Got home last night and now I finally have time to write here again.
I hope you all had great time watching the event. Hopefully my posts here in the forum too helped you to follow the situation. I tried to post all relevant (and public) information here as soon as I was able to before the site went down.
Price giving ceremony was a bit hard to film and I was nearly hanging out from the timing booth window to get suitable angle and holding the camera on my hand at the same time. This was because I wasn't able to move camera much to keep the connection with PC that was encoding the stream. Hopefully anyway you saw something at least.
And big thanks to all drivers who came to the event.
All feedback from the live stream is welcome. I know that the audio wasn't the best possible but we really tried to make it better. It was just that both microphones we tried didn't work (mono and stereo) and in the end we had normal stereo headphones (small earplug ones) working as a microphone and hanging out from the window. They worked but weren't sensitive enough. In the end when I was filming price giving ceremony I took the headphones away and used the cameras build-in microphone so levels should have been better then (?).
Reason why we didn't use that build-in microphone during the finals etc was that camera was placed inside timing booth and we had conversations there that we didn't want to get into the live stream since it picked up pretty much everything from the room.
In case you want to use same kind of solution at your upcoming events, I can make a small guide how to setup system like this. It's possible to use pretty much any camera, so normal webcam will do as well but quality ain't going to be that good. Same goes for the audio.
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Best regards,
Matti Korvenmaa, Chief Timekeeper / Euros 2007