File Based Sports Production

File-based workflows have revolutionized news production, even migrating from the on-air server to the camera. NLE features taking advantage of this trend, found to be as powerful in dramatic production and electronic cinematography, continue to claim more production credits. Additional file based tools have emerged, as higher quality file based imaging and post production has become commonplace. Live sports production has appeared to remain a bastion of streaming AV, where the skill sets necessary for real time media have taken precedence over the ability to re-create a compelling narrative from a collection of raw media. — Daily twenty four hour sports highlight coverage and retrospective sports production has grown in parallel with the live broadcast, and the repackaging of gripping game footage day by day or season by season has become an integral part of the sports broadcasting. Here the advantages of file based production have already been realized. As broadcast and dramatic production tools have merged and the speed of data networks have even surpassed that of streaming media; the distinctions between broadcast and dramatic production have become more logistical than technical. — This paper will examine the innovations and possibilities of file based sports production. We will look at the concepts and implications of moving from real-time to faster than real-time content transfer. As broadcasters seek to offer viewers with ever more viewing options, ready availability of alternate content is always a tempting proposition.

Published

2009-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001306

ISBN

978-1-61482-943-0