PTZ ComposerPrepare the camerawork before Sunday. Perform it with the moment.
Compose the moves your service asks for, rehearse them with your team, and bring them into the service through the controls your volunteers already use. A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
One sanctuary. Two or three PTZ cameras sit on the balcony rail and the side walls, with a volunteer at the switcher. The service keeps the same shape every week, with a different reading, a different anthem and a different preacher. The same page reads for a synagogue, a mosque or a temple: change the day and the order of service.
Three moments
A reveal for the opening.
The service begins on a wide frame of the room and opens up as the first note lands. The move is composed once, rehearsed with the musicians, and runs the same way every week.
A flowing move across the choir.
One continuous move carries the shot across the choir at the pace of the piece. The route, the framing through the move and the place it comes to rest are all part of what you composed.
A transition into the speaker's framing.
When the reading starts, the camera travels from the room into the speaker's framing and settles there. Your volunteer cues it; the move itself is already decided.
Who runs it on Sunday
The person who composes the camerawork and the person who runs the service do not have to be the same person. A volunteer cues prepared flights from the controls in front of them, and the creative decisions stay where they were made, in the rehearsal. With a Blackmagic ATEM, the software reads which camera is on program, and that camera does not move under the cut. The other switcher paths (vMix, OBS, TriCaster, Ross, NDI tally) are planned, and each row on the integrations page states its status. Without an ATEM, your volunteer cues moves on the camera that is off air.
Compose in the week
Someone from the production team sits in the empty sanctuary and shapes the route, framing and pace of each flight the order of service asks for. It is calm work, done once, and it keeps.
Rehearse with the musicians
Run the moves against the real music and the real readings. Refine the pace until the camerawork sits with the service instead of against it, and prove each flight on your own cameras before Sunday.
Arrange the morning
Put the prepared shots in a rundown in the order the service runs, from prelude to benediction, and keep each flight one press away, so the volunteer in the booth sees the morning laid out in front of them.
Perform on the day
The volunteer cues each flight when the moment arrives, or rides its timing from the joystick or the wheel on the controller they already use when a baptism runs long. The congregation sees camerawork that was decided in advance.
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
- AIDA Imaging
- AVKANS
- BirdDog
- BZBGEAR
- Datavideo
- FoMaKo
- HuddleCamHD
- Minrray
- Panasonic
- PTZOptics
- SMTAV
- Sony
- ZowieTek
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
Do we need a trained camera operator every Sunday?
Your team still runs the production. What changes is where the judgement sits. Someone composes the flights during the week, and a volunteer cues them on Sunday from the controls they already know. Nobody has to drive a smooth move by hand in front of the congregation.
Our cameras already auto-track the pastor. What does this add?
Tracking keeps one person centered. It does not compose a reveal across the room or a move across the choir, and it cannot hold a frame still on purpose. A composed flight decides where the frame goes, how fast, and where it rests.
We already have presets and a joystick. Why change?
Keep both. A preset key on your panel cues a prepared flight, and the joystick can ride its timing. What changes is the move between the presets, which is the part the congregation sees.
Can we use the cameras we already have?
Tell us the make, the model and how the cameras are controlled, and we say which of the two compatibility answers applies to your room before anything starts. 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.
Does the live stream pass through the software?
No. Your program video keeps its existing path to the switcher, the recording and the stream. The software moves the cameras, and your streaming workflow carries on exactly as it is. With a Blackmagic ATEM, the software reads which camera is on program, and that camera does not move under the cut. Without an ATEM, your volunteer cues moves on the camera that is off air.
How does the evaluation work for a church?
It runs fourteen days from the day we confirm your setup, and no card is needed to start. Choose two weeks that include one midweek rehearsal and two Sunday services, which is enough to see the same flights run twice with two different volunteers.
How do we buy it inside a church budget year?
Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites, so a second campus does not start a new conversation. See the pricing page for the three ways to pay, buy through your integrator or distributor, and ask for an invoice your finance team can process.
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 team
- The three moves: a reveal for the opening, a flowing move across the choir, and a transition into the speaker's framing.
- Who operates: one person composes the flights during the week; a volunteer cues them on Sunday from the controls already in the booth.
- Your cameras: tell us the make, the model and how they are controlled, and we say which of the two compatibility answers applies before anything starts.
- Your video path does not change. The software moves the cameras; the switcher, the recording and the stream stay where they are.
- Runs on macOS and Windows. One license covers either.
- Licensing: a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites. The pricing page carries the three ways to pay.
- Evaluation: fourteen days, no card, planned to cover a rehearsal and two services.
- Buy through your integrator or distributor, and ask for an invoice your finance team can put against the budget year.