FiveEyes was created to automate robotic PTZ camera movements in order to enhance the ability of a single operator.
Before FiveEyes, a PTZ camera operator was limited to controlling one camera at a time, meaning that at any given time, all cameras were static except the one being actively controlled by the operator.
We love to festoon stages and venues with PTZ cameras, which provide a cornucopia of interesting and tricky camera angles that would be otherwise difficult, expensive, or impractical to achieve. But moving cameras are more engaging than static shots, so to breathe life into our panoply of discreetly deployed robotic eyes, we create the FiveEyes system.
FiveEyes is a software application that connects to all the cameras in the network and allows the operator to set “patrol” patterns: automatically moving from preset A to preset B and back again, forever, at a given speed.
This automated patrol patterns allows for a huge range of “always on” crowd tracking shots and pickup shots that would otherwise be static or require a dedicated human operator to “run” every time they are needed.
Although it’s still in our arsenal, we functionally retired FiveEyes in 2023 in favor of a Streamdeck + Companion recipe that allows for faster setup time, less network integration, and a singular point of automated control for the PTZ camera ecosystem.
