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Live cameras have been placed on all-electric monowheels to offer new angles and bring enthusiasts even closer to outdoor action broadcasts. This is the first time that monowheels have been used in a major sporting event.
Live cameras have been placed on all-electric monowheels to offer new angles and bring enthusiasts even closer to outdoor action broadcasts. This is the first time monowheels have been used in a major sporting event.
Actua Sport, which acted as the host broadcaster for this summer’s European Athletics Championships, used LiveU’s technology to produce approximately two hundred hours of coverage.
The company produced all sports policy, as well as interviews and behind-the-scenes material for 35 European broadcasters. Actua Sport chose to use LiveU’s responses as part of an on-site hybrid workflow, spanning contribution, production, and distribution.
Live cameras have been placed on all-electric monowheels to offer new angles and bring enthusiasts even closer to outdoor action broadcasts. This is the first time monowheels have been used in a major sporting event.
Actua Sport used a combination of LiveU boxes, adding the multi-camera LU800, to send signals to the 3 OB production teams from cameras located on monowheels and handheld gimbals, located at the start, end and other issues along the route . Courses for races (walking and marathon part). Another pair of LU800s were used to capture behind-the-scenes images of the stadium, the company said.
“We had to produce boxes with several galleries,” adds Franck Choquard, director of Actua Sport. “We had a total of 12 streams available on-site and remotely through LiveU Matrix, distributing production streams in LRT™ or SRT to participants and some cloud-based platforms. Participants can simply access the streams and record them independently, use them for post-production purposes, stream them live, or distribute them to other platforms. Some interested parties were those broadcasts to recreate their own main transmission.
Regarding distribution, Actua Sport used LiveU Matrix for IP distribution in the cloud to the 35 stations, complementing satellite or fiber connectivity.
LiveU Studio, LiveU’s cloud-native video production solution, is also used in a cloud-based, end-to-end workflow.
Jenny Priestley
Jenny has worked in media throughout her career and joined TVBEurope as editor-in-chief in 2017. She has also been an entertainment journalist, interviewing everyone from Kermit and Miss Piggy to Tom Hanks; and she spent almost 20 years appearing on radio and occasionally television.