During most sports replays and bumpers are cut with some form of propritary edit controller, like EVS for example. I've worked in many-a TV truck, but never on a production as big as say... the Super Bowl. It seems the larger the production, the more off the shelf hardware they use! During last year's Super Bowl, all of the live broadcast bumpers were cut using Final Cut Pro. Granted, the systems use broadcast standard KONA 3 cards from AJA, but the fact they could edit virtually live sports in HD blows me away.Fox also uses FCP for all of their sports coverage, but FCP isn't the only NLE getting use in sports. Turns out FSN South uses Vegas to cut it's promo and bumper material. They say they've cut down days worth of pre-production editing into 14 hours.
Looks like some of the old school is finally getting on board the NLE bandwagon.
Follow the READ link for more info out of this month's TV Technology.
1. A few of the FSN regions use Avid (Rocky Mtn, Ohio) to cut teases, bumps and even green-screen stuff. Some use "old fashioned" portable SX editing decks, some travel an EVS operator to get that functionality from the truck-based equipment. Locally in LA, Avid Symphony is used for editing in the office as well as a full-blown linear editing suite. FCP is used for longer-term projects and features, special programming, etc. The director for the Phoenix Coyotes uses FCP exclusively with a Miranda box to bring in each night's melt and use all that to cut stuff all season long. The director for the St. Louis Cardinals does the same.
Posted at 12:21PM on Oct 23rd 2006 by John