Dejero is supporting leading Spanish production company, Quality, with its Dinnovative and highly efficient remote production workflow for the live broadcast of eight soccer matches per week for Tigo Sports’ coverage of El Salvador’s brand new national soccer league, Liga Nacional de Fútbol de El Salvador.
Dejero EnGo mobile transmitters, WayPoint receivers and CuePoint return servers with built-in Smart Blending Technology are at the heart of Quality’s remote multi-camera productions, enabling uninterrupted connectivity between the stadia and their Buenos Aires production hub. Quality was awarded a three-year production contract by the leading Latin American sports subscription television channel, Tigo Sports.
With a traditional workflow, an outside broadcast truck and almost all of the production crew would need to physically be touring stadiums across El Salvador for ten months of the year to cover the soccer league matches. Reyes explains why this is no longer the case: “Thanks to Dejero technology, all of the production facilities and resources remain in Quality’s Buenos Aires hub. This saves between 65% and 70% on setup time and costs, including cable installation, production crew time, travel and other expenses, as well as overall logistics.”
Ten EnGo mobile transmitters, which have a sub-second glass-to-glass latency, are reliably transporting primary and secondary feeds from seven cameras, with two more dedicated cameras for pre- and post- match interviews, and another camera feed from a drone for aerial shots in any given stadium.
Using this new remote production model, Quality only sends the EnGo transmitters, camera operators and talent to the stadiums. And, because the devices are easy to operate and don’t require a complex setup, the camera operators and crew are ready to go live within minutes. As the EnGo provides reliable uninterrupted connectivity from any location, the producers, directors, graphics operators and technicians remain in Buenos Aires to package content for distribution from the hub.
The EnGo devices feature Dejero’s Smart Blending Technology, which aggregates multiple IP connections, including wired (broadband, fiber) and wireless (3G/4G/5G, Wi-Fi, satellite) networks. For Nacional de Fútbol de El Salvador, Quality is using six local SIM cards from multiple network carriers in each EnGo. The result is high-speed, reliable and uninterrupted connectivity, which allows the seamless transmission of broadcast-quality live video while reducing costs with production logistics. Furthermore, the EnGo has a rugged design that is robust enough to handle the inevitable heavy rainfall El Salvador’s tropical climate is renowned for.
Six Waypoint receivers, located at the Buenos Aires hub, reconstruct and decode the video feeds from Dejero transmitters. The decoded video enters a matrix to be shared with the switcher and replay systems; the packaged content is then uplinked via satellite for distribution across the Tigo Sports network.
A microphone at the hub is also connected by an XLR audio cable to a WayPoint receiver, so the director can communicate with camera operators using the EnGo IFB voice communication feature.
A CuePoint return video server sends low-latency, live program video to camera operators at the stadium to help them stay synchronized with central production during the live broadcasts.
