cards allow high-resolution playback over 12G-SDI and allow for the high frame rates essential in esports production.” There are multiple video capture points in the space, which use Panasonic UE70 PTZ cameras, controllable from the gallery. In addition, to the PTZ cameras, there are two Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro cameras available which can be used anywhere in the space, for just about any function that could be imagined. There is
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space is equipped to host everything from major multi- stream events to individual gamers
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