The Robots and I are available - I may just need to check in with them to see how their schedule is! I still had override cam control from either the BirdDog software or via my SKAARHOJ fusion live joystick plus additional control with the Xbox controller for the Polymotion software to engage the tracking.Ī very interesting few days and a great way to make quality multicam content in a cost-effective way. I still needed the locked-off wide shot to get in and out of presenter changeovers but the software identified each new presenter very quickly and was happy tracking away even with the complex backdrop you can see in the picture, as it could also identify people on the print. Even when we have a mix of slides and a presenter in a small cropped box, the robots did a really good job of keeping the presenter visible and within the box. What was interesting was, as a single operator controlling 3 cameras and vision mixing the live broadcast at the same time, I was confident that once locked on, the 2 robot cameras would be giving me a usable shot as the presenters were pacing around the stage. At one point I almost forgot that it was a couple of robotic cameras controlled by software and was going to start talking to them over coms ! It was a multi-person set of standing presentations which needed tracking as the presenters were walking around the stage. I had my 2 BirdDog P400 PTZ Cameras as well as a lock-off wide on a camcorder and running both P400 cameras was the Mark Roberts Motion Control software - Polymotion Chat Pro - on my gaming laptop, all cameras were running over NDI.

Just back from a corporate event where I used Polymotion Chat software for the first time.

Motion tracking camera software