Princeton Athletics Ups its Live Streaming Game with AJA Gear

Emerging live streaming technology and platforms are opening up new avenues for collegiate sports to reach a wider audience, 在这方面, 普林斯顿大学在这方面走在了前面. The video production arm of its Athletics Department streams home games for more than 37 sports to students, 校友和国际观众通过ESPN+, Stretch Inter网和NBC Sports Philadelphia. Handling up to three separate destination feeds for more than 200 events a year, 每个都有独特的交付要求, 是一个沉重的负担吗, but one that Princeton Assistant Director of Athletics for Multimedia and Broadcasting Cody Chrusciel and partner John Bullis manage seamlessly. The duo spent the last six months ramping up their production infrastructure ahead of the 2019/2020 season – building two new control rooms, 一个飞行包和校园工作室, 与AJA齿轮供电路由, 转换, 流媒体和录音. An additional control room and studio are slated to come online in Fall 2019.

每个产品都因运动而异. 足球和篮球比赛, an OB truck will typically feed 1080p and 720p camera signals over fiber through AJA FiDO Mini-Converters to SDI and into an AJA KUMO 1616 3G-SDI router and output to their replay system and switcher for videoboard shows. AJA的独立HELO H.264 real time recording and streaming device receives the 1080p switched feed for streaming over RTMP for the Stretch Inter网 stream. 1080p and 720p feeds of the game are also fed through another KUMO 1616 router to various encoders for the ESPN+ stream, an NBC sports Philadelphia stream for select games and to laptops for the home and away team. A similar workflow is applied for other sports productions, but the main feed is taken from Princeton Athletics’ switcher output.

在两个控制室之间, 工作室和飞行包, 普林斯顿大学有三台AJA KUMO 1616路由器, 两个AJA HELO流媒体设备, 和众多的AJA FiDO迷你转换器. AJA’s web-browser UIs have made it possible to work on multiple productions simultaneously and to easily route sources between feeds whether ESPN+, 视频板, 扩展互联网和更多.

“KUMO has helped us 网work our workflow and make changes on the fly. With a few mouse clicks we can control all of our routers from the web UI and change how sources are routed; it’s as though we can be in multiple places at once, which is invaluable when your production team consists of two,克鲁希尔分享道. “还有HELO, rather than typing in multiple RTMP addresses as we go between sports productions, we can use the web UI to set up and test presets for all of the sports feeds we’re distributing, 消除人为失误的空间.”

Every recording is also archived so that footage is available to use when compiling interstitials used for future half-time shows or marketing materials, and HELO provides the duo with a simpler storage solution and tighter file sizes. “在我们流媒体的同时, HELO还允许我们在SD卡上录音, 哪种邮寄方式非常方便,克鲁希尔分享道. “Most encoding and streaming devices only allow you to record at the same bit rate that you’re streaming, but HELO is unique in that we can stream at 5Mbs and record at 15Mbs, 对于高质量的存档来说，哪个是最好的, and more manageable file sizes than we’re used to. 它给了我们更多的灵活性.”

With AJA gear at the center of the department’s workflow, Chrusciel never worries about making changes or downtime. 他分享, “The web UIs on our AJA gear make it so easy to tweak or adjust our feeds for each stream, and we know that the equipment will work every time; it’s that reliable.”

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