By Brandon Costa, Director of Digital
Thursday, April 16, 2020 – 2:44 pm
 
 
In an effort to keep the broadcast-technology community informed this spring, throughout April, SVG is hosting a series of SportsTech On-Demand video interviews with executives from the industry’s top technology vendors discussing their latest product releases and company news. Our Brandon Costa sat down with Jim Jachetta, EVP and CTO, VidOvation, about the company’s efforts.
VidOvation is busier than ever, helping set up their clients for success with tools fit for multi-camera at-home/REMI live video production over cellular and the Public Internet. VidOvation’s solutions and services offer assistance in maintaining frame-accurate gen-lock and lip-sync across multiple cameras when transporting over an unmanaged network.
For more interviews and news from around the sports-video-production industry, visit SVG’s SportsTech Blog.
Transcript:
Brandon Costa:                 On this edition of SVG SportsTech On Demand, we talk at-home production in this wild world of social distancing and coronavirus that we’re in right now in the sports video production community. We are joined by Jim Jachetta. He is EVP and CTO of VidOvation. Jim, first off before we get started, hope you, your loved ones and your colleagues are doing well. How you holding up out there?
Jim Jachetta:                      Yes, we’re keeping safe. The majority of our staff is working at home. We have a small team in the office supporting the ongoing needs of customers during this change, or I guess not to be too cliché, the new normal.
Brandon Costa:                 Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Jim Jachetta:                      Right?
Brandon Costa:                 Yup, for sure. Well, we kind of teased it a little bit at the top, at-home, REMI, home-run, whatever you want to call it. A trend in the industry that certainly had a lot of steam coming into 2020 on its own. Now, with so many people working remotely out of pure necessity, be it through cloud-based or IP-based workflows, really kind of fits into VidOvation’s wheelhouse, and something that you guys have been specializing in for some time. So how, and in what ways, has the company responded in how things have transformed over the past month?
Jim Jachetta:                      Yeah. So, I mean, we’ve been championing at-home and REMI production for quite a few years now. Particularly over the more challenging unmanaged networks, such as cellular and public internet. And one of the particular challenges is, as we all know, cellular and public internet can be very unpredictable, dropping packets, changing latency, it’s a very unpredictable connection. But VidOvation, and our partner AVIWEST, were able to maintain frame-accurate gen-lock and lip-sync. And if you’re doing a multi-camera environment that’s very important, so we’ve been talking about this for years. Now we find many of our customers have already implemented this technology. Now we’re finding customers scrambling to implement our technology.