In a unique way, perhaps for the first time ever, a sporting event is commented for the Swedish sign language community. The novelty is that the commentators are deaf. In other words, instead of a traditional interpretation the sport fans get an original production made for, and in, their language.

We have helped Region Örebro County with the technology setup, based on vMix. SVT (Swedish television) broadcast the skiing event, as a part of SMveckan in Örebro (whole week with a number of National championships). SVT's live web video is fed into vMix, where the commentators and some graphics are added.

For sign language interpretation productions we typically present the "original" video as a picture in picture. But in this case, since sport broadcast contain a lot of small graphics, we wanted a full screen production. Therefore the commentator use foot pedals to add/remove and position himself on the video.

The sign language production is 1080p for best chroma key quality, even though SVT broadcasts only 720p. Stream abd record in 720p. There are some seemingly frame drops, which in fact are caused by stuttering in the incoming web feed.

Some photos from the studio are attached, and we will make a "behind the scenes" video later on.

You can watch the production at SMveckan.se/teckensprak
Today 09.40-12.55 CET and tomorrow 09.30-14.30
Click the player's "Archive" button for the recorded streams.