13-04-2023, 12:00 PM
(13-04-2023, 11:52 AM)Spencer Wrote: Were there any occasions when the camera tracking with the laserdisc cut glass titles failed?
I don’t ever recall seeing any problems with what seemed like a fairly technologically advanced setup for the time.
When you consider how 30 years on, the robot cameras in NBH studio E are far from foolproof, the 90s technology seemed pretty robust.
I remember seeing a few errors - the zoom of the presenters being wrong (too big or too small) and once the presenters appearing upside down! I don't think there was any camera tracking involved - the movement was through a DVE (Charisma?) and a travelling matte on a second, slaved laser disc - there was a detailed BBC Engineering article around about it.