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VS is basically a
provider of
production servers
and dedicated
media controllers.
In London this year
EVS will be active in
all different aspects of live and
near‐live production of the Olympics,
as a supplier of OBS. The Olympic
host broadcaster organisation
required EVS to provide a series of
solutions dedicated to all live
productions in the OBs at the
venues, so there will be about 300
production servers which are spread
across the different venues for the
production of live events. You will
have different operators using the
live slow motion tools to generate
all the slowmotion and hypermotion
sequences as well as quick highlight
edits during the live operation, plus
a series of media handling tools
which will allow operators in the
OB van to associate logs and key
words with content recorded from
live events at the different venues.
The second step is that the live
signal generated in the OBs plus a
series of camera angles will be sent
via satellite to the IBC in the
Olympic park and will be recorded
on the central EVS media server
composed by a series of production
servers and SAN media storage.
This central media server aims to
U-motion
will
provide
super-
replay
almost
instantly
“
gather and make instantly available
any required material for OBS
production team working on multi‐
lateral production packages. In order
to facilitate media browsing and
reviewing operation, all media will
be available in both high and low
resolution.
Advanced logging of recorded
feeds based on EVS content
management production tools
(IPDirector) will be set up to
guarantee easy media research
operations for the production teams.
This means the operator can retrieve
sequences based on sports competition,
date, player’s name, record
breaking action, etc. More than
5,600 hours will be recorded on
EVS media servers and all this
content will be held centrally in the
IBC. This central media server will
be accessible to broadcast right
holders working on their unilateral
production packages, news edits
and highlights, as well as to
exchange any media with the
international community of
broadcasters being connected to
this server in the IBC.
In addition to that, EVS has been
contracted by a number of RHBs
who have studio operations at the
IBC to manage their unilaterial
production.
Broadcasters will be either
located at the IBC in London and/or
remotely located in their studio, as
it will be the case for the BBC in the
UK or NBC in New York. All in all,
there will be about 800 servers
deployed worldwide to manage the
production of the Olympics in
London.
How does EVS make covering live
sports easier?
EVS initially developed a
production server which records
different video and audio inputs
into a digital video recorder and
offers a series of hardware and
software controllers, which allow to
generate a series of processes with
the media.
As EVS solutions combine
hardware and software systems
they offer broadcasters the ability
to do things faster while preserving
the highest level of quality. We are
definitely oriented towards live
broadcast or fast turnaround
production environment and so we
can provide solutions which allow
to record and instantly replay video
with variation of speed, in other
words provide slow motion while
continuing to record the video
input, but also to use different
video sequences or different
camera angles for instance to
produce highlight sequences
quickly and easily. Our solutions
also increase the productivity of
”
Belgium based EVS has been in the live sports business for
over 17 years, its innovative Live Slow Motion system
revolutionised live broadcasting. For the 2012 Olympics the
company is again a key partner for host broadcaster OBS,
but as EVS Marketing Director Nicolas Bourdon explains,
EVS' complete productions platforms are also ideally suited
for news and TV entertainment. What will we see at the
Olympics?
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