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Created by: Ross Tyler on 12-08-2011 06:55:17 PM We have the C40 setup in a large room with a stage and 2 cameras. One camera is "stage cam" and the other is a "crowd cam". We are connecting to a room across the country setup identically. Deal is, when a speaker is speaking we want the local self-view cam to be the "stage cam" and the remote site's self view to be their "crowd cam". Then when the roles are reversed to flop cameras.
This is possible sing the C40 remote but... it takes a few button clicks to change the self-view camera to the secondary and the audience sees the menus pop up and it is very distracting.
I am guessing the only way to do this covertly is through an In Touch remote. We do not have those but are considering buying them for this reason.
Anyone have advice on other solutions like C40 remote short-cuts, setting a preset etc. We do not expect nor want this to be automated just easily and discretely triggered by an A/V guy.
Thanks
Subject: RE: C40 easy camera switch Replied by: Johan Randby on 02-09-2011 01:01:18 PM Hi Sorry for the delayed answer. I needed to play a little around with this to get it correct...
Selfview will show your main video source. Changing Main video source will also influence what you are sending to the other side. So you need to be careful when playing around to get it right.
Just changing the main camera can be done with creating one softbutton for each of the two cameras. Pressing the softbutton will trigger the change of main channel to the other camera.
I´m not sure if I understood in full the scenario here, but if you want to also send two streams between the sites: stage and crowd - you will need to use a little more advanced commands. One way of achieving this is by using the built in webserver in the codec which can be triggered by API calls.
In these examples, codec IP on site A is 10.0.0.1 and you should establish a session so you dont need to put the password in.
Example1: You want to change the Main video source to stage (main cam) http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Configuration><Video></MainVideoSource>1<MainVideoSource></Video></Configuration>
Example2: You want to switch Presentation source to crowd cam (secondary camera) http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Configuration><Video><DefaultPresentationSource>2</DefaultPresentationSource></Video></Configuration>
Example3: You want to start Presentation http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Command><Presentation><Start></Start></Presentation></Command>
So lets say that when site A is speaking from stage you want them to transmit their stage camera as main stream and their crowd as second stream, but when site B is speaking you want to transmit crowd as main stream and stage as secondary (or even stop that presentation because the stage is empty?)
You could then do this on site A: http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Configuration><Video></MainVideoSource>1<MainVideoSource></Video><DefaultPresentationSource>2</DefaultPresentationSource></Configuration>
and when B is starting to speak you do this on site A http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Configuration><Video></MainVideoSource>2<MainVideoSource></Video><DefaultPresentationSource>1</DefaultPresentationSource></Configuration> and optionally http://10.0.0.1/formputxml?xmldoc=<Command><Presentation><Stop></Stop></Presentation></Command>
To be able to control how things look on each site (this has been all about outgoing video) I strongly encourage to use TC Console (requires C60 or C90 to customize layouts), which is a very powerful layout application controller. You can then select the following behavior: At site A: Site B is speaking: means you get Site B Stage in Main and Crowd in Presentation. Show Main on the main screen and their crowd on stage screen. Site A is speaking: Show your own main in Main screen and crowd from site B (main channel) in crowd screen.
To really make things easy and nice, I would create bookmarks or even better - a small app that has these different scenarios implemented. You will only need to control it from one side since you can reach both codecs from the web.
As you can see, by using these API commands together with TC console (all it does is really to create different layouts in API, but its much easier to use that tool) you have a very powerful tool to customize to your needs. You do not need to use the web, of course you can use ssh and log in, or create scripts that executes these commands.
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