Would CCTV work for model boat racing

[racerr73]

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone has seen closed circuit tv systems filming rc boat racing. If not , do you think 2 fixed cameras would do the job to film the whole course. Think of the course as a footy field and have one camera filming from half way line to left and the other filming half way line to the right. This fed into a DVR to a television should make the contest directors job much easier by viewing a say 40inch tv screen instead of the whole lake area. DVR would allow replays and be able to playback every race later on if you wished to view it.

Thoughts guys on this?, would it work? hard to set up?

Thanks
Trev

[NativePaul]

Not Cctv, but I have filmed races and I don't think it would work well as you describe it. I think the contest director would find it harder to keep track of 2 screens at the same time than he would the race normally, as he would be getting disjointed positioning information through his ears compared to the screens. For viewing purposes it is hard to track a boat from one screen to another at its fastest half way down the straight, cameras looking down the straights and cutting off half way around the corners works better. Better still for unmanned cameras is a wide angle up on the drivers stand covering g the whole course and a short telephoto looking down the front straight at boats coming towards them. Best if you have a videographer is the fixed wide angle on the stand, and the human at the launch area fairly well zoomed in following the leader or any battles then going back to the leader.

[racerr73]

Hi Paul,

There would only be one tv screen, like you seen in banks or service stations where 16 cameras are shown on the one monitor, the monitor can be set up to show 16, 12, 8, 4, 2 or 1 camera feeding into it.

Trev

[fweasel]

Send a drone up over the course, dead center, just high enough to get the entire course in view. I agree, unless there's a production crew and multiple officials involved, you're asking a lot from a single person to monitor multiple camera angles.