{"id":134,"date":"2009-02-26T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:35:26","slug":"iditarod-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Iditarod Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting late in February and the time is close for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome. <!--more-->Panasonic has provided P2 HD cameras for the race since 2007 and I have been there to set up cameras and train camera operators for the event. This will be my third trip for the start of the race. I won&#8217;t be going to Nome for the finish and that is fine with me. I decided after the first time up that any place where the ocean freezes is too cold for this swamp boy. So I&#8217;ll come home after the race start and leave the clean-up to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we will be using HPX500 camcorders as the main coverage cameras, with supplemental coverage from several smaller HPX170 and HVX200 cameras. The helicopter camera will be a Sony 1500 (part of the helicopter rig), recorded on an HPM100 P2 Mobile recorder. All cameras will operate at 720P, with the ground cameras recording in 720\/24PN mode and the helicopter in 720P60.<\/p>\n<p>The Director will collect cards after every checkpoint action and edit short clips for uplink to the Iditarod Insider web site at <a title=\"Iditarod Insider\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iditarod.com\/insider\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.iditarod.com\/insider\/index.html<\/a>. For $19.95, subscribers can keep up with the race in video. For an additional $19.95, they can track the mushers with GPS data transmitted through a satellite and plotted on an interactive online map. It is quite the technological marvel from the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post some pics from the nawth. More later.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>crc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting late in February and the time is close for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panasonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vu-la.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}