At the 2024 IBC Show (Stand 12.G43), Telemetrics, the innovators in Camera Robotics, will show new software and hardware improvements that boost operational capabilities across its entire portfolio of robotic camera control systems.
Telemetrics has developed a wireless studio pedestal version of its OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform that provides power, return video and data with no cables. It consists of a wireless transmission system, a wireless control layer and onboard hot-swappable batteries.
New at IBC attendees will see new improvements, such as seamless and reliable video return from the camera, so users can employ a confidence monitor to preview their shots in real time. Also on the stand will be two wireless OmniGlide systems working in close coordination with each other (controlled by a single RCCP-2A control panel).
This shows how multiple cameras can be controlled simultaneously in a production studio. Other new capabilities allow customers to work with different resolutions of wireless video (HD/4K), depending upon the application. The robustness of the wireless transmitter has also been improved, ensuring uninterrupted wireless data transfer at multiple rates.
Now considered the most versatile (and aesthetically pleasing) studio camera pedestal on the market, new features for the OmniGlide this year include “Path Planning”, which is performed by the control panel working in tandem with the rover, and Collision Avoidance, which keeps the rover operating safely while it ‘learns” the environment. Combined, these new capabilities allow users to navigate complex nonlinear paths in a studio or event space while avoiding collisions with set pieces and studio personnel. Special AI-assisted software enables the rover to instinctively learn the space it is operating in and find the safest and least obstructed path from Point A to Point B.
At IBC 2024 the popular dual joystick control panel will be demonstrated live with new improvements and additional support for third-party cameras and devices. This now includes the Grass Valley line of native IP cameras as well as the Sony FX6 camera and CNA-2 camera control network adaptor. Across all of its highly reliable robotic camera control panels, Telemetrics now natively supports and controls all of the latest cameras from Blackmagic, Canon, Grass Valley, Hitachi, Ikegami, Panasonic and Sony.
New operational software features include:
– Studio View – This enables control panel operators to see a graphical 3D reproduction of the studio environment right on the panel itself, with real-time location of camera pedestals and track systems. New at IBC, the TG-4/-5 track system now supports Telemetrics’ exclusive collision detection/avoidance safety features and sensors can now be added to set pieces so that if an anchor desk or floor monitor has been repositioned, it will show up in real time within the panel’s Studio View.
– Power View – Which benefits users of the LP-S5 Pan/Tilt Head in tandem with the PS-RM2-48 power supply and the control panel with real-time control and power status of multiple devices.
– Robotic Status – Telemetrics has added real-world values in real -time to improve crew operations. This enhanced feature now displays more real-world data of how the robotics equipment is performing at any moment in time.
– Virtual Tracks – A new feature on the LP-S5 Pan/Tilt head that enables AR/VR of curved tracks in a more optimized way. This provides vast improvement in robustness and accuracy of virtual curved track systems (TG-4 and TG-5) for virtual sets.
