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ACPR v3.0 Update
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Chances are good that if you don’t already use the Automatic Camera Preset Recall plugin,
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that you’ve at least heard about it and think,
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“hey, that sounds pretty cool.
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Well, it is, because it uses audio in the room to determine which camera preset to use.
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And it’s even cooler now.
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I want to tell you about some new features we’ve added as of version 3.
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First, we now support the Q-SYS NM-T1 tabletop conferencing microphone,
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and the Audio Technica ATND1061 Dante enabled microphone in addition to the Sennheiser TCC2
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and discrete microphones that were supported before.
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The second new feature you may have already noticed-
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these new audio pins.
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Now we can route the microphone’s audio directly into the Plugin.
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The NM-T1’s audio is wired just like discrete mics,
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but we’ve added a tab here in the plugin to make it easy to setup.
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We can tell the plugin to reference it using it’s Script Access Code name.
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This Code Name is for external control and scripting purposes
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and we can edit it here in the Properties panel.
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Next, If we’re using the AT
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or Sennheiser mics we can now just enter their multicast IP
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information here in the Microphone tab.
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This means, that in the case of the TCC2,
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we don’t need to use its Plugin anymore to access it’s coordinate data.
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Also in the “Microphone” tab, we’ve added
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-new PTZ controls that let us adjust the active camera right here in the plugin.
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-We have-new Active buttons here that lets us,
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not only activate a zone before we define a range,
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…but we can also control these to deactivate
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zones if we don’t need them based on the current setup of the room.
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-We can assign labels to our zones now.
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-and we can tell Q-SYS to “Prefer the Secondary Camera” for a zone using this new button.
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This could be beneficial if your primary and secondary cameras aren’t right next to each other
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and maybe you prefer the view of the secondary camera for that particular zone.
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If we enable the Expert Controls tab we’ll see
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some new Threshold detection controls to fine tune our mic,
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as well as the far-end audio.
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If you were using a previous version of the plugin,
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we’ve made it really easy to transfer all of your current settings into the new version.
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Just copy the Code name from its Properties panel here, and paste it down here in the new plugin.
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Hit Copy, and we get confirmation that everything successfully transferred over.
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This includes the Script Access code names you’ve already assigned for your cameras and routers.
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Remember, if you’re configuring a new plugin from scratch
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you’ll need to be sure to assign those Code names here under Script Access.
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Finally, we’ve added Crossover Zones:
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Let’s say I’m sitting in a position that lies between 2 microphones.
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The plugin considers the mic with the loudest signal to be active,
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and it will recall whichever camera preset that points to that mic’s active zone
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So if two mics are active back and forth in this crossover zone
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we could have them both trying to recall two different camera presets.
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To keep that from happening, when we’re using supported Sennheiser or AT beamforming mics,
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the last 4 zones of the plugin are now reserved for these “Crossover zones”.
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These zones have two separate sets of Horizontal and Vertical angles that we can input.
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This will let us copy and paste the angle settings from both of the mics
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that are hearing this zone equally and use them instead in this new crossover zone.
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This is telling Q-SYS “OK.
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this crossover zone we’re creating is going to take over when this back and forth issue happens”
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We’ll grab these PTZ coordinates from Camera 1 and copy them here.
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Then we can say that here we want to use Camera 1.
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And let’s select Microphone 2 as the active mic.”
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And we can name this new zone here.
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Now, once we deactivate the original, overlapping zones,
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we can let this new Crossover Zone handle our In-between area.
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Well, that’s a lot of great new stuff.
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Thanks for watching. See you next time.