Platforms

Zoom

Works alongside

The meeting sees the same camera. The camera just behaves like somebody is running it.

Zoom takes the camera the room gives it, and the software decides how that camera behaves. Nobody in the meeting installs anything, nobody grants anything a new permission, and the meeting client is untouched. What changes is what the far end sees: composed framings and moves that settle, instead of a picture that lurches between presets while people are speaking.

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How it connects

Zoom keeps taking video from the room's existing camera input. The software reaches the cameras over the control network and never sits between the camera and the meeting.

What it does

Drives the room's cameras, so the far end sees composed framings and moves that settle instead of a picture that lurches between presets.
Runs prepared moves on a cue: a flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
Lets whoever hosts the meeting cue a prepared framing from a joystick they can pick up without training.
Keeps each camera inside the part of the room it may look at, so a whiteboard, a doorway or a window never ends up in the shot.

What it does not do

It does not talk to Zoom. Nothing is installed in the meeting client, no permission is granted and no account setting changes.
It does not start from the meeting calendar. The prepared framings run when your team cues them.
It does not follow a person on its own or reframe to whoever is speaking. Framings are composed in advance and performed as composed.
It does not touch the video. Zoom takes the picture from the room's camera input exactly as it does today.

Setting it up

Check the room

Tell us the camera makes in the room and how the room reaches them on the network. We confirm which cameras the software can drive.

Compose the framings

Frame the table, the presenter position and the room wide, and draw the moves between them from a picture of the room itself.

Join a test meeting

Run each framing during a test call and watch it from the far end, so you know what remote participants will see.

Hand it to the room

The meeting starts the way it always has. Whoever hosts cues the prepared framings, and the meeting client never knows anything changed.

Questions

Do meeting participants need to install anything?

No. Nobody installs anything, nobody grants a new permission and the Zoom client is untouched. The software runs on a Mac or Windows computer that reaches the cameras over the control network.

Will the camera switch to whoever is talking?

No. The software does not detect speakers and does not follow a person on its own. The framings are composed in advance, and your team cues them. That keeps the picture calm instead of chasing every voice in the room.

Does it start when the meeting starts?

No. It does not read the meeting calendar. Cue the framings from the computer, a VISCA joystick panel or a USB joystick. Recall from a Crestron, Extron or Q-SYS room panel is in evaluation and is not delivered yet.

What happens to the meeting if the software stops?

The meeting carries on. The cameras come to a controlled rest and stop taking new instructions, and Zoom keeps taking the picture from the same input.

Where it comes up

Meeting rooms