Learn about:

* PGA TaylorMade Driving Relief At-home Production using AVIWEST
* More efficient ways to contribute and distribute live television and video
* VidOvation has been promoting At-home production for several years. Today it is more of a necessity during these uncertain times with social distancing.
* Address the challenge of maintaining frame-accurate video genlock and lip sync across multiple cameras for wireless at-home live production or REMI.
* How labor costs are reduced since the television production specialists work at a centralized master control near where they live, eliminating the need for travel and overtime expenses.
* SafeStreams Transport (SST) for video transport over unmanaged networks such as cellular and the public Internet
* New codec – SMPTE VC-6 ST 2117 P.Pro – a More Efficient Alternative to Uncompressed, JPEG XS and JPEG 2000 from V-Nova
* New low latency wireless technology for remote productions

 
 
 
 
 
 
Transcript:

Jim Jachetta (00:01):
Okay. Good morning, everyone. I’m Jim Jachetta, CTO and co-founder of VidOvation. Today we’re going to talk about a few applications we’ve done recently for at-home production, in particular the PGA TaylorMade Driving Relief charity event a few weeks ago was a skins game. But at home production, REMI production has been a very, very hot topic as of late. VidOvation and our partners such as AVIWEST, we’ve been promoting, we’ve been successfully implementing and deploying at-home and REMI production for the better part of five years. We’ve done numerous sporting events, we’ve done numerous live reality television events. Some of our partners have created this new category of live unscripted television shows such as Live PD, Live Rescue and others. Today, we’re going to start talking about this event with the PGA.

Jim Jachetta (01:12):
It was a very successful event. As we all know, we all on a lockdown, we’re all maintaining social distancing. If we are closer than six feet, we’re supposed to wear masks to lessen the curve or mute the curve so we don’t spread the COVID-19. So this actual charity event was to help people on the front line, help nurses, support the CDC and others who are struggling with this pandemic. The event actually raised five and a half million dollars, way above projections, and it was a great game. I don’t know if any of you out there are golf fans, but it was fun watching. It was a charity event, but they’re still professional athletes, they’re still competing with each other. They are a little trashed, with the polite golf trash talking of each other. It was great.

Jim Jachetta (02:20):
The event was put out over the usual … The rights holder was NBC, NBC Sports, Sky Sports overseas, and then it was streamed out OTT to other entities. We were very proud of VidOvation, and our partner, AVIWEST, were very proud to be part of this landmark event. So what was the workflow? What was the logistics? So the event was at the Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach in Florida, and this is a private club. I believe one of the players,