<\/a>Actioncam took the air inside the Georgia Dome to provide aerial images for CBS’s broadcast of the Final Four.<\/p><\/div>\n
According to F&F Productions\u2019 VP, Engineering Bill McKechney, his company is working primarily off of fiber this year and transported 14 bins of cable to Atlanta to get the job done. In these bins are 22 500-ft. cables and five 650-ft. cables. That totals up to about 14,250 feet of just SMPTE and triax. On top of the that, F7F also brought along approximately 25,000 additional feet of DT-12 cabling to help cover the Dome.<\/p>\n
4K at the Final Four?
\n<\/b>While 4K has made its presence felt on the trade show floor (be it at CES in January or this week\u2019s NAB Show), the technology has a tangible presence this weekend in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
As part of the fan experience around the Georgia Dome, LG Electronics is bringing basketball in 4K to attendees. At the LG Fan House at Bracket Town, a fan festival, attendees were able to watch college basketball highlights in 4K on LG\u2019s 84-inch class Ultra HD TVs.<\/p>\n
Inside the Dome, CBS and their March Madness partner Turner Sports were running some 4K tests of their own. Working with an ENG-type setup and a single 4K camera, the two broadcasters got a feel for what the technology was capable of in a major sports setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point,\u201d said Bryant just prior to the start of the NCAA Tournament last month, “it’s more for the engineers to use and learn from, to see how [4K technology] reacts to pans, and zooms, and different light levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
None of the live content was produced for the public and was kept to an in-house closed-circuit feed.<\/p>\n
Red Bee Finds Its Sweet Spot
\n<\/b>Back for a second year in 2013 is Red Bee Media\u2019s Basketball Multicam System, which is referred to as \u201cVirtual Madness\u201d on-air. The replay-analysis system stitches together multiple camera angles, providing a swooping view of a play and allowing more descriptive diagramming and breakdown by analysts Clark Kellogg and Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that is something that you\u2019re definitely going to see a lot more of,” says Aagaard. “Our operators have gotten better at it. Our production people have gotten to understand it a little bit more. I think, throughout the tournament, that you have seen more Red Bee on the air and during this Final Four weekend you\u2019ll see a good amount [of it].\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans got a good view of the technology last night prior to the start of the Syracuse-Michigan National Semifinal when \u201cVirtual Madness\u201d was used by the analysts to break down the Syracuse zone defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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