Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:42 pm
Blackmagic Design announced today the Swatch Freeride World Tour Alaska leg was broadcast globally with the help of Fountain Media Group (FMG) using Blackmagic Design 4K products, including production switchers, monitors, converters and SSD recorders. The broadcast HQ for the event was 1,500 meters up an Alaskan ridge adjacent a mountain face known as "The Venue.” The crew staged and camped for 11 days with Blackmagic Design equipment, waiting for the perfect weather conditions to run the one day competition and live broadcast.
Freeriding is a sport watched by millions around the world and involves skiers and snowboarders dropped at the top of high mountains and judged as they ski across what often looks like impossible to traverse terrain. The Swatch Freeride World Tour is the premiere set of events in freeriding and takes place on mountains around the world.
Freeriding athletes are judged on style, creativity, degree of difficulty and how much control they maintain while riding some of the worlds most famous big mountain backcountry faces. Because the courses take the riders in and out of trees, rocks and snow mounds, traditional broadcasting is near impossible. It requires a large number of cameras, both on the ground and in the air, as well as production sites located directly on the mountain itself, with broadcast crews living in tents at altitudes only accessible via helicopter.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/ ... 0150817-01
Freeriding is a sport watched by millions around the world and involves skiers and snowboarders dropped at the top of high mountains and judged as they ski across what often looks like impossible to traverse terrain. The Swatch Freeride World Tour is the premiere set of events in freeriding and takes place on mountains around the world.
Freeriding athletes are judged on style, creativity, degree of difficulty and how much control they maintain while riding some of the worlds most famous big mountain backcountry faces. Because the courses take the riders in and out of trees, rocks and snow mounds, traditional broadcasting is near impossible. It requires a large number of cameras, both on the ground and in the air, as well as production sites located directly on the mountain itself, with broadcast crews living in tents at altitudes only accessible via helicopter.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/ ... 0150817-01