A Question on Race Broadcasts

[Beetle]

Just a quick question here. What race series broadcast, online, live, or otherwise, raw racing feed, with the racing sounds and ticker, without the announcers? I'm attempting to do a couple of announcing jobs just to see what it's like. So I don't want to have the announcers in. Is there any way you can just cut the announcers out without a special software? Thanks -

[Alex Toropov]

F1 broadcasts from TV channels like german Sky Sport should have "natural sound" audio track as an option.

[Peat]

I commentated on an online sim race once to satisfy my own curiosity of 'How hard can it be??'.

The answer is, it is, very! It's difficult to keep words streaming out of your mouth and not sound like a complete idiot. So that's why i try not to be to hard on broadcasters.....

[Alex Toropov]

Correct. But still, some guys do much better job as commentators than others (Kirby and Delahanty, eh)

[bella]

Originally Posted by Peat

The answer is, it is, very! It's difficult to keep words streaming out of your mouth and not sound like a complete idiot. So that's why i try not to be to hard on broadcasters.....

yes! one of the most eye-opening things i've done this year is become friends with a small tv crew. i've seen preparing the scripts, ad-libbing bits to camera, interviews... it's absolutely nowhere near as easy as it looks and anyone who thinks it is needs to actually have a go themselves or watch someone actually do it.

regarding the original post from beetle - i've seen a couple of series kicking around the internet with natural sounds only online in the past week. fr2.0 eurocup from russia, for example.