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PTZOptics is quickly becoming a favorite the education market for flexibility of video output options. From live streaming sporting events to distance learning for University level courses PTZOptics has a lot to offer the educational space. Check out cases studies below that outline use cases with Willamette University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the Frisco School of Music.
Willamette University is a small liberal arts school located in Salem, Oregon where Christopher Sabato, the Assistant Director of Athletics for Media, organizes live broadcasts for the sports teams. From outdoor soccer matches to indoor basketball games, Sabato shares with us his techniques for live broadcasting these events and how the student's families watch from out of state.
At Willamette University, the majority of the student population comes from out of state making it important to the Athletics Department that these families are able to watch the live sports broadcasts online. Using a selection of live streaming hardware and software which includes PTZOptics cameras, Wirecast, Magewell capture cards, xKeys controllers and more, Sabato regularly produces high-quality live broadcasts the school's sports fans enjoy all season long. At the end of the day, it’s all about the fans that cannot make it to every game who are now able to watch live and enjoy the broadcasts from the comfort of their homes.
For outdoor broadcasts during the Soccer season, Christopher uses a PTZOptics 20X-SDI camera housed an outdoor enclosure to capture all the action using a PTZ joystick controller. The Dotworkz outdoor camera enclosure is designed for permanent outdoor use and includes two weather sealed cable ports which Sabato uses for HD-SDI video and RJ45 converted to DB9 to be used for camera control with the HuddleCamHD joystick. The camera captures all the action from high above the field mounted on top of a SkyHawk TriPod mount made by US Sports Video. This giant tripod allows Christopher to follow the direction of gameplay from high above the athletes on the field. “I don’t have a big production crew. So everything has been designed to be operated by myself or one other work-study student.”
During every live broadcast, Sabato tries his best to include a play by play announcer audio feed “It’s our goal to have play by play in all our sports broadcasts. ” Once the game starts a dedicated play by play announcer will handle all audio including ad spots bumpers and pre-recorded interviews. The Technical Director can play video overlays, with no audio, to match what the PxP is sending. The Technical Director mixer is sending an aux out to a Galaxy Audio Any-spot wireless receiver. The play by play audio workflow is explained below along with the entire video/audio system outline.
A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.
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