Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:38 am
We use BlackMagic hardware and other video mixers at sporting stadiums. The time it takes for an RF camera on ground to get up to the control room and go through receivers, CCU, the vision switcher and then back to the screen. It is anywhere from 5 to 15 frames of delay depending what stadium. Therefore the radio microphone needs to be given the same delay so when you hear the person speak and look at the screen, audio is in sync. Some stadiums the speakers are so far away, sound being slower than light then helps us a bit in minimising the delay to the microphone.
This is why anthem singers and performers in an in the round stadium will always have wedge holdback and in ear monitors.
It is very common for any sort of signal to have a delay the more the signal goes through devices or the length of cable.
David Cherrie
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