We’re going to Disney World…

We’ve just finished our first marathon gig with the National Cheerleading Association…

We spent all three days of the event at the Dallas Convention Center in the main arena capturing, editing and transcoding each performance - there were over 150! This competition was a bit overwhelming (ever seen Bring It On with Kirsten Dunst? umm… not that I have… but anyway - this competition is the same one featured in those movies!) - even with the scale and logistics of the event we managed to pull it off and it seems to have been very successful (more than 20,000 streams in the first two days!).

Our workflow consisted of two MacBook Pros running Final Cut Studio 2… One was dedicated to capturing footage and the other was editing and running Compressor in the background to create the FLV’s. Everything was uploaded to The Platform once we were finished. The second day we were fortunate enough to receive a feed from the Fox Sports truck that was covering the event (multi-cam with a jib - wooo!).

The intended workflow included a Digital Rapids Stream-Z for encoding/transcoding but our demo unit didn’t show up so hopefully we will get a chance to try it out before our next gig - Nationals at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

Thanks to Tom Post at Postman Productions for hooking us up with the gig - it was a fun time even if we heard “The Final Countdown” once too many times…