PTZ ComposerThere is no second take. Compose the day before it arrives.
Compose the aisle, the vows and the lectern at the rehearsal, then let someone you trust ride the timing while the moment unfolds. A flight is an authored camera move, with a planned route, framing and pace from departure through landing.
One sanctuary or chapel with the cameras already mounted, a Saturday wedding and a Tuesday funeral in the same week. A family watches from three time zones away, and the volunteer at the desk has run a Sunday service but never a wedding.
Three moments
The aisle move, at the pace of the procession.
Where the frame starts, what it passes and where it comes to rest are decided before the day. A procession keeps its own time, so your operator rides the timing live. Someone stops at the third pew to take a hand, and the move waits with them.
A two-shot that holds still.
The vows framing is composed in advance and then left alone. The shot arrives gently, settles, and stays there while the couple speaks, with nothing for the eye to catch and nothing for a nervous hand to correct.
A settled frame at the lectern.
A funeral asks the cameras to be present and unnoticed. The move to the lectern is a slow, steady one that lands softly and stays. Whatever has to reposition for a later part of the service does it away from the live shot.
Who runs it on the day
A life event is an overlay on work your team has already done. The room composed for Sunday keeps its shots and its moves. A wedding adds the aisle, the vows two-shot and the ring exchange, and a funeral adds the lectern and the committal. In both rooms the creative decisions are made at the rehearsal, and the person on the day cues them. In a funeral home's chapel a member of the staff cues the coverage from the desk while the director runs the service.
Compose the few moves the day adds
Draw the aisle, the vows two-shot and the lectern on the picture of the room your team already works from. Sunday's shots carry over, so a wedding or a funeral adds a short list rather than a new build.
Rehearse them before anyone depends on them
Walk each move in the room at the pace the service will take. Then adjust where it starts, where it rests and how long it takes, until it sits with the moment instead of against it.
Arrange the service in order
Put the prepared shots in a rundown in the order the day runs, from the processional through the vows to the recessional, and keep each flight one press away. The person at the desk then sees the whole service laid out in front of them.
Perform it in the room
On the day your operator cues each prepared flight as the moment arrives. When the procession sets its own pace, they ride its timing from the joystick or the wheel on the controller they already use. The frame travels the route that was composed at the rehearsal.
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
- AVKANS
- FoMaKo
- OBSBOT
- 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 have to set the room up again for a wedding?
No. The work your team did for the weekly service stays where it is. A life event adds a few moves of its own, composed at the rehearsal in about the time a rehearsal already takes. They then sit in the library for this Saturday and every Saturday after it.
Who operates during the service?
Someone you trust at the desk, and not a trained camera operator. The route, the framing and the pace were decided at the rehearsal, so the person on the day chooses when a move starts and, in a procession, how fast it travels.
We are a funeral home with our own chapel. Does this fit us?
Yes, and it is a room we write for. The chapel has its own mounted cameras, and the stream is something the family keeps and returns to for years. A member of the funeral home's staff cues the coverage from the desk while the director runs the service. The moves are composed once for the chapel and then used for every service held in it.
Will the cameras already in the room 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.
Will the camera move while the couple is speaking?
Not unless you composed a move there. The vows two-shot arrives, comes to rest and holds, and the recording carries a still frame through the part of the day that people watch again most.
Does the family's stream pass through the software?
No. Your program video keeps its existing path to the stream and the recording. The software moves the cameras; your switcher and your streaming workflow carry on exactly as they do on a Sunday.
How do we buy it, and can we try it on one real service first?
Licensing is sold as a block of up to four cameras, and a block spans rooms and sites. The evaluation runs fourteen days from the day your setup is confirmed and no card is needed to start it. Plan it around a rehearsal and a real service, and buy through your integrator or distributor.
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 people who decide
- Three moves carry the day: the aisle at the pace of the procession, a vows two-shot that holds still, and a settled frame at the eulogy lectern.
- A life event is an overlay on the room you already composed for the weekly service, so it adds a short list of moves rather than a new build.
- A funeral home runs the same page from its own chapel, where a member of the staff cues the coverage from the desk.
- Someone you trust operates on the day. The route, the framing and the pace were decided at the rehearsal.
- 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.