ACPR v3.0 Update

Chances are good that if you don’t already use the Automatic Camera Preset Recall plugin,

that you’ve at least heard about it and think,

“hey, that sounds pretty cool.

Well, it is, because it uses audio in the room to determine which camera preset to use.

And it’s even cooler now.

I want to tell you about some new features we’ve added as of version 3.

First, we now support the Q-SYS NM-T1 tabletop conferencing microphone,

and the Audio Technica ATND1061 Dante enabled microphone in addition to the Sennheiser TCC2

and discrete microphones that were supported before.

The second new feature you may have already noticed-

these new audio pins.

Now we can route the microphone’s audio directly into the Plugin.

The NM-T1’s audio is wired just like discrete mics,

but we’ve added a tab here in the plugin to make it easy to setup.

We can tell the plugin to reference it using it’s Script Access Code name.

This Code Name is for external control and scripting purposes

and we can edit it here in the Properties panel.

Next, If we’re using the AT

or Sennheiser mics we can now just enter their multicast IP  

information here in the Microphone tab.

This means, that in the case of the TCC2,

we don’t need to use its Plugin anymore to access it’s coordinate data.

Also in the “Microphone” tab, we’ve added

-new PTZ controls that let us adjust the active camera right here in the plugin.

-We have-new Active buttons here that lets us,

not only activate a zone before we define a range,

…but we can also control these to deactivate  

zones if we don’t need them based on the current setup of the room.

-We can assign labels to our zones now.

-and we can tell Q-SYS to “Prefer the Secondary Camera” for a zone using this new button.

This could be beneficial if your primary and secondary cameras aren’t right next to each other

and maybe you prefer the view of the secondary camera for that particular zone.

If we enable the Expert Controls tab we’ll see  

some new Threshold detection controls to fine tune our mic,

as well as the far-end audio.

If you were using a previous version of the plugin,

we’ve made it really easy to transfer all of your current settings into the new version.

Just copy the Code name from its Properties panel here, and paste it down here in the new plugin.

Hit Copy, and we get confirmation that everything successfully transferred over.

This includes the Script Access code names you’ve already assigned for your cameras and routers.

Remember, if you’re configuring a new plugin from scratch

you’ll need to be sure to assign those Code names here under Script Access.

Finally, we’ve added Crossover Zones:

Let’s say I’m sitting in a position that lies between 2 microphones.

The plugin considers the mic with the loudest signal to be active,

and it will recall whichever camera preset that points to that mic’s active zone 

So if two mics are active back and forth in this crossover zone

we could have them both trying to recall two different camera presets.

To keep that from happening, when we’re using supported Sennheiser or AT beamforming mics,

the last 4 zones of the plugin are now reserved for these “Crossover zones”.

These zones have two separate sets of Horizontal and Vertical angles that we can input.

This will let us copy and paste the angle settings from both of the mics

that are hearing this zone equally and use them instead in this new crossover zone.

This is telling Q-SYS “OK.

this crossover zone we’re creating is going to take over when this back and forth issue happens”

We’ll grab these PTZ coordinates from Camera 1 and copy them here.

Then we can say that here we want to use Camera 1.

And let’s select Microphone 2 as the active mic.”

And we can name this new zone here.

Now, once we deactivate the original, overlapping zones,

we can let this new Crossover Zone handle our In-between area.

Well, that’s a lot of great new stuff.

Thanks for watching. See you next time.