Accelerate Live Production Workflows with Frame.io: Mixer & Workshop Recap
On October 23rd, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA, Teradek partnered with Adobe company Frame.io to host Teradek Presents: Accelerate Live Production Workflows with Frame.io. The event focused on revolutionizing live event production for sports programs, award shows, festivals, and more.
The evening featured a comprehensive presentation highlighting real-world use cases, an in-depth look at the workflow’s hardware and connectivity solutions, and a live interactive demonstration that showcased the seamless integration of Teradek and Frame.io technologies.
The seminar was hosted by product experts from both organizations:
- Derek Nickell - Product Manager, Teradek Live
- Tyler Riddle - Product Manager, Teradek Live
- Shawn McDaniel - Senior Content Producer, Live Events, Frame.io
- Derek Johnson - Senior Production Support Specialist, Frame.io
After the presentation, attendees mixed with other industry peers and enjoyed a nice spread of food and drinks to wrap up the night.
Meeting the Demand for Real-Time Content in a Fast-Paced Digital World
Meeting the Demand for Real-Time Content in a Fast-Paced Digital World
Today’s audiences consume content faster and more remotely than ever. With over half the world’s population active on social media, media companies must meet viewers where they are. Engaging these audiences hinges on delivering high-quality content quickly and from the right locations—all while competing against an endless stream of posts and videos. The key differentiator lies in speed: transforming real-time events into consumable, bite-sized highlights, or short life assets, that capture the most thrilling moments and keep audiences engaged.
Examples of these short life assets include:
- Sports highlights delivered during live games.
- Artist performances shared in real-time at major music festivals.
- Promotional clips for ongoing eSports events.
- Memorable moments captured during major award shows.
In order to maximize engagement, production teams are tasked with capturing and delivering these assets when it matters most: in real time.
The Live Post Production Challenge
The Live Post Production Challenge
Capturing live contribution video at events comes with a unique set of challenges:
- Covering multiple locations and angles across the venue.
- Maintaining mobility and staying untethered while navigating through crowds, up and down stadium steps, and around other physical obstacles.
- Overcoming wireless congestion caused by attendees' personal devices and other competing technology, which can compromise connection integrity and lead to stream drops.
- Ensuring rapid delivery of camera feeds to the editorial bay for real-time content creation.
The solution needs to be wireless, lightweight, and compact for maximum mobility while providing reliable access to a strong network connection. With their partnership, Teradek and Frame.io delivered precisely that—a powerful workflow designed for seamless, real-time content creation.
The Traditional vs Camera-to-Cloud Editorial Pipeline
The Traditional vs Camera-to-Cloud Editorial Pipeline
The traditional editorial pipeline is often slow and cumbersome. It typically involves a runner physically transporting the recording device from the video source to the editorial bay for editing, review, and posting. This manual process hampers agility and significantly delays content delivery, making it difficult for productions to keep up with real-time demands.
Typical Editorial Pipeline
Typical Editorial Pipeline
The Teradek and Frame.io workflow revolutionizes the editorial process by drastically accelerating content delivery. With direct cloud uploads initiated at the moment of capture, the need for physical delivery is eliminated. Camera feeds seamlessly transfer from the event to the editorial bay, enabling post-production teams to edit and review content in near real-time. This “Camera-to-Cloud” streamlined process empowers marketing teams to post content promptly, ensuring productions stay ahead in delivering engaging, timely updates.
Frame.io Pipeline
Frame.io Pipeline
To optimize this streamlined workflow, you'll need just a few components:
- Prism Mobile: Compact and low profile, the Prism Mobile is a bonded 5G streaming encoder built to overcome congestion challenges. Built with two internal 5G or LTE modems, it bonds up to nine network connections for a rock solid pathway to stream video to the cloud. This ensures that live camera capture delivers directly to the post production team without drops and with low latency.
- Teradek Data: a service that provides flexible, global connectivity for production workflows. Using a shared “data bucket” format, it simplifies data management across your entire device fleet—no need for separate plans for each SIM. With no contracts or throttling, Teradek Data adapts to the fluctuating demands of production, letting you use data only when needed.
- Frame.io: Prism Mobile integrates natively, and delivers bonded files directly to Frame.io, a powerful platform designed to streamline creative review and collaboration. Frame.io centralizes all creative assets—videos, graphics, and photos—onto a single, unified platform, enabling effortless review, feedback, and expedited asset delivery.
Real-World Success Stories: How Camera-to-Cloud is Transforming Live Production
Real-World Success Stories: How Camera-to-Cloud is Transforming Live Production
Production companies worldwide are leveraging this technology to streamline workflows and deliver content at unprecedented speeds. The Teradek and Frame.io teams shared compelling case studies demonstrating the benefits of their Camera-to-Cloud pipeline:
- Golden State Warriors (NBA): The team utilized the pipeline to publish game highlights on Twitter in under three minutes from occurrence to post. This efficiency led to a remarkable 300% increase in courtside video clips shared.
- LAAX Open: At this annual alpine event in the Swiss Alps, production company DropIn-TV transmitted recordings of breathtaking stunts directly from the slopes to the editing bay—despite a 2km altitude distance—ensuring rapid content turnaround.
- Baja Aragón: Spain’s oldest rally race, held in the remote Teruel Desert under blistering 40°C heat, saw Faraway Films sending race footage, from fixed locations, motorcycles and drones, to their production team over an hour away. This enabled the creation of daily social media highlight reels.
A Hands-On Look at Frame.io V4
A Hands-On Look at Frame.io V4
Frame.io then demonstrated the simple process of securely setting up a Camera-to-Cloud device connection, retrieving clips, using metadata tags to organize assets into collections, collaborating on feedback, and distributing content—all in just minutes.
The audience also got a firsthand look at the newly redesigned Frame.io Version 4, optimized for performance and user-friendliness. This updated version includes powerful enhancements for asset management, workflow organization, and an improved review experience.
To make the experience interactive, attendees scanned a QR code that directed them to a shared demo workspace, running live during the event. They were able to leave comments, annotate in real-time, and see how easily they could access files for collaboration and review. This hands-on demonstration showcased Frame.io’s streamlined workflow and its innovative single-link sharing feature, eliminating the need for multiple review and presentation links while offering a customizable user experience.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The evening wrapped up with a lively mixer, giving attendees the opportunity to network with industry peers and exchange ideas. With a strong turnout and dynamic discussions, the event highlighted the growing demand among professionals for what this partnership delivers: real-time, high-quality content creation designed to keep pace with today’s fast-moving media landscape.
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