Sunday Symphony: How the NFL's most advanced game broadcast is made

Awesome. Wished they used more nat of headset chatter though, would make a great weave of sound...

And speaking of nat, now I know who has the nat too high during the game! :happy:
 
Thanks for posting. Very interesting and great information about an industry I hope to break into one day.

I would like to see how much realtime processing/CC they do on the camera feeds. Always wondered how much they tweak the images as I would guess a lot.
 
There is one or more video engineers dedicated to nothing but adjusting iris during the show. They constantly are tweaking each camera. They have a waveform monitor and small tv monitor for each camera. This is ideally done before the shot is taken, but in those sun to shade camera movements, it is sometimes necessary to change iris on-air.

[edit] No other tweaking is done during the show. The cameras are calibrated before the show and the image is left alone, except for iris. [end]

An NFL game actually pales in comparison to a NASCAR show. You noticed that they use the same key personnel for both shows. That video mentioned two trucks for the NFL game. NASCAR coverage uses 5 trucks.

I had a tour of the NASCAR trucks during a show. NASCAR has one truck for the Director, TD, producers; one truck for audio; one truck for replay; I vaguely remember that there were two different graphics trucks. I could be wrong. As you saw in the video, audio has no automation (the audio associated with a camera does not automatically switch with the camera). They tried that, but didn't like it. The audio engineer mixes faders on the fly for each shot, which is a crazy amount of work.
 
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That's a great little video, though I wish I went into some of the other technical positions that most people don't know about, like Utility or A2. I'm speaking from a purely selfish place though, since I work mainly as a Utility, it would be nice to be able to show people a video of what I do since most people don't know/understand what goes into a live remote broadcast.
 
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