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Use case · Reality TV

Match a large reality TV camera rig from one panel.

Reality formats run large mixed rigs around the clock: fixed minis in every room, roaming handhelds, hot heads in the studio, with a lean crew. One RCP shades the whole rig as numbered channels, up to 128 cameras under the MSU (Multi-Studio) licence.

Large mixed rig, fixed + roaming Topology: Local, gallery Surface: RCP panel

The problem

What makes reality TV hard

Scale without headcount

Dozens of cameras cannot mean dozens of operators. Control has to concentrate.

Fixed and roaming mixed

Wall-mounted POVs and handheld mirrorless live in the same cut and rarely in the same colour space.

Always on air

There is no maintenance window. Reconfiguration happens while recording.


A gallery built around one RCP

One RCP shades the entire rig as numbered channels, up to 128 cameras under the MSU licence. Scenes and groups organise the house by room or by story.

A single Cyanview RCP shading a large reality TV rig of fixed and roaming cameras

Minis matched to handhelds

Fixed POVs join over the CI0 serial interface; a colour layer on the same channel gives small cameras real shading: black, multi-matrix and detail on top of basic exposure control.

A Cyanview colour layer matching fixed POV minis to roaming handheld cameras

Map it onto your production

Cyanview and its integrators design the topology with you: cameras, interfaces, transport and the right control surface.

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