Multi-camera live-streaming method and devices

A method, comprising:

• providing crowd-based users with a collaboration app for use with their respective smart devices for capturing automatically multiple different live streaming video views of players participating in a sporting event;
• providing a server database connected to the collaboration app for recording the video views from the respective smart devices of the crowd-based users;
• tracking automatically a piece of sports equipment used in the sporting event by the players with an electronic sports equipment recognition tracking system;
• and
• synchronizing the tracked sports equipment and the recorded video views to each other to determine the preferred views and the tracked sports equipment of the players to use to calculate predetermined analytical data related to performance of the players.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a plurality of mobile devices of crowd-based users, each having a collaboration app operating a video camera, wherein each video camera captures a plurality of viewpoints of video footage of a same live sporting event;
• at least one data base for collaborating captured different video viewpoints with crowd based shared streaming video footage from other subscribers personal digital device with the collaboration app installed;
• wherein the collaboration apps on each mobile device is configured to coordinate the viewpoints of the video footage and present multi-camera viewpoints and live-streaming video footage of the live event;
• at least one network computer coupled to the at least one network server configured for processing and synchronizing the captured streaming video footage different viewpoints and camera angles;
• at least one server processor for synchronizing the tracked sports equipment and the recorded video views to each other to determine the preferred views and the tracked sports equipment of the players to use to calculate predetermined analytical data related to performance of the players;
• an electronic sports equipment recognition tracking device coupled to the collaboration app configured to track physical movement, proximity and actual path information and calculate speed, projected path, time duration and distance information of a piece of sports equipment in relation to each player and a playing area during the live sporting event;
• wherein the physical movement, proximity, actual path, speed, projected path, time duration and distance information is used for analyzing player performance and creating scouting information for each player;
• and
• at least one database for recording multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage of interviews with sports coaches and players.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a collaboration app installed at least one video camera including a drone mounted video camera configured for capturing multi-camera live-streaming video camera aerial viewpoint captured game footage of a live school sporting event;
• at least one database coupled to the network server configured for recording drone-based and crowd-based multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage of an event received from the collaboration app installed multi-camera live-streaming video camera of the crowd-based users;
• at least one network computer coupled to the at least one network server configured for displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices;
• an electronic sports equipment recognition tracking device coupled to the collaboration app configured to track a piece of sports equipment in relation to each player and a playing area;
• wherein the physical movement, proximity, actual path, speed, projected path, time duration and distance information is used for analyzing player performance and creating scouting information for each player;
• at least one server processor for synchronizing the tracked sports equipment and the recorded video views to each other to determine the preferred views and the tracked sports equipment of the players to use to calculate predetermined analytical data related to performance of the players;
• at least one database for recording footage that can then be shared with subscribers including collegiate scouts;
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• at least one collaboration app configured to indicate one or more of the viewpoints having a predetermined preferred view of the live sporting event based on the physical movement and player proximity information.