It's mental how many camera feeds they have access too at any given moment, now I understand why sometimes we see a Stroll replay instead of an overtake on track.
so many cameras and we still didn't get a decent shot of the Alonso-Perez finish line battle. even on their channels they have reposted a fan's video from the stands.
Last Sunday was crappy again. To suddenly switch away during the exciting battle between Alonso and Perez to the finish of Verstappen who was 8 seconds ahead of No. 2 Norris and who was again 20 seconds ahead of No. 3. So they show that boring finish, so that the viewers can’t watch the moment supreme had to miss more than 10 seconds of the fight between Alonso and Perez. Really crappy TV production👎
@@sundaydriver15 Last Sunday was crappy again. To suddenly switch away during the exciting battle between Alonso and Perez to the finish of Verstappen who was 8 seconds ahead of No. 2 Norris and who was again 20 seconds ahead of No. 3. So they show that boring finish, so that the viewers can watch the moment supreme had to miss more than 10 seconds of the fight between Alonso and Perez. Really crappy TV production
@@henkjanvanraikonnen5073they have to show who comes first and second no matter how boring that might be, because it’s the most important moment of the whole sport 🤷🏻♂️
Watching the race, you wonder sometimes how they can fluff stuff up. But then you get a look behind the scenes and now I'm impressed they manage to achieve a coherent broadcast at all! What a huge array of things to manage in real time and get constantly correct/optimised for a flowing broadcast.
@@dominicviner6619 That race the tv direction was handled by TMC, a French company responsible for the world feed for the Monaco Grand Prix each year. After that year they renegotiated the contract and now is handled exclusively by F1 themselves. So that particular error/incident wasn't the fault of the F1 tv direction team.
Great insight Matt! As someone who loves the BTS and technical side of large scale broadcasts, this video is a winner 👌 I could sit and watch the gallery all day
I was fortunate enough to get a tour round the Biggin Hill HQ last year, and it is crazy how much goes into the broadcast. You've done an excellent job at highlighting the talented people that bring us the sport every week!
@@CharlieHC I cold emailed the right person I guess? Always been fascinated in the F1 broadcast, so thought I’d try my luck and managed to get in touch with the right people.
@@joesassoon54 Yes I am also really interested in the media centre, I’m lucky to live 20 mins away I’ve been looking at potential careers and there are a lot of jobs to do with IT which is a subject I am currently studying, I’ll see where my qualifications take me and I would love to work there
That is huge... With all of this, it is hard to imagine how hard it would be to upgrade streaming to 4k, how much hardware needs to be upgraded to handle 4x-8x multiplied stream bandwidth or proxying it in real-time into this system...
Please please please make a video about F1 software. You showed off a mind-boggling amount of custom software that powers that facility, and I would like to learn about it. Do they handle software engineering in house? What do they build, vs. what are they buying from 3rd parties? So many questions!
Dude this video could not have come at a better time. I was just talking with my friend yesterday about how insane the production must be, and really wondering how its all done. This answered everything I wanted to know about how the production works. Hats off to you for providing it in such a succinct and understandable way too. This video is amazing.
Thanks Matt, a great insight from Biggin Hill and how the data is transmitted from all around the world to litttle old England. As a video compression Engineer I have been to a lot of live sports events and Broadcast companies all over the world, but I would love to see behind the scenes at F1. Fantastic work by the whole team to deliver that amount of video/audio/data week in and week out. Thanks for the video
Outstanding!! I’m always very curious about how things work down to the smallest detail and your report answered a lot of these kinds of questions I’ve had. Really well done thank you.
I love your content around f1 and great to see that f1 opens its doors to show someone around. Never ever have I seen any footage of their headquarters. 😍
Man, as someone that wants to do TV broadcasting/video editing someday for Formula 1, this video was an absolute pleasure to watch. Seeing all the behind-the-scenes stuff was so unbelievably cool, thank you so much for documenting this. Hopefully I'll get to work there someday, as it's my dream job to do motorsports video editing.
If I'm not wrong I remember that the remote broadcasting of the international feed was a thing planned around 2023-2024 season as one of the Net Zero 2030 targets, but the COVID deal anticipated the whole program. Plus, it would be interesting to see where they have their whole historical video and photographic footage archive. Brilliant video behind the scenes!
I was lucky enough to get a tour of the broadcast centre at the '15 Canadian GP. I was blown away then, but it's amazing to see how much it's progressed. Having a remote UK based operation is so much better for staff and helps ensure even better levels of consistency for each broadcast.
Great piece of content. I am a Vision Broadcast Engineer for NEP. It’s great to see how F1 has created their unique remote workflow and managed to pretty seamlessly introduce it during covid without many major issues. Knowing how intricate remote broadcasts can be: massive respect One thing I’d like to know, I did see some OCP’s in the video but my guess is that these were for the local studio camera’s. Am I correct in assuming that shading is done locally on track due to delay? I have done shading on a camera remotely in the Netherlands during the olympic games in China, but that was only for a flash interview. Can’t imagine you can shade a sports production with so many frames of delay
A lot goes into the production of broadcasting the race and what goes behind the scenes. Thank you for making this video and I'm glad F1 invited you to the HQ!
What a great vid. It blows my mind how they turn all those screens into a broadcast that is so good consistently! Yes, they miss something every now and then, but its still brilliant. Also , didn't know that Alex Jacques actually works for F1TV and not Channel 4. So the Ch4 commentary is actually jut the F1TV comms I imagine DORNA who handle MotoGP have a similar set up somewhere as well
one of the most impressive thing about f1 is that the editor for their youtube channel - the highlights to FP/Quali/Race always come out within an hour of the actual event, their real time editing is unreal
Wow now I understand why when an on board camera has water or dirt or oil on it, you then see that going down. I always thought that it was just the wind blowing the water or dirt downwards. It's incredible the amount of technology they have. You would think the wing camera is like a glorified webcam but it's way more than that. It's incredible that F1 does all this in-house
This is the best video I've seen in the whole year! Congrats! By the way, when an F1 car enters the garage, the onboards signals are cut. Is this an automatic process, or there is someone there turning them on/off?
Matt - Great content! Since you have seen (and done) this - might you consider reaching out to other sports (football; US/NFL football; hockey; etc) to explain their logistics in bringing their content? /keep up the great work!
If you get invited back, you should ask about if they'll ever go for less wide-angle lenses to show the speed of the cars more. Or just, generally choosing better camera angles focused on battles rather than going for fancy camera shots.
Cool stuff, amazed about the fact they are using a ND and Gradient filter on the camera. Wish the feed from the car's camera wasn't only 720p. It's time they moved to 1080p...
It's mental how many camera feeds they have access too at any given moment, now I understand why sometimes we see a Stroll replay instead of an overtake on track.
so many cameras and we still didn't get a decent shot of the Alonso-Perez finish line battle. even on their channels they have reposted a fan's video from the stands.
Last Sunday was crappy again. To suddenly switch away during the exciting battle between Alonso and Perez to the finish of Verstappen who was 8 seconds ahead of No. 2 Norris and who was again 20 seconds ahead of No. 3. So they show that boring finish, so that the viewers can’t watch the moment supreme had to miss more than 10 seconds of the fight between Alonso and Perez. Really crappy TV production👎
@@sundaydriver15 Last Sunday was crappy again. To suddenly switch away during the exciting battle between Alonso and Perez to the finish of Verstappen who was 8 seconds ahead of No. 2 Norris and who was again 20 seconds ahead of No. 3. So they show that boring finish, so that the viewers can watch the moment supreme had to miss more than 10 seconds of the fight between Alonso and Perez. Really crappy TV production
@@sundaydriver15yeah Brazil gp was a BIG fail in production
@@henkjanvanraikonnen5073they have to show who comes first and second no matter how boring that might be, because it’s the most important moment of the whole sport 🤷🏻♂️
This video could be 2 or 3 hours long and I don't think I feel bored at any moment watching the video.
yes
I agree with this.. I find myself skipping 9/10 videos. This was the one.
yesss
Watching the race, you wonder sometimes how they can fluff stuff up. But then you get a look behind the scenes and now I'm impressed they manage to achieve a coherent broadcast at all! What a huge array of things to manage in real time and get constantly correct/optimised for a flowing broadcast.
That’s why we see stroll doing nothing or running wide and not an overtake
@@dominicviner6619 That race the tv direction was handled by TMC, a French company responsible for the world feed for the Monaco Grand Prix each year. After that year they renegotiated the contract and now is handled exclusively by F1 themselves. So that particular error/incident wasn't the fault of the F1 tv direction team.
I work for F1 as an editor in that very building, and you've done a great job on capturing what its like there!
7:05 how ironic out of all the team radios they could have used to demonstrate this, they choose Leclerc losing hope again in his strategy team
It's iconic
This is so wild dude! Did you manage to figure out who the director was from Brazil? I just want to talk to them...
Great video!!
😂😂😂
*insert KDB meme*
Great insight Matt! As someone who loves the BTS and technical side of large scale broadcasts, this video is a winner 👌 I could sit and watch the gallery all day
As a F1TV suscriber... thank you for this, amazing insight into such a great part of my F1 experience.
I was fortunate enough to get a tour round the Biggin Hill HQ last year, and it is crazy how much goes into the broadcast. You've done an excellent job at highlighting the talented people that bring us the sport every week!
How did you manage to get a tour
@@CharlieHC I cold emailed the right person I guess? Always been fascinated in the F1 broadcast, so thought I’d try my luck and managed to get in touch with the right people.
@@joesassoon54 Yes I am also really interested in the media centre, I’m lucky to live 20 mins away I’ve been looking at potential careers and there are a lot of jobs to do with IT which is a subject I am currently studying, I’ll see where my qualifications take me and I would love to work there
@@CharlieHC best of luck with it! I’m sure they’re always looking for passionate people with the right qualifications
That is huge... With all of this, it is hard to imagine how hard it would be to upgrade streaming to 4k, how much hardware needs to be upgraded to handle 4x-8x multiplied stream bandwidth or proxying it in real-time into this system...
This is amazing! What I would do to be a fly on the wall in this place during the race… Thanks for showing us!
Please please please make a video about F1 software. You showed off a mind-boggling amount of custom software that powers that facility, and I would like to learn about it. Do they handle software engineering in house? What do they build, vs. what are they buying from 3rd parties? So many questions!
Including the font styles too?
I think they created own softwares in house
Dude this video could not have come at a better time. I was just talking with my friend yesterday about how insane the production must be, and really wondering how its all done. This answered everything I wanted to know about how the production works. Hats off to you for providing it in such a succinct and understandable way too. This video is amazing.
Thanks very much for seeking and doing these behind the curtain videos on production, safety and racing. They're amazing
F1 is a fantastic export for England 🇬🇧 🏴
Wow, just wow! How they get all that to work and sync during a race is just remarkable. Great job as always showing and explaining.
Thanks Matt, a great insight from Biggin Hill and how the data is transmitted from all around the world to litttle old England. As a video compression Engineer I have been to a lot of live sports events and Broadcast companies all over the world, but I would love to see behind the scenes at F1. Fantastic work by the whole team to deliver that amount of video/audio/data week in and week out. Thanks for the video
Outstanding!! I’m always very curious about how things work down to the smallest detail and your report answered a lot of these kinds of questions I’ve had. Really well done thank you.
Incredible video! Thank you for all these insights. This is truly also the pinnacle of broadcasting.
fantastic video, unmatched insight. brilliant stuff Matt, as always!💚
As always.. brilliant. Thank you for this
Matt continues to get amazing access to some really rad behind the scene F1 stuff that I'm always super interested in. Keep it up!
I love your content around f1 and great to see that f1 opens its doors to show someone around. Never ever have I seen any footage of their headquarters. 😍
Man, as someone that wants to do TV broadcasting/video editing someday for Formula 1, this video was an absolute pleasure to watch. Seeing all the behind-the-scenes stuff was so unbelievably cool, thank you so much for documenting this. Hopefully I'll get to work there someday, as it's my dream job to do motorsports video editing.
Unbelievably complex. What a fascinating insight behind the scenes. Thank you so much x
This was really cool. Loved the bit on how they put up the radio messages. Great video, subscribed.
8:30 YES! FINALLY! I know how they get the dirt off the cameras! I always see the screen rolling down, but always wondered how they do it! So cool!
This is incredible insight, it’s awesome!
If I'm not wrong I remember that the remote broadcasting of the international feed was a thing planned around 2023-2024 season as one of the Net Zero 2030 targets, but the COVID deal anticipated the whole program.
Plus, it would be interesting to see where they have their whole historical video and photographic footage archive. Brilliant video behind the scenes!
Great stuff!! Thank you!!
I was lucky enough to get a tour of the broadcast centre at the '15 Canadian GP. I was blown away then, but it's amazing to see how much it's progressed. Having a remote UK based operation is so much better for staff and helps ensure even better levels of consistency for each broadcast.
Amazing behind the scenes look Matt!
You never miss Amys! Fascinating look behind the scenes! been a fan since the graphics tutorial lol!
I LOVE Matt's technical F1 videos. He always does an amazing job.
That is so cool to see, thanks for the insight!
This was so cool and informative to watch. Loved it!
Cracking video Matt, well done.
This is the content we need please keep going back and coming back with more we need the behind the scenes I've missed your uploads
This was soooooo cool to finally see a behind the scene, awesome, thanks
So much go behind the scene to make this is epic sports happen every weekend! Thank you for taking us behind the scene
Great piece of content. I am a Vision Broadcast Engineer for NEP. It’s great to see how F1 has created their unique remote workflow and managed to pretty seamlessly introduce it during covid without many major issues. Knowing how intricate remote broadcasts can be: massive respect
One thing I’d like to know, I did see some OCP’s in the video but my guess is that these were for the local studio camera’s. Am I correct in assuming that shading is done locally on track due to delay? I have done shading on a camera remotely in the Netherlands during the olympic games in China, but that was only for a flash interview. Can’t imagine you can shade a sports production with so many frames of delay
Thank for sharing this. I wondered how they did this. Now I know. 😃👍👍
Yeah, abit more complicated than our BTS 😱😱
lovely video thanks for see with you behind the scene
Looks like a dam spaceship! I swear star trek Bridge looks so similar. 😂
Or a military ops room.
Very cool video, nice to see how it all happens.
I just geeked out so hard over this! Great content as always Matt 👌
As an AV engineer and F1 fan, this is heaven
Fantastic insight and a mind blowing set up. Great video! 👏👏
there should be a documentary about the behind the scenes from the side of F1 itself.
Never thought it was such a gigantic operation. But wouldnt expect less. Outstanding video
Great video Matt, happy to subscribe. 😊
looks like nuclear power plant control room.
Amazing, thanks for sharing it. I would love to go there and ask a million questions!
Amazing vid. So much explained in 10 mins
amazing , Thank you for the Content !
Fantastic video, top quality production too. New subscriber here!
As a broadcast engineer, and long time F1 fan, really dope to see the FOMTC.
Wicked video Matt!!
A lot goes into the production of broadcasting the race and what goes behind the scenes. Thank you for making this video and I'm glad F1 invited you to the HQ!
What a great vid.
It blows my mind how they turn all those screens into a broadcast that is so good consistently! Yes, they miss something every now and then, but its still brilliant.
Also , didn't know that Alex Jacques actually works for F1TV and not Channel 4. So the Ch4 commentary is actually jut the F1TV comms
I imagine DORNA who handle MotoGP have a similar set up somewhere as well
Oh this is a great overview good work. I’m going to pass this round all my broadcast engineering friends :D
Awesome vid matt!
Very interesting ! Thanks you
This was an epic video ! Good job !
one of the most impressive thing about f1 is that the editor for their youtube channel - the highlights to FP/Quali/Race always come out within an hour of the actual event, their real time editing is unreal
great video mate, great access.
very insightful and nice video!
Wow now I understand why when an on board camera has water or dirt or oil on it, you then see that going down. I always thought that it was just the wind blowing the water or dirt downwards. It's incredible the amount of technology they have. You would think the wing camera is like a glorified webcam but it's way more than that. It's incredible that F1 does all this in-house
This is the best video I've seen in the whole year! Congrats! By the way, when an F1 car enters the garage, the onboards signals are cut. Is this an automatic process, or there is someone there turning them on/off?
Matt - Great content! Since you have seen (and done) this - might you consider reaching out to other sports (football; US/NFL football; hockey; etc) to explain their logistics in bringing their content?
/keep up the great work!
This was so fascinating!
Great content. Congratulations
Thanks for this epic video, Matt Amys!
Its crazy how much work goes behind the scenes 😲
7:11 this guy sounds eerily like russell
This was awesome !
Loveeee your content man!
matt amys: answers the real questions i have. thanks for another cool insight man
Wow. So many moving parts!!
Thanks for the trailer Matt, it looks awesome! I can't wait to see the 90 minutes full version of this video 😋😋😋
This is awesome
Aww man I was really hoping he was going to use Lance Stroll as the replay example. Great video as always, Matt!
Thanks This the Great Video !
Christmas has come early - thank you
Great content
Some of the unsung heros of F1
It’s honestly amazing that the latency is less than 2 seconds considering how far and to how many locations the footage has to go to.
Great content. I knew it was complex but not to that level.
If you get invited back, you should ask about if they'll ever go for less wide-angle lenses to show the speed of the cars more. Or just, generally choosing better camera angles focused on battles rather than going for fancy camera shots.
that's so wild, so many camera's and all i would get so overwhelmed if I was in that position
Cool stuff, amazed about the fact they are using a ND and Gradient filter on the camera. Wish the feed from the car's camera wasn't only 720p. It's time they moved to 1080p...
amazing video!!
All that technology and we couldn’t get a small overlayed video of the Russell/Ricciardo battle whilst max crossed the line 😅
This is crazy!!
this topic deserves more than a 10 minutes video 😄
Okay fine I’ll give them a break when broadcast is a bit off it’s bloody impressive they can stay on top of anything.
I'd love to hear about the hardware
P.S.: That onboard camera is a piece of magic, how smart is it designed, impressive !!
My dream workplace
Great video!
6:47 i assume this was filmed before or at the start of the season as De Vries is still there
fascinating