I and a few other media artists use the elmo PTC100, its cheaper than
the canon's I was looking at the time.
With Canon you had to agree to a licence to even get the protocol, elmo
just leaves it out there. They are a pretty good company also (meaning
they have not pissed me off like others).
chris clepper wrote:
I'm looking at the specs for a Sony PTZ cam which uses Sony's ViSCA
protocol. The manual gives the commands for communicating with the cam,
but I'm not sure if it would work with an existing Pd external or not. The
control machine will be running OSX so a USB-RS232 adapter
chris clepper wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 12:00 PM, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/docs/manuals/evihd1_tm.pdfI've
worked with a VISCA cam a few years ago. It just uses 9600 baud RS232
serial, so [comport] can handle it. The harder part is
PDPeople,
I'm looking at the specs for a Sony PTZ cam which uses Sony's ViSCA
protocol. The manual gives the commands for communicating with the cam,
but I'm not sure if it would work with an existing Pd external or not. The
control machine will be running OSX so a USB-RS232 adapter would
On Jan 25, 2008 12:00 PM, Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/docs/manuals/evihd1_tm.pdfI've
worked with a VISCA cam a few years ago. It just uses 9600 baud RS232
serial, so [comport] can handle it. The harder part is parsing incoming
messages.
On Jan 25, 2008 12:13 PM, B. Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I and a few other media artists use the elmo PTC100, its cheaper than
the canon's I was looking at the time.
The Sony is HD with a handy HD-SDI connector for long cable runs. I don't
particularly like Sony or their products, but
The elmo just says Ack, ERR or Complete but since multiple cameras can
be diasychained then it gets more complex, which camera threw which error.
Another thing to look into is the pan/tilt heads, I was looking at these
as they are much more flexible, you can put any camera on em, but I did
not
