The COVID-19 pandemic brought video production to its knees, but the show must go on, and necessity is the mother of invention. Studiobox leapt into the breech, creating an interview studio in a box. For the interviewee, a rugged case shows up, delivered by a friendly FedEx delivery person. They open it, plug it in, and call the production team to say they’re good to go. Everything else is controlled remotely. Today at CES in Las Vegas, we took a closer look at the company’s vision for the future of video production and the software it is developing to control it all.
“We are here in Vegas controlling every aspect of the shoot all the camera settings – zoom, pan and tilt, lighting and audio, all from one computer, with one operator,” explains Ian Smith, co-founder of StudioBox, in an interview with TechCrunch at the company’s booth as part of the Dolby.io demo space at CES 2023.
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