I LOVE Le Mans in the overnight hours! I can't explain it, but it's so relaxing and mesmerizing. That doesn't even make sense to me, but it's my favorite time of the race. Morning comes too early, and it's coming soon.
Why can't the commentators control the video presented? Lord I'm tired of tired mechanics and also notice their frustration when they are talking about a particular car or event and the camera changes to something else.
@@Jmodderator I think the answer to your original post is that the video is directed separately from the audio because there are dozens of commentary teams working in dozens of languages, and they all receive the same global video feed, so the video director can't follow any single commentary team. Or if they did, my guess is that they would follow the French commentary. This year was unusually bad though. They cut away so many times when interesting stuff was just about to happen. It's as if the video director didn't know anything about racing or what makes it exciting to fans. But can you imagine if every commentary team in every language had to set up their own cameras? Instead of a single camera on each crane over the Mulsanne straight they'd need maybe 20-30. If they have 50-100 cameras around the circuit and in the pits (I don't know how many they have), it might also be unfeasible to route each camera separately to 20-30 independent video switcher consoles for each commentary team. The facilities to do this are massive and require an extensive technical crew for each production, and even then the camera operators need direction on which cars or what action to follow. Maybe they'll do it someday, or maybe the ACO will insist on controlling what content they will allow to be broadcast. Maybe there's a horrible accident, and the crew from a hypothetical Esperanto language team wants to focus on the severely injured or dying drivers. ACO wouldn't want anyone to do that, so retaining control of the video feed gives them that option, to focus on other content if there is stuff they'd rather not show. I don't know who currently controls the common video feed, but there are valid reasons not to allow every independent broadcast team to decide individually what to show the public. But man, they could at least have a racing fan in charge of the camera switching!
I LOVE Le Mans in the overnight hours! I can't explain it, but it's so relaxing and mesmerizing. That doesn't even make sense to me, but it's my favorite time of the race. Morning comes too early, and it's coming soon.
Best Le Mans race the last years have to see the drama again :)
43:00 Barthez
Why can't the commentators control the video presented? Lord I'm tired of tired mechanics and also notice their frustration when they are talking about a particular car or event and the camera changes to something else.
Do you know how much of a job directing the cameras are
@@LucaTgaard Do you know after a year I don't care?
@@Jmodderator I think the answer to your original post is that the video is directed separately from the audio because there are dozens of commentary teams working in dozens of languages, and they all receive the same global video feed, so the video director can't follow any single commentary team. Or if they did, my guess is that they would follow the French commentary. This year was unusually bad though. They cut away so many times when interesting stuff was just about to happen. It's as if the video director didn't know anything about racing or what makes it exciting to fans.
But can you imagine if every commentary team in every language had to set up their own cameras? Instead of a single camera on each crane over the Mulsanne straight they'd need maybe 20-30.
If they have 50-100 cameras around the circuit and in the pits (I don't know how many they have), it might also be unfeasible to route each camera separately to 20-30 independent video switcher consoles for each commentary team. The facilities to do this are massive and require an extensive technical crew for each production, and even then the camera operators need direction on which cars or what action to follow.
Maybe they'll do it someday, or maybe the ACO will insist on controlling what content they will allow to be broadcast. Maybe there's a horrible accident, and the crew from a hypothetical Esperanto language team wants to focus on the severely injured or dying drivers. ACO wouldn't want anyone to do that, so retaining control of the video feed gives them that option, to focus on other content if there is stuff they'd rather not show.
I don't know who currently controls the common video feed, but there are valid reasons not to allow every independent broadcast team to decide individually what to show the public. But man, they could at least have a racing fan in charge of the camera switching!
@@beenaplumber8379 Shhhh
@@beenaplumber8379 Year later still don't care.