The Company is Celebrating Its Golden Anniversary Of Camera Robotics Success.
Las Vegas, April 16-19, 2023 - At the 2023 NAB Show, Telemetrics, an innovator in robotic camera control, is celebrating its 50th anniversary serving the industry with a variety of new products and additional features for its existing ones. This half-century of dedication to streamlining on-premise and remote production operations has included many industry firsts, like its reFrame® talent and object tracking technology found on its RCCP-2A Robotic Camera Control Panel, TeleGlide® curved track systems and, most recently, a new battery-power option for the OmniGlide® Robotic Roving Platform camera pedestal.
In Booth C4425, the company will showcase:
New! Wireless Option For OmniGlide Roving Pedestal
In yet another pioneering first, Telemetrics has developed a rechargeable battery system that powers an optional low-latency wireless video transmitter for its OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform. This allows users to move the popular OmniGlide robotic studio camera pedestal in any direction and avoid obstacles virtually anywhere in the studio without cables.
For those used to working with the limitations of traditional robotic studio camera pedestals, the unique design of the OmniGlide helps it move like no other studio rover and now with an optional onboard wireless transmitter and battery system to receive commands from an RCCP-2A control panel, the burden of heavy cables to the rover has finally been removed. The wireless system now includes a hot swappable battery system that gives the OmniGlide a continuous run time of 8-10 hours, depending upon the load it is carrying. The batteries can be charged on the rover and new batteries swapped in (without recalibration), giving users full 24-hour operation if required. These batteries can be monitored in real time via the RCCP-2A control Panel.
Now considered the most versatile (and esthetically pleasing) studio camera pedestal on the market, new features this year for the OmniGlide 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.
4K Pan/Tilt System
The Telemetrics RoboEye (RE-2), with its 1” Exmor™ 4K sensor block, offers the highest quality image acquisition (at 30 or 60 fps) of any compact robotic camera in its class, complete with 12G output that’s now available with SDI BNC connectors or Fiber (for longer distance signal distribution) that connections via an SFP module* (*Customer supplied).
The company has improved the RCCP-2A Robotic Camera Control Panel with the STS (Studio) software package to include access to more detailed information that can be digested and put into operation much more intuitively.
At the booth attendees will see a variety of new and updated features. The first is improved “Robotic Status”, which gives operators real-time data on the operation of the robotic systems in use. Previously the system showed status via a “progress bar chart” that showed, for example, how high the Televator® elevating column was at any point in time. Now the software generates exact measurements for how high or low the systems are operating at.
At the booth, Telemetrics will also spotlight a new camera control interface between the Telemetrics CP-S5 compact pan/tilt head and a variety of DLSR-style cameras—from companies like Blackmagic Design, Canon, Hitachi, Ikegami, Panasonic and Sony—offering nature documentarians, professional photographers and others the ability to capture high-quality stills and video via precise remote control from short or long distances.
Robotic Camera Control Panels (RCCP)
Telemetrics continues to add new features to the industry’s most fully featured robotic camera control panel, which streamline workflows and make robotic camera operation faster, easier and more capable than ever before. At NAB the new features of the RCCP-2A control panel to be demonstrated live include Prep Execute, Motion Edit, Enhanced Trim Shot, and InFlight Bumping.
The first, Prep Execute, enables users to instruct the robotics to prepare to move to a starting position and when they are ready they can now, with a single button press, execute the move. InFlight Bumping lets operators adjust for last second movement by the talent or changes to the production workflow in real time. So they are pushing or bumping the camera movements “In flight.”
Motion Edit makes shot motions easier to set up and execute. It’s a preset staring position that records everything the operator does and plays it back. It’s great for complicated, nonlinear moves. Previously you had to record the entire move. Now the operator can go back and re-record individual axis. Finally, Enhanced Trim Shot makes the RCCP-2A more functional than before. There’s a new User Interface to immediately show the operator which shots are trimmed, which makes it a lot more user friendly. It also makes the trimmed shots a lot more useable.
The RCCP-2A panel will also be featured with improved talent and object tracking in its reFrame® AI-assisted talent tracking software, available both the STS Studio and LGS Legislative software packages. New this year is Ultra-Wide Band sensors, which add a third layer of tracking to go with its proven facial and object tracking. This offers greatly improved accuracy when tracking people on camera. This also serves as a real-time location or spatial awareness technology that has made reFrame the most accurate and reliable talent tracking software on the market.
“Intelligent” Power Supply
Telemetrics has developed a new multi-function power supply for its robotic camera control systems that includes a small LCD display for labeling purposes as well as diagnostics. The PS-RM2-48 also includes Ethernet connectivity, giving users the ability to control and monitor the power supply remotely. This also serves as a safety feature because now users can monitor the power that’s being drawn from the power supply.
The PS-RM2-48 can be used to remotely turn robotic camera components on and off—and it features a lot more juice than previous power supplies. In the past, a Telemetrics OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform would require three or four standard power supplies (one for the rover, the Televator®, and pan/tilt head). Now, with this new product, users can power all of the components with a single power supply. Therefore, it’s easier to use, takes up less rack space and is more fully featured. The PS-RM2-48 power supply has begun shipping with all new Telemetrics robotic camera systems.
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Notes: Press Release - Telemetrics - Las Vegas, April 16-19, 2023
