ESPN’s coverage of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic this past weekend in Dublin, Ireland saw the network take its REMI operations to the next level as it was the first time ever that ESPN — working alongside AWS and other vendors — used the cloud for super slo-mo operations (SSMO) traversing two AWS regions and overseas.
The plan is now to deploy cloud-based SuperMo for the ACC and SEC Prime CFB games on Saturdays this fall, which is a valuable production enhancement to both of those broadcasts, according to ESPN’s REMI Technical Operations Manager Marissa Bonertz.
Ben Whitmire, ESPN, Senior Media Replay Operator, REMI, working in the cloud for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. Bonertz laid out the full workflow for the Dublin game, which began with the deployment of two 1080p four-phase SuperMo cameras on site in Dublin (SVG)