Pausing video camera remotely for radio broadcast
We have gotten a request from a local radio station to broadcast interviews from their daily live program. We need to be able to cut out the commercials and national newscasts and basically do in camera editing so that a DVD can be dropped off later that same day for broadcast that contains the entire program's interviews.
My idea was to use the signal from the radio host's mic switch (which also sends out a signal to activate the "ON AIR" light whenever the mic is on) to signal a video camera to record or pause.
I asked a local radio engineer about this and this is what he said.
>If your studio is using a "SuperRelay" control box to interface the on air signs, it'll have extra unused contact closures that can be routed to the video equipment. I can get you a dry contact closure that follows the mic. If not, then we'll have to buy or build something accordingly. The real issue will be whether you can make the video acquisition equipment follow a contact closure. So, before we expend anymore energy on our end coming up with a controlled contact closure, you need to demonstrate that he can use it to control his gear.<
If anyone has ideas for how to make that work with a wired or wireless remote signal please let me know.
thanks
using LANC controller for above need?
Here are some exerpts of thoughts from a radio engineer to me concerning the building of an interface from the mic muting button on a radio mixer to a LANC controller on a video camera. Again, if anyone has ideas about making this work, they'd be most welcome.
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If your studio is using a "SuperRelay" control box to interface the on air signs, it'll have extra unused contact closures that can be routed to Frederic's equipment. If not, then we'll have to buy or build something accordingly. The real issue will be whether Fredric can make his video acquisition equipment follow a contact closure. So, before we expend anymore energy on our end coming up with a controlled contact closure, Fredrick needs to demonstrate that he can use it to control his gear.
I can probably give your equipment a dry contact closure that follows the mic muting in the studio, but like I said, it probably won't quite cut it.
Yeah, all the LANC devices I've seen use a single start/stop button. If you can find a device that uses two distinctly different buttons for start/stop we could build or buy an adapter for the mic keying circuit in the control room that would convert the one steady closure into two distinct pulses. Using a single button is very problematic.
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