For video and production fans, this “by the numbers” piece in Broadcasting & Cable detailing how CBS plans to shoot this year’s Super Bowl is pretty interesting, detailing the number of HD cameras (47), staffers (500), and slo-mo rigs (9) they plan to use. CBS is even rejiggering Dolphin Stadium’s lighting since it didn’t put out enough “foot-candles.”

CBS will have 21 hard (or wired) cameras, three cabled handheld cameras, two wireless handheld cameras, one wireless Steadycam camera, one CableCam camera, two robotic goalpost cameras, two robotic “coaches’ cameras,” two talent-booth cameras, one unmanned camera for inside beauty shots, one robotic camera atop a tower at CBS-owned WFOR Miami for outside shots, two clock cameras and a spare hard camera.

CBS will also use seven cameras to calibrate the virtual–first-down technology provided by Princeton Video Image, compared with the usual three.

Other key equipment for the game includes two Chapman sideline vehicles, six HD videotape decks, 18 EVS multi-camera edit/replay devices, six EVS super-slow-motion replay devices, one tape-based linear edit suite, three VizRT graphics systems, and eight parabolic wireless microphones.

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