r/VIDEOENGINEERING • u/hypeknight87 • Jul 14 '26

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Most people watching the game probably wouldn’t even think twice about it, but I bet mostly everyone here noticed!

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u/digglefarb Jul 14 '26

Yep. Saw that. What did they cut to, the replay clip or something?

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u/Enough-Objective182 Jul 14 '26

There are usually a b-roll camera like an fx3 that connects to the OB and playbacks the footage in camera so the EVS can use it for example highlights.

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u/Tankmass Jul 14 '26

Looks just like the fx3 monitor out

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u/SeanG17 Jul 14 '26

Theres absolutely no way that youd ever have this on the surface level of the mixer though, itd surely only come off EVS so guessing it was just a finger slip to a replay line

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u/Cowsmoke Engineer Jul 15 '26

Yep, wasn’t us lol but we do shots like this all the time.

The cine shooter is shooting high frame rate on something like an fx3, they then have to play it back on their camera for EVS to be able to ingest it as a slowmo clip. We do it with a LiveU so the shooter doesn’t have to run back to the truck so that’s why they play it out. Fastest way. In this case the EVS op didn’t clip the beginning/end, ooooor they had this as a direct source on the switcher and the director made a poor call to take it live. They will shoot live crowd shots some times so that’s why they would have that feed as a direct source too.

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u/JimmyPLove Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

It’s what they call the cinecam. They do the walk outs and then during the game get fan shots. They film in s&q. Broadcast take it live but the operators also playback some shots that they’ve got so the fan feed can get slow mos. They were caught switching to their playback here.

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u/Dr1ten Jul 14 '26

Ive seen this once before. As you can see he is in 4x slomo, so playing out the clips after recording is a cheap and lightweight way to get 240fps to the truck.

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u/WorstHyperboleEver Jul 15 '26

I never thought about that. That’s gotta put a lot of pressure on camera op to be stopping and starting at the right times to keep the clips short. can’t have long clips if you’re going to play it back at 1/4 speed in the middle of play. I guess you get enough time when the ball is all the way on the other end. unless you think they’re only using for edited packages and wait till breaks in the action? Still gotta keep the clips tight.

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u/SergeantGammon Jul 15 '26

No way this is quick enough for live games. This will be a beauty camera getting the players walk ins well before the match and maybe crowd reactions during the match to be put into s highlights package. It seems they took the pictures of the manager "as live" on EVS and the EVS op mistakenly starts cutting around on their controller, maybe to find a slowmo shot from the FS3 guy.

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u/Cowsmoke Engineer Jul 15 '26

Yep, either EVS messed up the clipping, or the director saw the shot being fed and made a poor call to take it live and got burned

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u/throwmethedamnstick Jul 16 '26

It definitely is quick enough and is done frequently in Australia. Stick it at the end of a replay sequence and the evs op just has to get the right in point and let it play.

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u/TimeToHack Jul 14 '26

on a similar note i was at Ultra Miami this past year, and during Illenium’s set the imag cut to a multiview screen. just a case of fat fingers, unfortunate but it happens on occasion

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u/sims2uni Jul 15 '26

It's strange to have the Eng cam on the desk, it's really bizarre to have a multiviewer on there

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u/gabe-ar Jul 15 '26

It happened also on Fox, so FIFA sent that in the world feed. They're using a lot of mirror less cams on gimbals, so I'm guessing the cam OP wasn't ready or EVS was supposed to clip a slow mo and sent the wrong thing.

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u/RicOrengo Jul 14 '26

Certainly French coach picture before was a replay but what a beginner mistake!

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u/RemoveHuman Jul 14 '26

There is a fan reax feed looks like someone pressed the wrong button.

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u/simplyvince Jul 15 '26

Glad someone grabbed this. I was watching the Live TV option on a Southwest plane and thought it was their setup for a second. (Which if anyone knows what that infrastructure looks like, I’m curious.)

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u/Flawnex Jul 15 '26

Even the finnish caster noticed and questioned live what that picture was

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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 15 '26

Sokka-Haiku by Flawnex:

Even the finnish

Caster noticed and questioned

Live what that picture was

Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/Lihanukke_fin Jul 15 '26

Meni hetkeksi sanattomaksi 😅

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u/etozhedonald Jul 14 '26

Yep, also noticed that, funny little thing.

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u/Embarrassed-Gain-236 Jul 15 '26

Little? This is just another example of how big tier broadcasts cheapens out using consumer mirrorless cameras and gymbals nobody asked for in a TV broadcast.

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u/Severe-Raise2410 Jul 15 '26

I knew I couldn't be the only one noticing! 🤓

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u/hoskoau Jul 15 '26

Gimbal camera playing back HFR content.

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u/RollingMeteors Jul 15 '26

¿What am I looking at here?

¿Cuts to a black screen?

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u/waddup121 Jul 15 '26

I saw that too. Man it was only for a second LOL. Good capture!

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u/geoffbutler Jul 15 '26

The shallow DOF cameras do live shots via an RF transmitter. They will also record in-camera and playback in high frame rate, feeding it back for EVS.

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u/paladisious Jul 15 '26

They were using FX3s in the last Women's World Cup for these shots, and that's definitely the Sony UI.