BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

Sorry if its been said already, but if the camera's decide go to walkabout, can't the director override it and stop it from going any further? Or do they not have an override function?

It has been mentioned several times that once a move has started it cannot be stopped and has to finish before another move can be performed - there is no override switch.

What a ludicrous way of doing things, did nobody ever think of an override button? To me an override button would be the most simplistic way of sorting things out...

Maybe like disabling the plane's autopilot when something's wrong, to fly manual.

What would the point of an override button be? Stop all the cameras - which by the point you've noticed are pointing in the wrong place - from being moved back to where they should be?

As has been said numerous times, the "problem" is that the camera's are linked to the automation, and entering the wrong information into the automation will produce an incorrect result. The solution is to stop entering the wrong information, not load strap all the cameras to the floor and put bolts through all the pan/tilt heads.

Which every now and again, results in the plane crashing. Human's are far from infallible.

To be fair to the BBC, they only had Ten years to build NBH, and were only able to spend £1,000,000,000. You can't expect them to get everything right with those sort of limitations.

Adrienne Murray, currently Bombay based producer of India Business Report, is relocating to South Africa as well, to be involve in ABR.

These are camera moves we're talking about, not, say, a band saw. Not stopping the former when something is done wrong results in an incorrect camera shot. Not stopping the latter could end up with damaged body parts and dangerous blood loss.

The director can always cut away from any shot or sequence.

But there is, I think, an emergency stop button on each cam, which the floor manager can hit if it's going mental.

I am assuming that by going 'Mental' you mean that it has just come of the tracks or they have just spotted a crack or something like that

As in not stopping, about to hit something or someone, or any other scenario where it would be unsafe for it to continue.