LiveU helps produce Disc Golf tournaments, a mix between frisbee and golf

Disc Golf Media Bracelet, division of Rockway Oy in charge of implementing technology to bring events to spectators, competitions of the Professional Disc Golf Association Europe (PDGA Europe, dependent on the DGPT), has decided to resort to LiveU to remotely produce ten tournaments held in Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia.

Disc golf has a long history dating back to the early 1960s. Formerly known as frisbee golf, is a frisbee sport in which players throw a disc at a target. It uses rules similar to those of golf and is usually played on a course with nine or 18 “holes.”

The biggest challenge in disc golf productions is the location and shape of the courses. He European Open, played in Nokia (Finland), is an exception, because it is played in the city center, but the fields are mainly located in sparsely populated areas, including forests. Trees, bushes and terrain variations play a key role in the sport, but they also present a challenge when producing events for broadcast or streaming when using traditional methods. Groups of four players move around the course and, like golf, it's easy for a misturn to cause the disc to end up in very difficult terrain to film from. To provide the dynamic and exciting coverage needed, Pulsea turned to LiveU IP-video EcoSystem, acquired through Media trade, Finnish partner of LiveU.

He DGPT (Disco Golf Pro Tour) had already been using LiveU solutions in all of its productions for the US tour, so system integration was a no-brainer for the two competitions held from Europe. Production capacity was expanded to 12 cameras for the entire European Tour with the incorporation of Pulsea's LiveU technology. The greatest production was the European Open played in Nokia, where two streams simultaneous with 12 cameras and a newsroom.

The LiveU Workflow in Disc Golf

The emissions were directed from the studios of Rockway Oy in Vallila, Helsinki, where comments and remote productions were made. Several backpacks were used LU800 of LiveU, commissioned to send to the Rockway studio using SIM cards from local mobile phone operators. The system also had the option to send the director's instructions as talkback directly through LiveU Audio Connect to the camera operators.

In each event tests were carried out to see if the 4K it would have been possible. The answer, in each case, was “yes”: the delay was kept consistently low using cameras Sony FX6, FX30 y A7. The company also used one of the FX30s with a gimbal during the broadcast DJI RS3, as well as a drone Mavic Pro 3.

Cameras were routed from servers LU2000 reception with IS a vMix y Tricaster, from where they were mixed for broadcast with graphics and narration. The HD sequences fully produced, they arrived on the platform in a short period of time Disc Golf Network, where viewers could watch the video live through their website or app.