TV 4 is a media company that serves in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Recently, this M&E enterprise has installed a pair of OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform camera pedestals and three RCCP-2A Robotic Camera Control Panels (with Studio software) from Telemetrics for one of its main production studios in Stockholm.

The OmniGlides and camera controllers support TV4’s national news shows and morning show in Sweden within a 600 sqm studio. It also allows the crew to move the rovers around the studio. TV4 uses them in combination with several manned camera positions in the studio, depending upon the project at hand. This often includes at least one camera man in the studio to control manual pedestals and a jib crane. During the morning show they use about 3-4 camera people for all the manual cameras.

The control panels are operated by a different vision engineer (technical director) for each show, who controls the robotics for the bigger shows, while its Viz Mosart operator uses it for online news updates.

One benefit of the system is that the RCCP-2A control panel can be used to control both rovers and other robotic systems simultaneously.

The panel with Studio software also includes Telemetric’s AI-assisted reframe Talent Tracking and Shot Correction technology.

“We decided to go with Telemetrics, since they seem to currently be most ahead in the development of roving camera pedestals,” said Richard L Olsson, TOM/Technical Coordinator at TV4 Stockholm. “They move nice on air.”