Streaming with Speed – NewTek gear drives 2022 Petron National Motorcycle Racing Championships
By Jamie G
Petron National Motorcycle Racing Championships in the Philippines streamed live for this years championship with the help of the NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite and NDI. The championship stream included pre-produced video featurettes, host commentary, and replays—to social platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
Covering fast-paced action could be expensive and requires premium and guaranteed quality. To ensure the broadcast was premium, reliable and costly, GLPS Co. (Go Live Production Solutions), the Manila-based live technical services company responsible for streaming the 2022 Petron National Motorcycle Racing Championships, chose NewTek as the solution. They chose to work with the TriCaster 2 Elite, which is a flexible approach to digital media production. With TriCaster 2 Elite, content creators can integrate current and future resources into digital media production models that employ standard network infrastructures. It supports distributed operation with access to more media formats, enablement of more workflow possibilities, and providing more business opportunities.
GLPS was hired by Precision Digital Broadcast Solution, which provided the broadcast camera systems, shooting, and replay work. GLPS oversees streaming, graphics overlays, and systems integration. They had two trucks. Truck 1 had a large Panasonic vision mixer, cameras, and two Inspire 2 drones for overhead shots. Truck 2 had a TriCaster with a 2-stripe control surface, connected to CG machine and external recorders.
“We chose the NewTek TriCaster 2 Elite because it’s indeed the most reliable and complete production system available. Its built-in DDRs, buffers, and NDI® alpha keying capabilities have proven essential to this broadcast. The TriCaster’s Audio-Follows-Video (AFV) feature also lets us manage the audio while the host and panelists do their mic checks, and its inherent format conversion capabilities lessen the need for external format converters.”
Joemer Cahayon, Managing Director for GLPS
A key part of the production was NDI. They used NDI to to transfer high-resolution video sources, such as full-screen racing statistics and lower-third graphics, in real-time from a Resolume Arena Media Server and NewBlue Titler Broadcast into TriCaster’s NDI-ready alpha channel inputs for keying.
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