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9/29/2019 10:17am
9/29/2019 10:17am
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10/2/2019 5:11am
Mxon cameras for the races are Terrible. It is almost impossible for me to actually watch this race between the rain drops on the camera lens. I have never ever watched a national on tv with such pathetic live viewing. If this is how mxgp records their races I’m happy to have only watched the USA national star up to this point.
I can understand the rain a little, and I won’t really comment because I wasn’t there and don’t know how bad it really was, but just the coverage of riders and following battles and what not was not good. Seemed to just jump around from random riders at various times.
I was planning on buying the MXGP package next year but I think I’ll just stick with the highlight tapes again.
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If some loud mouth Vital member can predict that it would be a mudder, then maybe MXGP could have had proper equipment for the biggest race they promote every year.
I was at Lommel the full weekend and saw at least 10 crashes during races. After the weekend i watched the races on mxgp-tv and half of them were not on the broadcast (not even images of the rider getting up).
If i were tv director i would always want to show every crash, even a backmarker. Imo it should als be possible to have a (relatively) low cost solution to have 95% on camera by adding a bunch of go-pro's on fixed positions for "overview" shots so that you can give at least a shot (even if it is from further away on a fixed camera) of a crash.
The broadcast was fucking awful. GL is doing his level best to destroy a once great institution. It was literally like a country fucking fair moto expo. Terrible track, awful broadcast. Cool, thanks.
NO THANKS!!!
Personally, I want to see the racing not the crashing.
There were 2 to 3 cameras that had consistent vision. Attentive Camera Operators, or shrouding, other 'clear lens' set ups? And, the rest, looked to have No attempt to even manually wipe the lens.
Now, a few might - well will - get their knickers in a knot over this : but, generally, the MXGP casting is good - better than the US Nationals. But, as I wrote at the start, this was a Shameful effort.
But this time, it was beyond belief. I had the Mens Road Race (Roadies, Roadies suck /f**k Dead Toadies!) on my other screen. They had a fair amount of rain to deal with. Hell, moving cameras on Motorcycles had good vision, and, any water on the lens was attended to promptly.
There are plenty of ways to deal with bad weather, with Video Cameras - Shelter, Shrouding, Roll Off type set ups, and, simple fans ( a couple of waterproof Spals do the job) mounted to the sides of the cameras to divert air away from the lens. It works well even in high, near horizontal wind, boys and girls. Then, as a final thing, simply a Camera attendant to wipe the lens, if needed.
That the Directors / Luongo The Drongo didn't see fit to rectify such an ongoing f**k up, is just an indication of how little they really care about the promotion of racing. There will be, justifiably, a Lot of disgruntled customers, especially those that just paid to watch the MXDN as a standalone.
Just pathetic, and it really made a difficult, yet magnificent event, look like amateur hour, on the part of the event coverage.
They can't win.
I never said anything about the TV coverage, only about how much rain fell during the day. And I'm pretty sure that only people who were there can comment about how wet and windy it was at the race? Or was your couch in Assen?
As you say, just asking questions...
Ps. Can't comment on the broadcast because I was in the grandstand, just the weather
Bearuno, we may have seen the same bicycle race. I saw some racers in the rain, with cameras on the back of motorcycles. Nary a drop of rain.
This isn't the first windy, rainy sports event ever on TV.
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