Atlanta Braves SunTrust Park Takes Shape with Plenty of LED, Hybrid IP Workflow
25/01/2017
Located 15 miles away in Cobb County, SunTrust Park will be the Braves' third home in their 51-year history. As Turner Field is converted into a football stadium for Georgia State University, SunTrust Park - under construction since 2014 - is in the final countdown to Opening Day 2017. BravesVision, the team responsible for creating all team video content - including the game-day presentation on the main video display, which has the same name - is up for the challenge.
I'm expecting it to really make a difference in the eyes of the fans, says Scott Cunningham, senior director, fan experience, Atlanta Braves/executive producer, BravesVision. It's going to be cool to be operating new equipment and learning new equipment and learning new ways to improve our workflow.
BravesVision Enters a New Era
Earlier this month, the Braves announced that Panasonic Enterprise Solutions will design and install the SunTrust Park's primary BravesVision videoboard, as well as a wealth of other LED displays throughout the stadium.
Flyover view of SunTrust Park, located in Cobb County (rendering)
BravesVision, located in center field, measures approximately 64 ft. tall by 121 ft. wide and features 16-mm resolution. The team added five Grass Valley LDX 86 hard cameras, four positioned under the videoboard and facing out at the crowd; the fifth LDX hard camera will be positioned at high home. Rather than position the cameras in traditional broadcast locations, the Braves plan to rely on the home broadcast feed for game coverage and use their own cameras to capture fan reaction, crowd shots, and more. Two additional wireless cameras will roam the stadium and provide extra coverage as needed.
We experimented with the idea when we did the [July 3 game against the Miami Marlins] at Fort Bragg. For production purposes, it makes for a better show for the stadium side, says Cunningham. We're not covering the game for game footage; our broadcast partners are, and we're pulling feeds from all the cameras to use for replays. As far as between innings and the fan-experience piece go, everyone's looking at the board anyway, so they'll be looking straight into the cameras.
From now until March 31, when the Braves open SunTrust with a preseason game against the New York Yankees, Panasonic will install approximately 30 LED displays around the stadium with resolutions ranging from the 16-mm BravesVision display to a 6-mm display in the stadium's Xfinity Rooftop in right field. A 90- by 30-ft. out-of-town scoreboard will be installed in left center field, and two LED displays - each measuring 90 by 6 ft. - will be installed above each bullpen in right center field. An 830-ft. LED display will stretch from foul pole to foul pole in three sections along the terrace level: first baseline, home plate, and third baseline.
Rounding out the LED signage at SunTrust Park will be a handful of closed-captioning displays, sponsorship signage (including an LED sign in place of the iconic Chik-Fil-A cow's sandwich board), highway marquees, and plaza displays. The plaza will also feature a giant baseball wrapped in a spherical NanoLumens LED display.
To IP or Not To IP, That Is the Question
To implement their creative vision, the Braves turned to Alpha Video for assistance with vendor and equipment selection. The Braves deliberated going all-in on IP and eventually decided on a hybrid approach. The team, with the help of Alpha Video, chose a Grass Valley hybrid router that can serve the current need to deliver 1080p/60 video throughout the stadium with the option to upgrade in the future as IP-based technologies become more commonplace.
Since IP standards continue to evolve and were not as evolved when the Braves had to make a final purchasing decision as they are today, a hybrid approach made sense for a variety of reasons, explains Jeff Volk, VP/director, sports and entertainment, Alpha Video. It allows us to give the Braves an IP infrastructure today that they can use to interface with their primary production partners, should they have trucks with IP technologies today. Further, while technologies like 4K and high frame rate were not requirements of the Braves today, the IP infrastructure allows them to easily add those technologies when and if they choose to deploy them.
The view from home plate (rendering)
The Braves also decided on a full suite of gear from Ross Video, including the company's Acuity production switcher, XPression character generators, and XPression Tessera graphics designer/controller.
We went with the Ross package. Everything works really, really well together that way, [which is] something that we didn't have over at Turner Field, says Cunningham. I believe that's going to improve our workflow and overall product here at SunTrust Park.
Rounding out the big-ticket items in the press-level video-control room, the Braves selected Evertz DreamCatcher for replay. It will take in the truck feeds and enable Cunningham's team to cut its own unique show for BravesVision.
Our LED boards should look significantly different with this equipment and allow us to [work] easily without too much disruption inside the control room, says Cunningham. A lot of the workflow efficiencies aren't really noticed by the fans - it's more efficiencies that are behind the scenes - [but] I think it's going to translate to where the fans can actually see the difference.
Lighting and Sound Play Their Part
It's no secret that fans have
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