Rapidly growing niche sport, Dødsing, breaks through barriers to cloud-based live production with Vizrt’s Viz Now
The historic Dødsing, or “death diving” competition is the first beta user of Viz Now, the new automated deployment solution for cloud-based live productions enabling cloud at the speed of live
Bergen, Norway — 22nd June 2022 — Vizrt the leader of software-defined visual storytelling tools (#SDVS), today announces the first use of Viz Now, its new automated deployment solution for cloud live production.
Viz Now saves considerable time and money by enabling the automated and secure deployment of, and access to, end-to-end remote live production tools from Vizrt and third parties in the cloud, in under 15 minutes.
Not yet available on the market, Viz Now was beta tested by the International Døds Federation, a Norwegian sporting organization promoting the unique sport of “Death Diving.” Participants launch themselves from a 10m (33ft) high platform and perform a variety of stunts, holding poses for as long as possible before they tuck into a tight curl before hitting the water. Dødsing has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years and has held a World Championship since 2008.
For the Austin, Texas leg, the first ever US Døds event, of the Døds’ 2022 World Tour, the Federation wanted to bring its production value to the next level. They wanted to provide a rich viewing experience for audiences, and make it as easy as possible, cost effective, and sustainable for its global production crew.
With Viz Now, the production team, Trippel-M Connected Venues spun up an end-to-end enterprise-grade live production fully using the cloud, in mere minutes. Two freelance camera operators shot on location in Austin using LiveU LU300s on 3 cameras, while the rest of Trippel-M Connected Venue’s team directed and produced from its offices in Oslo, Norway.
“Niche events like this wouldn’t normally have the budget and access to have entirely dedicated enterprise-grade live production hardware set ups and there are often barriers, like time and complexity, to manually set up new cloud environments. By using Viz Now, Dødsing was able to remove barriers to the cloud and achieve an extremely high production value and use all the top market tools they wanted for live production from graphics to sports replay all in one solution”
Ulrich Voigt
Vice President of Product Management, Vizrt
Tripple-M Connected Venues remotely produced using Viz Vectar Plus for video switching, 3Play by Viz Now for replay, Harrison Mixbus VBM for audio mixing, and Telos Infinity VIP for Intercom, all connected via NDI® and using free NDI® tools including NDI® Remote and NDI® Bridge, all running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to successfully unite the distributed live production.
“Working with Vizrt and testing out Viz Now for the production, gave us our best Dødsing to date. Big broadcasters aren’t the only ones who can achieve higher-quality productions anymore. Plus, the ease of use was simple, and we did not need specialized cloud engineers; it was a few buttons to click, and we were ready with automated deployment,” states Vegard Elgesem, CEO, Trippel-M Connected Venues.
“When we can elevate our production value, audience satisfaction skyrockets and it increases the likelihood of more viewers being exposed to and engaging with our content. Working with the cloud also helped reduce our carbon footprint as we had no need to ship hardware, or people down to Texas where the event took place, allowing us to do more of this type of production in the future, in a sustainable way”
Stine Brun Kjeldaas
Head of Sports and Media, The International Døds Federation
Viz Now is launching for early access in October. Sign up now for the world’s first public demo of Viz Now on October 20th!
Learn more about the challenges broadcasters face when “going cloud” and how Viz Now breaks down those barriers in the launch blog post.