Multicam is software developed by the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment

EVS Broadcast Equipment

EVS Broadcast Equipment SA manufactures live outside broadcast digital video production systems.Its recorders have become the dominant standard for broadcasters worldwide...

. Combined with its remote controller, it allows to control the XT[2]

Xt(2)

The XT[2] is a video server built and designed by the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment which allows broadcasters to record, control and play media.The XT[2]+ is a newer model of the server...

 video server and offers highly reactive live editing solutions like instant replays and slow-motion.

This software and the production server allows broadcasters

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 to record, control and play media. Originally developed for sports production, the XT[2] is now present in nearly each OB van

Outside broadcasting

Outside broadcasting is the electronic field production of television or radio programmes from a mobile remote broadcast television studio. Professional video camera and microphone signals come into the production truck for processing, recording and possibly transmission...

 in all last big sportive events as FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

, IFAF World Cup, MotoGP and Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 and is actually used in the biggest studio broadcasts such as NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, France 2

France 2

France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

, CCTV and many others.

The multicam LSM's features are Instant replay

Instant replay

Instant replay is the replaying of video footage of an event or incident very soon after it has occurred. In television broadcasting of sports events, instant replay is often used during live broadcast, to show a passage of play which was important or remarkable, or which was unclear on first...

, slow-motion, High-motion, super motion, Rough cut

Rough cut

In filmmaking, the rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the film begins to resemble its final product...

, editing

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

, video playlist

Playlist

In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...

 and content management.

Combined with the remote controller, it allows to instantly make clips of ingested media, review multiple camera angles and replay them at any speed between -400 and + 400 % at a very high quality (HD or SD).

This software and its widely known controller have become a standard, as part of each OB Van

Outside broadcasting

Outside broadcasting is the electronic field production of television or radio programmes from a mobile remote broadcast television studio. Professional video camera and microphone signals come into the production truck for processing, recording and possibly transmission...

 in sport productions. The LSM name has been adopted as the name of the person in charge of making the slow-motion replays (LSM Operator) in countries other than the United States. Today, there are approximately 5,000 LSM operators in the world.

In the United States, the LSM is commonly referred to as an EVS, and operators as EVS operators, despite the fact that EVS

EVS Broadcast Equipment

EVS Broadcast Equipment SA manufactures live outside broadcast digital video production systems.Its recorders have become the dominant standard for broadcasters worldwide...

manufactures other products besides the LSM.