Robotic Camera And Shot Director - GRASS VALLEY Ignite SDC Series Instruction Manual

Section 1 — Overview

Robotic Camera and SHOT Director

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The robotic head processes the pan and tilt inputs and moves the camera to
the commanded location. It passes zoom and focus commands to the lens
assembly. It also provides a communication path between the camera head
and SHOT Director (for configuration and status monitoring), and pro-
vides 12 V dc to power the camera block.
The camera block receives 12 V dc power from the robotic head, tally (red
and amber) dry contact control from a tally controller, and facility supplied
gen-lock (sync). The camera provides iris control to the lens assembly,
status and configuration menu access to the SHOT Director (through the
robotic head assembly), and produces SDI video out to station switching
and processing equipment.
Robotic camera control requires connection to a JSC-2300 SHOT Director
robotics/camera controller through a network hub.
Figure 3. SDC/HDC Robotic Camera and JSC-2300 SHOT Director Functional Block Diagram
CAM TRIG,
SHOT DIRECTOR
PRESETS,
ROBOTIC/CAMERA
MANUAL
CONTROL
PAN/TILT/
ZOOM/FOCUS
JSC-2300 SUBNET
CAM SETTINGS MENU
SHOT
HUB
DIRECTOR
EQUIPMENT
CONTROL
The SHOT Director can control up to 16 cameras. It provides the camera
trigger and preset/manual control commands (pan/tilt/zoom/focus) to
the robotic head. Camera presets are created and stored in the SHOT
Director. You can also access and make configuration changes to the
camera block settings menu with the SHOT Director.
SDC/HDC
ROBOTIC CAMERA
ZOOM,
FOCUS
PAN/TILT
ROBOTIC
HEAD
CTRL,
PWR
UP TO 15
ADDED
CAMERAS
(16 TOTAL)
SDI VIDEO
VIDEO
RED TALLY (ON AIR)
TALLY
AMBER TALLY (NEXT CAM)
VGA
SCRIPT
SERVER
Ignite SDC/HDC Robotic Camera Instruction Manual
(Figure 3)
LENS
IRIS
SDC/HDC
CAMERA
BLOCK
G/L, SYNC
(FROM
FACILITY)
PROMPTER