Slow Motion Replays From Any Camera Angle
As Hollywood has proven time and time again, everything looks cooler in slow motion, and that especially applies to athletes making amazing plays. But when you’ve got almost 100 cameras recording an event like the Super Bowl, the amount of data being pushed around if every single one of them was capturing the action in slow motion would be absolutely crushing. But there’s an AI solution to that.
Fox’s broadcast will take advantage of EVS’ XtraMotion service that relies on machine learning algorithms to make regular footage re-playable in slow motion by artificially increasing its frame rate, generating the missing in-between frames automatically so playback still appears smooth. The technology can convert video captured at 60fps to 180fps, or take 180fps footage from a high frame rate camera and convert it to 540fps super slo-mo. And while a cloud-based version of XtraMotion has already been successfully used for sports broadcasts, at Super Bowl LVII, the technology will be based right in Fox’s control room, resulting in much faster processing and turnarounds.
