3D Production Edit Work Flow at the London 2012 Olympics

For the first time the Olympics were telecast in 3D. In the past, some 3D coverage was available on a closed circuit basis of limited events. The London Olympics 3D Channel covered multiple sports, both live and ENG coverage, and provided a full up 3D channel of over 275 hours of 3D programming. Part of the Olympic 3D Channel every day was a (1) hour Summary program, presenting the best of the live 3D Coverage as well as the EFP single camera coverage captured that day. — This is the first time a 3D daily program was attempted, using a hybrid edit work flow. The paper will discuss the work flow, including the capture of the ENG footage using the Panasonic P2 3D camera, EVS Servers and AVID Media Composer editing. Additionally the challenge of quick turn around and the QC process to insure the materials were ‘stereo’ correct. The paper will cover the specific issues of what worked and what did not.

Published

2012-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

3D, Stereoscopy, Sports, Olympics, Editing, File Based Workflow

DOI

10.5594/M001474

ISBN

978-1-61482-952-2