With Innovision’s input, Movie Engineering in Milan, Italy, designed a motor control and camera platform that would run on a dual track mounted horizontally that would hug a wall, without disturbing the sight lines of the audience. Instead of cables on trolleys hanging on loops behind the Wally, the cable is hidden in a cable channel tray, eliminating from sight any cables following Wally back and forth as it travels along the track. The Wally 2 Axes allows a box camera and standard broadcast lens combination of up to 12 pounds like the Sony, Panasonic or Ikegami, to move along a path the shape of the wall, including around a bend of three meters or more.
The operator can sit at a monitor located as far as half a mile from the installation. Connection is made via phone-line type data cable, and control is achieved by console and foot pedal through a PC running a software program specially designed for Wally 2 Axes.
This new system is installed in the newly designed Moody Theater in Austin, Texas for the PBS series Austin City Limits. While designed to benefit live theater performances, Wally 2 Axes is also slated to support several news programs in the near future. The system can be permanently installed in a theater or live production environment or easily set up and reconfigured for both feature and television production.
For more information: www.innovision-optics.com.
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