PTZ ComposerTwo hundred rooms, three techs. Compose the coverage once.
Your AV team composes the coverage a teaching room needs, and the hour runs on what they composed instead of on whoever happens to be free. A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
A lecture hall with a lectern, two boards and a demonstration bench, and cameras already on the walls. A recording platform collects the file afterwards, and a central AV team is responsible for more rooms than it can staff.
Three moments
A composed move across the front of the hall.
The route runs from the lectern past the boards to the demonstration bench, framed by the people who know the room. The frame travels that route and comes to rest where your team decided, so a lecture looks like it was covered rather than observed from the back corner.
The aim is one recall.
The aim is one press: the instructor starts the room the way they always have and that recall brings up the coverage your AV team prepared. That room-panel path is in evaluation today. Until it closes, the hour starts from the computer in the rack.
A transition to the bench that settles.
When the teaching moves to the demonstration bench, the camera travels to the framing your team composed for it and stays there. The move is the same in the first week of term and the last, and the same in every hall you set up this way.
Who runs it on campus
Lecture capture exists because there is nobody in the hall to run a camera, and a camera operator in every teaching room was never the plan. A central AV team composes each hall once, working from the room itself, and the coverage then belongs to the building rather than to the person who set it up. During class nobody rides the cameras. Recall from a Crestron, Extron or Q-SYS panel is in evaluation and is not delivered yet. The integrations page will state the outcome when the evaluation closes. Your recording platform is untouched either way. Panopto, Echo360 and Zoom collect the class exactly as they do now.
Compose the hall once
Your AV team frames the shots this room teaches from and draws the route between them: the lectern one-shot, the board-and-presenter framing, the demonstration bench and the house wide.
Rehearse in an empty room
Run each move in the hall before term starts and refine its pace and its landing until the coverage reads as deliberate. A move that a room cannot carry is found in August, not in week one.
Arrange the hour
Put the prepared shots in a rundown in the order a class uses them, and keep each flight one press away, so the hour runs from one short list.
Perform it in the room
The class runs on what your team composed, and the recording carries composed camerawork rather than a static wide. Hand anyone the timing control for a guest lecture or a prize ceremony, from the joystick or the wheel on the controller they already use, and the frame stays on the route.
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
- Cisco / Poly
- Datavideo
- HuddleCamHD
- JVC
- Lumens
- 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
What does the instructor have to do?
Nothing new. The coverage your AV team composed runs for the hour, and there is no second system for the person teaching to learn or forget. Recall from a Crestron, Extron or Q-SYS panel is in evaluation and is not delivered yet, so start the coverage from the computer in the rack until the panel route is confirmed. The integrations page carries the current position for each system.
Does the camera find the presenter by itself?
No, and we do not make that promise on this page. The coverage is composed by your AV team and performed as composed, which is why it does not hunt across the hall or snap between framings. A camera that follows a person on its own is a different claim, and it is not the one this page makes.
Does every hall need its own computer?
The software runs on a Mac or Windows computer that can reach the cameras over the network. One computer can drive several cameras. How many computers a campus needs depends on how its camera networks are laid out, and we settle that with you at the setup check.
Does this change our recording platform?
No. Panopto, Echo360, Zoom and whatever else collects your classes stay exactly as they are. The software moves the cameras; the video reaches your capture system by the path it uses today.
How much work is one room, and does it transfer to the next one?
Compose one room properly and use its shot list as the pattern for the rooms built to the same drawing. Each room is composed on its own cameras, which is an afternoon rather than a design project.
We have several camera brands across campus. Does that matter?
Tell us the makes, the models and how each room controls its cameras. 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. A room that cannot carry a move is told so with a reason.
How does a campus buy this against a fiscal year?
Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites, so a building is counted in blocks rather than room by room. The evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed and no card is needed. Buy through your integrator or distributor, on a purchase order, in the fiscal year you are budgeting for.
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 director
- Three moves carry a lecture: a composed move across the teaching zone, one recall that owns the hour, and a transition to the demonstration bench that settles.
- Your central AV team composes a hall once, and the coverage then belongs to the building rather than to the person who set it up.
- Nobody rides the cameras during class. Starting the hour from the room panel is in evaluation; today it starts from the computer in the rack.
- Recall from a Crestron, Extron or Q-SYS panel is in evaluation. The integrations page will state the outcome when it closes.
- Panopto, Echo360 and Zoom are untouched. The software moves the cameras and leaves your capture path alone.
- 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. See the pricing page for the ways to pay.
- The evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed, no card is needed, and you buy through your integrator or distributor on a purchase order.