Live From PGA Championship: Graphics Reign as CBS and Turner Marry Trackman, GolfTrax Data
29/07/2016
He then stood upright, flashed a smile, and said to no one in particular, I haven't been this excited about a technology in a long time.
There's an abundance of innovative technology, a production compound 24 trucks deep, and even a live 4K show being transmitted from Baltusrol Golf Club in Northern New Jersey this weekend, but an enhanced graphics element is stealing the spotlight.
CBS and Turner Sports are uniting tracking, data, and animation sources to create real-time shot-tracing graphics displayed on split screen with the live shot of a golfer during this weekend's PGA Championship.
For the PGA Championship, CBS and Turner have brought together Trackman radar tracking technology, GolfTrax shot data, and course re-creations from Animation Research Limited (ARL) to create a single graphics enhancement that provides a fresh, real-time, information-rich way to watch major golf coverage.
This is exciting, and this is the next step [for golf production], says Aagaard. It's a step that, personally, I've been looking to see golf take. I'm really, really pumped about this. This is a big deal for us. I think this is an area where we can move our golf coverage forward a significant notch.
Trackman's technology uses 3D radar tracking to illustrate on-screen a trace showing the path of a drive from the tee and providing perspective of distance, height, curvature, and more. Meanwhile, GolfTrax provides an animated aerial view of the course to identify ideal landing areas on a hole and the best path to the pin. Bring that all together with ARL, a New Zealand-based technology and services provider, and you have the secret sauce for the dynamic content being overlaid on this year's tournament coverage.
Although CBS Sports has used GolfTrax in the past, it has always been a full-screen element displayed in reviewing a shot in replay. Now viewers can track a player's shot from the tee in real time and see how far it was hit and if the accuracy and distance are positive. It takes away a lot of the mystery that golf coverage has had for the average fan.
Seven Trackman systems (the square unit to the right of the camera) will be moved around the course to provide content throughout CBS and TNT's coverage.
Having the ability to trace ball flight [in real time] has changed the game in some pretty profound ways in terms of golf coverage, says Matt Kane, associate producer, Turner Sports.
The offering certainly alters internal workflows and significantly impacts the jobs of director Steve Milton and Coordinating Producer Lance Barrow and how the story of golf can be told. According to Aagaard, those two network-TV pillars have embraced the technology.
I'm a purist, admits Milton, who has served as lead director on the PGA Championship and The Masters for CBS since 1997. You've got to balance this. You can't do this every shot. Nobody wants it every shot. But, when it tells something everyone can understand and when it can enhance to story of a hole, I think that's the opportunity to use it.
CBS Sports director Steve Milton practices calling cameras before Thursday's action. Milton has served as lead director on the PGA Championship for CBS since 1997.
CBS and Turner have a combined seven Trackman systems deployed on the course at any given time. Their plan for moving them around throughout the weekend accounts for numerous variables, including who the big players are come the weekend and whether the unit can be moved from one point to another logistically.
Aagaard is hopeful that the CBS production team can perfect its use of the system so that it becomes a standard part of the network's golf coverage and can be used year-round, not just at selected majors.
That's our goal, he says. To be able to jump to the next level.
In the [Massive] Compound
Amazement and sheer awe in the size of the production compound at Baltusrol was a common theme among many folks around the TV grounds.
A whopping 24 trucks fill the compound, and that's just the 53-ft. expando units directly involved in the CBS, Turner Sports, and international live productions. There are also transmission units, office trailers, and Golf Channel's onsite shoulder-programming unit.
SSCBS, CBS Sports' four-truck system nearing its first birthday, is the compound's cornerstone. The highly anticipated system launched at The Barclays - just a couple of weeks after last year's PGA Championship - and has worked CBS Sports' Thursday Night Football package, Super Bowl 50, The Masters, and more.
Turner Sports Associate Producer Matt Kane oversees Thursday and Friday live coverage on TNT.
It's been through its paces now, says Aagaard. It works really well. We're still honing and fixing and tweaking technical aspects of how signals get routed in a lot of the infrastructure within the trucks, but, overall, we are quite happy with the performance and what NEP has been able to do for us.
As for the rest of the trucks onsite, it's an all-star showing from many of the major truck providers. Besides SSCBS, NEP has SS11, SS15, SS22 (A and B units), TS2 (A and B), Nickel, Chromium, NCP8 (A and B), and ESU. Game Creek Video Encore A, B, and C are here, along with Edit 1, which houses all onsite edit suites for the production. Broadcast Sports International (BSI) has three trucks on hand to support a robust RF deployment. And Mobile TV Group's 39 Flex is supporting the 4K production of hole 4 that's being sent to DirecTV.
A Return to Traditional Course Challenge
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