Having now used the Panasonic AG-CX10 a lot, I can say this is the perfect camera for videographers who run and gun. I can see this camera being used extensively in sports production be it professionally or a local high school.
eSports is the real deal folks. Tracking similar (or even faster) growth than Xgames or MMA. More people are watching eSports World Championships for League of Legends tournaments than the NBA finals, World Series and in the near future even the (Gasp) Super Bowl!
NewTek case study Harvard University Athletics—the department is responsible for producing and broadcasting all home games.
The action in esports takes place on a computer or game console display, sometimes many displays. Putting a live camera on an esports contestant doesn’t translate the same as it does with athletic sports. Traditional video production equipment does not adapt readily or cheaply to ingesting video game content, often requiring expensive hardware signal convertors and cabling.
It’s not often that improvements in technology make something not only easier to accomplish, but less expensive too. However, that’s precisely the case with the low-latency digital-transmission solutions now available to sport and media organisations looking to produce and broadcast more live events from remote locations.
The NFL’s New York Giants vice president of Entertainment, Don Sperling, has been a leader in seeing this shift and adjusting the team’s content production to meet it over the past 11 years.
The growth of college sports has expanded the field of video production. Segmenting an entire field of it’s own, sports media is as big of a market in the media landscape.