Does every car camera have it’s own operator?
Whenever there is a crash in nascar or similar the camera ALWAYS seems to be pointing in the right direction, even if the crash only takes half a second, far too short of a time for somebody to switch to the camera controls, then move it around to get the crash in shot?
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I think they record in 360 degrees at all time. The playback software interface allows the editors to choose what view they want.. so, they cue up the action and just hit Play again.
There are a lot of cameras. Some that are manned and follow the action, others that are static. Additionally, the broadcast company has a team of several people that are all watching the camera feeds, if something interesting happens they cut what it being broadcasted to the feed they want to show. There is also a short delay between what’s being filmed and what’s being broadcasted, so they can somewhat plan to switch back and forth between different things.
They have wide angle cameras (360 degrees in some cases), the production team can “zoom” or crop the wide image from the camera into a narrower view emulating a regular lens.
The production process for live races is pretty impressive. There are multiple editing teams who are in charge of different cameras. One editing team may be dedicated to the on-car cameras, another does the track side cameras, another does the “floating” eye in the sky cameras, and another does the correspondent/interview camera feeds. All of these edited feeds go to a master editor, who switches between them to create the mix of different views that goes out on TV. The master editor relies on the sub-teams to capture whatever is interesting or important from their cameras and put it onto their feed. If there is a crash, the master editor can switch to the on-car sub-feed confident that team has the most interesting view of the crash pulled up.
Here’s a [behind-the-scenes video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0i3PFA9Vs) about how TV crews shoot a NASCAR race.
EDIT: Here’s [another one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLOnEKjCMVI).
This is confirmation bias. Most sources aren’t going to be sharing footage that doesn’t show anything
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