To provide sports fans with an enhanced viewing experience, Quidich, an Indian broadcast technology provider, has developed a live AR tracking solution on a wireless moving camera.
For a wider perspective on gameplay, the company has also developed the Quidich Tracker (QT), a proprietary real-time optical tracker to display player positioning during live matches.
Supporting these innovations is a range of AJA equipment, including the FS-HDR real-time universal converter and frame sychroniser. A colour correction and HDR (High Dynamic Range) /SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) transform solution, FS-HDR allows Quidich to match camera output from its BuggyQam remote controlled vehicle with all broadcast system cameras for consistency.
Its BuggyQam houses a single sensor camera, whereas other cameras used throughout the production chain include three CCDs (couple-charged devices) with separate sensors for receiving filtered red, green, and blue colours. FS-HDR enables the Quidich team to take the different camera profile raw formats and colour match to the output cameras.
Quidich, which produces live sports content for cricket, football, basketball as well as kabaddi, has been able to take advantage of FS-HDR for real-time colour transforms, ingesting multiple feeds in multi-channel mode, and many other use cases.
Neil Gokhale, COO of Quidich, said, “Setting up colour profiles prior to games helps us accommodate colour temperature and lighting changes with the click of a button, which would take too much time to manually adjust during live broadcasts.
“The SFP (small form-factor pluggable) slots are also quite helpful, as they eliminate the need for additional converters when routing BuggyQam feeds to the broadcast control room.
“We’re able to ingest fibre directly through FS-HDR’s SFP slot and output as BNC, saving us money from requiring additional devices for BNC/fibre and fibre/BNC transforms.”
He added, “Being able to run up/down/cross conversion on a single device simplifies our workflow, and FS-HDR includes a million helpful features in addition to this that you only realise once you start using it.”