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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...
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.
Rather than a halt button, an interlock which stopped the camera on air going ino a setup would have been useful. I guess that got stripped out due to cost
Marcus
Founding member
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...
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.
Rather than a halt button, an interlock which stopped the camera on air going ino a setup would have been useful. I guess that got stripped out due to cost
