1998: RTS Award for Technical Innovation on Camera Tracking Systems

Graham Thomas receives the RTS award for the "free-d" camera tracking system, on behalf of the development team.

At the Royal Television Society Technical Innovation Awards ceremony, held at BAFTA in London on Monday 9th November, the BBC won the Innovative Application Award for its "free-d" camera tracking system. This system, which recently won the "Most Innovative Achievement in Production" award at IBC'98, is a new way of measuring the position and orientation of a camera, for use with Virtual Production systems. Unlike other systems, it places no constraints on camera mountings or scene content, and can be used in very large studios. The system has been licensed to Radamec Broadcast Systems.

Further information:
virtual production camera position measurement system.