Limitless Broadcast has joined forces with production company Buzz 16 to provide coverage of the new Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) season.
Limitless is managing the delivery of both the PWR multilateral world feed and domestic unilateral feed for TNT Sports remotely from their newly expanded Remote Production Hub (RPH) in Woking, utilising two large Production Control Rooms (PCRs) and one Multi-Function Room (MFR) that houses the remote Television Match Official (TMO).
The two partners are delivering multi-camera coverage from each weekend’s feature game, along with single-camera coverage for every other match.
Each on-site production utilises a small tender and ‘uplink’ connectivity vehicle equipped with two Limitless Connect Modules (LCMs), which can each handle up to four cameras, delivering full shading, tallies, return vision, and comms, while an additional LCM pair is dedicated to managing the presentation and commentary, supporting the 1+3 presentation position and on-site commentator facilities respectively.
Limitless is also employing the EVS XtraMotion system for the first time in professional rugby. The AI-powered service enables any and every camera angle to be transformed into super-slow-motion on demand, enabling producers to deliver replays for detailed insight and analysis including RF cameras.
The company has also launched a new ultra-low latency return vision solution developed in-house to provide what it describes as a near real-time return vision to presentation and commentary monitors on-site with a delay under 100ms glass-to-glass.
Speaking about the project, Limitless’ CTO, Ben Harper, said, “Traditional productions rely on one or two slow-motion cameras, forcing producers to compromise on camera angles and restricting choice. With EVS XtraMotion, this is no longer a limitation. Any angle capturing the action can now be played back in stunning 3x, 9x or 27x slow motion, whatever is required to tell the story in the best way. For Limitless to provide this within our approach is a no brainer.”
