USC turns to Archion for sports broadcast
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Michelle Clancy
| 09 February 2017

The University of Southern Carolina’s (USC) Gamecock Productions has entrusted Archion's EditStor for its post-production demands.

Gamecock Productions, the post production unit of South Carolina’s athletics department, handles all of the live video coverage of the school’s 21 different Gamecock sports teams. Gamecock Productions has won two Southeast Regional Emmy Awards, 7 SVG College Sports Media Awards, one National NBS Award, as well as an NBS Chapter of the Year Award and 7 Telly Awards.

“Our department’s motto is ‘to instill sights, sounds and emotions of Gamecock athletics in every fan with intimate and original videos,’” said Paul Danna, director of Gamecock Productions. “And that’s really what we’re all about – we strive to capture the excitement of all of our school’s various sports teams. In addition to our doing the post for all of these games, we also produce a weekly TV series that covers our teams. During football season, the show is called The Will Muschamp Show, and after football season, we do a show called The Gamecock Insider. These shows are all 30 minutes long, and we produce 39 of them a year between late August and the following early June. That’s a lot of content which requires a great deal of storage capacity.”

Gamecocks Productions’ work environment includes such tools as Adobe Creative Cloud. The team’s EditStor is connected to a Telestream Pipeline (recording device) and then on to the CatDV logging system. Gamecock Productions also relies on a wide range of cameras including such 4K and 2K cameras as the Red Camera and Sony’s FS7 and FS5 cameras, as well as the Sony A7S, the Cannon’s 5D and 7D.

“Our relationship with USC, Paul Danna and the Gamecock Athletics department has meant a great deal to Archion over the years,” said Dan Stern, Archion’s VP, business development. “Paul and his editorial team have such great responsibilities and do a tremendous job – nothing less than overseeing the video coverage of 21 sports teams, year round! The fact that he and Gamecock Productions have won so many industry honours is a testament to their excellence. Paul’s trust and confidence in our products and services solidifies our belief that Archion storage can accommodate the needs of any institute of higher learning, large or small.”