Comment by birdsongs
4 days ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The camera work was atrocious.
It's not just frilly video, it's how the world sees it, emotionally connects to it, and grows up loving it, and wanting to support more.
We had black screens as it left the pad, they didn't know what camera to switch to and kept changing feeds every 2-3 seconds, they switched to a grainy feed of the crowd just looking up while booster separation happened, so we missed that, and hastily switched back after they separated.
All the prep and they couldn't come up with a media plan? Maybe it was technical problems and their camera indexing was off or something.
They had the longest reaction shot of some people filming it with their phones (maybe they got a good shot) and when they switched back to after the booster separation I said at the time, “that would have been cool to see.”
Yeah it was horrible. Why are we here, to watch a video feed of other people watching it live through their phones?
We have 30 seconds maybe while this thing is in the local atmosphere, Jesus Christ just keep the camera on it and let us watch it launch.
I know this sounds like whining, and part of me is annoyed that I'm so annoyed at this. But it was just such an emotional moment, and it felt like the media team had no plan or any idea what to do.
Even in the 1960s with 1960s technology they made better broadcast video of the Apollo launches than this.
I suspect that they might have switched away from the booster separation on purpose. That's probably a risky moment of the launch, and they may have wanted to avoid televising a disaster like in the Challenger launch.
Aside from that, agreed that the camera work was awful.
> I suspect that they might have switched away from the booster separation on purpose.
I don't think so. Just before they switched away the camera panned wildly and lost track of the rocket. They were pretty clearly switching away because of that.
Yeah, missing the booster sep was a real bummer
Everyday Astronaut's tracking was perfect.
You should always seek out the best. From watching lots of Everyday Astronaut streams over the years, I knew the stream would be the best live experience because they care about and focus on the production. NASA cares and focuses on the rocket, astronauts, mission. I'm fine with that.