This is the mirror image of the "central team pulling from a remote studio" pattern. Here, almost everything happens on-site, and just one role — the technical director — joins from elsewhere.
Read the diagram left-to-right. The Local Area Network has the full kit: three cameras, a network switch, a Switcher Software Computer, and an Iris Studio Computer. The crew runs the show in the room. The internet sits in the middle, and on the right, the Remote Location has a single Iris Studio Computer where your TD is dialed in.
The key thing: the TD sees everything the on-site team sees, in real time, and can direct the show without being there. They're not just watching a tape-delayed monitor — they're an active participant.
This is the topology for the customer whose TD is a contractor, a specialist, or someone whose calendar can't accommodate travel to every shoot. If they need an experienced TD on a show but can't put them in a room, this diagram shows how.
Use it as the answer to "can our remote TD actually direct the show, not just review it?"
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