Shooting video of a soccer game is more difficult than it looks. It does require experience. Try watching a college game live streamed sometime, and try to keep yourself from yelling "Zoom out!". In general, the video should almost always show about 1/3 of the field and include the ball.So, I wonder if my kids team was just victims of poor luck, or if everyone’s video is absolutely horrible? Watching the coverage makes me think the videographer had no prior experience in doing so. Bummed out. Since I couldn’t be there, I was looking forward to watching the video.
Shooting video of a soccer game is more difficult than it looks. It does require experience. Try watching a college game live streamed sometime, and try to keep yourself from yelling "Zoom out!". In general, the video should almost always show about 1/3 of the field and include the ball.
That’s good. I know it’s hard to do. It’s why I gave up on trying to do it long ago. But our videographer was so far away, you couldn’t tell what was going on. They were often very late in following the ball. Just horrible. Oh well. I guess we did get the inexperienced operatorOnly one of ours has posted so far and was 95% spot on.
Two tips for those that want to video a soccer game.
1. Set the zoom to be about 1/3 of the field.
2. Don't look at the screen to follow the game. Lower the camera just enough that you can site along the top of the camera and just point the camera at the ball.
Better/Worse or on Par with your regular season games?Our video was terrible as well. Clear, yes. But no zoom in or out, just follow the ball (kinda) and really bummed us out as well since only one parent could travel. And, we have colleges that couldn't attend ask for tape. DD looks like an ant because she played on the other side of the field. When they switched sides, they never got the interior sideline. Not a total waste of money, but could be SO much better.
My wife tried to record some of our high school games. Whenever things got exciting (especially with one of our kids involved) all we got was a lot of cheering noises and pictures of her shoes.
Better/Worse or on Par with your regular season games?
please turn your hobby into a business. the guys doing the video arent paying attention. The camera will stay on the left side of the field and the play is all they way down at the other end by 10 secondsif you in the Southern California Area and need some games filmed in the future PM me, I can help you either build a system for inexpensive (Ive help quite a few on here) or if you local to me , I can film you games, and yes I have a zoom feature. Im just a hobbyist but I think my videos are comparable to any of these companies and I do quite a few teams in the area.
some of the videos have been total piles of crapSo, I wonder if my kids team was just victims of poor luck, or if everyone’s video is absolutely horrible? Watching the coverage makes me think the videographer had no prior experience in doing so. Bummed out. Since I couldn’t be there, I was looking forward to watching the video.
My daughter had requests for video from a couple colleges, that were unable to attend the event. Couldn’t send them what we had.
Have you contacted the video company?My daughter had requests for video from a couple colleges, that were unable to attend the event. Couldn’t send them what we had.