The event was documented by Austin’s Omega Broadcast Group, whose crew brought five Panasonic AJ-HPX3100 2/3-inch P2 HD camcorders with Fujinon 66x and 42x lenses to capture the track action.
Leno visited COTA to tape segments for his website, JayLenosGarage.com, exactly one month prior to this year’s FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX. The three-day international sports and entertainment spectacle will be held Nov. 15-17 at COTA’s new, 1,500-acre facility, with this penultimate race of the 2013 F1™ season taking place on Sunday, Nov. 17. COTA is the only racetrack in the
The video shot by Omega Broadcast (see an excerpt here, http://www.omegabroadcast.com/fmp/omega-news-detail.php?&-recid=341) was distributed to news outlets across
“The HPX3100 was the ideal camera to strategically position around COTA’s 3.4-mile circuit,” said David Fry, Vice President, Omega Broadcast Group. “The camera delivers master-quality, native 1080p resolution with the AVC-Intra codec. Because it’s 2/3-inch, it could handle the big optics we required for the shoot. And the speed of the P2 workflow enabled rapid-fire deliverables to news organizations.”
“It’s enjoyable to watch Jay Leno race around the track,” Fry added.
License-free video, interviews and photographs of Leno’s visit to Circuit of The Americas (COTA) are available at COTA’s dedicated FTP site, media.circuitoftheamericas.com.
About the AJ-HPX3100
The AJ-HPX3100 compact, lightweight 2/3" P2 HD shoulder-mount camcorder features three 2/3"
high density 2.2 million pixel CCDs. The HPX3100 acquires full-raster 1920 x 1080 resolution imaging with 4:2:2 10-bit sampling using the advanced AVC-Intra codec. Offering a compact size for added mobility, the two P2 slot camcorder records in multiple worldwide formats, in HD in AVC-Intra and in DVCPRO HD at 1080 in 24p, 25p, 30p, 50i and 60i, and in SD (480i/586i) in DVCPRO50, DVCPRO and DV. Designed for scripted programming, documentary, nature, cinema and commercial production, the master-quality HPX3100 offers valuable features including 24-bit audio in AVC-Intra 100/50, wireless metadata input capability via wireless LAN, and a high-quality proxy recording (option).
