Tally light

Tally [ tælɪ ] is the English term for a recording light, a small red light on television cameras, monitors and microphones. The Tally signals the people in the studio that this same signal is recorded or broadcast. Accordingly, always lights usually only with a camera, a tally. There are exceptions, such as when in a television picture a second small window, called a split screen, is inserted. Even when the camera is seen in this picture division, lights the tally.

Purpose

In addition to cameras and microphones, a tally is to other devices that can bring a picture to broadcast, for example, the character generator, the DVE ( digital video effects device) or VCRs ( magnetic recording ). Tally are:

• Give the speakers / performers a cue
• Show, in which camera to look a speaker must
• A microphone at shutdown as " to" mark (for example, a spokesperson indicated by hand signals that he needs to sneeze )
• Prevent accidental operation of the above equipment
• Attached to the studio door: avoid disturbing recording
• The cameraman signal that he is on the air. So this can be prepared. In addition, the Tally tell him: "Keep the picture " or " You are equal to live."

Control

The control of the Tally takes usually the Tally controller. It is a computer that is networked to the video mixer, the cross bar (video matrix ) and other peripherals. In older or very small TV studios the task of Tally control the lack of additional components is left to complete the vision mixer. For remote transfers (for example, a European station for an interview a studio in Asia rented ) the tally is remotely controlled by the government at the customer in general.

In addition to the classic red tally, there are other, different colored Tally, usually in shades of yellow and green. These are different, the broadcast customized purposes. For example, a yellow Tally the cameraman or DVE operator to signal that his image is not directly on the transmit path to broadcast, but on a monitor wall in studio is visible and thus indirectly affects the mission.