Marine Camera Solutions has its background in the offshore racing industry and all of the cameras and associated equipment supplied by the company have been designed and built to operate in the most extreme and hostile environments.
The company and its partners have accumulated in excess of 1 million sea miles of offshore racing experience and its products have been carried by yachts competing in the Barcelona World Race, VELUX 5 Oceans Race, the Volvo Ocean Race, Route de Rhum and the Vendée Globe.
Marine Camera Solutions have advanced by developing further innovative products with the same attention to detail in design and reliability, whilst also increasing the levels of service and support available.
Through this we have now also been successful in designing and delivering innovative solutions to both the larger yacht market and also the Olympic Class Dinghies.
Marine Camera Solutions will be exhibiting for the third time at the prestigious World Yacht Racing Forum held in Estoril, Portugal on the 13th and 14th December 2011.
With all the leading figures of the sailing industry present, it is an ideal opportunity to maintain contact with our clients and be involved with the discussions around the development of our sport.
We will be launching some exciting new technologies at the show, more on this closer to the event!
We have been working with the Multi One Design organisation throughout 2011 on developing the best way of capturing the action on-board on the incredible MOD 70 yachts. The testing culminated in the Krys Match Race event held in Brittany in October. The event saw the comprehensive coverage of the event streamed live on MOD TV and other sailing website with MCS working alongside AMP Visual TV of France for the live production of the event. You can see footage of this on our Facebook page.
We have recently launched our Facebook page where we can upload images and video of the events that we are doing. Pease follow the ink below to see!
MCS supply equipment to nearly 50% of the racers involved in the Barcelona World Race. Having been engaged by FNOB to design, supply, install and manage the onboard media systems for their yachts, MCS also supplied systems to a further three racing yachts in the world class field.
Marine Camera Solutions exhibit at the World Yacht Racing Forum held in Estoril, Portugal. The Forum offers a key opportunity for any organization involved with the business and commercial side of the racing yacht industry, as well as companies interested in exploring investment and sponsorship opportunities in the sport.
Marine Camera Solutions were part of the team invited to Valencia to examine every aspect of onboard content for America's Cup racing, including the type of boat, the format of the racecourse and, importantly, the video output for on-air and online viewing.
With our unique experience and the Elipticam camera, we were able to provide compelling agile camera footage from onboard both the boats during the trials.
Marine Camera Solutions have been commissioned by Velux 5 Oceans to supply, install and manage the onboard media system provided to the entrants competing in the 2010 edition of this classic yacht race.
Marine Camera Solutions are developing a versatile and intuitive onboard media package, with single handed sailing in mind, to provide content to a broad spectrum of multi media platforms, whilst minimizing the workload for the skippers
As part of the package, Marine Camera Solutions will supply M-Link Voyager software to provide a platform for editing, compressing and transmitting video footage from onboard the yachts, as well as live video feeds.
Marine Camera Solutions will also work with the all the competitors to manage the installation and training of the onboard communications systems, as well as working with the media partners to ensure smooth delivery of all the onboard content to the media outlets.
Working in partnership with Extreme Tec Ltd and Livewire Digital the system will be capable of capturing and transmitting the story of the race through even the most extreme conditions.
Marine Camera Solutions have been appointed to supply, install and manage the onboard media system for the three yachts within the FNOB Sailing Team. These system will be installed onboard the yachts for the Barcelona World Race and all the events leading up to it.
The first stage of the project involves the supply and installation of a temporary system onboard the yachts W Hotels and Estrella Damm, competing in the New York to Barcelona World Record attempt starting in April 2010.
On the yachts return to Barcelona, Marine Camera Solutions will install a fixed media system utilising both fixed and handheld cameras as well as wireless audio technology.
Working with our partner Livewire Digital Ltd, Marine Camera Solutions are also supplying the M-Link Voyager software providing the sailors with a refined and proven solution to edit and compress video footage and the management of the transmission back to the race office via Fleet Broadband units installed onboard.
With the growing demand for live broadcast feeds and internet streaming content for inshore events, Marine Camera Solutions have been developing a remotely operated HD pan, tilt and zoom camera unit to be installed on yachts and dinghies racing on inshore waters.
The system was first tested during a race event in Almeria in November 2009 onboard Shrirley Roberstons Extreme 40, iShares and was a great success with both the event organisers and sailors, in proving the ability to bring the live onboard action ashore for sponsors and the public.
The camera operator can be located remotely and can operate the broadcast quality camera simply and easily whilst working with host broadcasters or event organisers.
Currently MCS are in discussions with a number of other inshore events about providing a similar solution to help ensure they too are at the cutting edge of TV production.
Marine Camera Solutions have worked with ten of these extreme ocean racing teams. Tasks involved have ranged from a complete install of all the camera, satellite and other communications equipment to simply providing our unique lightweight mast camera. Our industry experience, understanding and integrity has also meant that during the race we have provided support to both shore teams and sponsors as well directly to the skippers.