I was setting up a system yesterday at a customers with three PTZ1s. When using a joystick in Studio Monitor regardless of which Monitor window had focus all three cameras were responding to the joystick (an XKeys XK-12) all the time. This is from NDI tools downloaded last Thursday.
Anyone got this working with multiple cameras? Is there a setting I missed someplace?
The way this project has been going I'm surprised flames didn't shoot out of it
-Jeff
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Joystick control doesn't require focus. If it is told to follow a joystick, that is what it does.
Kane Peterson
Key Accounts Sales Engineer
NewTek, Inc.
So there's no way to control multiple cameras without multiple joysticks? That's crazy.
-Jeff
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This is how joysticks work in Window. When I added joystick support to my Camera Commande web app it would respond the same way.
Kane
Kane Peterson
Key Accounts Sales Engineer
NewTek, Inc.
What we need then is a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable joystick control then I can program buttons on the controller to switch which Window will respond. In the meantime I'll write a macro that drives the mouse around and pulls down the menus to change. but that's an ugly hack.
-Jeff
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Or perhaps look at what XKey's or Skaarhoj will have at NAB.
http://forums.newtek.com/showthread....ek-NDI-cameras
Kane Peterson
Key Accounts Sales Engineer
NewTek, Inc.
All,
An older version of Studio Monitor did follow keyboard focus for the Joystick control however I received complaints about that because people wanted it to always apply. We can actually make this work almost any way people want although there really are downsides of any particular approach really.
Andrew
A link to the older version would be a life saver. This project has been a nightmare (things like it never occurred to them that they needed network access in the control room in order to stream) and the enduser is getting annoyed.
I can see wanting the joystick to always work but only if you had a single camera. In this case we are trying to control three PTZ1s during city council meetings.
-Jeff
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Its the week before NAB ... but I'll see what I can do. Anyone at the show who sees this thread can come and ask me what I did about it.
Andrew
The next version of Studio Monitor (coming very soon!) will support multiple windows and multiple joysticks really quite well. If you have multiple windows open and each has a separate joystick assigned to them then at any time you can control that camera with that joystick. If you have multiple windows open assigned to the same joystick then the one that has focus will control that specific camera. This works with any combination of multiple windows open and multiple joysticks connected (it gets very complicated).
Andrew
Thank you Andrew. You and NewTek are always the best!
-Jeff
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If you shoot me an email, I can give you a beta to play with.Originally Posted by jcupp
To complement Andrew's news, the next version of Sienna NDI Monitor for macOS (which supports PTZ control with a 3DConnexion SpaceMouse rather than a Joystick) now has a similar feature, where you can set a 'respond in background' checkbox on each instance to indicate whether that Monitor should always follow the SpaceMouse, or whether it should only do so when that application instance is in the foreground.
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