New technology is often leveraged to provide viewers with more exciting play action for live sports. Whether it’s football goal-line cameras, basketball hoop cameras or field graphics for soccer, getting the viewer ever closer to the action is always better. This article examines some of the challenges faced in providing streaming capability for a mobile production unit to cover the French Golf Open.
During Super Bowl LIII, the football action will be on the field. But a lot of the action will be enhanced by incredible new graphics, some virtual, that CBS is using to super charge the screen.
Every Super Bowl is a showcase of the latest broadcast technology, whether video or audio. For the 53rd Super Bowl broadcast, CBS Sports will use almost exclusively IP and network-based audio.
This year’s Super Bowl LIII telecast on CBS will be produced and broadcast into millions of living rooms by employing the usual plethora of traditional live production equipment, along with a few wiz bang additions like 4K UHD and an 8K camera for replays, and specially equipped wireless handheld cameras supporting augmented reality graphics and motion tracking on the field. The network said that 115 cameras would be used, 86 for the main broadcast alone, giving viewers an unprecedented television viewing experience.
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The cost of top-quality audio recording gear is falling fast, making professional recording accessible in just about any kind of space. But the one remaining factor in “out of studio” recording is room acoustics. The sound in a space can make a major difference in the quality of your audio.
When mixing any audio program, it is no doubt that a good set of studio monitors in a well-treated acoustic space is the best way to go. But there are times, like at live concerts or sporting events, when the mix has to be done on headphones. Here are some tips of how to overcome issues with headphones on a live mix.
We are living in the new era of makeshift audio studios. Fewer and fewer major commercial studios exist today and the ones that do are expensive. Most professional and non-professional audio production is now being done in small scale studios in rooms originally built for other purposes.
