European Athletics Championships: Lessons from a Live, HDR, HFR, UHD and Next-Generation Audio sports event

The European Broadcasting Union and several of its member organisations undertook an ambitious trial over the summer period — a live, UltraHD, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate, Wide Colour Gamut and Next Generation Audio trial at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany. The trial included four 2160p/100 cameras with live control of shading/racking, live vision mixing, live recording, live mixing of audio objects, audio-visual synchronisation with audio objects and live encoding. — This paper looks at the lessons learned during the trial — what went well, what needed extra work and what is needed to overcome current technical hurdles.

Published

2018-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Ultra-high definition, UHD, high frame rate, HFR, next-generation audio, NGA, high dynamic range, HDR, hybrid log-gamma, HLG, wide colour gamut, WCG, BT.2020, high definition, HD, object-based audio, OBA, high-order ambisonics, HOA

DOI

10.5594/M001849

ISBN

978-1-61482-960-7