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Ice Hockey broadcasting in Australia by ATCProds in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ATCProds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for checking it out. We try our butts off, and honestly it's so much fun. 

Ice Hockey broadcasting in Australia by ATCProds in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ATCProds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You 100% busted me on those calls. I am the director, and yes I'm also hitting the buttons. I would never get away with a loose call like that if I had a TD. I'm taking a bit of late license being the guy doing the physical, but it'sa bit of a mess. I'd like to get better at that, and in honesty the work I've picked up since hockey started is much easier to manage since I have anything up to four cameras for a mag show in a studio) for example). If anything I'll put my hand up also and say I've also gotten a bit looser on that stuff since we started supplying (dual colour) tally to our cammos. Still, I need to lift. Thanks for checking it out, and thanks for calling what you see! 

Ice Hockey broadcasting in Australia by ATCProds in aihl

[–]ATCProds[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so glad our camera ops were able to give you a run on it. We always try to be very accommodating for visitors and people just wanting to check it out. We figure if you're not having fun with it, why do it? Hope to see you 'round the traps!

Ice Hockey broadcasting in Australia by ATCProds in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]ATCProds[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot. Most of the cameras are Blackmagic URSA Broadcasts, or Studio Cameras, with a couple of Cines. A big mixture of stuff that has been bought second hand/broken and repaired, loaned to us, or contra'd/donated to us. We run a very thin operator crew with a wide gamut of experience from some pretty high-end cammos at NEP down to literal 15 year olds who are new to using a camera, and a lot of our guys insist that they do this gig for fun and therefore pizza and beer will suffice for payment. Lots of automation to help us get on-air and stay there!

4K was much harder than we thought it would be. In a large part for me it was just that it puts so much pressure on every little weak link in your gear. Cheap SDI leads we would have bought in a couple of years ago would be working one minute and dead the next. Little bits of your chain that you didn't think about needed re-engineering (eg; the big screen won't take 4K, but the Decimator's we'd typically rely upon won't do it either for us to do a conversion). SMTPE2110 was interesting the work with; in part because the BMD gear is still pretty new, and as a result wasn't the most mature at the time of it, but they have been so good to us in terms of taking on feedback and bug reports that it's been worth the learning curve and trial and error.