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The Role

The role of the Technical Director is to oversee the technical quality of the required resources for the production.

The technical quality mentioned is to setup the Control Room and ensure that all the video and audio sources are available and routed to the Vision mixer as well as the Audio mixer for the production.

This can start with switching on the Studio cameras, connecting the video cable from one of the 4 wall boxes located on the studio floor to the return vision monitor on the floor and that its getting the correct feed from the Tricaster, that is Program output.

Ensure that the microphones required are patched through the wall boxes and that the mic output is available through the Audio Mixer. Check Phantom power is On from the mixer, if required? This can be passed to the Audio operator if one is available.

Check that the Tricaster is selected  to the correct session. This ensures that the correct inputs are available and showing on the multi-view screen for the Vision Switcher / Director of the production. If  some vision inputs are not wing, then correct it by adding them to the TC-1 inputs.

Your role also helps workflow, of how the various inputs reach the Tricaster. This enables you to have a better overall understanding in the case of signal not reaching the desired destination. 

  • To the left is the CCU (Camera Control Panel) panel for the 4K Panasonic Studio cameras.

  • This panel allows the Technical Director or T.D to set the colour balance of each camera and the iris to ensure that each camera is 'matched', that is that each camera is producing an identical output, especially the colour response to the cameras interpretation of how it processes colour through the camera.

  • The 3 Studio cameras are setup in front of the Greyscale chart with studio lighting at 3200*K. Set the iris of the camera appropriately on each camera to be the same, then press the Black button at the top right of panel.

  • Once this completes and iris levels are stabilised, then press the White button, next to Black.

  • This matching is then done by you the T.D to see that each camera matches the other. The Red and Blue Gain controls are 


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