Video Transcript
Smoothness and Deadband
12m 20s
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You, everyone, and welcome to the next part of the training.
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Well, we're going to be covering tracking smoothness,
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of course,
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Seervision tracking is very smooth and works really well
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without needing to make too many adjustments.
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But if you do need to make some adjustments,
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you can adjust the smoothness of the tracking and also the deadband.
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So let's learn about what all of that means.
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I'm going to walk up to this trigger zone at the podium here.
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We'll start tracking and then we'll see how it's working and maybe make a few adjustments.
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So right away we can see here in the Seervision user interface,
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the smoothness is set to around half. What does that look like?
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Well, you can see that this lets me move around
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at a speed which is pretty appropriate for a presenter
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so I can move here from left to right and nothing too dramatic is happening.
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The camera's not whipping around and equally I can move fairly slowly
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and the camera's going to move quite nicely just to keep me in frame correctly.
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But of course if I really wanted to, I could run away.
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I've really moved too fast there for the camera to actually keep track of me.
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Okay, so this is where we can adjust smoothness.
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Of course, typically you're not likely to be running away in the middle of a presentation
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unless the audience is being really mean to you.
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But it's good to have these kind of controls.
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So firstly, let's have a look at this section.
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We've got pan smoothness and tilt smoothness,
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and normally when we're doing presenter tracking, we're most concerned with pan.
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So let's just let's just turn that all the way down and see what the result is.
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Now, with this testing turned all the way down to zero,
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we can see that even very small movements of
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the presenter result in a fairly significant move from the camera.
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It's really just trying to keep us perfectly centered in
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the frame as described by the tracking container.
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And this is not a particularly pleasant experience for the far end viewer.
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It's really quite jerky and if the presenter is the kind of person who might say,
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Hey, let's talk to these people over here and now,
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you know, I'm going to come over here and talk to you guys
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and maybe I'm just going to move from left to right like this.
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The camera's moving all over the place.
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On the other extreme, we can turn it all the way up to one.
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Okay? And now we can see that if I move,
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the camera is going to very slowly and gradually bring me back into the center.
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So it's still moving whenever I move, but it's going to do it in a much slower way.
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Okay, So those are two extremes,
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you know, a very low tracking smoothness setting is going to mean the camera's very jerky
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and here with the camera set to the maximum smoothness,
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even just walking at a normal speed,
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I'm almost able to move out of the frame.
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So let's just set this back to the middle,
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which, to be honest,
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is a really good place to have.
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Tracking smoothness means you can move at the fastest speed you're likely to walk at
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when giving a presentation often,
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but it also means that it's quite slow and graceful.
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However, we've still got a small issue,
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which is that any little movement,
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even me just leaning from side to side,
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is causing a camera movement.
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The smoothness is controlling, whether it's fast or slow.
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But what if we don't want any movement until we start to walk in a significant way?
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This is where the deadband comes in,
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and the Deadband is a feature of Seervision,
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which essentially means that the presenter can move within a certain range
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and not trigger any movement of the camera at all.
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Let's go ahead and turn on the deadband overlay with this person in the Seervision User interface.
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We're going to turn that on and we can see I've got a green box around my head.
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Now. The deadband's off right now,
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which means that as I move,
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we're going to see that camera move straight away.
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Let's turn on the deadband.
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We can see the box now goes into a filled in green.
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And now the presenter can move from side to side in this case,
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taking a step to talk to the audience over here, maybe over here.
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And it's only as they start to move out of that deadband.
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You see the little green dot representing my head on the Edge of the Deadband
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that it brings us back into frame.
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The speed at which it does that is based on the tracking smoothness.
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But the deadband means that it doesn't do it
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until the presenter moves significantly away from wherever you set up the deadband.
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Now the properties of the Deadband are fully adjustable.
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We can increase its width and its height
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and we can also move it around the screen so we can move it from left to right here
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if we don't want to keep it in the center.
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Now you can see if we set it up like this where it's fairly small,
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the present can still make small movements.
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It's when they make a medium sized movement like this
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that we get a response from the camera on the opposite side of the scale.
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We could set this width to be really quite large
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so that it's almost covering the whole width of the frame.
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Now this might be something you want
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if you don't want to really point out that we're tracking the presenter too much,
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you want to allow them to move around quite a long way.
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And in fact I might bump that up even a little bit more.
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Okay.
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And no tracking really happens until they essentially start to leave the frame,
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at which point it brings them back in.
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Now, of course, the risk here is that they move too quickly
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and they can step out of the frame before the camera has time to react.
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But you could combine a large deadband with a very low pan smoothness.
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So if you turn pan smoothness all the way down,
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we're going to see the camera responds really quickly,
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but it will only respond when I start to leave the deadband.
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So now we can see that no tracking is really happening until I start to walk away
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and it's going to respond quite quickly to bring me back into frame.
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Of course, the best settings are usually those in the middle,
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and I find that what works really well is a pan smoothness around here
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and maybe a deadband that covers this sort of range here.
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Let's see present to move around.
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They can fidget a little bit and the camera's not going to move,
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but when they actually start to walk, that's when we have an adjustment to the camera.
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Now, before we move on,
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let's point out the dead pan settings,
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along with lots of other tracking properties,
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like tracking smoothness can be saved as part of a container
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if you want to change them when different containers are recalled.
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Let's have a look at how that works.
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When it is seeing any container,
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you can see all of the Sea Vision components contained within.
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Now by default.
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This includes the transition speed shot properties like the framing and the relative size
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and whether tracking is engaged or not.
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But if we press the add component button,
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we get a complete list of every Seervision attribute that can be added to this container,
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including the deadband.
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We could also add tracking smoothness as a component inside of this container.
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Now,
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this means that the deadband and the tracking smoothness properties
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will get recalled when the container is recalled,
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overriding whatever's been set in the Tracking Settings panel.
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This means you can have different deadband and
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different smoothness settings for different containers,
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maybe to be used with different trigger zones.
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If you'd rather these settings be set globally,
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don’t add them to the container and Seervision
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will use whatever is set in the Tracking Settings panel.