Perfect Parallel Broadcast Suite
Broadcast Suite is live broadcast television-ready software capable of providing immersive 3D visualization solutions for live television broadcasts. The suite can be installed at an Outside Broadcast (OB) in only a few hours, requires one person to operate, and will provide a live television feed in HD/SDI PAL or NTSC formats as required by the broadcaster. Featuring a fully customizable shot creation system, Broadcast Suite can be used to create pre-rendered content or live real-time rendered content. TV Never looked this good!
The Broadcast Suite software supports a set of fully customizable tracers, in up to 8 colors so they can be tailored to each broadcasters desired palette or to match player bibs. Each tracer can be drawn by the operater and incorporates fully customizable hook, draw, fade and slice options. Additionally, the tracer system can be fully integrated with on-the-ground technology at the event, integrating with products such as Trackman and Pro Tracer to provide real 3D geometry of the shot. When integrated with our unique free-camera technology the Broadcast Suite can offer the television producer the ability to fly around the tracers in 3D allowing for an analysis of how different players with different ball flights approach a hole from both a strategy and an outcome perspective.
The main interface of Broadcast Suite allows the operator to program all aspects of the shot including player name and shot data for graphical display purposes, as well as the ability for saving and recalling shot information via data-driven web services. This, in conjunction with a game controller or joystick, allows for easy location anywhere on the golf course. A variety of different camera angles are also fully programmable from Static or "Spectator Cameras", "Landing Cameras" or our innovative ball camera which provides a ball-eye view of any shot made on the golf course.
Behind the scenes, the internal graphics engine powering Broadcast Suite allows for automatic graphics generation, fade-in and -out both manually and automatically, all based on the shot information entered or pulled from an external data source. This allows each TV production company to customize and create a unique viewing experience for their viewers. Name plates, hole banners, and yardage markers all calculated automatically within our 3D environment, the operator just needs to place them on the course.
The high-resolution 3D environment of Broadcast Suite does not rely on satellite imagery for its visualization. This allows for low-level "golfer eye views" not seem before in TV production. This allows us to get you a virtual view of any shot on the golf course. As such, this view is rendered in real time and can be broadcast long before a real camera is able to get on the ground; and this offers broadcast teams the opportunity to discuss a player's options and the strategic choices long before other TV productions that are using aerial photography visualization.
There is also free camera technology that leverages the fact that courses built with Course Forge are full 18 hole plot courses, which enables operators to offer up to the producers and directors of outside broadcast events almost any shot scenario, as well as the ability to create relevant fly-by paths in real time that significantly aid the commentators strategic analysis options.
