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restricting the options of the 4K live
director to an extent although several
HD feeds (specialist cameras mainly)
will be available upconverted to 4K.
In addition, Ultra HD especially in
the wide shot is considered to hold
sufﬁcient detail to show the match
without resorting to as many cutaway shots as in HD currently. The
signals will be routed in quad-4K
fashion through the truck and onto
the EVS servers where footage is
recorded in Sony's format XAVC.
Some HD feeds will be upconverted

a co-production between FIFA/
HBS and Sony.
With Telegenic's 4K truck
unavailable this summer, Sony has
hired in a similar (Sony-built) 4K truck
from Brazilian broadcaster Globo TV.
This vehicle, staffed by Telegenic's
experienced technical team, will be
based at Rio's Maracana.
The 4K production is tried
and tested although it is being
seen as an interim step to full 4K
production which will most likely
be a serious consideration for all
64 matches in 2018.
The number of F55 cameras is 12,
far less than the HD production and
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Digital World Cup

While match feeds are provided by
HBS the larger broadcasters are
making the most of Brazil's football
fanatic population and colourful
landscapes and landmarks to bring
the tournament experience home.
Augmenting its IBC facilities for
example, ITV tasked Gearhouse
Broadcast with building a studio
located on the Copacabana beach
and the installation of a range
of supplementary kit there and
at the IBC including XT3s Avid
MediaComposer, Interplay and ISIS
shared media storage system, Snell
routers and Riedel talkback systems.
ESPN, the largest US broadcaster

Four matches including the semis and the ﬁnal will get 4K coverage

has a mammoth operation in support
of over 300 hours of programming
spun out to properties including
ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and news
channel ABC. It will have production
headquarters at Clube dos Marimbás
on Copacabana Beach. Its streaming
service, ESPN3 Surround (for
WatchESPN and WATCH ABC apps)
will deliver two alternate camera
feeds for every broadcast including
high-and-wide tactical cams, as well
as real-time highlight reels that will
update as big moments happen live.
The BBC is planning 50% more
hours of World Cup programming
than four years ago in South Africa
despite sending 23 fewer staff (272
total) to Brazil. Although there's a full
slate of TV and radio activity, viewing
online is expected to be extremely
high. The BBC Sport website, which
already attracts 20 million viewers
a week, is the focus of streaming
media which is delivered over the
same multi-screen platform as that
inaugurated for BBC Winter Games
coverage in February.
Like other rights holder, the BBCs
digital coverage will be plucked
from the HBS organised server
from media orchestrated by C-Cast,
the second screen technology from
EVS. C-Cast will be used to mesh
the IBC and feeds from the venues
together, with live streams passing
through the two C-Cast Agents at
each venue where they will then be
transcoded and transferred into an
Amazon Cloud. C-Cast Central will
govern the material's distribution on
the network, passing the footage

Deltatre's interactive World Cup service

onto HBS production teams and
media rights' holders at the IBC and
further afield too.
For smaller scale broadcasters
HBS offers a turnkey production, built
on the same media. From this viewers
can then access different types of
content, up to six live camera angles,
clips and key actions from a game
which has an option of 15 camera
angles, statistics provided by deltatre,
and full language translation of all the
logs and captions.
"By combining live tournament
data, editorial coverage, social media
feeds and video footage from every
camera angle on the pitch, Diva has
changed World Cup viewing into an
interactive, engaging experience,"
says deltatre's World Football Unit
Director, Gilles Mas.
Deltatre is also tasked with
collecting statistics for every game
to produce FIFA's official results
system. The stats integrated into
the live experience include player
biographies, formations, group tables,
results, live scoreboard overlays and
squad lists although the focus during
the games will be on player tracking.
Deltatre will also gather raw
positional information in real-time,
using optical systems provided by
US sports tracking specialist STATS,
to create a range of statistical
analysis including distances walked,
jogged and run per player, heat
maps or distance covered. An
operator is tasked with assigning
shirt numbers to each 'object' on
the pitch within the deltatre software
prior to each game.

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