The IBC Accelerator special incubator project Connect and Produce Anywhere, Phase II (CAPA II) had an early run out at the recent Formula E London ePrix. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
With onsite involvement from the BBC, Channel 4, Vizrt, LAMA, TSL, Techex, and remote participation from Google Cloud, Norsk, Vodafone, and others, the CAPA II project team demonstrated how live coverage of a major sporting event could be covered using only software-based production tools.
Remote workflows and flexibility
Describing the CAPA II setup for the London ePrix, Ian Wagdin, Senior Technology Transfer Manager from the BBC, one of the project Champions, said: “We’ve got a Google Cloud Cluster running locally on commodity HP and AMD hardware, and that’s running a whole bunch of software. It’s part of our aims and ambitions to generally think about software-based production running on edge infrastructure rather than traditional hardware-based production,” he said. “So, although we’ve got some control surfaces which are quite specialised, all of the applications are running on software. The advantage of edge infrastructure is that...
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