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… Paully’s team is responsible for creating and delivering the more than 50,000 graphics that introduce, frame, explicate, and generally amplify NBC’s broadcasts. … To create so many templates and variations, Paully and … a crew that swells to 50 artists and engineers … storyboarded, tested, and built images to cover sports that many viewers watch only when the Olympics carry them back to our attention. …
“We did the last [Athens 2004] Olympics with a 4 terabytes central server … We wouldn’t go near an HD Olympics with 4 terabytes. It would fill up within the first three or four days.”
Even before deploying for Torino, Paully’s artists had created 9 terabytes of pre-built graphics and effects. …
“During the [Albertville / Barcelona] 1992 games it took us about 48 seconds to render a single frame of video in standard definition. Today we’re doing high-def renders in real time. So we’re doing in eye blinks what it took us a minute to knock out before.” …