PTZ ComposerCompose the room's camerawork once. Run it at every all-hands.
Compose the moves your rooms ask for, rehearse them against a real run-through, and let whoever is on shift cue coverage that looks the same every month. A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
A town-hall auditorium, a keynote stage and a training studio, each with two or three PTZ cameras. A staffed AV team or the integrator who built the room runs the same show every month, with a different presenter and a different deck.
Three moments
The presenter walk to the demo table.
Your presenter leaves the lectern for the demo table. On the operator's cue the shot travels there and arrives framed and settled before they start speaking. The route, the pace and the landing are decided in advance, so the move reads the same way in every room that runs it.
An audience reveal that earns the applause.
On the applause line the frame opens from the stage into the room and holds there. Composed once, the reveal travels at the pace you chose rather than the pace a careful hand on a joystick chooses in front of the whole company.
Wide to tight on the keynote.
One continuous move carries the frame from the wide stage into the speaker's framing, through the intermediate compositions you authored. Your operator cues it; the camerawork itself was settled at rehearsal.
Who runs it in your rooms
Corporate rooms rarely have somebody in the booth whose job is the camera. The person who composes the camerawork can be your senior AV lead or the integrator who commissioned the room; the person who runs the Tuesday all-hands can be whoever is on shift that morning. The judgement goes in once and gets used every month.
Compose the room's moves
Your AV lead shapes the route, framing and pace of the handful of moves a room asks for: the lectern, the walk to the demo table, the audience, the panel chairs.
Rehearse against the agenda
Run the moves against a real run-through, adjust the pace to the way your presenters actually move, and settle what each camera does at each point in the show.
Arrange the run of show
Put the prepared shots in a rundown the way the event runs, and keep each flight one press away, so the person at the desk sees the morning laid out in front of them instead of a wall of presets.
Perform on the day
Whoever is on shift cues each flight at its moment, or rides its timing from the joystick or the wheel on the controller they already use. The coverage looks the same as it did at the last all-hands.
Fits your room
Each row carries the state it is actually in today. Choose one to read what it does and what it does not do yet.
Cameras in this segment
- AVer
- BirdDog
- Bolin
- BZBGEAR
- Canon
- Cisco / Poly
- Minrray
- Panasonic
- PTZOptics
- QSC
- Sony
- Tenveo
- Vaddio (Legrand AV)
Manufacturer and product names belong to their owners. A name here describes what the software talks to, and states no endorsement or partnership.
Two answers, and we always say which one applies to you. Tested means a named model, firmware and control path we have flown; supported protocol means the camera speaks a control path we read, and the software measures it and tells you honestly whether it can fly it.
Proof
Film of real flights appears here when a Tested model has one on tape. Until then, here is what the software is doing for the shot.
Shape the whole moving shot.
Perform the move with the moment.
Motion planned around your camera.
Questions
Nobody in our booth runs camera on a Tuesday. Does this still fit?
That is the room it is built for. The judgement goes in once, when somebody senior composes and rehearses the moves; the Tuesday all-hands then needs a person who can press the cue at the right moment. Your coverage stops depending on who happened to be free that morning.
We run the same event in eight rooms. Do we compose it eight times?
You compose the moves a room asks for, and that room keeps them. Rooms built alike ask for the same handful of moves, so the work done in the flagship auditorium sets the pattern the rest of the estate follows, with the framing adjusted to each stage.
Our integrator built the room and maintains it. Can they run this?
Yes, and that is how the program is designed. The integrator composes and rehearses the moves at commissioning and hands your team a desk that cues them. Ask your integrator or distributor to quote it alongside the room.
Does our program video pass through the software?
No. It drives camera movement and leaves the video chain alone. Your switcher, your recording and your webcast keep the path they have today, and the signal-flow drawing for the room does not change.
Which controllers can cue a prepared flight?
VISCA joystick panels work today: a preset key cues a prepared flight and the stick can ride its timing. A Bitfocus Companion module for button surfaces is in evaluation, and cueing from a vMix production is planned. Each row on the integrations page carries its own status, so you can see what is built before you specify it.
Can we use the cameras already in the racks?
Tell us the make, the model and how each room controls its cameras. We say which compatibility answer applies before you commit. Tested means a model and control path we have flown ourselves. Supported protocol means we measure your camera and tell you plainly what it can do.
How do we buy it inside a fiscal year?
Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites, so an estate is counted once instead of room by room. The pricing page carries the three ways to pay, we can invoice against a purchase order, and your integrator or distributor can put it on their own quote and invoice.
Buying
Each plan covers a block of up to four cameras. A fifth camera needs a second block on the same plan. Blocks can span rooms and sites.
Put it through a real rehearsal and a real production first. Your evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed. No card is needed to start.
Buy through a partner
Integrators, distributors and rental houses can sell and install this in your segment. Tell us your segment and region and we introduce one who works in your kind of room.
Take this to your AV team
- The three moves: the presenter walk to the demo table, the audience reveal, and wide-to-tight on the keynote.
- Who operates: the AV lead or your integrator composes at commissioning; whoever is on shift cues the flights on the day.
- Your cameras: tell us the make, the model and how each room controls them, and we say which compatibility answer applies before you commit.
- Your video path does not change. The software moves the cameras; the switcher, the recording and the webcast stay where they are.
- Runs on macOS and Windows. One license covers either.
- Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites.
- A fourteen-day evaluation, no card, planned around a real run-through and a real event.
- Buy through your integrator or distributor; we can invoice against a purchase order.