Any suggestions for a *video* coms system?

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Central Control Landing Page

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Central Control

Take control of your show. Plug in controllers from supported partners, then map controls to supported video switchers, media servers and audio mixers. With Central Control, one operator can take control of every aspect of a production.

What’s your budget? If I’m understanding your use case, all 9 (rounding up) camera operators need to see you all the time, and do not need to see each other. You need to see all of them simultaneously. Why are you looking only at wireless solutions? Wired solutions are going to be far better. How about each camera op has a small camera facing them, going to a splitter. There’s an ATEM mini or similar at each camera making a PiP so they know whether or not they’re in frame. Comms camera signal also goes back to you, where they all converge in a multi view. Each camera op also needs a call button - if you have the money you can go for https://www.skaarhoj.com/product/micro-fly otherwise a streamdeck gaff taped to the tripod somewhere, connected to whatever spare computers you can get, running https://bitfocus.io/companion or https://centralcontrol.io which in turn trigger a simple JavaScript or NodeRED system to show their camera number on another monitor in your field of view. And of course there’s a comms camera on you going to a DA, going to each individual PiP generator.

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Bitfocus Companion Landing Page
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Bitfocus Companion

Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
What’s your budget? If I’m understanding your use case, all 9 (rounding up) camera operators need to see you all the time, and do not need to see each other. You need to see all of them simultaneously. Why are you looking only at wireless solutions? Wired solutions are going to be far better. How about each camera op has a small camera facing them, going to a splitter. There’s an ATEM mini or similar at each camera making a PiP so they know whether or not they’re in frame. Comms camera signal also goes back to you, where they all converge in a multi view. Each camera op also needs a call button - if you have the money you can go for https://www.skaarhoj.com/product/micro-fly otherwise a streamdeck gaff taped to the tripod somewhere, connected to whatever spare computers you can get, running https://bitfocus.io/companion or https://centralcontrol.io which in turn trigger a simple JavaScript or NodeRED system to show their camera number on another monitor in your field of view. And of course there’s a comms camera on you going to a DA, going to each individual PiP generator.

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