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BCC Live uses AJA Bridge Live for encoding/decoding across productions

Boulder, Colorado-based live production company BCC Live helps organizations like Ironman, Rock’n’Roll Marathon, and others deliver broadcast quality coverage of niche sporting events and conferences to global audiences. To support a broad range of encoding/decoding demands, BCC Live invested in an AJA Bridge Live IP video workflow bridge.

“AJA Bridge Live is helping us navigate challenges across the board. With it, we can take in nearly any type of feed and send out whatever end format is required”, shares BCC Live President and Event Technician Dave Downey. Whether broadcasting or running tests, BCC Live deploys Bridge Live nearly every weekend to support a range of production demands (i.e., 1080i or 1080p, 50 or 60 frames, Secure Reliable Transport, etc.).

They also leverage it to send SCTE markers to customers for triggering breaks. In the case of 70.3 Ironman competition broadcasts during which a production company partner runs the ad breaks - like the Ironman European races - BCC Live will tap into Bridge Live’s ability to send SCTE metadata down to the broadcast channels so that the production team can trigger ad breaks.

BCC Live provides services spanning production through post - including animation and graphics - so every project is different. At the start of each project, BCC Live ensures all the right people, assets, and equipment are in place as a first step, then builds out custom event graphics. The BCC Live team often receives live event feeds from a production company, then mixes the content, adds graphics, and broadcasts it to viewers via YouTube or other online video platforms. They also package the content into 45-second highlight reels for social media platforms. Regardless of where content is produced, anything broadcast or streamed by BCC Live comes into its Boulder studio before distribution to viewing platforms.

SRT and RTMP are frequently requested by clients, as are SDI and NDI. With Bridge Live, BBC Live can support many formats with one device. “The fact that Bridge Live supports so many connectivity types, video codecs, and protocols has significantly reduced the volume of equipment we use”, explains Downey. “It allows us to go in and build a new profile for any project, so we’re set for the broadcast without a lot of stress.”

Commenting on NDI in particular, he continues, “We love using NDI with Bridge Live because we don’t have to get up from our seats to send the signal in the studio; I can open the signal on my laptop in NDI, do a quality check, pull it into the TriCaster, and make sure everything is how I want. Then, I can patch it and set it up as SDI, so whenever we need it in multiple places, we can use a matrix splitter. This means multiple studios can grab what they need off NDI; it’s a simple way to split off a world feed as we get it.”

Many of BCC Live’s productions for European Ironman events start with a live premix feed provided by a production company partner. BCC Live’s Boulder studio receives that feed via Bridge Live, and it’s pulled into its video mixer via SDI and sent to a few destinations in-studio. BCC Live transmits the feed through its replay machine and sends a split into its TriCaster via SDI, where the team adds HTML5 graphics. They use a green screen background and put the video behind the hosts so it looks like they’re in the location of the event.

BCC Live then sends the feed out via Bridge Live to YouTube, Facebook, and Outside for viewers to see, as well as to Grabyo, where its client can pull content for social needs. Next, the team spins off a world feed that is sent to LiveU Studio and also transmits a mixed feed to LiveU Studio from the Bridge Live. In LiveU Studio, they might bring in remote hosts, mix in localized content, and send that off to a relevant network or streaming platform. With Bridge Live, BCC Live has cut its encoding/decoding technology needs in half, according to Downey.

(Photos: AJA Video Systems/BCC Live)

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