davidbou

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by davidbou 1y ago
I don't think it was meant to be taken literally (we didn’t write the article). We’d actually love to do more marketing, we barely have time for it though. We don’t have a storefront website—just a basic site with outdated product info
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by davidbou 1y ago
No, it deals with metadata: control and status as explained in a previous reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479094#43482362 Elixir does some computations as well but when we had to compute 3D luts based on video
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by davidbou 1y ago
That was the idea—we started by normalizing all the standard parameters found in most cameras. The challenge came when we had to incorporate brand-specific parameters, many of which are only used by a single manufacturer. Operators also wer
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by davidbou 1y ago
Security has been a hot topic for the past few years, but it's getting even more attention now. Fortunately, it’s mostly a concern for production facilities, and the most effective solution is often complete isolation—most production n
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by davidbou 1y ago
They used around 150 cameras for the last Super Bowl. Most of them were Sony studio cameras, controlled with Sony remotes to ensure perfect alignment. But now, they’ve added a lot of specialty cameras: probably 4 or 8 pylons, each equipped
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by davidbou 1y ago
We're still a rather small team of mainly tech people, we don't have a single sales person in the traditional way (not yet). Ghislain was able to develop an architecture that we could count on as being reliable while being able to
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by davidbou 1y ago
Yes, this was one of our initial considerations when we first started, and the telecom analogy of the original Erlang development application was one of the main reasons we took this approach. Now, we only "stream" metadata, contr
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by davidbou 1y ago
Typically 4 cameras setups where a single remote can control all of their cameras. For classical concert, they would use 2 PTZ robotic cameras and 2 mini cams on some artists and instruments. There is no camera operator at the camera side (
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by davidbou 1y ago
There's a notable difference between shading and grading. Shading is for the TV industry where you adjust all cameras to match perfectly the exposure, tone curve and colors. So when switching between camera angles you don't notice
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by davidbou 1y ago
MQTT is used for messaging between processes on the embedded device itself, which can be the remote control panel, or a camera node. The panel itself is driven by a microcontroller which gets all the parameters to display and request change
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by davidbou 1y ago
This gives an idea of the parameters we cover for roughly 200 different models of broadcast cameras we might have so far. These are only to tweak the image quality which is the job of the video engineer (vision engineer in UK). We usually d
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by davidbou 1y ago
Major events use it for all kind of soecialty cameras as they aready have the technology for the main studio cameras. So we had to develop solutions for everything that was not working. And major productions have budgets for all kind of new