Post-production on Sports Personality of the Year 2017 live show VTs and Sports Personality of the Year 2017 – The Contenders

Timeline North provided post-production on Sports Personality of the Year 2017 live show VTs as well as a 60-minute presenter lead preview show, Sports Personality of the Year 2017 – The Contenders , which celebrated the contenders through a mix of VTs and panel discussion from Gabby Logan, Richard Osman and Tom Daley.

Using a specifically set up Media Shuttle connection between the BBC Sport archive system and Timeline, clips were pushed via EVS at the Farm North into a drop folder on Timeline’s Avid Nexus. These were managed by Assistant Ross McAdam.
Across the 4 week stint, the team pushed 20 terabytes of media, all at AVC Intra 100. The workload was split between up to 6 edit suites at any one time, with the fast-turnaround preview show and the VTs edited simultaneously.

The edit team worked with Media Composer version 8.5.1. The VTs and the documentary were dubbed in one of Timeline’s Pro Tools v11 suites.

Having delivered AS-11 files, the team played out the final VTs live via EVS at the outside broadcast.
The editing team included Nathan Carpenter, Nicholas Perry, James Lynch, Dominic Robson-Smith, Ricky Wild, Chris Blood, Jon Wright and Adam Mulcahy.

Dan Piggot mixed the audio for the live show VTs and the contender documentary.