The company is providing edit support for pregame, Tubi Red Carpet Show

CMSI is on hand at Super Bowl LIX with a team of five to support FOX Sports, providing two edit suites and two remote editors, who are logged into the infrastructure and creating content to a variety of FOX efforts.

The CMSI team at Super Bowl LIX: (from left) Trevor Robinson, Shasta Ford, Noah Gusdorff, and Michael Kircos

“We’re providing workflow support for pregame as well as the Tubi Red Carpet Show,” says CMSI President Noah Gusdorff. “With cloud-based remote editing systems, we can give Tubi the four editing systems they need but with only two people onsite.”

The CMSI team is working in both the technical building and Game Creek Video Varsity, which is producing the Tubi Red Carpet Show on Sunday afternoon.

“We’re still running HD-SDI in the edit phase because we’re just moving files out for playback,” explains Gusdorff. “Tubi wanted us to work on Mac Studio computers because they are in the entertainment world, while FOX Sports uses PCs. But everything is running in Adobe Premier with a tiny bit of Resolve sprinkled in when things need to be retouched.”

Among the other things CMSI is helping with is mapping SDR to HDR and HDR to SDR. “It’s still tricky to get that right,” he says. “The Tubi Red Carpet Show is the first HDR Red Carpet show we’ve worked on.”

CMSI works with FOX Sports during the NFL regular season. Super Bowl LIX is an extension of those workflows and allows some new things to be tried out as well. “Projects like the Super Bowl allow us to push technology and try new things all the time,” Callahan adds. “We have all the resources available to us, and the people here want to see how far we can go with the workflow. These events are the ones that let us test everything out, try new stuff. Then we take what we’ve learned and apply it to every other production throughout the year.”

Source : Sports Video Group