[SML] PTZ cam for both recording AND stage monitoring?

[Jon Ares]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:38 PM, e-mail frank.wood95
<frank.wood95 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> You need to be clear in your mind exactly what you are trying to do. A
> PTZ camera offers you more choices than you need for monitoring, and
> not enough for recording. For the latter, you need at least two
> cameras, a video mixer, and an operator.
>
> The standard BBC news presentation uses five PTZ cameras, with remote
> controls on the camera positioning as well. Personally, I think this
> is overkill. I also wish that "camera operators" and directors
> understood something about prespective. Close-ups with a wide-angle
> lens produce some hideous distortions.

Please don't try to talk me into, or out of PTZ cameras.... with 20+
years of broadcast television and film work behind me, I have nothing
but distaste for the PTZ-operated TV operation.  in this instance, we
need new backstage monitoring options, and, on occasion, we are asked
if we could just "record" our monitor feed.  (We have never done that
for anyone.) With a PTZ, sans operator (which it will be, I assure
you) - the deal is that we could zoom in a bit, and "lock down" the
camera and record their presentation, with the full understanding that
we are not assigning an operator, much less a director or editor, to
the feed.They get what they get.  :)

If one wanted a fully-produced program(me), I'm not going to provide
it, as I too will want at least two cameras, a switcher, with or
without a switcher, and someone to do my job, as I will be directing a
TV shoot at that point. :)  (And a larger check at that point, as
well.)

 - Jon