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Vela Cadence

Automated event logging for live production.

Vela Cadence produces automated event logs for live production at expert-class quality. A multi-pass vision pipeline detects every play, score change, graphic and transition with frame-accurate timestamps, delivered in industry-standard production format — a structured timeline ready for replay, highlights and archive.

Pilot / proof-of-concept. Accuracy reflects early, single-game validation.

Who it's for

For the people who log the game.

Sports Production Lead

Broadcast-quality logs, automatically.

Logs in the format downstream systems already expect — without operator-grade hours.

Logger / Supervisor

Operator time on edge cases.

Specialists review and correct the hard calls; the pipeline handles every routine event.

Replay / Highlights / Archive

A timeline ready to consume.

A structured timeline — classifications, timestamps, downstream targets — directly consumable.

What it is

Expert-class logs, automatically.

Vela Cadence processes broadcast footage through a multi-pass computer-vision pipeline: frame-level scene classification and OCR of scores, clocks and down-and-distance; event detection and play-type classification; context enrichment with drive state and replay association; and conversion to production format with frame-accurate timecodes and per-entry confidence. Every reviewed game feeds a correction-exemplar store that sharpens the next.

The output is industry-standard production format — 42 distinct play codes, machine- and human-readable — cross-validated against an external league play-by-play data source to confirm classifications and fill gaps. It runs 4–8× real-time, turning a ~3.5-hour game around in roughly 20–25 minutes, with simultaneous multi-game processing and a near-real-time live mode.

Production format42 play codes, machine- and human-readable
4–8× real-time~3.5h game in ~20–25 minutes
Multi-pass visionDetect → classify → enrich → format
External play-by-play fusionAuthoritative oracle, snapshot-pinned
Capabilities

Every event, frame-accurate.

A multi-pass pipeline that detects, classifies and formats live production events at expert-class quality.

01

Fully automated logging

Play-by-play event detection, score-change tracking and period transitions across the whole broadcast — no manual logging.

Play-by-playScore changes
02

Frame-accurate timestamps

Broadcast-timecode extraction with frame-accurate start, action and conclusion markers for every event.

TimecodeFrame-accurate
03

Graphics & replay detection

Graphics and lower-third detection, replay-sequence identification and replay-to-originating-play association.

GraphicsReplay
04

Commercial-break intelligence

Commercial-break markers with brand-level advertiser identification within each pod — invoicing-ready timing.

CX markersBrand ID
05

Multimodal fusion

Video, scorebug OCR, audio ASR and external league data fuse into one validated, reproducible log with build manifests.

Video + OCRASRLeague data
06

Quality-review dashboard

Specialists accept, reject or edit entries before export; every correction feeds the exemplar store.

QA reviewExemplars

Output ships as a full production-format game log plus a play-by-play summary, commercial-break log, a Nielsen-pattern timing sheet, structured JSON and a build manifest carrying full provenance and correction audit.

How it works

A four-pass vision pipeline.

Each pass adds a layer — from raw frames to a validated, production-format log.

4-pass
Multi-pass vision pipeline
42
Production play codes
4–8×
Real-time processing
~96%
Event match vs expert · stub
Pass 1 · Visual
  • Scene classification
  • OCR of scores & clocks
  • Visual-element detection
  • Broadcast-timecode extraction
Pass 2 · Detection
  • Play start / action / end
  • Play-type classification
  • Score changes with state
  • Period boundaries
Pass 3 · Enrichment
  • Down / distance / yard-line
  • Game- & play-clock correlation
  • Drive context
  • Replay association
Pass 4 · Format
  • Convert to production format
  • Frame-accurate timecodes
  • Sequence validation
  • Per-entry confidence
The operator interface

From log to export.

Named surfaces for review, sync and delivery.

Read

Game Log Viewer

The full structured log, entry by entry.

Sync

Video Sync

Log synchronized to playback for review.

Overview

Quality Dashboard

Confidence and completion across the game.

Triage

QA Review

Specialist accept / reject / edit before export.

Export

Export Center

Production format, JSON and XLSX delivery.

Season

Season Overview

Completion tracking across the schedule.

Deployment & integrations

Vela-hosted, no customer hardware.

Deployment

A managed, GPU-accelerated, cloud-native pipeline that scales to concurrent multi-game.

Vela-hosted & managed — no customer hardware.
GPU-accelerated CUDA pipelines — horizontally scalable.
Live or file input — live-feed connections or recorded-file upload.
Deterministic post-processing — deterministic post-processing for run-to-run consistency.

Integrations

Delivers production-format output into the systems that consume it.

Production-format output — direct to production, archive and rights MAM.
REST API + webhooks — completion notifications.
External play-by-play — snapshot-pinned for reproducibility.
Export — production format, JSON, XLSX.
How it works

Detect. Classify. Format.

Vela Cadence moves from raw footage to a production-ready log — formatted and validated, ready to consume.

Detect

Every event

Plays, scores, graphics and transitions.

Classify & enrich

Context

Play type, drive state, replay association.

Format

Production log

42 play codes, frame-accurate, validated.

Initial validation

Validated against expert ground truth.

Measured against a professional broadcast logger’s hand-built ground truth on a complete game — early, single-game validation.

Initial validation stub

Validated against professional broadcast-logger ground truth on a complete professional sports broadcast — framed as single-clip / single-game POC.

Reproducibility

Build manifests and provenance make every log reproducible and auditable — run-to-run consistency by design.

Bring us a feed

See Vela Cadence on your broadcast.

Engagements start with a signal. Bring a representative game and we run it through the logging pipeline — you see exactly what Cadence logs, before any commercial conversation.

01

Sport scoping

02

Logging run

03

Logger review

04

Deployment scoping

Start with a signal →

info@vela.com · (727) 507-5300