PTZ ComposerAdd cinematic motion. Keep your video workflow.
The software never touches your video pipeline. Your program picture goes where it always went.
Your cameras' pictures go straight to the switcher, exactly as they did before we arrived. The software drives the heads and exchanges small amounts of data about the production. It does not sit in the picture path, and your signal-flow drawing does not change.
That is a decision, not a gap. Nothing is added to the air chain, no format has to be negotiated, and there is no extra box between a camera and the program that can fail in front of the room. Engineers are right to be wary of software that wants to live in the video path; this one does not ask.
Set-up and preview use a camera's own preview stream — a picture the software looks at, never one it passes on. Your recording, your stream and your switcher keep the same inputs and the same settings they have now.
For the person signing off the room, the question 'what happens to my video if this software stops?' has a short answer: nothing. The cameras stop taking new instructions, and the pictures keep flowing.
This matters most in rooms that cannot be touched. A certified meeting room kit, a scheduled lecture capture system and a broadcast plant each have rules about what sits in the picture path. The software sits outside all of them and asks for a place on the control network.
It also keeps the purchase simple. Nobody has to requalify the switcher, the encoder or the recording platform, and nobody has to plan for a new point of failure between a camera and the program. The engineer who signs off the room reviews a control connection, not a change to the signal flow.
Questions
Does the software record or stream anything?
No. Your switcher, encoder and recording platform do that exactly as they do now. The software drives the cameras and looks at a camera's own preview stream during setup and composing. It never passes that picture on.
What happens to our video if the software stops?
Nothing. The cameras stop taking new instructions, and the pictures keep flowing to the switcher, the stream and the recording. Each camera stays where it came to rest until somebody moves it.
What does the software need from our network?
A place on the control network where the computer running it can reach the cameras and, where tally is used, the switcher. It needs no video input, no capture card and no seat in the air chain. Tell us how your network is laid out when you check your setup, and we confirm the route.
Does it work with Panopto, Echo360, Zoom or Teams Rooms?
It works alongside them. Nothing is installed in any of them, and their pipelines stay untouched. What they receive is the same camera feed, now carrying composed camerawork.
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