CP Communications, Mobile Viewpoint bring next-gen IQ-Sports Producer Series to market

CP Communications announced its next generation of Mobile Viewpoint’s IQ-Sports Producer (IQ-ISP) family of automated live sports production systems.

Powered by AI and supporting a range of outdoor and indoor sports, the updated series delivers several key technology enhancements and adds a new entrylevel model, the IQ-SP Lite that is built for customers focused on single-sport productions with one output system.

• Designed to remove the need of an onsite camera crew, IQ- SP makes professional sports production affordable for minor leagues, training camps, universities – and now, with IQ- SP Lite – smaller colleges and high schools previously hindered by budget constraints. CP Communications is the exclusive North American distributor of Mobile Viewpoint solutions.

• Mobile Viewpoint developed IQ-Sports Producer to easily capture, stream, and re-publish sports events with ease. Mobile Viewpoint has strengthened the AI capabilities in the new generation of IQ-SP systems, which will prove especially invaluable as live sporting events gradually return during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Amongst the new AI features is the automated highlight creation. IQ- SP automatically detects scoring plays, and create individual replay clips or post-game highlight packages for publishing to social media with minimal manual intervention, saving producers significant turnaround time, effort, and staffing costs.

• Mobile Viewpoint has also added a scheduler to the cloud-based management platform LinkMatrix, which automates game schedules in advance without an operator.

• The IQ-SP Pro and IQ-SP Premium configurations also leverage Mobile Viewpoint’s innovative IQ-xCam 180-degree cameras to deliver superior quality for higherend productions. Available with two or four 4K cameras in each housing, the recently released IQ-xCams capture panoramic images at a full 60 frames per second for demanding, broadcast-caliber requirements.

• As well as the AI-powered, panand-scan main feed created by the virtual director functionality of the IQ-SP software, the Pro and Premium models support additional virtual streams that can be defined within the system to follow the action of choice. Users can drag and drop varied fields of view into the image, and add overlays including scoreboard content (clock and score), sideline and goal views, instant replay content, and automatic summaries and highlights. Operators can select and analyze other streams from the field of play during and after the event.

• Other new upgrades include support for an additional microphone array to augment the cameras’ builtin microphones, enabling producers to complement their exceptional video coverage with higher-quality audio.