PTZ ComposerCoverage of the record that keeps its dignity.
Compose the moves a chamber needs once, and every session after that is covered the same dignified way, whether or not anybody is watching the cameras. A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
A council chamber, a courtroom or a hearing room with cameras already mounted: a dais, a public-comment lectern, a staff table and a gallery. A clerk runs the session, and the public can call up the record for years afterwards.
Three moments
A transition to the speaking seat.
The frame travels from the room to the member who has the floor and settles there. The route and the pace were decided in advance, so a change of speaker reads as coverage rather than as a lurch between presets.
A composed move to the lectern.
When a resident steps up to speak, the camera arrives at a framing the chamber approved, comes to rest and holds. The same move runs for the first speaker and the fortieth, at the same pace, so the record looks the same from start to finish.
A return to the wide of the chamber.
For a motion and a vote the coverage goes back to the room: the whole dais, framed the way it was framed last month and will be framed next year. Repeatability is the point. The record is watched for years, and it should not change character session by session.
Who runs it in the chamber
Most sessions run unattended. The coverage is composed in advance by your AV technician or a contracted integrator. The clerk cues a prepared flight from the app or a VISCA panel today. Starting it from the chamber's own control panel is in evaluation, and the integrations page states where that stands. Nobody has to aim a camera while a witness is speaking. The record is the deliverable, and an accessible record is part of the obligation. The coverage therefore stays legible: a settled frame on whoever has the floor, a wide when the body acts as a body, and no movement that draws attention to the equipment.
Compose the chamber once
Frame the dais, each member's seat, the public-comment lectern, the staff table and the room wide, then draw the routes between them. This is a one-time piece of work done with the people who run the chamber.
Rehearse against a real agenda
Run the moves through the shape of an ordinary meeting and refine each pace until the coverage is dignified rather than brisk. What a body sees in a rehearsal is what the public sees in the record.
Arrange the order of business
Put the prepared shots in a rundown in the order a session runs, from the call to order through public comment to adjournment, and keep each flight one press away, so the clerk sees the meeting laid out in front of them.
Perform it in the chamber
The session runs on the prepared coverage. The clerk cues a flight when the business calls for it, or rides its timing from the joystick or the wheel on the controller they already use. An ordinary meeting can run from end to end without anybody touching a camera.
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
- Avonic
- Bolin
- Lumens
- Marshall
- Panasonic
- PTZOptics
- QSC
- Ross (PIVOTCam)
- Sony
- 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
Does this change our meeting-management system, our captions or the published record?
No. Your agenda, your minutes, your voting and your publishing workflow stay exactly as they are. Captions, transcripts and the published record come from your existing platform, and the software does not touch them. What it changes is the camera coverage inside the picture.
Who operates during a hearing?
An ordinary session runs unattended on coverage composed in advance. When a hearing needs a hand, your clerk or AV technician cues a prepared flight from the app or a VISCA panel today. Starting it from the chamber's own control panel is in evaluation, and the integrations page states where that stands. Neither of them has to aim a camera while somebody is testifying.
What happens if the link to a camera drops?
If the software stops or loses its controller, it brings the cameras to a controlled stop first. What a camera does when its own network drops mid-move depends on the camera, and we tell you which case applies to yours before the chamber depends on it.
What does IT have to approve?
It runs on a Mac or Windows computer on the camera control network and talks to the cameras over that network. Your program video never passes through it: the stream, the cable channel and the archive keep the paths they have today. What the software itself stores and sends is described in its documentation, and we answer IT questionnaires at the setup check.
Will people in the room notice the cameras?
That is the test we write to. A composed move begins gently, travels at the pace the chamber chose and comes to rest where it was told to. A member speaking to a motion has no reason to look up at a camera.
Will the cameras already in the chamber work?
Tell us the make, the model and how they are controlled. 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.
Can this go into an RFP or tender, and can we see it in our own chamber first?
Yes to both. The evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed and no card is needed to start it, so plan it across two ordinary meetings. Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites, so a chamber, a hearing room and a courtroom can be counted together. Buy through your integrator or distributor on a purchase order, in the fiscal year you are budgeting for, and ask us for the specification language your procurement office needs.
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 the clerk and the procurement office
- Three moves carry a session: a transition to the member who has the floor, a composed move to the public-comment lectern, and a return to the wide of the chamber for the vote.
- An ordinary meeting runs unattended on coverage composed in advance. The clerk or the AV technician cues a flight when a hearing needs one.
- The record is watched for years, so the coverage is repeatable: the same framings and the same pace this month, next month and next term.
- Your meeting-management system, your minutes, your captions and your publishing workflow are untouched. What changes is the camera coverage inside the picture.
- 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, so a chamber, a hearing room and a courtroom can be counted together.
- The evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed, and no card is needed to start it.
- Buy through your integrator or distributor on a purchase order, in the fiscal year you are budgeting for. Ask us for specification language for an RFP or tender.