This is EXACTLY the video I've been praying for. Yes, the cars are amazing, but I'm super interested in the BTS logistics, infrastructure and hardware that's used. Please please please do more stuff like this! Maybe some trackside camera stuff.
Emphatically seconded! I've been dying to know how the onboard cameras work, not to mention so much else about the TV broadcasts. It's all fascinating to me, and really goes to show how much incredible engineering and technological development is happening, and not just limited to the cars!
Making a series about this would be great. There is so much outside of camera that could be shown. Also maybe inside of cameras but that would be too deep technical.
Yes, but as a driver you don't see those vibrations because the human eyes and brain work to stabilize the image, but looking at the footage on TV is just awful. The best camera is the gyro cam on the car.
In my opinion (that may prove somewhat unpopular - but still: ) the helmet camera should be stabilized. Human eyes - together with inner ear vestibular system - removes much of the instability you see in the current HelmetCam view. So should the camera do. Current view is not natural and is dissimilar to what you actually visually experience.
but they're not really gyro. they're responding to the g force, kind of like when you go around a bend in the road and feel pushed to the outside of the car. has nothing to do with how banked the corner is
@@Scknows The effect is done entirely in post processing based on data from the g force sensors in the car. The camera itself is statically mounted and can not rotate at all
So much research and nobody's figured out that a slightly higher FOV have always made them more interesting to watch. The crazy zoom and perfect stabilisation really undersell the speed these cars actually go.
@@User57655 watch some onboards from the 90s. I think the vibration and FOV was perfect to show the visceral nature of these cars. Also wide FOV the static cams at places like Spa and Monaco, which have been got rid of because they don't show enough sponsorship.
@@User57655 Should come with a nausea warning, when i watched it i got dizzy. It never crossed my mind that gyro cams are gonna be used in f1, maybe for normal viewers it's the ooooh and ahhh factor, like how gen Z are editing the videos with all the zooms and tilting. I just want the car as a part of my tv and i can make out the suspension movement.
"In this edition of F1 TV’s Tech Talk, Craig Scarborough details how F1's iconic onboard camera shots work" ...except Craig only talks for like a minute. Dino does all the heavy lifting. Give the guy some credit @F1
Not just that, but the power of it as well! The ability to communicate with Biggin Hill and the various F1 team HQs, from all of the tracks, is incredible.
2:49 YESSS YEEESSSS I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW THAT, ITS BEEN MY BIGGEST QUESTION ABOUT F1. I thought it was a round rotating piece of glass that sits around the camera and spins around and is cleaned by a little piece of rubber that is out of frame. This makes way more sense and finally puts me at ease.
I like to say 1 week on Friday. I know its just practice and stuff but makes it sound closer to get more excited. I hate it when they have these breaks..
I never really gave much thought about the cameras before. Now seeing this its very interesting. Can you guys also make a video about tracks and how the cameras are there. You have this camera (mostly in the turns and on the kerbs) that is flat and the drivers drive over them. I also wonder how that is done and looks like. Also I have been a few times to a formula event and I saw the races live, you see a lot of camera people and crew trying to capture everything. Also like 3 helicopters in the sky following everything.
That is fantastic stuff! But I would like to know a bit more about the transmission part of it. The antenna, the receivers, etc, and how it used to be some decades ago. It would be intresting to see the history and the development of it.
I would love to hear more about this. What are the data rates, resolution, fps, how many receivers are needed? What's the range and bandwidth of the transmitter and why? Is it dynamic? Why 10 GHz? Whats the power consumption and weight, what are currently the limiting factors of the image quality? How do cars affect each other. Are there interference problems and how are they being solved? Is every camera always recording? Why isn't the telemetry HUD in the TV transmission perfectly synced to the camera image? Is the rapidly varying speed difference between car and receiver a problem?
Thank you. That was a very interesting insight. Absolutely phenomenal what technology is used and developed to entertain the whole world. Please do one for the broadcast operation.
Please make the new camera configuration used on the McLaren a few races ago permanent, was awesome to get a sense of speed without sacrificing clarity!
As a broadcast engineer, I love when the cool stuff we get to play with is highlighted. F1 is definitely on the cutting edge, and Bravo Zulu to their development teams!
If only the camera and radios could be synced properly. Seems like radio is always quite a bit delayed, bad, or straight up missing. Proper sync for streams and audio would make the experience much better.
Awesome informative video. I love this kind of tech. I had no idea it was all sent to a F1 studio, and the race was directed from there. That makes it all that much more impressive. Having to colour correct 100 cameras live is a feat in its self, let alone from half way around the world.
this was fascinating, i have been looking for a helmet camera system for paintball and combat engagement training after the fact, but the fact this can be real timed with such vivid clarity now days....just wow!
How much priority is given to making the recording unit damage-resistant? It could be an important component of crash investigation - like a black box.
well in world of formula 1, some things you think is normal and easy, however in reality there is so much technology and complications that are fascinating really.
Finally a video about the camera systems, tho i was hoping that they would also show the workings on the older systems, like the one that used a helicopter for the signal. hence why the Monaco race always switched to a camera placed in the tunnel.
We really appreciate it all the work you do... Gyro is the most important thing you guys can work on from us fans it makes the car seem so much faster than the standard T cam Hopefully you can figure that one out cause that Hungary pole lap was something special
Love the addition of the helmet cams in the last couple of years. My only suggestion would be to move it to the middle of the helmet. Like in the padding just above and between the eyebrows. Or maybe lower like around the mouth around where the clasp to close the helmet is. It's just feels weird to me sometimes seeing the view from inside the helmet but kind of off centered.
d most interesting part what I feel is when a live race broadcast is on n we can get d sub titles of drivers talking with d team ... clever engineering over-all...
Some I've talked to don't like the driver view. I love it. I wish it was selectable in the F1 app while watching. At the same time, it confuses me that they don't crash more with how little they can actually see.
Maybe we can have these very very smart AV engineers take a look at the post race interview and cool down room mics. Can never hear anything in these situations.
Much prefer the gyro cam on the chassis behind the drivers shoulder than on the T-Cam, as the main camera the T should always stay stable. Although I’m sure there’s plenty research going into how you can convey the speed on all cameras without the Gyro effect
Se os pilotos tivessem oportunidade ...sorriam para a câmara, estão a ser filmados!! Incriveis os algoritmos e cheias de inteligência computacional as câmaras revelam a forma eficaz de passar a mensagem e captar o instante, para que saia tudo na perfeição do momento!!
At 2:55 he mentions what moves to clear the view from rain but you fail you show it. I've always noticed this and wondered, it would've been nice to see it.
max's visor cam was on the left side of his helmet during the austrian sprint qually instead of the usual right side, would love some insight into what that was about. also the F1 Academy visor cam is rarely used but seems more centered and doesn't experience as much chromatic aberration, maybe because their tear offs are different?
If you guys could work with the helmet manufacturers to place the camera in the helmet but center position instead of off to the side (without blocking the driver's view), that would be too cool!
I would be intrigued to hear about the various trials that appear fleetingly and are then never seen again. Tyre temperature overlay, ghost images, minisectors etc. Also an unrelated point, but have always wondered why Indycar orients on-car logos to make them the right way up and prominent when viewed from on board but F1 often does not. (I'm thinking about sidepods rather than halo.) Are halo ads cheaper because they are frequently obscured by graphics?