Cleveland-Pittsburgh-Harrisburg

The Westmoreland Intermediate Unit is home to this large group instruction room with video conferencing and distance learning capability. Four cameras are used to cover shots for a panel discussion and student response system.

Student or audience camera shots are managed via three modes of operation.

Mediated: Delegates camera shot selection strictly to the instructor or facilitator.

Manual: Allows participants to call cameras by pushing a button on their individual microphones. The control system monitors the microphone gating and sets up a wide shot if the activated microphone is silent for several seconds.

Automatic: Calls camera shots automatically if a microphone is active for more than a few seconds, and defaults to a wide shot once the microphone is quiet.

All camera shots are called, and all camera movement is stopped before the shot is taken. All automatically called presets are replicated on both front cameras, eliminating the recording or transmission of camera motion during acquisition of presets.The shots are called, moved and stopped before the switch.