ABSTRACT

The traditional mobile production unit has been a remote truck or an outside broadcast van. However, as technology has become less expensive and miniaturized over the past few years, a wide variety of multi-camera production systems have emerged. However, there are some commonalities between all of the systems. Here are the basic common components:

Video Switching: Every multicamera production unit has a video switcher. The video switcher, also re - ferred to as a vision mixer, is a device used to switch from one video image to another during the production. This is considered to be live editing (see Figure 5.1).