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I would appreciate if next time you would cover on hockey

This and your Basketball video are amazing pieces of content. Please make one for Football!

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Thanks! Looking forward to a video on color correcting footage with skin tones shot in S-Log3!

Is any difference when use the 7R4? I can't get real clean/neat work

Great video and at the 2 ballparks I work they have different numbers! QUESTION: how does (on broadcast) camera 5 put the “ball” GFX onscreen less than a second after the pitch gets to the catcher? (Nobody I work with knows)

Ive been working as a Grip for live sports for a few years and Baseball is certainly my favorite!

this is 10 of 10...thank...love...

I can't even imagine the level of concentration required to direct a baseball game. I did TV production at university years ago and even trying to direct 3 cameras for a talk show was hard enough. Running 8 or 9 with three men on base...no thanks.

Been looking for an explainer like this for a while. THanks for sharing the info.

It's interesting watching the ABA Finals games (some can be found here on YT) because most of the times, the upper cameras were split so that each was about midway along each half of the court. And a lot of the times, to switch game cam from one to the other, they'd both be in a wide shot, therefor "breaking" one of the rules of camera switching. Just fascinating seeing games shot before a lot of the standard practices of today were established.

Fascinating! I found this insightful.

This was reallly well done and informative

Hey. Great video. I’m camera supervisor for the international cricket in Australia and loved seeing all the camera placements and basic duties of each. As you said, we can go from half a dozen cameras all the way up to over 30 for a big cricket match. Massive set ups. Again. Well done. Check out my channel. There’s an interview with me about doing the camera I do on the cricket plus a little baseball shoot I did many years ago at a low level baseball club near home. Was bored one night and got the camera out.

" Baseball is one of the largest sports in the world " What BS, unless the usa is the world as it likes to think it is. It is not. Here is the list Sport Global Viewership 1. Football (Soccer) 4 billion 2. Cricket 2.5 billion 3. Hockey 2 billion 4. Tennis 1 billion 5. Volleyball 900 million 6. Table Tennis 875 million 7. Basketball 825 million 8. Baseball 500 million 9. Rugby 475 million 10. Golf 450 million Only 500 million. Cricket has 2 Billion more viewers !

I’m not a camera op nor do I work in sports broadcasting but i’m in the industry as an audio technician for corporate events and conventions. Early on in my career I worked at an arena that houses a WNBA team. The amount of work and skill that goes into these broadcasts is something that not many people realize while watching at home. There is so much finesse and muscle memory that goes into operating broadcast cameras. Those things are huge and NOT light by any means, it takes so much more skill than a lot of people realize to make camera movements and zooms look as smooth as they do on TV and following a ball or even a player in a live setting is not easy ln the slightest. You may just be standing in one spot all night but you have to be on your toes at all times and prepare for anything that can possibly happen at any moment with precision. The best comparison I can think is being a professional video gamer for say Call of Duty or Overwatch as major examples, you have to be precise, aware, and ready for anything at any time

Can’t stand the CF view. If a fan could sit in any seat in the house, CF would be the LAST choice. Give me the view from behind the plate all game long.

I don’t like when the camera shows a player crossing the plate instead of a play at another base. Ie, a play at second base on a double with a run scored.

Great content. Thanks for posting.

Super neat! I've always been curious about why the San Jose Sharks' broadcasting angle is different than seemingly every other NHL team. Always bugs me whenever I watch their games lol

F#ck it, I'm subscribed. I wanna see more of this type of stuff.

I don't really follow MLB too closely (hockey guy - Canada) but I thought this was really interesting, awesome content man. Keep it up.

I'd love to see this sort of analysis done for hockey games.

Please define world in the sentence „one of the biggest sports in the world“ afaik its only big in Japan and the US

do football too

No one is better than the NY Mets SNY crew.

You should do nascar

Cool, interesting video!

My British mind cant comprehend the use of shagging here 😂 you don’t want your camera operator shagging on the job here 👀

I'll watch a breakdown of every sport. But also I want to know how they get those really tight shots of a ball going through the air? I want to know about the contraptions that make that possible.

This is interesting. Especially how I watched the Blue Jays/Tigers game yesterday: (this is for Toronto feed) Innings 1 and 2: actually radio, Sportsnet590The Fan through my Alexa. While the dedicated channel on the Sportsnet Plus app showed Rockies/As (don't get me wrong, good ending, and found out when the Jays will make their last trip to Oakland (weekend of June 7th, I know that because of advertisement of FIreworks night) innings 3-: Video is the same one people in the stadium see on the scoreboard. Okay audio. Still haven't seen where the home run of Isiah Kiner Kalefa landed. All we saw was him hitting it, admiring it, then rounding the basis. Inning 4-5: Audio is provided by both commentary crews through their cell phones. Bottom 5th: As Kevin Gausman's (Toronto starting pitcher) no-hit bid comes to a close, we start seeing the Bally Sports "scorebug", and audio gets better. By bottom 6th: Sportsnet feed is fixed, as we get good audio and the Sportsnet scoreboard and affects are back on. Ae well as normal camera work. They said there was a power outage in the broadcast truck area that caused all the problems.

Awesome breakdown. I loved watching this.

let me know if you need any help on how audio and comms come together for sports

I can tell you what the flaw in baseball coverage is it's real simple When a ball gets hit to the outfield baseball coverage follows the ball instead of following the outfielder I was taught when I would go to a game by my brother who attended thousands of baseball games that you always follow the outfielder because the outfielder is going to the ball that's where the action is And if it is a home run movement orientation will tell you and then you scan up to the crowd where the ball hit because who cares if we actually witness where the ball hit because there's zero action in the stands

Nice work! This is super interesting! And this is truly ‘inside baseball’ 😉

I think you left your stereo or radio on while you recording your video, as I am hearing some music and it gets in the way of your dialogue.

Thanks for sharing this. Question I always wondered was do both broadcasting stations share the same cameras but get to choose what to air? Like when the home the announcers start talking about a player and they cut to that player. The other broadcast doesn’t share that feed. Hopefully Im making sense here.

Camera 4. Is the Arne Harris shot. From WGN very own Arne Harris who produced the Cubs games

Can you do this for Cricket next? Also, you might have to pick a track but can you explain a racing sport on a road track (so not a nascar oval) because I can imagine the camera work and director role for that sort of race is a really big challenge. Same goes for something like the on road cycling races.

That’s pretty cool actually… I happen to run cameras myself actually. Our team is more of an Independent Baseball league that is actually a partner league with the MLB… I’ll mention how we run things, we’ve actually got 2 cameras in the press box, camera 1 is our game cam while camera 7 is our secondary camera that focuses on the pitcher or the runners, I’m on our wireless camera which I’ll hide in the dugout most of the game, and we’ve also got a phone camera (more for anything in the press box), and we’ve also got a GoPro. Everything else are PTZ cameras that run off of the network… we’ve got 3 on the concourse and one out where the batter’s eye is. And then we feed our stuff through our league’s television (which is the best league in Independent professional Baseball btw) and we actually hook up the radio audio for both teams into two separate streams. Now even though we only monitor our home broadcast (which allows us to mute the home audio between innings since we also feed ads to our video board through the same switcher). Which means there’s a reason why we tell the visiting broadcast to not hot mic themselves because we don’t monitor their audio

Thank you for sharing !!

Next time do a video on Hockey broadcast

YT algorithm accurately suggested the video I didn't know I wanted. Very nice! My friend just got a job as an operator for our local AA baseball team.

I was watching a Texas rangers game the other day and they have cámaras in the grass close to the base to see if the catcher was making contact whit the runner or whit the base

What a great primer in to the production side of baseball I’d love to see soccer/football next!

Great video. Does camera 4 have a way to reset to the standard framing precisely so it’s identical for each pitch?

Loved this video

2:18 Everyone in the UK: 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Educational. Now i see why my favorite shot, once a regular view in TVBB, is never seen -- i.e. the shot from behind the screen looking over the plate umpires shoulder at the pitch arriving.. I long wondered why this, the most interesting shot in BB was abandoned. Also, it's frustrating how seldom we see a valuable view of the defensive placement prior to a pitch or at least when a new batter steps up. Directors must think we're more interested in counting pitchers' and batters' nosehairs. I'd love to have games covered with emphasis on the game rather than on the personalities.

Love these camera positions videos as a UK based Camera Operator and a casual YS sports fan they are really interesting. Good job.