Democratic National Convention was made using more than 800 feeds

Variety

"We took in over 800 feeds to do this," says producer Ricky Kirschner, who led the production along with director Glenn Weiss -- both of whom will be working on next month's Primetime Emmys. "There were over 287 speakers, crowd reaction feeds coming in from all over, 50 live speakers. I mean, that’s not just two people doing that. That’s an insane team." What was the trickiest part? "Filtering all of that into one good feed, while having a plan that was morphing as we went," says Weiss. "I think for me, and Ricky may feel differently, that the trickiness was that the target kept moving, to no fault of anybody, because the world is a great unknown right now with this virus." Weiss adds: "By anchoring it somewhere it became a technical challenge, because feeds from all over the country had to wind up in this brand new destination within our structure. We were always in Milwaukee, and then this added element came that was a very important element. It wasn’t just remote, it was something that lots of source material had to play through. So again, the logistics and the coordination, and the figuring that part out, nobody gets to see. It kept changing. And we just had to amend and keep focusing. Now every piece of this structure that’s landing in Milwaukee needs to be fed to L.A., to the studio and some of the feeds are inbound, but the L.A. feed was inbound and outbound. So the job for the infrastructure got harder and harder as we went, but the team rallied and really stayed with it."