Actua Sport, which served as host broadcaster for this summer’s European Athletics Championships, employed technology from LiveU to produce almost 200 hours of coverage.
The company produced all the live coverage of the sports as well as interviews and behind-the-scenes footage for 35 European broadcasters. Actua Sport chose to employ LiveU solutions as part on a hybrid and on-site workflow, encompassing live contribution, production and distribution.
Live cameras were placed on fully electric monowheels to provide fresh angles and bring fans even closer to the action during outside broadcasts, the first time monowheels have been used at a major athletics event.
Actua Sport used a mix of LiveU field units, including the multi-camera LU800, to bring signals back to the three OB production units from cameras positioned on the monowheels and hand-held gimbals – placed at the start, finish and other points along the courses for the external races (race walk & half-marathon). An additional pair of LU800s were used to capture behind-the-scenes footage from around the stadium, said the company.
“We had to produce field events with multiple galleries,” added Franck Choquard, director of Actua Sport. “We had a total of 12 feeds available on-site and remotely through LiveU Matrix distributing the production feeds in LRT™ or SRT to takers and a couple of cloud-based platforms. Takers could access the feeds and record them as a standalone, use for post production purposes, live stream or feed to other platforms. A couple of takers were using those feeds to recreate their own main feed.”
On the distribution side, Actua Sport used LiveU Matrix for cloud IP distribution to the 35 broadcasters, complementing traditional satellite or fibre connectivity.
LiveU Studio, LiveU‘s cloud-native video production solution was also used within an end-to-end cloud-based workflow.
