LiveU has launched its Lightweight Sports Production solution, making professional-grade live sports production accessible and affordable for any event size. The solution provides a complete capture-mix-share solution, enabling live video capture, program production, and distribution collaboratively and effortlessly.
The Lightweight Sports Production solution leverages a remote production "ground-to-cloud-to-crowd" model with broadcast-grade video performance. It eliminates the need for extensive production set-ups, on-site production trucks, or satellite uplinks, offering a cost-effective alternative for any sports production.
LiveU’s Lightweight Sports Production seamlessly integrates portable 5G bonded video encoders with LiveU Studio, the company’s cloud-native video production service. This integration provides an affordable and quick route to get fully synchronized multi-cam sources into the cloud and out to digital and linear audiences.
The solution features the newly released next-generation version of LiveU Studio, which boasts a range of sports-centric capabilities and a new intuitive interface. It is designed to be lightweight in operation but delivers high-impact fan engagement.
The single operator can easily handle a complete production from a single pane of glass, including live switching, Instant Replay, ISO recording, SCTE-35 ad insertion, guest management, and distribution. LiveU has also partnered with third-party vendors to offer integrated HTML-based graphics and AI video editor tools for a more immersive audience experience.
“On this, LiveU’s 18th birthday, we wanted to honor the passion, dedication, and enthusiasm of every player and storyteller involved in the world of sport. We are proud to introduce LiveU Lightweight Sports Production’s turnkey solutions that are designed to make producing high-quality, multi-angle live sports content simple, fast and cost-efficient and attainable for any event size. Fans of niche and developing sports, who were underserved can now be reached, offering fresh monetization possibilities for forward-thinking storytellers. Broadcasters, production teams, leagues, and content creators can easily ‘right-size’ their production costs, allowing them to produce far more content, more sustainably than before.” said Steve Wind-Mozley, CMO, LiveU.
LiveU’s Lightweight Sports Production includes third-party solutions to create a one-stop-shop for all sports production needs.
"With the flexibility and scalability of our new solution, live sports content can be produced from virtually any location, whether it’s a grassroots event in a remote region or a specialized sport with a passionate fanbase, accelerating audience growth and value creation. Additionally, the cloud-based REMI or remote approach reduces the environmental impact of live production, supporting increasingly important sustainability goals by minimizing the need for on-site personnel and equipment. This inherent efficiency, combined with our leading video-over-bonded-IP technologies, means our customers can drastically reduce their per-event production costs, while increasing their high-quality, professional output." explained Matt Zajicek, LiveU’s Senior Director of Product Management.
LiveU’s Lightweight Sports Production with its portable encoders and new LiveU Studio capabilities, features, and integrations will be showcased on the LiveU Stand at IBC 2024, Hall 7, Stand 7.C19 as part of the full LiveU EcoSystem IP-video workflow — from contribution and production to distribution.