Qoncept taps Blackmagic for World Table Tennis Championship broadcast Michelle Clancy
| 30 May 2016
Qoncept Inc is to use the Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K and Video Assist for image processing while broadcasting the World Table Tennis Championship.
world table tennisThe championship was recently broadcast to a live audience via TV-Tokyo Corp.
Qoncept is one of the few companies that provide augmented and virtual reality services, using the in-house developed Qoncept AR Engine. The broadcast required Qoncept to make the matches look more interesting and entertaining to viewers. By combining the Qoncept AR Engine and Blackmagic Design products, the system could use a wide variety of data from the footage shot with two Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4Ks, and was able to provide unique in-broadcast features. This includes being able to analyse the speed of each player’s ball and the specific area that the player’s attacking shot was placed.
“We shot the table tennis tables during the game using two Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4Ks and Video Assists. The two cameras were in sync using Blackmagic Sync Generator and shot in stereo 3D,” said Kenichi Hayashi, Qoncept’s CTO. “By analysing the stereo 3D footage we received in our OB van, we were able to capture the movement of the player’s ball in three dimension and in real-time.”
He added: “By collecting all the data of the specific area of where the players were attacking, we were able to provide the data to the commentators during the play-back scene as well as measure the speed of the ball. We were able to provide further information to enhance the commentator’s responses. Because the speed of the ball was too fast, we set the shutter speed by checking Video Assist as a monitor. Having the shutter speed set at 1,000 meant the footage was really dark. However, even with that constraint, the output of Blackmagic Design’s Micro Studio Camera 4K was 10 bit and we were able to image analyse using the difference of brightness.”
Blackmagic Design recently provided its Micro Studio Camera 4K and Video Assist for live video feeds and video introductions on Elton John’s ‘All the Hits’ world tour.
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