Hi there,

I'd like to show you my latest broadcast of women basketball top polish league. Best two teams in Poland (Wisła Can-Pack Kraków vs. CCC Polkowice) with stars from WNBA in their squads.

Game was live on Youtube.

EQUIPMENT:
- Dell Precision laptop with vMix 12 on board
- 1 consumer grade HD camera captured from Atomos Connect HDMI->SDI converter with Magewell USB3 SDI dongle
- 1 cheap SD camera captured with cheap USB2.0 dongle - game and 24 seconds clock
- Behringer XENYX 1202 mixer for 2 comentators, headphones with microphone
- Avermedia LGP

Mixing, showing lower thirds, replays (from 2nd quarter), streaming - done with vMix.
Stream quality: @720p 25fps 2,5mbps (plus lower quality stream transcoded by YouTube)
Recorded with Avermedia Live Gamer Portable 8mbps 720p.

You can watch whole game here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSOPJg3s6U
3 highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljyp1ngwzmI

Some pros (in my opinion):
+ 720p
+ new lower thirds with nice Stinger transition (look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSOPJg3s6U @ 5:18, 10:37, 23:05, 1:40:22)
+ instant replay, highlights at the end of the game

Some cons and problems:
- problems with sound (specially in first half); need to change my headphones ;)
- one camera only
- even if its 720p image is not sharp during quick movement; better camera needed... :(
- for the first time the web interface and api didn't work. i just couldn't connect to localhost:8088 and that made me huge problem in management the scoreboard

Any questions or suggestions?

Time to add 2nd game camera - close-up camera.

It's so more dinamic now! And not that easy to manage instant replays... ;)

Setup:
- PC: i7-4790, 16 GB RAM, SSD, some ATI Radeon graphic card
- Magewell 4xSDI capture card
- 2 consumer cameras: old Sony HDR-SR12 (wide angle) + Canon Legria HF G30 (close up)
- 2 Atomos HDMI => SDI converters
- ah, 3rd camera for game-clock and shot-clock
- PC headphones for commentator ;-)

Tested today on league game.
1st half: http://www.dailymotion.c...ublin-81-56-i-polowa-41-
2nd half: http://www.dailymotion.c...in-81-56-ii-polowa_sport


And next week (12 Nov) we will produce Euroleague Game.

Hi

Are you asking how do I convert the tga files provided by basketball organization to png/xaml used in vmix?

Or - you want to know how to match the clock camera live image to the scoreboard? Its done with vmix.

+ + +
BTW, yesterday we streamed our 5th Woman Euroleague game. One of the games, in December was played in 13000 spectators venue (Kraków Arena). It was a 4 (+1 shotclock) camera broadcast with preview show - huge challange and experience. You can watch @ www.wisla.tv

...and color adjusted. i can check later what are the settings.

I mean graphics + specification & manuals. Not dynamically updated scoreboard etc...


Giulliu,

We don't have dynamic png files, we are not connected to table referees PC nor statistics PC. I tried some solutions but so far it wasn't stable and efficient enough.

We did scoreboard xaml file using vMix Title Designer, where scorebackground is a static png file, that we converted from TGA file provided by FIBA Europe. We update score, quarter and fouls manually with vMix and shortcuts. We discussed earlier shotclock and gameclock.

P.S. Is this your production?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlqvBU2xwc8

Sorry for updating an old topic, anyway can someone explain me step by step how to get the clock from example 1 to example 2 (see the picture below).
As I understood it can be done in vMix, or? (to easy to be true :D)

Thanks

@ mp

There is 3rd party software that can help you do that (if you want to fork out the money for it):

http://graphicsoutfitters.com/

Check out "OCR Assist" or "ScoreOCR" on that page, they are both designed to process a video image of the actual game clock and convert it to the style and colour you want.
(a slightly more complex and costly set-up than what r@wisla did with the clock video capture, but possible none-the-less)

The alternative is to set-up your own "clocks" or "timers" with vMix Titler and/or a software like 'XNote Stopwatch', but that will require you to manually control them and that can be a very daunting task in the midst of a live production.


Ice

mp,

I don't know why you need how to get clock from example 1 to example 2, but this is my tutorial for example 2 clock. I think You will understand everything when you try it.

You need transparent png scoreboard graphic

+ shot clock faced camera

1. Add input -> camera -> your shot clock camera. It should look like this (or more in a straight line to the front face of the shot clock board).



2. Change colour adjust and colour key. The way I did this is below. The most important in our example is saturation to -255 and luma key to max





3. Create with vMix Title Designer your scorebug xml. Here is ours, with png graphic as background and four fields: home name (gosp_name), away name, home score and away score



4. Add input -> Title/XAML -> your scorebug xml file. Go to properties (gear wheel icon) -> MultiView. Choose source 1 to your scoreboard camera input and then click position.



5. Crop the camera image, resize, place it right when you wan't it.



Voila!

BTW, mp

Here is example of our futsal scoreboard
http://www.dailymotion.c...10-6-i-polowa-10-3_sport

Are You going to broadcast UEFA Futsal Group 2 Main round tournament in Dobovec? :)

Good luck :]