Match Recording & Live Production Studio

Open the Petanque Life app on one device and tap Record a match — that is a one-camera setup capturing the court with timecode, audio, and a synced match record. To produce a real broadcast, pair 2 to 4 phones or tablets with multi-device camera setup; each device gets a camera role (wide court view, close-up, cochonnet cam, player cam) and is locked to a shared timeline through Camera sync. Audio comes from any camera device or a separate microphone device for cleaner commentary.

A director uses Director mode on a separate iPad to choose the live feed: tap a thumbnail for manual camera switching, or let automatic camera switching follow the active end of the court via AI heuristics on score events. Picture-in-picture mode keeps a secondary angle on screen during big shots. A commentator on yet another device runs Commentator mode, with their voice mixed into the program feed.

Live overlays are auto-driven by the match scoring data already flowing through the app: live score overlay, mène counter and match progress bar, boule count indicator, tournament bracket/standings overlay, and player name/photo overlays when the camera focuses on a player. Sponsor logo overlay, lower thirds with ELO and recent form, custom text overlay, drawing tools on screen, and full telestrator (draw on paused/live video like sports TV) round out the graphics package. Pre-match player cards play as openers, post-mène summary graphics auto-generate after every end, and instant replay plus slow-motion replay or split-screen comparison let directors revisit critical boules.

Distribution is multi-platform. Direct stream to YouTube Live, Twitch, and Facebook Live runs over RTMP, optionally simultaneously, and an in-app live viewing player is always available to followers. An embeddable live player drops the same stream into federation and club websites, complete with live viewer count and chat integration, and stream schedule and notification alerts followers when the show goes live. Adaptive bitrate streaming and stream quality settings keep the picture watchable on rural 4G; for absolute worst-case, audio-only mode and score-only live feed step down gracefully.

Everything is recorded — local recording on each device plus cloud recording of every angle — so after the match you can re-cut with different camera angles, generate automatic highlight clips from score-change moments, manually clip with start/end markers, and produce an automatic match summary video. All assets land in the VOD archive, searchable by competition, player, and date, linked to the match record so the video plays from the match detail page. Offline recording with later upload guarantees nothing is lost when the venue WiFi drops.