IP Changing the Shape of College Sports Video Productions
By Jim Bask
From NewTek
Sports Video Group’s 2018 College Summit included a panel on the impact of IP on college sports production. The panelists have all shepherded video production programs into the IP age, and they share their experiences on making the transition….
…The sports production facilities at Harvard and Lafayette both make use of NewTek NDI® technology to allow for a centralized control room to handle most or all of sports production across the campus. Cameras at the sports facilities use a standard network to link with the control room and transmit video and audio. Harvard is still operating with standard wire networks, Lafayette has run fiber networking. In both cases, NDI is able to operate successfully to provide high-quality, low-latency video and audio to the control room, as well as to convey tally and control information to the cameras. Where robotic cameras are in use, this includes pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) control….read more