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GEAR BUYERS’ GUIDE

JVC KY-PZ400N £2234/$1999 jvc.com

LUMENS VC-TR60A £2188/$TBA mylumens.com The Lumens VC-TR60A houses two lenses and uses voice tracking to follow the speaker around the room. The camera presents an array of directional sound sensors that detect the location of active human voices. The head then moves and zooms to shoot the current speaker, re-framing as other voices enter the discussion. This latest Lumens model supports a reference audio input – either USB or line-in – to eliminate audio interference, ensuring precise and reliable voice tracking of speakers. This information is used to control sophisticated auto tracking and framing modes, and it has intelligent human detection algorithms to deliver smooth tracking for conferences, presentations and studio settings. The VC-TR60A can combine the two video images from its different lenses in a picture-in-picture display with output over HDMI and USB. This allows audiences to watch a composite video that incorporates the wide-angle view and a tight shot.

MARSHALL CV612 £TBA/$TBA marshall-usa.com Marshall’s new CV612 can automatically track, follow and frame presenters using its AI facial learning. It learns who is the prime subject and won’t lose them if other people enter the shot. Available in black or white, the CV612 is equipped with a 12x optical and 15x digital zoom, offering a 4.1-49.2mm focal range for a 6.6-70.3° field of view. It is built around a two-megapixel, 1/2.8-inch CMOS sensor, which provides a resolution of up to 1920x1080p. This makes it ideal for smaller venues, interviews, web production or live presentations. It offers simultaneous 3G-SDI, HDMI, RTSP streaming and USB-C outputs. It can stream HEVC directly from the camera over IP (RTSP) or USB-C while also outputting via SDI and HDMI. This makes it ideal for streaming live content while capturing local HDMI content. The PTZ features a pan rotation of 170°, tilt rotation of -90° to 90° and variable pan and tilt and preset speeds. Set-up and manual control are through Ethernet, RS232 and USB-C interfaces. The control interface includes RS232, Visca, Pelco, Visca over IP and Onvif protocols, as well as LAN control.

JVC’s latest PTZ camera – the KY-PZ400N – is designed for remote IP production for live events and sport, as well as education and corporate use. The 4K camera comes equipped with NDI HX and SRT streaming, H.265/H.264/MJPEG encoding and VITC- camera synchronisation. It also includes SRT, HTTP, RTSP, RTMP/ RTMPS and standard protocols. With SRT open-source technology, owners receive continual firmware updates. The advanced streaming SRT tech adds automatic repeat request (ARQ) and forward error correction (FEC) to prevent signal loss. Also offered is stream encryption for content protection. With a 4K 1/2.5-inch progressive scanning CMOS image sensor, the KY- PZ400N has a wide angle of view equivalent to 26.4mm, works in low light down to a minimum of 0.5 lux of illumination and has a 12x optical zoom – with an additional 16x digital zoom for more reach when needed. It includes HDMI and 3G-SDI, RJ45 with PoE, RS232 and RS485 interfaces as standard. Full remote control is achieved via JVC’s RM-LP100 controller, its KM-IP6000/4000 live IP production suites or options from Vmix, OBS Studio and Newtek.

“This latest Lumens VC-TR60A supports a reference audio input – either USB or line in – to eliminate audio interference, ensuring precise and reliable voice tracking of speakers within the room”

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