COLUMBIA, Md.—LTN said today that its LTN Lift playout solution is being used to deliver live and pre-recorded coverage to fan zones across 10 locations in Germany during the UEFA European Football Championship. LTN Lift is a hosted playout solution that allows channel creators to rapidly scale and uniquely reach cross-platform audiences more efficiently, the company said.

During the tournament, LTN Lift has provided a robust platform for delivering high-quality video and audio feeds to fan zones across the German cities of Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Gelsenkirchen.

“We are delighted and proud to have played a part in delivering a world-class viewing experience for the fans of the European Championship across Germany,” said Sergio Getzel, LTN SVP of Global Business Development. “LTN Lift can be spun up quickly, can be leveraged to create channels integrating LIVE matches and compelling pre-recorded programming to reach cross platform audiences. In this case, LTN Lift’s capabilities were leveraged to create an unforgettable atmosphere for fans to enjoy and celebrate this major sports event.”

NEVADA CITY, Calif.—Telestream has announced that French broadcaster M6 used its Lightspeed Live Capture server system to create new and radically different ultra-fast replay workflows during its coverage of the UEFA EURO Championships.

Already a major Telestream Vantage, DIVA Content Management and PRISM Waveform Monitors user, M6 has invested in a replay system that utilizes Telestream’s Lightspeed Live Capture server to assure both ultra-fast replay and the highest quality viewer experience for live broadcast programming, including the recent UEFA EURO Championships and other events. 

Using the technology, M6 created ‘Replay’ – a new online service that provided consumers with replays of the EURO championship games (via www.6play.fr) as close as possible to the live broadcasts and in the highest quality. 

Lightspeed Live Capture was used to ingest feeds in both HD and UHD formats, create mezzanine formats as growing files, deliver the content to Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3 storage, and then notify the Replay platform of its availability.

“Our choice of Lightspeed Live Capture is based on the system’s robustness, its capability to ingest HD and UHD using codecs such as XAVC 4K Intra and, a seamless integration within our existing Vantage workflows,” commented Franck Martin, Directeur de L’Ingénierie at M6. “And the ability to manage the Live Capture servers via API adds another layer of intuitive operation to this project."

Lightspeed Live Capture also has a built-in API which enables users to pause and resume recording to create a unique file for output. So, for example, all advertising from the live broadcast can be extracted from the feed before it is made available online.

Using M6’s Vantage workflow, Lightspeed Live Capture simultaneously creates three file formats of the broadcast content – one file for use on Replay, one file for ingest within the broadcaster’s Avid PAM system, and one file for mastering in the AS-10 format, the dominant mastering format used in France.

“Benoît Godard, Senior Solution Engineer for VIDELIO and an expert on the Telestream product line has guided our team through every stage of this project from initial system design, through integration to ultimate workflow creation and that support has been invaluable,” Martin concluded.

HANOVER, Germany—TVN Mobile Production has travelled to St. Petersburg, Russia, with production trucks, equipment and around 65 people to cover seven matches of the European Football Championship UEFA EURO 2020/21, the company announced. 

The first live broadcast for TVN will take place on June 12, the company reported. 

For the productions, TVN  sent four TVN-Ü6 and TVN-Ü3 OB vans and their equipment trucks by land and sea, with the crew of around 65 arriving by direct flight. 

The team includes personnel for the OB trucks, video and sound equipment, setup and operation of the total of 43 cameras. 

Wolfgang Peiss, responsible project manager of TVN, noted that the contract for the production was “actually for several stadiums and countries - then the pandemic came. First, the tournament was postponed for a year and then some matches were additionally moved to St. Petersburg, which required completely new staff planning.”

Due to the pandemic, extensive hygiene and safety protocols have been put in place, including constant daily testing for all TVN employees.

As part of the setup, TVN plugged in about 1000 cable connections between the OB trucks and the Technical Operations Center alone. The 43 cameras have also been moved into position. These cameras include hypermotion cameras, Spidercam and helicopter camera in UHD-HDR, polecams behind the goals and a 180 degree full-format sensor ‘beauty’ camera with Arri optics.

STOCKHOLM—The UEFA European Football Championships kick off today, Friday, June 10, and will be brought to fans with the help of Net Insight, according to a recent press release. The live, interactive and on-demand media transport provided has announced it has partnered with Eurovision to support live coverage of the UEFA Euro matches with its fiber network technology for contribution and primary distribution services, including for 4K broadcasts.

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