PTZ control using Virtual Inputs PTZ - Pan Tilt Zoom›› Perhaps the easiest way to control PTZ cameras is to create a number of 'Virtual Inputs'for a particular PTZ camera and assign a particular pan, tilt and zoom position when selected. In vMix, this is relatively straightforward to setup. Virtual Set Pack Volume 7 vMix: Royalty Free, Includes 10 Virtual Sets with 16 Angles Each in vMix Format: Studio194 Studio196 Studio197 Studio200 Studio202 Studio203 Studio204 Studio205 Studio206 Studio207. VMix provides three different methods for controlling a PTZ camera, you can either pick the method that suits your production or use a combination of all three! PTZ control using Virtual Inputs This method allows assigning a PTZ position to its own Input in vMix, turning one camera into potentially unlimited 'Virtual' cameras!
there are several ways to pull the video feed from a PTZoptics camera into Vmix. first in section 1 there has a very helpful video from Vmix on how to create an input and giving you an overview on how the different methods are performed. sections 2 and 3 go into specifically adding a source with the PTZoptics camera. section 2 deals with standard connections (HDMI, SDI, USB) and second 3 deals with some of the network video (RTSP, NDI).
Section 1: General Vmix adding input overview.
Vmix Ptz Presets
Section 2: USB 3.0, HD-SDI, HDMI.
In this video Andrew Chatfield lead support engineer for vMix walks through how to integrate PTZOptics cameras with vMix. It's actually quite easy and you can do so in a couple ways. One way that Andy shows is simply plugging into your computer running vMix with a USB Cable. You can also use a frame grabber to convert HDMI or HD-SDI to a USB and connect to your computer.
Section 3: Pulling in IP video
Below is a video demonstrating how to pull IP video Into Vmix. please note that this will require you to have the computer and the camera on the same subnet (at least for these examples) if you have not yet set the camera's IP address to be on your network range please refer to the guide HERE.
As you can see above we have selected 'Stream' for our input and typed in our the URL as 'rtsp://192.168.1.88/1' which is Tom's PTZOptics camera he has selected. Now once you click 'OK' the camera feed will be available as a input.
Vmix Virtual Set Ptz Cam
finally, if you have an NDI model camera or a camera that you purchased an NDI license for you are able to pull the camera in as an NDI source into Vmix is super easy as seen in the video below.