Maurice Fleischer

Edius (real-time editing software) is very powerful – it can handle up to 16 video tracks simultaneously but who would want to shoot with 16 cameras and not use a mixer (or two) on site?

Jeff Booth

You’d be surprised. Shows like “Strictly Come Dancing” (SCD), “X Factor” (auditions more likely), “Dragons Den” probably record all cameras (with or without vision mixing). That is why SCD has so much coverage for the weekday shows.

But what about this:

     

Gary Cricher

…I’m assuming this is BBC footage?

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If so, why haven’t we seen it either released on DVD (imagine what you could do in the menu with the alternate camera angles etc)  or just shown on the telly?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qOLZ2Yzjhg&list=UUai_z75Mm9WO1Yn-ZCh0hLQ

From Beatles author Mark Lewisohn:

“…This particular TV programme, as a programme, was wiped, and it  exists in the BBC archive only as scraps, a number of bits and pieces – including the output of more than one camera – and miscellaneous ends of film…”