Streaming Fencing with Matrox VS4 and Telestream Wirecast

KABCOM is a leading organizer of competitive fencing events worldwide. Since 1992 they have organized several Olympic Games, many regional competitions such as the Asian, 非洲, 和泛美运动会, 多次获得世界锦标赛冠军. In addition, they arrange the Fencing Grand Prix and World Cups annually.

取决于事件的范围, the company offers customers a variety of services including everything from scoreboards to fencing tracks and signaling, 数据处理软件, 电视图像, and video arbitrage systems that let referees watch replays and make decisions based on the video recordings. 最近, live production video streaming has become an important part of their offering, 让各地的粉丝都能看到比赛.

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“At KABCOM we pride ourselves on providing cost-effective solutions using the latest technology and as some of our technicians are themselves former fencers, they play a key role in identifying the needs upon which we base new ideas,Noureddine Kaabi解释道, director of the sports department at KABCOM. “不像其他运动, fencing takes place on four tracks simultaneously, so there are four matches going on at the same time. We needed a streaming solution that would allow us to capture all four videos and stream them using a single unit. We realized that Matrox was developing the VS4 and knew it was exactly the hardware required.”

Matrox VS4 is a quad HD capture and ISO recording card for Telestream Wirecast for Windows live production streaming software. 在单个PCIe插槽中, Matrox VS4 provides up to four independent HD inputs with up to 8 embedded audio channels per source. It not only sends video feeds to Wirecast for streaming, it simultaneously provides ISO recording of all the original video and audio feeds to disk — ready for post-event editing.

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“Given our considerable experience in this field, we always aim to offer our customers a comprehensive, 可靠、完美的解决方案,卡比说。. “The Matrox/Telestream system lets us open multiple instances of Wirecast and assign specific VS4 video inputs to each instance of the software, giving us the flexibility to stream individual matches to specific inter网 channels. Inter网 viewers can choose to watch one particular match or all four at the same time. Before using Matrox VS4, we did not have a solution to this problem. We had used other capture devices in the past, but the results were just not up to our standards. VS4 was the only product that met our requirements. The SDI capture is excellent and we can run cables up to 300 meters in SD and 100 meters in HD, 在某些场合是必须的.

“We are now able to offer multi-view streaming with several cameras simultaneously filming a competition, giving our steaming production the look of a traditional television broadcast,Kaabi继续说道. “We have also developed a system for commentators that lets them switch between tracks to comment on only one track at a time. 观众可以在A轨道上观看比赛, 例如, without being interrupted by commentary from Track B. We are convinced that the VS4/Wirecast solution would be very useful in other sports such as judo and athletics as well.”

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