10-09-2023, 07:01 PM
I spotted some interesting on some cycling coverage Eurosport were covering earliet today - "Live Mountain Bike World Cup".
Basically going round a course on some rugged terrain somewhere in France according to the EPG that involved a trip through a heavily forested section. They covered this section with a drone going through the trees, round the trees and it was probably about as close to first person vision as you could possibly get without plonking your butt on a bike and going there.
I know drones aren't new to sports coverage and most stadiums have a variation on them with wires (Wirecam I think its called), but it was new to me that live footage was coming from a drone behind bikers in the middle of an environment that I was half expecting something to drop out - if not the signal then the drone itself to crash into something But it didn't.
I presume to get live video/sound out of whatever camera the drone was using and cut to it on the live broadcast, its no different to getting live pictures off a helicopter. But presumably for "professional" drones there's a larger reception field than you get for a budget drone?
Basically going round a course on some rugged terrain somewhere in France according to the EPG that involved a trip through a heavily forested section. They covered this section with a drone going through the trees, round the trees and it was probably about as close to first person vision as you could possibly get without plonking your butt on a bike and going there.
I know drones aren't new to sports coverage and most stadiums have a variation on them with wires (Wirecam I think its called), but it was new to me that live footage was coming from a drone behind bikers in the middle of an environment that I was half expecting something to drop out - if not the signal then the drone itself to crash into something But it didn't.
I presume to get live video/sound out of whatever camera the drone was using and cut to it on the live broadcast, its no different to getting live pictures off a helicopter. But presumably for "professional" drones there's a larger reception field than you get for a budget drone?