The 2020 Euro tournament was delayed until 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, which was made worse by the fact this Euro was set all of Europe. Whilst the IBC was setup in Amsterdam, it was decided to move the entire UEFA post production operation to London and act as a remote operation. The first of its kind for a large scale international sports event. We had in excess of 50 editors sat in west London operating Adobe Premiere Pro via TerediciĀ on computers in Amsterdam. I was involved in ensuring all the templates and workflows would work well, which was complicated considering we had voice over artists in London recording voices into computers in Amsterdam, and also needed to get a high quality video signal back to allow the editors to correctly colour grade the content.
I was also responsible for creating the graphics package for the Head 2 Head features, which are a statistic based preview to each match. Below in an example of a finished item