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Netherlands’ L1 Builds New Studio With Telemetrics Robotic Camera Control Systems
- 06 August, 2024
The New Equipment, including The Innovative OmniGlide Roving Platform,
Is Being Used For Daily Newscasts and Weekly Talk Shows.
USA/NED: Regional public broadcaster L1, based in the Netherlands and serving the province of Limburg, has built a new production studio and equipped an existing control room with the latest technology from Telemetrics, an innovator in robotic camera control. Robotic Camera Control has helped broadcasters around the world build and maintain cost-effective operations that replicate human camera operators.
The equipment - including a OmniGlide® Roving Pedestal (with an LP-S5 head), five HP-S5 Pan/tilt heads,
a reFrame® server and a RCCP-2A STS robotics control panel - was installed in February of this year for L1’s newest studio, where they produce a daily news program, and several talk shows every week. They’re using Grass Valley LDX C92 box-style cameras with Canon lenses on the Telemetrics P/T heads.
"We chose Telemetrics because we wanted to me more flexible and less dependent on the availability of camera operators," said Bart Cuijpers, freelance AV System Engineer at L1. "Also, the OmniGlide rover is able to do complicated moves to what a human operator can’t do. Human operators can't do extremely complex movements and repeat them identically and consistently. In fact, there’s not much we can’t do with the new Telemetrics equipment."
Cuijpers added that the new equipment feels "very durable and well made" and that he would recommend camera robotics as a cost-effective way to equip and operate a studio and its staff "depending on the type of organization and program."
One member of the technical staff received an in-depth on-site training by Telemetrics engineers,
and then he instructed the other operators.
"Some people decided that robotic camera control wasn't their thing," he said, "but some really
enjoy operating it."
Along with the rover and pan/tilt camera heads, the broadcaster has purchased a RCCP-2A controller with Studio software that includes Telemetrics’ artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted reFrame Automatic Talent and Object Tracking. RCCP-2A controller with reFrame continues to improve. It now combines the best tools for automated tracking, enabling users to track talent or live presenters more accurately as they move and turn their heads on camera. For example, if someone is not facing directly at the camera, the system will still track them and keep them perfectly centered in the frame at all times.
L1’s new studio now also features Telemetrics reFrame Server, which extends the automatic camera
tracking capabilities flexibility of reFrame software to all of the robotic cameras in the studio.
Visit Telemetrics at IBC2024, Stand 12.G43, Amsterdam, 13 - 16 September.
