Live Graphic Insertions and Virtual Ads

Fast Setup
Setup time is kept to a minimum, using RT Software’s fast and efficient tools. Pitch-based sports with lines are particularly quick and easy, with Tactic Live leveraging our vision-based camera tracking capabilities within Tactic Pro.  We keep your resourcing costs low to make events as cost-effective as possible.

No Limits on Graphics
Tactic Live graphics are built in our Swift CG+ 3D editor with the option of using our broadcast implementation of Unreal Engine. A powerful combination delivering live graphics that exceed the norm. Crucially, they can be dynamic with integration to live data sources – the Sail GP examples are a good showcase for what is possible.

Guaranteed Camera Tracking
Integration with camera encoded heads ensures reliable tracking and smooth, synchronous movement of the action and graphics under all circumstances. We support all the leading suppliers of camera tracking solutions.

Easy On-Site Lens Calibration
Depending on the camera tracking used, you may need to initially go through a one-time only process to generate a lens file. If it is required, Tactic Live has two options:

• Generate a very accurate new lens file.  About a 2-hour procedure using Tactic Live’s Lens Cal tool that leverages AI to make things easy and quick for customers to do on-site themselves.
• “Tweak in” an existing lens file. We also have baseline calibrations for most lens types that can be tuned to give good results with a customer lens.

Superb Keying
Tactic Live’s keyers allow objects like players to stand on top of pitch graphics with integrity, adding to the realism. There are options for chroma, luminance even “ice” keying, all with fine adjustment controls. The operator interface lets you set up with a range of colour samples, ensuring the real world and your graphic layers are kept distinct no matter what lighting situations you have to handle. Our keying works brilliantly on grass, dirt and even water!

Working with Experts
To get the best results for AR and virtual advertising, it pays to work with experts. RT Software worked with Sky Sports for AR graphics on the UK Super League rugby soon after it started business in 2004. Before that, the management team delivered the very best in virtual studios and AR graphics at the BBC for many years using the original iteration of our engine. RT now has installations around the globe in use every weekend of the year for ball sports, water sports, horse-racing, athletics and more. We know about cabling limitations, camera mount challenges, genlock issues, real-world offsets and more – we know all the challenges around AR, and can give you the guidance needed to get the best results.

Tactic Live integrates with camera tracking data from the camera’s encoding head. As its position and orientation change, the rendered graphics stay in sync with the field of view.

A typical hardware system for Tactic, running in HD SDI would look like this:

• PC  –  HP Z2
• OS – Windows 10
• Processor  –  i7 8700k (6 cores, 3.7GHz)
• Memory  –  16GB (2666MHz)
• Drive  –  HP Z Turbo Drive M.2 512GB TLC SSD
• SDI Video –  Kona 1
• GPU – Nvidia RTX2000

However there are options depending on your specific requirements. Please go to our main hardware page and scroll down to the Tactic (HD or UHD) sections. Please read the notes or contact us for guidance.

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