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Marshall Goes Trackside to Capture
all of the Heart Pounding, Adrenaline
Pumping Thrills of NHRA Drag Racing
CV344 Compact POV Camera Delivers Performance, Flexibility and Value in a Compact Form Factor...
A
s an Emmy Award-winning
content
specialist
and
tech
manager, Rob Hedrick has an extensive
background in live sports and television
production. Hedrick serves as the
Director of Production for The National
Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and
manages its live video solutions for
broadcast and digital OTT delivery.
With a network and digital broadcast
schedule that includes over 50 events
annually, Hedrick has come to rely on
the CV344 Compact POV Camera from
Marshall Electronics to help capture all
the NHRA's exciting quarter mile drag
racing action.
Founded in 1951 by Wally
Parks,
the NHRA is a drag racing organization
that sets rules in drag racing and
hosts events all over the United
States and Canada. With over 80,000
drivers in its roster, the NHRA
claims to be the largest motorsports
sanctioning body in the world. Popular
NHRA events include its professional
Camping World Racing Series and its
non-professional sportsman divisions
of the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series.
The NHRA team uses the Marshall
CV344's primarily to capture the
beginning of the race and the system's
light bulb indicators. On the reverse
side, the CV344's is also able to get
the shot of the cars leaving the starting
line. " The Marshall CV344 delivers
unbelievable
picture
quality, "
says
Hedrick. " I have used them in the past
and they are just excellent cameras.
The CV344's auto-iris feature is great
plate with a battery, the whole thing
fits in two or three Pelican cases.
That's really efficient. "
because we don't have to shade the
camera every time something changes.
It is also excellent at night. "
Hedrick and his team have found
that drag racing fans are incredibly
loyal to the sport regardless of what
level of racing it is. " Drag racing fans
love content and love to watch racing, "
adds Hedrick. " In an effort to deliver
more content, we started doing more
non-professional sportsman races that
are not typically covered at a national
event. The sportsman side is broken
into seven divisions with lots of racing
across the country. We came up with
the idea of Divisional Streaming Kits
and are providing a streaming fly
pack for each one of those divisional
race groups so that content can be
streamed to our OTT channels. Each
one of those kits will have three
CV344's in it and it will move from
event to event with the divisional
director. This initiative will bring us up
to doing about 60 events across the
association. "
For an application requiring easy
transport, Hedrick finds the CV344
to be a perfect option. According
to Hedrick, the set up includes the
following gear. " The CV344 is situated
on the tripod mount of a Tilta V-mount
plate, which has a D tap on it, " Hedrick
says. " I have an adapter that brings
the D tap into the Marshall. The
output of that also has another power
connector that powers a fiber optic
transceiver. So, the camera and the
fiber are all powered off that one IDX
DUO-C198 191Wh high-load battery,
which gives us 22 hours of runtime.
You don't have to run any additional
power to it, and you can have a
thousand feet of fiber. The really nice
thing is that with the Marshall on the
The Marshall CV344 Compact POV
Camera offers performance, flexibility,
and value in a compact form factor.
Built around a next generation
2.5-Megapixel high performance HD
sensor, the CV344 delivers ultracrisp,
clear progressive video up
to 1920x1080p at 60/59/50fps
and interlaced 1920x1080i at
60/59/50fps as well as 720p. The
CV344 utilizes a full-sized BNC
(3GSDI) output on rear panel
and locking I/O connection
for power, control, and stereo
audio input (embedded on
3GSDI output). The CV344's CS
lens mount offers a wide range of
prime and varifocal lens options from
ultra-wide to telephoto.
" The
CV344
is
awesome, "
adds
Hedrick. " It's size, picture quality, cost
and durability are all fantastic. It is a
great camera and I'm really thrilled
that it's fitting our needs. I really like
how compact this whole thing is, and
the fact that it can run on a battery
and you do not have to run a million
miles of extension cords. I think that
is such an advantage to us because
our finish line is literally 1,320 feet
away from the starting line, and then
that's another thousand feet up to the
booth. "
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