Podcast tonight for all the pimps playaz and husters in this piece.
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I get that editing time is 1:1 (although with practice and a fast laptop I think you can get it down to .75:1) but if you figure the hours he already has into creating that vid:
3hrs of filming x 3 guys=9hrs
At least an hour for travel, setup, coordinating with pros x 3 guys=3ish hrs
Creating an edited video only represents an extra 20-25% man hours, and its something one guy can do on a laptop at his leisure. And if the pool of people who can sit down and watch edited footage at 30-45 per 9 is larger than the pool of people who have the time to sit there for almost 3 hours watching everybody walk up the fairways at the exact time its happening then it would hardly be redundant and would allow him to reach a larger audience overall as well as a larger audience per man hour.
Live ball golf works well because they have multiple cameras covering multiple holes simultaneously, so even though you're watching live, any one camera crew is being presented very heavily edited so you aren't watching people walk from shot to shot.
also for anyone complaining about "live" coverage ... ever watched live feeds of their favorite event from ESPN3? Most of the time there is no commentary at all and the footage is exactly the same as seen here with rain delays and all..... TV edits "live" stuff very well due to the production side involved.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTVeCKA2AdM
Complaining about something you get for free - not me.
I don't know too much about the DG Guy - I've only recently started watching DG vids - but in the limited stuff I have seen from him, it seems he wants to be more friendly with the players as opposed to providing a truly objective standpoint.
Here's the rub with disc golf, though: He kind of has no choice. Disc golf is at that stage where the money for him to produce this content is being driven by sponsors rather than any independent sources. As a result, if he wants access, he has to be on the same team as these guys.
It's not just the DG Guy, though. Look at any "journalistic" endeavor in disc golf thus far, and you'll see the same thing. Has All Things Disc Golf ever written a review that's critical of a disc, or posed an interview question that is remotely pointed or difficult? No, because if they do, they lose their most valuable currency: access.
And it'll be the same in disc golf until some independent money comes in. It's why newspaper writers and columnists can fire off on athletes, but the talking heads on NFL Network say nary a negative word about Roger Goodell. Everyone in disc golf is in bed with everyone else out of necessity at this point, so you're not going to get any truly independent perspectives for fear of scaring someone off.
It's going to take someone with a little bit of money - and someone who isn't afraid to test the thickness of disc golf players' and manufacturers' collective skin - to move the coverage of the sport in a more professional direction.
just expect reality is all I am saying. pretty sure these guys are working off wireless coverage lol.....
ESPN3's is no better outside of more (higher quality) cameras.