PTZ ComposerOBS Studio
Planned: an OBS scene change cues the camerawork that scene asks for.
A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing. In an OBS room the scene list is the running order, so the camerawork belongs to the scene rather than to a separate list somebody has to keep in step. This is planned work and it is not built yet. What it will do: let a scene change cue the prepared flight that scene asks for, and let the software know which camera OBS currently has on air so that camera holds still. Your stream keeps its existing path out of OBS.
How it connects
Planned: OBS and the software would exchange scene changes and on-air status over your local network. The camera pictures would reach OBS exactly as they do today.
What it does
- When this path is built, changing to an OBS scene can cue the prepared flight that scene asks for, so the scene list and the camerawork stay in step.
- When this path is built, the software knows which camera OBS has on air, and that camera holds still until the scene moves on.
- When this path is built, a camera outside the current scene can be sent ahead, so the next scene opens on a framing that has already settled.
What it does not do
- It does not run today. This is planned work, and no OBS scene change cues a flight in a shipping release yet.
- It will not stream, record or carry pictures. OBS keeps doing all of that from the camera inputs it already uses.
- It will not choose scenes for you. The person running OBS keeps deciding what goes out; the software decides how a camera moves.
Setting it up
Check your cameras first
Run the setup check on the cameras your OBS scenes use. The software measures each one and says plainly whether it can fly it, and why not if it cannot.
Compose moves for your scenes
Draw the shots and flights each scene would ask for, and run them from the software today. Your stream keeps going out of OBS exactly as it does now.
List the scenes that should cue a move
Write down which scene changes should carry camerawork. When the OBS path is built, that list becomes the link between a scene and its flight.
Questions
Does an OBS scene change move a camera today?
No. The OBS path is planned and it does not run today. Today you cue camerawork from the software or a controller, and your production team decides when a camera moves.
Will a camera move while its scene is live?
The planned path holds a camera that OBS has on air, so it does not move in front of the stream. Until that is built, the person running the show keeps that rule, as a camera operator would.
Do our camera feeds have to go through the software?
No. The software never joins the video path. Your cameras reach OBS by the route they use today, and the software drives the camera heads over your local network.
We stream alone. Is prepared camerawork useful before this path exists?
Yes. You compose the moves once, then run them on a cue or ride their timing on a joystick. That works today, and the OBS link would remove the step of cueing them separately.
Where it comes up
Streamers and creators
Set the shots once. Trigger them while you stream.
PodcastVideo podcast studios
Your set never moves. Your cameras finally should.
WorshipHouses of worship
Prepare the camerawork before Sunday. Perform it with the moment.
Music venuesMusic venues and concert halls
The reveal on the downbeat. The slow push through the solo.
SchoolsSchool plays and K-12 theatre
Block the cameras like you block the cast.