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ENG Deal

ESPN3 Poker Uses Ventuz

GBR: SIS LIVE has reached a
four-year deal with Sky Sports
News for the provision of satellite
capacity for newsgathering.
The deal will deliver 73MHz of
capacity on the Eutelsat E16A
satellite for the Sky Sports and
Sky Sports News fleet of SNG
vehicles, which are also supplied
and operated by SIS LIVE.
Sky Sports will make use of this
satellite bandwidth for its live coverage
of weekend football matches.
SIS LIVE is able to provide full
resilience by using its two broadcast
teleport/MCR systems which offer
round the clock coverage.

T

he World Series of Poker
(WSOP) is one of the biggest
sports events for the international
broadcast market, with over two
million viewers tuning in to the
primetime broadcast on ESPN.
The Canadian agency Real
Time Graphics used Ventuz to
produce the show's on-air graphics
including player panels, hole cards,
community cards, full page leader
boards and lower third graphics.
RTG ﬁrst worked with the WSOP
in 2006 to create on-air graphics
for the ﬁrst ever live-to-air Pay-PerView broadcast of the Main Event
Final Table.
In 2011, the team began using
Ventuz to enhance their graphics
tools and speed of delivery.
"I am extremely pleased with how
Ventuz has provided us with a solid
foundation for rapid development
and integration of our on-air
graphics for our always demanding
live-to-air poker broadcasts," says
RTG's Project Manager, Kelly Lewis.
RTG's most recent innovation is
the CardTracker RFID playing card

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World Series of Poker graphics driven by Ventuz technology

tracking system. Each card of the
Poker deck contains an embedded
RFID chip. RTG's CardTracker scans
the cards and identiﬁes each card's
value by looking it up in a database.
The value is then automatically
transferred to RTG's PokerGFXTM
software, which interfaces with
Ventuz to populate the graphic

templates for the broadcast.
Using Ventuz on the production
of WSOP 2011, RTG was able
to implement the entire graphics
package into their existing game
play and statistics workﬂow in only
ten days prior to the event's airing,
inclusive of a three-day Ventuz
training session.

Orad Enhances MVP's Graphic Capabilities
O

rad has released the
latest version of its Emmy
Award Winning MVP, offering
greater performance and richer
enhancement capabilities.
Amongst the new features are
Run by Run (RBR) where only the
desired player continues to move
while the others in the frame are
frozen in place.
Also available with MVP 3.3 is the
new and improved iFly enhancement
with smooth camera movements
and fast clip creation, allowing
object tracking arrows and players'
highlights while virtually ﬂying from
one camera to another.
Other new graphic capabilities

include; 3D marker, multi marker,
3D counters, spins/rounds counters,
3D offside including a virtual offside
wall, and boxing dedicated graphics.
Enhancement clips helps the

talent to better tell the story and
therefore fast turnaround of a
clip is a key factor for successful
production. With MVP 3.3's new clip
preparation wizard, enhancements
such as iFly, Run
by Run, and
Eraser can be
quickly prepared.
Players can
be
quickly
erased/frozen/
highlighted on
the video feed,
significantly
reducing the
clip preparation
turnaround time.
New Marker Design with 3D look and a beam

JAP: TV Asahi, one of the country's
most popular stations, is currently
undertaking a reﬁt of its EX 402 audio
OB truck, including the installation
of a 48-fader Lawo mc256 console.
Two Lawo stageboxes, based
on the DALLIS I/O-system, will
be connected to the console
via MADI to provide the inputs
and outputs for the system.
The vehicle will primarily be used
for sports productions, including
baseball, soccer and ﬁgure skating.

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