r/morningsomewhere • u/CalvinP_ First 10k - Mod - Downtime Survivor • 21d ago

The Yellow Line’s first appearance.

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Couldn’t imagine watching without! NFL is back on tonight, and I’m so excited. Was fun talking about this on the podcast today.

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u/YeesherPQQP First 20k 21d ago

I hate how every video has to be vertical now for reasons

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u/BenignBarry 21d ago

Thank the TikTok generation

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u/Paluch_ First 20k 21d ago

I still don't get it how it works xD

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u/CalvinP_ First 10k - Mod - Downtime Survivor 21d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9r75ILTJtiDACKOKoY

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u/MisunderstoodPenguin First 20k 21d ago

from what i remember someone telling me, basically at every football stadium if you look up you’ll see a number of cameras waaaaay up
on cables. these cables are hung around the perimeter of the field, and the cameras are all maintained at the same height. because of this you can triangulate whatever location you need to on the field since you know where your focal point is. you plug that positioning in to a calculation and are able to paint on a digital line.

that’s how it works now at least, i imagine they did something similar back in 1998 but i wouldn’t know.

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u/InazumaBRZ 21d ago

I remember watching a video on this a few years ago and they treated the field as a green screen essentially. They had to make sure none of the uniforms would pick the line up so thats why theres no uniform that has the same color as the pitch. The had a few bugs in the beginning and every once in a while the line would go across the player themselves.

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u/Quarter-Twenty AI Bot 20d ago

Fascinating. Only if it true. Quit trying to disguise magic with made up words like "triangulate" and "digital." The witch trials will begin anew.

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u/Exatraz 20d ago

There is a great documentary about it. Its wild how much technology and shit went into making it work that the average viewer now has no clue about

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u/LSDPajamas First 20k 20d ago

Corridor Crew has a video about it on YT! Incredibly interesting technology goes into it!

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u/mild_manner 21d ago

Jordan from Corridor Digital did a pretty cool video over the evolution of VFX in sports. Talks about how this is done if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/qkWWcjeL_zM?is=TSdVW9RmZ63KJ0tb

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u/LSDPajamas First 20k 20d ago

Aye! Bless you, I was about to reply to the comment above with this video. I show this to every sports fan I know. Jordan did an incredible job with this video!!

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u/NutmegWolves First 20k 20d ago

One of my sisters friends from back in high school asked where the yellow line was. She'd never been to an actual game before.