Today for our crew spotlight we are going to give you a little insight into the world of video. Really we should give these guys a week all to themselves because they are the reason we get such amazing video streamed to you guys every night. So you should all comment and tell them what an amazing job they are doing. If you don’t know how amazing they are because you don’t watch the live streaming, well then you should.

The video crew has a pretty long set-up.  In all, it takes them about 5 hours to set everything up from start to finish.  They do get some breaks as they have to wait until certain things are set before they can move on to the next thing.  Tear down after the show takes about 2 hours.  So, doing some math here, in all they are working for about 7 hours and that does not include actually running the video during the show.

Now a lot of you have been asking about the cameras and here’s a quick run down.  They’ve got five cameras: three robotic, one front of house, and one guy manning a camera at stage right.  Once the cameras are set up they they still have to focus them and check white balance.  Technical stuff that only super smart video people understand.  Trust me, I’ve tried.

Second they are responsible for setting up all of the LEDs on stage.  (Those massive towers that display words, logos, and other things like that).  Each towers weighs around 400 pounds.  Once they get those up on stage they also have to reprogram them every night to make sure they work right.

Third, they set up the machines that actually control all of the cameras and LEDs.  This also controls what all of you guys are seeing at home.  This awesome crew consists of four people.  One to control the front of house camera (Tim), one to control the camera at stage right (Daniel), one to control the three robotic cameras (Jeff), and one to act as the director (Ryan).

Running the video at The Roadshow is pretty complicated and takes a crew of professionals to pull it off as well as they do.  So, like I said give some thanks for all of the hard work they put in.  A big thanks to Ryan, Jeff, Tim and Daniel for amazing video night after night.