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Introduction
The CAMERAS control board will be automatically added to the Aximmetry Composer Menu after importing any camera compound to your project.
Control Board Content
Depending on the compound, the number of panels, lines, and buttons might change, but generally in all camera compounds you will find the following:
Select Camera
The buttons allow you to change between virtual camera views by selecting them. The selected virtual camera's image will be visible on the Out and Preview pins of the compound.
The number of buttons depends on the camera compound you imported. This can be: 3,4,8
Attributes
Here you can select if the camera's view should be rendered locally, or with a multi-machine setup, remotely.
Preview Monitor Content
Lets you change what is displayed on the Preview output.
Program
This will put the program (final) output on the Preview.
Matrix
This will display a matrix view on the Preview. The Matrix view consists of the Virtual Cameras (3,4,8) and the Program out.
Note: In the case of a 4-cam compound, there is no Program out on the Matrix view.
Cam #
This will put display the selected camera on the Preview.
Attributes
Preview Height
Sets the height of all non-selected camera previews in Matrix view. You can define the height in pixels.
Matrix Gap
Adds a gap between the previews in Matrix view. You can define the gap in pixels.
Antialias
Adds antialiasing to the image. Can be 2,4,8x
Full Resolution Preview
Previews are by default rendered at lower resolutions than the final Out. This is to save GPU time. However, you can set the preview to full resolution (same as the Program out).
HDR Render
Toggles HDR render on the preview.
On Screen Information
Displays information on the Preview.
Info
Puts the following information on the preview:
Safe
Places a safe area mark on the selected camera on the Preview.
SDI
Places SDI input information on the Preview
Attributes
Info Font Size
Sets the size of the Info text
Default is 32
Label Font Size
Sets the size of the label which displays camera #
Default is 32
Label Font Color
Sets the color of the text for all info text and label display on the Preview.
Note: Does not change the background color of the text.
Show on Program
All selected on-screen info will also be displayed on the final Program Out.
Show on Preview
All selected on-screen info will also be displayed on the Preview.
Label
Toggles the display of camera # labels on the Preview.
Streaming
Use this panel to start your stream directly from Aximmetry. More on streaming here.
Edit Camera Path
More on creating, editing and sequencing camera paths here.
Camera & Render Setup
Play Mode
Selected by default. When this is enabled, the virtual camera will move according to the path selected.
Camera Movement Controls
Stop, Pause & Play camera movement.
External Control Mode
Select this feature if you want to change cameras or camera paths externally.
In order to do this, navigate to the FLOW editor and find the camera compound. You will find input pins starting with the word Playlist...
You can connect the external controller to these pins.
Playlist Select Cam will change cameras
Playlist Cam 1 Path will change the camera path for CAM 1
etc.
Free Camera Mode
Select this function to move the camera freely in the scene. You can use the camera mover mouse control. By default, you can move the camera in any preview window (This can be changed, but more on this in the pin values chapter)
None of the camera paths will apply, the camera will stay in place.
Pin Values
Edit On Channel
Here, you can select in which preview window the free camera mode will be available. 0 = available in all preview windows.
Capture Default
By default, if the origin of the scene is the default position of the free camera if you reset it. With this feature, you can define the current position of the free camera as default.
Reset Free Cam
Reset the free cam to the default position.
CAM Motion Rate
Free camera mode motion speed
CAM Zoom Rate
Free camera mode zoom speed
CAM Rotation Rate
Free camera mode rotation speed
Detwitter
Turn ON to apply a soft vertical blur on interlaced video in order to get rid of twittering. Only works if the video output is interlaced.
Sharpen
Sharpens the output video.
Continue to Virtual Camera Movements
Once you learned about the basics of the Cameras Control Board, you can move onto setting up the Virtual Cameras:
Virtual Camera Movements - coming soon
Please continue here: Camera Sequencer
