PTZOptics Studio SE – Affordable 1080p Fixed Camera with NDI HX3

The PTZOptics Studio SE is the perfect entry point into professional video production, offering sharp 1080p resolution with 12X or 20X zoom. Hive Linked™ for cloud-based control via Hive Studio, the Studio SE also features SDI, HDMI, USB, and IP outputs plus native NDI HX3 support, making it easy to integrate into switchers, stream over networks, or record directly. Compact, versatile, and affordable, it’s a future-proof choice for studios, creators, and live streaming setups. Check it out:

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Hey everybody, welcome in to PTZ Optics Live. My name is John Roberts. I'm the customer success manager here at PTZ Optics. I'm joined by the one and only Josh. How you doing today? I'm doing all right. How about you?
I'm doing well. Doing well. I'm happy to talk about some new products here or new camera line that we have coming. So, I'm very excited. So, Josh, tell the people at home that maybe aren't used to your face, what do you do here at PTZ Optics?
So, I at PTZ Optics and the senior hardware manager. So, I am the one who facilitates the cameras, make sure the firmware is uh up to speed as it should be, and uh tries to squash every bug that you customers find for us.
Yes, you guys are so helpful in every way. So, we have a lot to talk about today. So, let's go over our live show square so we can give you guys a little preview about what we're going to talk about. So, first up, we're talking about our brand new line of cameras, which we're calling the Studio Series. Includes two different cameras, the Move SE, the Studio SE, which is a 1080p camera, and the Studio 4K, which is our 4K model. So, we'll be going deep into both of those cameras. We'll be showing you all the cool features in the fixed frame cameras. Uh, next we have another announcement. We have a hive linked firmware which is now in beta and it's live for the move the studio series. So that's the move 4K, the move SE and both of those studio cameras. So you want to jump in to pdzoptics.com/ba if you want to get access to that. Really exciting that allows you to do some really cool things and we'll show you a demo of basically what that allows you to do later. Also, uh don't forget about the link 4K. It's available there too. Yes. And the link 4K of course. Thank you. All righty. Next up, we have an exciting launch today. It's our new studio camera. It's the Studio SE, which is our 1080p version. We re previously released the Studio 4K, which is our 4K 60fps version of a fixed frame camera. So, we're happy to show off this brand new camera today. And of course, never forget to update your firmware. There's a lot of new features that we're always releasing, and they're always free. So, always head to pzoptics.com/firmware to look at the latest firmware for your camera. And don't forget that every live show here on the last Wednesday of every month, we are giving away a Hive Standard Studio license. So, you'll get access to up to three cameras in one studio and you'll be able to use that for a full month and see exactly why Hive Studio is getting excited and heated up. Learn what the buzz is all about, as we like to say around here.
All righty. And of course, we have this little quiz. This is something that we haven't talked about in a little bit, but it's a fun little quiz that you can take that basically shows you a little bit about your own style of production, maybe what you're interested in, the type of creator you might be. So, it's a fun thing that I got to make last year. So, jump into the description, you can find that quiz there, and it'll tell you a little bit more about yourselves. And then, of course, we have the behind the scenes series here. So, Mike, show that graphic here. I want to show exactly what we're working with behind the scenes here. So, we have a couple different things going on here. So, obviously we have a bunch of audio configurations. We have our Preonus in the back there that's being brought in with our SM7B cardioid microphones which are just great. So, we love that. And of course, we have Mike back there. We got a brand new Elgato Stream Deck setup. It's really cool. We have the Superjoy. We're going to show you all the fun cameras like the Studio 4K and Studio SE that we're going to talk about. And none of this could be possible without the producer behind the scenes, Mr. Mike himself. You got a camera back there, Mike? Oh, he doesn't. Okay. Well, we'll have to imagine what Mike looks like in the back today. All right. Well, let's keep moving. Do we have anything else here for live show squares? Yeah. Hey, I just had a few announcements that I wanted to make uh real fast. So, those of you that are attending IBC in Amsterdam uh at the beginning of September, believe it's September 12th through the 15th, uh stop by and visit us at PTZ Optics. I'll be there. Come ask me some questions. Uh that'll be at booth 1b07.
Uh and in addition to that about the firmware updates, please visit ptzoptics.comba.
uh that'll give you new uh first-time access to a lot of new features uh like some of the features we'll be showing you today for the studio series cameras. Uh in addition, we're going to be pushing some new updates for the move series cameras and link series. So stay tuned and uh be the first to try them out. Awesome. All right. Well, stay tuned guys. If you want to join that beta, you can scan that QR code there or look into the description. We have a lot of exciting things to talk about today, but I'm going to jump over to the desk. If you're looking for Paul, he's on a family vacation, but he'll be back hopefully very soon. So, let me jump over to the desk. Mike, if you have the the preview or the video for the move or the studio 4K, that would be great. And then we'll get set up for Share Your Vision.
Go Chill out. Welcome back. Welcome back. So, that was a trailer for the Studio 4K, one of the studio series cameras, and we'll be talking about the Studio SE in a little bit as well. Uh, something we like to do here at PTZ Optics is always talk about our wonderful users. And you can use shareyouvision to tell us exactly how you're using your camera. We want to see what's your setup looking like, the type of hardware you're using, and the type of setup that you have. Even if it's not our cameras, we want to see the full setup on what you're using and exactly how you're using it. So, use hashtagshare vision. And today we have a really cool chess tournament actually all the way from India. So, Mike, show the fine folks at home if you could. Heat. Heat.
So, don't forget to use shareyouvision. Like I said, doesn't matter if you're using one camera, three, six, or 12. Let us know how you're using our cameras because we love to see it here and then maybe you'll be featured on the live show. So, Mike, show my screen here because I want to show exactly how this kind of worked on the back end. So, you had them showing the chess scene. You had both a announcer setup and the actual players there performing. Um, really cool. I just thought this was a really interesting way of using PTZ Optics cameras. They're mainly using the Move SE cameras, I believe. And it's just it's just fascinating to see. There's a huge setup and a huge room in the very beginning of the stream here that I'll show you. Um, so you can just see how many different chess games there have been going on at once. So all the way from India, we have people using PTZ Optics. So really cool, really exciting. Um, let's go and talk about the studio series now. So Josh, I want to throw it over to you immediately just Yes, we have a poll. Let me not forget that. So we're doing some exciting things here where we're going to actually ask you guys some questions so we can ask and learn more about how you guys are using the cameras and how we can learn more from you to deliver a better product and a better camera and controller. So, our first poll here, which I'm going to pull up here on our slide so you can see it here.
All right. Our first poll is, what stage are you in in your production journey?
Are you a long-term pro? Are you just starting off? Or are you looking for tips and tricks? We're curious on where you're at in your production journey. So, if you're watching on YouTube, you'll be able to find that poll in our YouTube section. If you are on Zoom, we're going to upload those polls there as well. So, let us know and we'll try to come back and take a look at exactly where you guys are deciding. So, what stage are you in your production journey? From my experience talking to people, they could range a lot. People that are first- timerrs that want to learn some new tips and tricks. There's also people that come by that have been using our cameras for a long time that just, you know, want to know the latest, greatest features and they're constantly in our Discord and and learning about the cool beta features we're offering.
All righty, we're going to see some polls here. Let's see what we got.
Okay. Have you used a fixed Okay, this is a different poll, but we'll use this one. Have you used a fixed PTZ optics camera before? Yes, I have. Is at 45%.
No, I haven't. Is at 38%.
All righty. So, we'll get to that other poll later. Sorry about the confusion.
All righty. So, Josh, I want to throw it over to you since you are the man behind the hardware, as I like to say. I want to know exactly why we have a studio series. uh we offer amazing 4K and 1080p PTZ cameras, but why do we jump into the fixed frame world? So, I think this strongly comes from uh our our old G2 series. We had several fixed or POV cameras as I like to associate the term. Um and there was a demand for coming up with a new generation as we move towards the 4K uh sensors and higher quality and and some more features additional to that. This is a This is an upgrade to what the uh Studio Pro was as well. Sure. So, we have we've brought a lot of new features. We've taken the customer feedback from some of the things that we missed out on on the Studio Pro uh like the side buttons and the SDI capabilities and now we're we're just bundling it all into uh two nice little packages, a 4K version and an SE version or a 1080p version. Um, but I I see this use in in lots of different places from courtrooms to to basketball games to classrooms, anywhere where you don't really need a PTZ camera and you just want one angle shot. Um, when talking to some other producers out there, they like to always point towards a camera that never needs to move. There's only one time you set it up. It's always ready to go when you need it and you don't have to worry about it being bumped by maybe clean services or some other uh you know unexpected events.
Yeah, absolutely. Um so let's jump into the studio series a little bit further here. So some major features here. They comes in both a 12x and a 20x. Uh this is both a 1080p camera with the studio SE and a 4K with the studio 4K. The cameras, just like all of PTZ Optics cameras, come Hive linked, which I'll get to a little bit. And of course, there's awesome little custom buttons on the side. So, if you have a Studio Pro or you're used to some of our other cameras, this is a really cool new addition. Not only are there pre-programmed buttons, but there's actually custom buttons that you can manually change what the functionality does. And then to jump a little bit deeper into the cameras, I want to show you how there's tons of options when it comes to not only control but also output options as well. So, like I mentioned, the Studio 4K, they look exactly the same. Um, there's two in front of uh Josh here on the set, both white and gray, but they look identical.
So, you only way you'll know one is 1080 is if you see the little SE on the side, and the other is 4K with the 4K on the side of the camera. Um, but otherwise they both are 60fps and they both offer the same features except for some additional features on the studio 4K which Josh will tell us later on in the show. So you have your SDI, HDMI, USB and IPA outputs, whether that's RSTP or RTSP or NDI HX3. And then like I mentioned these are optical zoom cameras. So you can have 12x and 20x optical zooms. And there's a little builtin microphone and tally light as you can see in that gift there. Oh, okay. Outcast, might be time to upgrade the fix Zcam. Okay, that's exciting to hear. Yeah, that's something I really love about these cameras is we have a lot of people asking about like handy cam control and Panasonic cameras or Sony cameras and they don't really make handy cams anymore. And these have become very universally popular because one Ethernet cable, you can plug it right in and you can just power the camera and grab that IP stream and just be on your way. So, of course, you can bring this into Hive whether directly or via Hive linked, which we'll get into. But let's jump a little bit further and talk about that 12x and 20x zoom size because everyone's always asking when we talk about the zoom size, do I need to get a 12x? Do I need to get 20? So, these two cameras come in 12 or 20x. You can see the kind of general field of view. You're getting a a larger angle when you have that 12x 72° and a little tighter, but you'll get a much bigger draw distance and zoom size with that 20x lens. So, Mike and I went to a little bit of an outing not too long ago, last week with our parent company here, and we did a little zoom comparison to show the difference between a 12x and a 20x camera. So, let's roll that clip and you can see exactly the difference between these two cameras zoom sizes. Hello everyone.
Welcome to a little zoom comparison. We're here in King of Pressia at Topgolf where we're going to be zooming in on the beautiful golf range that we have behind us. So, right here we have a 12x and a 20x Studio SE fixed frame camera. These are very powerful cameras with very incredible optical zoom lenses. So, let's go ahead and try out these lens sizes and see exactly how far we can zoom in on both the 12x and the 20x cameras.
All right. Now, you can see the 12x on the left and the 20x on the right. So, you can see just how much more we can zoom in on that 20x. What? We're about I don't know over a hundred yards from that red flag and that 20x is zooming in almost to a medium closeup.
I feel hey.
[Music] [Music] So, that was such a fun time at Topgolf.
We got to see a little bit of zoom comparison. So, if you're interested in a fixed frame camera, let us know what you think would be best for your environment. You think a 12x, a 20x? Uh Josh, I think that might have been your first time seeing that zoom comparison. What did you think of that? That was pretty good. I I like the uh adventure you took at Topgolf. Uh looked like you had a lot of fun while I was stuck in an office working. But uh hey, getting good footage is good footage, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And if you guys like that and you want to see more, you know, getting out in the field and and showing the different level of zoom, especially for that 30x on our PTZ Move series of cameras, I think that'd be really exciting and we could definitely deliver that to you guys. All righty. So, going back to our You can see it right here in front of me. Actually, this is our studio 4K. This is the white model here. The main camera that I'm using actually here is also a studio 4K, a gray version. You can also see those custom buttons that I want to show off here on my slides here. So, let's talk about these buttons. So, you not only have options to zoom, to zoom in and zoom out and focus, but you also have the option for custom buttons and even the menu and and controlling the full menu OSD OSD menu. Um, so what this allows you to do, as you can see in this video, this is a football stadium in I think it's Tennessee, I believe, and they are using the Studio SE with an HDMI output into that monitor. And then they're using IP video over NDI. And they're then able to mount this on a tripod and use those buttons to zoom in and out while they have autofocus on. So this allows them to dynamically control the camera while they can also have an operator pointing and shooting this camera. So this is where custom buttons can also play into the mix. You can use these custom buttons to do one push white balance uh to whether you want to send the camera to a home position or even add like a preset to this uh custom button. You can do that as well. Um personally I like the one push white balance at home. I think it's great if the environment changes or I need to close my blinds or anything like that. I can just tap the button once and it's really easy. It just auto corrects and it's very accurate. And then I also prefer the snap focus as well. So if I want to bring an object up really close and I want to just quickly snap the focus, that helps while I'm sitting down at a desk and trying to so show something to my colleagues at home. So anything I'm missing on the custom buttons, Josh? Uh, no. I mean, that's pretty straightforward for now. Uh, one thing I want to, you know, you're going to hear me talk about this quite a few times, but please visit the the beta group for our cameras. This is where you guys get to voice to us directly on hardware what you don't want to see improvements on. Right now, we picked a a basic subset of functions from the camera that can be customized to these buttons. I'd like to know more. What would you like to see these do? So, through the beta group, reach out, talk to us, let us know. Yes. Thank you guys for all your great feedback. We have about like 500 members in that group and it's constantly growing and we're really excited. The one really special thing about a fixed frame camera is that usually in productions there's always a camera that needs to be locked on to a certain position. Whether that's a podium at the front, maybe it's an assembly line, maybe it's a classroom, or maybe it's even like a top- down camera that you want to see what's on the desk at all times. What's really hard is then trying to take a new camera or a different camera brand and introduce it to a PTZ camera. And then you'll notice how hard it is to color correct or try to deal with mixing these in a production, whether it's through OBS or V-Mix or even Hive Studio. But there is a huge compliment when you bring in a camera with the same sized sensor and the same coloring. So then you can easily mix and match these cameras. So I found that it's even easy here in the studio. We can bring in one of these cameras and it takes very little color correction. It's just based on the environment that the camera's in. But I think that opens it up to being just so easy to use, right?
In in a in a full complex production, you can just bring in that fixed frame camera and it'll be easy to kind of mix with your PTZ cameras. Absolutely. So, don't forget that because it makes it super easy. And if you're wondering like how this might work in your environment, there's a lot of potential for a fixed frame camera. Not only because it's really easy to plug and play and just get set up for a hockey game, for instance, or it'll be permanently mounted in your warehouse for industrial manufacturing as you can see in the the left side there. Or just the way we're using it here in a studio. It's properly named for a reason because you can just mount this in a podcast studio or at your home office and you can integrate it via USB if you want to or you can use it all over IP or even integrate it via SDI. Now, of course, we love houses of worship. They've been a huge component of PTZ Optics, and we want to show you exactly how you can use this. So, I mentioned that it's great for a podium. There's also a lot of times in houses of worship where you might need a camera mounted in a very specific position, like inside of a drum set or, you know, a top- down camera looking down at the piano keys. So, there's a lot of potential for using this inside of a church or a place of worship. So, this is the general ideas of where you could put the camera and where it could be used in your environment. Josh, are there other instances that I'm missing like maybe education? Yeah, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of great places to mount these cameras are again in a spot where you don't want to touch them again or have to worry about them being moved. So, in education, if you have a a a strict tight shot on maybe a whiteboard or your your presenter's podium, this would be where you would line this up and just and navigate to that shot. Mixing it with the PTZ camera then gives you some more freedom to allow the PTZ camera to travel to another location and find its next subject while still holding fixed on on one additional location. Uh, other instances we've we've run across is uh the courtrooms. Uh so in in courtroom environments uh pan tilt zoom cameras you know sometimes can over catch what it should a fixed camera like this POV camera for the studio 4K or studio SE you can have that zoomed in right on you know maybe the judge or the the jury or or where where you need it specifically focused and you don't want it to stray away from that focus point. Yeah. And along the lines of courtrooms is also you know your town halls. I've seen so many PTZ cameras used in town halls and I've also seen so many PTZ cameras, you know, overkill for a town hall, but a camera like the Studio Series, whether 1080 or 4K, you can just plug and play. A volunteer can hop on and record that town hall meeting very quickly. And and another really great place where these cameras could come into play, uh, our beautiful studio that we have set up here, some of these cameras are PTZ cameras. That's right. the shot that's on me. This could be replaced by a POV camera and always set up all the time because we always have one host sitting in your chair. The chair next to me where I'm at now could easily take away the need for PTZ and place uh static shot cameras there.
Yeah. And then you can use a PTZ as a top down camera if you want to move around your environment or to keep in a corner like our big main shot here in the studio is a 30X that we have mounted in the corner there. And uh thank you to Mike, our producer in the back. As you can see here, awesome timing. You can see we even have these little cool bugs up top here that are showing you exactly what cameras we're using while we're live. So, it's really exciting. Thanks for all that hard work, Mike. And let's jump over to the slides here because I want to show you exactly how you can kickstart your project today. People always ask us, you know, where should we go to try to find these cameras? We don't sell directly to everyone online, but there's plenty of options that you have online to start your project today. So, scan the QR code or go to ptzoptics.com/waretoby and you can learn all about your great options and choices. All righty. I'll give you another minute or two to scan that and then we're going to jump into something exciting in a moment here where we're actually going to unbox the Studio SE for the first time. So, you'll be able to see exactly what's included in the box and exactly how to get started yourself if you were to purchase one of these cameras. All righty. So, we're going to get some brand new onair talent here. I don't think you guys have ever met Jenna, but she is a wonderful, passionate marketer here for our company, and she's going to help us unbox this new Studio SE camera here. So, we're really excited. Stay tuned here. And a cool thing about this actually is that the whole setup that we're going to do for this unboxing is all with an action bundle. So, if you don't know what the action bundle here, I have this slide pull up that'll show you exactly what's included in this action bundle. Here's Jenna. Welcome, Jenna. Welcome in. Now, we're using an action bundle which includes two studio cameras, two 4K cameras, and a Superjoy and a Move 4K camera. So, we can see the top down mounted camera that Jenna has. She's opening the box with a quick start guide right on top. And then after you open that, you'll find your camera. And like I said, this looks very identical to the 4K model as well. This is the Studio SE, the 1080p 60 fps version in our gray color. Now, Jenna, could you show the ports off for us?
Beautiful. So, you can see a little bit there, the SDI, HDMI, and the Ethernet on the back.
Something that we didn't mention as well is there is 3.5 mm jacks on the back for audio. So, if you want to bring this in and set it up at a home station or a home desk, you can easily plug that in.
And then there's a couple other options here. I'm going to pass it over to you, Josh, as I help out Jenna here with the setup. Absolutely. So, one thing I'd also like to note as as she's unboxing this, this is all eco-friendly packaging, which is a something that's very important to us here at PTZ Optics. Um, but as she continues on, we have the next case, which is our accessories box. Give her a moment to open that up.
And it'll include a remote control with two batteries.
There are the batteries. A set of it looks like this is the power supply included power supply which if you have POE this is not needed but we have a universal power supply to meet the standards of uh power usage across the world.
And I think last but not least, we may even have, and there it is, a additional locking USB cable. Uh, this will allow you to to utilize the Studio SE as a USB web camera. So, you can easily attach that right into a computer to send that video feed. You will need to power it over either Ethernet or DC power with a included charger. So you can easily uh with that DC power cable. So you can easily connect that and then plug it right into a computer via USB right into the back there. Or Jenna, you can see that device on the right side of your your your uh your setup there is a ATM. It's a switcher that has an HDMI cable. So you're able to also bring an output of an HDMI cable directly into the studio camera as well into the HDMI port in the back. So, a lot of people love these Blackmagic ATM switchers because they're really easy to kind of mix and match multiple cameras or even different camera brands. So, you could have, you know, the action bundle, which is one PTZ camera and two Studio 4Ks, and you could easily switch between them with a V-Mix or an OBS um by connecting that via HDMI or SDI as well.
And then, of course, next to you, there's also a microphone there. And if you don't mind plugging that into the linein port on the back of the camera there. So there's that 3.5 mm cable or jack in the back. You can easily take a microphone, whether it's a long cable or either like a quick easy shotgun mic, and you can easily set up and connect a microphone. And there's even a little part on top of the camera where you can slide in that shotgun mic as well.
All righty. So, Mike, if you show my screen here, the action bundle, which is what we're using to shoot this camera, is two studio 4K cameras and a Move 4K camera. That is the PTZ with the two fixed frames and the Superjoy. So, all of that is included in a bundle and you'll actually save 5% if you were to purchase them all together instead of buying them separate. So, this is Thank you everyone and thank you Jenna. We appreciate you and and everyone give a big shout out to Jenna for that awesome job with the showing us that umbrella there. Alrighty. So, a little more about the action bundle. I want to show off a couple different kind of workflows that you could kind of use with this setup because you could simply get this bundle and then immediately start recording. And these are two different sports instances. So, you can easily record, replay, and mix on a YOLO box. Uh, if you don't know a YOLO box, I don't have it out here right now, but it's kind of a mixture of a recorder and a switcher. So, you can bring in inputs via HDMI and you could still use your Superjoy with the YOLO box as well and even have an output from that Superjoy. So, that's a really easy setup. Or if you want to take it to the next level or maybe start to integrate some other coaching um tools and AV tools, you can use My Sky Coach, which is comes with these kind of remote camera kits where you can connect each of our cameras to so you can easily record that and replay and even like have slow motion replay if you want with my sky coach. So, a lot of fun stuff that you can do through u my sky coach, which is an awesome partner of ours. So, take a look into exactly what's possible with this action bundle, but there's a lot more than just that. Before we get to this awesome flex bundle, I want to talk a little bit about some of these amazing features that are in our studio 4K here.
So,  John,  I want to interrupt you because I know you want to talk about these features, but I I really want to talk about these features and and you're always talking to us about share your vision. Well, I'd like to share my vision of super zoom on the studio 4K. Uh, this is a feature that we've brought to the the 12 and 20x studio 4K cameras that en enables us to turn a 12x camera into a 24x or a 20x camera into a 40x camera.
And I do apologize to the audience. I am not miked up, but we are going to go on a little field trip. So, oh, no worries. That's what I'm here for. I'm I'm a chatty little caddyy here. That's what I'm here for. So, as he's going off, he's using a secret device that is connecting our camera and uh is going to allow us to show off some cool video remotely with this brand new super zoom feature. So, this is exclusive only to the Studio 4K camera.
While there's also the majority of the same features in the Studio SE, you're not going to get this awesome ePTZ and super zoom features. So before Josh gets out there, I'm gonna show you guys this poll since we have some time while he's setting up here. So poll number two, if we can get this in the back here. So I have a question here, and this is a question that always gets brought up when it comes to AV and working with outputs, and that question is 1080 or 4K. So what is your preferred resolution when you use your cameras? It doesn't even have to be just our cameras or our products. What do you guys like to use? Is it 1080? Is it 4K? Or maybe you use a mixture of both and it's really kind of dependent on the scenario. I think that might be the majority, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we've shifted over to 4K and we just expect that to be the standard now. So, let's see what you guys think. What's your preferred resolution?
All righty. So, it sounds like I use both is about 34%.
And then it's getting split pretty evenly again. I wish you had a mic. Mike mic that that would be easier if you could report on those analytics for me. All right, let's see. I don't know if Josh is just ready yet. All right, let's jump over to Josh in the field here.
Josh is setting up a camera, showing off a new super zoom feature.
Beautiful. Thanks for switching that over to auto. We're rebooting now here.
So, this is a 20x camera. So you can see just how far we are zoomed in across almost our entire building. We've been able to zoom in all the way to that stop sign down to the edge of the block. So really impressive. What this allows you to do is it uses that optical lens to jump up and double your distance of zoom. So it's really impressive how you're able to go in and enable this beta feature and it can then send you and double your zoom size. And there's a cool feature that's going to come up and we're going to show you a video in just a second when Josh gets back that'll show you exactly how else you can use the super zoom feature. Um, it's really exciting. And in fact, let's just might as well play that 4K EPDZ trailer and show you exactly how you can use the super zoom feature, not just for zooming in, but also for using EPTZ.
Hey everyone, we're going to take a look at the Studio 4K's latest new feature called Super Zoom, which is adding EPTZ to your Studio 4K camera. Now, this is exclusive to the Studio 4K, but if you have the Studio 4K, you want to get the latest firmware. So, you want to go to ptzopix.com/firmware where you can add our latest firmware files. If you scroll down a little bit, you'll see the Studio 4X for 20x and 12x. You want to make sure that you're downloading the proper firmware for the exact zoom size that you have. So after you do that, you're going to head over to your camera's main web interface. So this is what it'll appear when you first open up your camera. You want to go to camera config and system settings. This is where you can easily scroll down to the bottom and check to see if you're on the latest firmware. uh we are currently on the latest firmware, but if you aren't, it'll let you know that and you can go uh and add that specific firmware file directly here and apply and it'll ask you to update it. It'll apply that new firmware and then you'll reboot the camera and you'll be ready to go. All righty. So, let's look at that new feature coming only to the studio 4K camera. Now, with all that extra 4K space we have on our sensor, this is giving us a lot of opportunity to use EPTZ. So, if you aren't familiar, of course, we have great PTZ cameras that have optical zoom, but now we are offering EPTZ for our fixed frame cameras or the studio series of cameras. So, here I want to show you how you get to enable this. So, this is what happens when you open up the dashboard. You'll see your speed, click on over to image, and then control. This is where you can go to the zoom mode and select super zoom. This is a beta feature, but this is going to allow you to use EPTZ now with your Studio 4K camera. So, you'll select Super Zoom. You'll apply. It'll ask you to reboot your camera. And we are currently already in Super Zoom. So, I want to show you how this works. So, this is our standard frame that we have currently set up. If I set a preset here, I can show you exactly how we're using the PTZ movements all with electronic EPTZ.
So, if you click on another preset here, I have all these different presets set up around my space here. And you can see now this is a fixed frame camera. If you take a look, this is just our studio 4K camera. And this is a fixed frame camera that is simply showing side by side our picture frame here. And now with EPTZ, you can take a fixed frame camera to the next level. This is now going to allow you to easily turn this into a miniature PTZ camera. Now, this is using the strength of your 20x zoom as well as that 4K sensor. So, you can really move in and zoom in closer than you ever could before and even use your standard PTZ settings. So, just like that, you can move your camera around even though this is a fixed frame camera. So, I'll give you a quick little view. You can control this EPZ now completely from your web interf interface. We can zoom back out. All of that movement is done directly with our sensor and the mixture of digital and optical zoom. And I'll show you just how quickly you can move around the space now with a fixed frame camera. Just like that. All righty. So, that's a quick little view on how you can enable the super zoom feature only on the studio 4K camera. Now, you can offer PTZ controls on our fixed frame 4K cameras. You can learn more about the Studio 4K camera at ptzoptics.com/studios.
Welcome back, Josh. Thank you for going out there. How was it out there? Hot. Uh, you know, it's it's actually really nice today. It was enjoyable. Uh, but it was at a 40x uh mixture of digital and optical zoom.
That was a long walk to get all the way out to the end and then come all the way back. So, I hope you really appreciated me me taking that little field trip to to show you the real power of what we've done with this super zoom feature uh and and utilizing the 4K image sensor and this mixture of moving digital zoom to the back end and allowing us to migrate through optically through that space has really allowed this camera to become something very unique and very special. And with us realizing these new features of playing with the 4K image sensor, we now have been able to introduce the EPTZ that John just showed off as well. Um, I know if if you noticed next little tagline of Super Zoom, there's a little beta little in parenthesis. It's not to scare you away. That's to let you provide us with some feedback. Again, through that beta group would be great, but give us your your feedback. Tell us how you like using it. Do we need how do we need to make improvements to make this the best feature to fit all of your needs? So, please let us know.
Yeah. And you can join that beta group in the link down below in the description or you can go directly to that QR code and scan that with your phone. So, you'll join our awesome Discord community where there's tons of active members and community members that uh love to talk about our products and are also sharing their vision. So, that's something that I noticed is that when you bring up EPTZ or digital zoom and you start to mix the optical and digital is that it's kind of scary. In the past, I think a lot of people have been afraid of that because usually the result is extremely grainy footage and it's not usable in a lot of cases. But, I think from what we just saw, it's it's extremely impressive just the quality from an EPTZ. Yeah. So, so the the super voom feature, what it's doing is it's taking the 4K image sensor and locking it down to a 1080 1080p aspect, and that's allowing us to move through that digital zoom. We don't want to go any further into that because every step further into digital zoom we make it is another step into a little bit lower of a resolution. So, we've we've stopped it at 1080, but now you have this full wide width that you can play around with and move around that same image space as well with the EPGZ. Thank you, Josh. Now, Mike, let's jump over back to my slides here because I want to show exactly how that Studio 4K can be used. So, not only is it just a great 4K camera that you can use to stream or record in 4K, it's also perfect for live streaming as well. A lot of productions still are at 1080p when it comes to live streaming. So, it's a perfect camera while you can use those additional great benefits and the larger sensor size to get better results in terms of your image, but you also can easily use this camera in 1080p. There's tons of options. You can use this in 30 fps, 60 fps, you can use it via HDMI.
You can even do multiple outputs at the same time with IP and and HDMI and in other variations that we've shown throughout the show. So, it's also futurep proofing, right? When you buy a 4K camera, you don't have to worry about, oh, but I have a 1080p camera as well. I don't I shouldn't go up, but it's like, yeah, we should future proof.
When you buy a camera, you should think about using this camera for five to 10 years. And I think that's where PTZ Optics kind of shines. We have a 5year warranty, and we constantly support our products. I mean, I spoke to someone last week that had a 9-year-old camera. And I I couldn't believe that it was still working and that they were still using it for actual live production. So, it's really impressive. And if you're interested in the mixing of 1080p and 4K cameras, that's where a flex bundle comes in. Again, you'll save 5%, but it allows you to buy multiple cameras, and that's different cameras as well. So, it could be a studio series camera mixed in with a Move SE and a Move 4K. Or maybe it's all 4K and you just want to have one fixed frame camera with a studio series. So, that's why we offer the Flex bundle because it gives you a lot of flexibility on what you want to choose for your production. And of course, it's going to come with that amazing Superjoy controller. So, if you were to buy one of these bundles or you're just getting started with the action bundle that we just spoke about, or maybe you just got a PTZ camera, well, there's a lot of options for control. I want to jump into this live poll before Oh, that's right. So, we we need to go all the way back to poll number one because this was the wrong poll. Okay, back to poll number one. This is very important because this gives us an overall picture of where you stand. So, what stage are you in your production journey? Are you a longtime pro? Are you just getting started off? Or are you just here looking for tips and tricks? Or D, do you just hate us and you hate watch us? Is that is that why you're here? I know it. I know. I know you. Jared just made up a random name. I don't know anyone with that name. All righty. So let's see what stage are you in in your production journey.
We're getting live results. Let's see here. 37% is a long-term pro.
Interesting. And only 15% is just starting off and then dropping a little bit to 48% is looking for tips and tricks. Interesting. So about half of the audience watching right now is interested in learning new tips and tricks. Well, that's always what we're trying to provide here. It's why we show off these awesome beta features. It's why we're always listening to you guys and it's why we have the Discord group so we can learn from you and grow from your amazing suggestions and comments. Alrighty. So, before we get to a little Q&A and we can give away and do our little crowd purr uh trivia, we have another video because we are going to talk a little bit about Hive Link. So, if you don't know what Hive Link is, I'm going to tell you in this video and then we're going to come back in and we're going to jump into Hive Studio so you can see exactly how you can use a studio camera as well as PTZ cameras all in Hive Studio. So, I'll see you guys on the other side.
Hey everyone, I just got the latest Hive linked beta firmware for the Studio 4K here and I just want to go through the process of Hive linking your camera. Don't forget when you hive link your camera that means Hive is actually going to be running off of your camera. So you're going to be in remote or cloud mode because you're going to be off of your local network that your studio is running. So with that in mind, first things first, you don't need to have a Hive Link camera in order to use Hive. Hive Studio works with over 400 different make and models of cameras.
But if you want to have Hive run off of your camera, and you won't need a computer in that location, that's where you want to hive link your camera. All of PTZ Optics cameras, including the Simple Track 3 next week, are going to be Hive linked. So, you'll be able to quickly jump in, link your camera, and then send that camera anywhere. You can open it up, plug it in via Ethernet, and you'll be able to see that local source in your studio and remotely from anywhere. So, let's jump in and let's take a look here on the web interface. So, now that we have the new beta firmware, we have this little Hive Studio portion that's mentioned here. So, first before we go into that Hive Studio section, I want to go into video config. This is where we're going to find go through and and adjust some recommendations like the video template should be on a medium and you scroll down to the bit rate. This is a very high bit rate, but we recommend just lowering the bit rate when you bring it into Hive Studio. That way you can have as little latency or as maximum latency as possible so you can be smooth and running as quickly as possible in a remote production. So, now that we do that, let's scroll down and make sure that we apply. And like some of these major settings, you'll need to reboot your camera. All righty. So, we have that all ready to go. We adjusted those settings. We rebooted. So, let's go over to the Hive Studio. And now, we're going to link this 12X Studio 4K camera. So, let's link the camera here. And I'm going to log into my version of Hive and make sure we link it to the proper organization. Here we go. We're going to link it to my account here.
And now I'm going to select the exact organization I want. So I want to go directly into our studio location here under our PTZ Optics organization.
I'm going to log in with the credentials. Remember security is very important and we take that very seriously with Hive. want to make sure that you have HTTP authentication and you're secure behind Hive as well as our web interface. So now as Hive loads, we're going to get that connected and we're going to see this camera connected and booted up. And there I am. So that's the secret. That's not the process of, you know, bringing in a camera into Hive. You can do that by just simply simply selecting that add video source button where you can see and discover all of your local and remote sources if you have a bridge connected to a remote location. All righty, we have the studio 4K all set up here. It's actually connected via HDMI to a YOLO box where I'm actually powering it via DC power with this little power box to go. All righty. Now, I'm going to take this all on a tripod and I'm going to go out to my house and I'll see you guys very soon.
[Music] All righty. I'm back in my home office with the Studio 4K came in. It's still running off of the YOLO box just for an output so I can have a recording, but it's connected now via Ethernet to my home network. And there she is right here in Hive Studio. So now you can see that our studio 4K 12x is located directly inside of Hive. Now you can see me there. You can see that we've brought the whole camera in. I can completely now switch over to it. I can, of course, there's no PTZ here, but I can of course zoom in and out if needed, as well as stopping that immediately.
And now I can easily switch between them. So, here's my other cameras. Here I am all on separate networks. And you might be looking and saying, "Oh, well, he maybe have connected another bridge." because you can of course do that with Hive Studio. But no, I'm just connected to my local bridge here. Hive is actually running off of this camera here locally. So, I'm able to sit back, know that I can send this camera out to another location as long as it's set up for DHCP and it'll set up, boom, connect, and instantly appear here in Hive Studio. All right. Now, that is the Hive linked process for the Studio 4K.
And that is the same for all of PTZ Optics cameras now that they're Hive linked. So, this is currently in beta.
you want to head to ptzoptics.com/ba so you can learn more on how you can get access to HiveLink your cameras. All right, I'll see you soon.
Thank you everyone. I know you're seeing a lot of me. I apologize. We'll be over very soon. But we have a little bit of a Q&A coming up. But I want to show you really quickly over on my screen here, Hive Studio. So, if you get a new bundle, whether it's an action bundle or a flex bundle, and you're looking on how you can use this or what's a great tool to just jump in and use three cameras, you had a little bit of a jump scare seeing Danny DeVito, but he's become our little bit of our mascot here in the studio as we have a little print out of him. But I wanted to show different use cases here because you have a studio SE camera with that top down shot here. So, I can go in and I can control the zoom really easily on that camera. So, you could easily just have a volunteer just come in, jump in, and just immediately start using this this uh platform. And what's so amazing is that someone something as easy as an Xbox controller or a game controller, you can go in and just immediately start controlling your camera with one of these controllers.
You know, kids are starting to get on board with robotic cameras and they're seeing like the power and they're seeing that it's almost like playing a video game and it's fun in a way to be a camera controller or a camera operator in a way that really hasn't been fun. In a long time, kids are used to using phones and they're used to using cameras, but now there's you're adding like an element to it that makes it feel more alive and exciting. And I think this goes for all volunteers and besides just children, whether it's a house of worship or, you know, it's just making control easier to use than ever before.
So, it's really easy to use a controller like a game pad. You can just jump in and just move it around with a joystick much like you're used to. Or I could even go over to Danny DeVito's shot here and I could even use one of our hardware controllers as well. So I have the option to zoom in and out and control it with our joystick to really control these cameras. So you can see a little bit of behind the scenes on the demo that we did earlier with the studio camera. Here it is looking beautiful here. And then I have all these different presets set up. So I can easily whip and pan around the room as needed with these presets or I can easily change them on the fly and add a new one. So I can go right back to Danny DeVito and maybe I say, "Oh, that's that's a little bit not exactly where I want it to be." I can zoom in right there and create a brand new preset. So that makes it really easy to kind of jump between different presets. Here we have a Studio SE that's already it's coming in low bandwidth mode on Hive, but you can just see how far you can really zoom in once you get that super zoom enabled.
So, I'll zoom out and it's still about four, three feet away from this table, but you can see just how much you can zoom in and just the ease of control. Just by click of a button, you can easily just create a preset just like that. And now you can easily control all of your camera settings as well inside of Hive, whether it's color presets or opening your aperture. You have a lot of options here. And now this is the last exciting thing I'll hit on with Hive Studio is you have the option now not only to NDI output, but you also have the ability to take a single source and stream out with that source. So via RTMP, you can select the quality and stream profile and then you can enter in your credentials. So you can create a nickname for that destination. So YouTube or or Twitch or Kick, whatever platform you're using. And then you enter in your credentials for your server and your stream key. And this will send one of your video sources directly to any video platform that supports RTMP. So of course there's NDI outputs and recording and ISO recording so you can individually or record all of your inputs all at once. So we're constantly updating Hive Studio. It's still in beta, but we're constantly offering new features and we're very excited. So, the last little bit, again, your cameras don't need to be Hive linked to be used inside of Hive Studio.
It works with over 400 different cameras. So, you don't need to be hive linked. Hive link is just giving you that really easy, simple setup. So, you can grab that camera, throw it to someone, throw it to a volunteer, and they can just plug it into the Ethernet and be on their way. So, that is Hive Studio. Let me know if you're interested in Hive Studio at all and we can tell you a little bit more about it one-on-one. All righty. Now is the time before we get into Crowdpur and giveaway. I want to give everyone the opportunity to ask some questions. We'll throw them up on the screen. If you guys have any questions about PTZ cameras or studio series or you just want to know Josh and I's favorite color, that's what we're here for. Ask us any question. Purple, John. Purple. It's purple.
Yes. That's a good color. Mine's pink. So, a little nice combo.
Okay, so we have a question from Timu or Timu. I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing that incorrectly. How about using a mobile phone for internet access instead of an Ethernet cable? So, that's interesting.
Interesting idea creating like a like a mobile SIM card, but just using like your a hotspot from your phone, for instance. Um, unfortunately, you can't do that, right, Josh? I'm sorry. Can you say that again? You can't Did you say you can't do that or you can't you can't use it currently to use a mobile phone to power the internet for a PTZ optics camera? Uh, no. Not not easily at least. Um, what you really need to have is is your PTZ optics camera needs to be on the same network as your devices. So, if you were using a mobile phone, you could access the web interface and and do controls through it uh if it's on the same network or the same subnet, if you will. um you would have to really think outside the box in order to get your mobile hotspot to to feed your internet into a small network and then create a local network between a PC or your phone and another camera. Yeah. Yeah. If you're asking specifically about PTZ cameras, it's going to be a little bit tricky, but we're always thinking about wireless and you know, we're we always have it in the back of our mind. So, if you have any suggestions on on products or anything at all, let us know. Can you connect a Sure microphone? Sure.
So, if you're using a studio camera, you can connect a Sure microphone. You just need a a 3.5 millimeter jack uh line into the back of the camera itself. Um, it depends. I I I don't want to say all microphones will be supported or can be supported. Um, but correct me if I'm wrong, Josh. That's all line microphones, correct? So, you will need a microphone that has a line level input, not a mic level input. Uh, the audio coming in at that at mic level will be too low to to be audible. So, you need some sort of inline booster with that. Now, the the road mic uh that that Jenna showed next to the camera while she was doing the unboxing, uh that's a powered microphone. So, if you have something similar to that, that's that's a way you can bring it in as long as it can uh output line level audio.
So, we have a question here from Zoom. How about wireless streaming? I know about NDI's license, but what happens if my camera doesn't support it? So, saying that your camera might not have an NDI license, that might be like a G2 camera where you can upgrade it, or it could be a camera that doesn't support NDI.
Uh, so yeah, I'm I'm I'm trying to process this question a little more. Um, because I believe most of our generation 2 cameras, you could upgrade your NDI license to new tech. So, if you have a G2 camera, you should be able to upgrade it to get NDI. If not, all of our cameras come standard with NDI. So, the Move SE is our 1080p PTZ camera. That might be the option. If you're looking for like a 1080p uh NDI camera, that might be the best bet, but you can upgrade it your current. And to caveat off of that, actively all of our uh newer cameras, the G3 series if you will, the the Move 4K, Move SE, Studio 4K, Studio SE, and the Simple Track 3, all are native NDI out of the box, so there's no additional licensing required. All right, any questions at all? We answered our favorite colors, so Mike's going to feed in some more Zoom questions. I'm going to apologize, but my in-ear monitor has completely died. So, I'm I'm leaning on you, John.
Oh, don't worry. We're good. We have a couple more questions coming in from Mike here. He's going to bring them in from Zoom. Thank you for joining. We're trying different ways here. How are you connecting Xbox controllers? So, that's all through Hive Studio. Let me see if I can go back and show you here. So, I was controlling it via a gamepad controller. And I'll show you here both in Hive as well as the controller itself. So, it's just one of these wired connected Xbox controllers. They work really great, but you can get like a third party non-branded Xbox One as well. And this allows you to set it up, as you can see here, as basically a controller. So, you set exactly how you want this to work. Um, there's also hotkeys as well if you want to use like your keyboard and preset your keyboard to do all of that as well. Um, but you of course can use controllers, whether an IP controller like our Superjoy or you can use a game pad like this Xbox 360 controller. So, you can see it almost show or does show you live basically how you're using the functionality which I just love. It's super intuitive. It's super easy to use and I think this is a real gamecher for control. I think kids are going to really just fall in love with controlling a camera this way. It feels just like a video game. So, it's really exciting. It makes it super easy to just buy a bundle, jump into Hive, and just start controlling your cameras day one.
So, it's a really easy solution and and I think you guys are going to love it. So, check out Hive at PDZoptics.com/hive.
If you buy one of our cameras, it comes with a free month of Hive Studio as well. Uh, and that's a standard plan that includes three sources. So, just like what you're seeing here now, you'll get with one of our cameras for a month.
So, uh John, real quick, just to jump back to that last question about the NDI license, uh our wonderful support team has reached out to me just while we're having this conversation to inform you that NDI no longer offers the upgrade path for the older cameras. So, I'm sorry that that it's no longer available. uh to get NDI on your newer cameras, you'll have to upgrade to a Move series camera or a studio series camera. Interesting. Yeah, that must be a new development from New Tech. So, we'll we'll keep you updated to that. Um if not, I think the Move SE is our 1080p. It's our entry camera. I think it's a perfect solution if you're used to our G2 cameras. All right, we have a general product question here, both about the PTZs and studio cameras. Is PTZ Optics considering a higherend full-frame product to compete with some of Sony and Canon and maybe Panasonic is thrown in there as well? That's something that we're always thinking about is how can we, you know, push our image quality and continue to to kind of go up the ladder and make better and better cameras. I think our Move 4K is is phenomenal and you can see the difference on on some of these other cameras. I I won't name names, but you can see the quality when it comes out of our Move 4K. Our engineers have spent a long time crafting the image and and really working on it so that when you open it, you plug it in or or connect it, you're going to get a great image out of it. But Josh, what do you think about like a larger one image size or a bigger sensor in in our cameras? You know, anything's possible. I would just encourage you to always look to the future from what we're coming out with. Uh we are always taking in the feedback from our customers and thinking what should we strive for next. So to answer your question, maybe. But I would uh I would continuously watch out and see what our product line offers. We're always listening. I think Josh always listening. Yes. Always listening. You know, we are always open to feedback. That's why like the more questions you ask here, the more we're going to take it and go to the lab and work on those those new features and those new cameras for you.
All right, we have a Studio SE and Studio 4K question. Can you use any of these for YouTube live streaming seamlessly? So, you of course can. Something I didn't show with the studio cameras is, you know, looking into the actual web interface itself. Um, which you can certainly go in and live stream directly from the cameras. As I showed you in Hive Studio as well, you can go live from any of your sources. So, it's not a full switcher where you're switching between sources and it'll show that program output. But Mike, if you show my screen, you can also go live from all of our cameras, whether it's a PTOZ camera or the studio series. You can, much like in Hive, enter in those URL and stream key, and then you can turn on a stream and apply, and it'll go live to that destination. And something I'd also like to add to to streaming, uh, recently YouTube has changed some of their settings internally for their their streaming platform. uh please follow their guidelines for bit rates and and resolutions as you set up your camera. You may need to do some fine tuning to get rid of some of those annoying warning messages that uh YouTube likes to spit out. But yeah, our cameras are are compatible with YouTube and streaming to YouTube, Facebook, or any others. But uh check their settings first and match the camera to what they report. Yeah, that that just sparked an idea. I mean, I think that's a great video. I don't think we've made something like that in a while. So, we'll try to work on a video that's about the best settings to set your PTZ Optics camera for live streaming to YouTube. So, we'll work on that. What is the latency over SDI interface? Josh, could you help me out with this specific question? I can. I do not have the specifics off the top of my head. Um, but it is very low latency. Um, we are working on a a chart, a comparison chart that'll be coming out uh relatively soon. Um, I think the last time we tested it was somewhere under the 80 milliseconds, but if uh if my support team uh has anything lower, please please ping me and I will follow up. Thank you. Yeah, that's a that's a great idea. I think a document like that would be really helpful. I get asked about that all the time, whether it's, you know, remote camera control and Hive or whether direct input. What's the latency? Does the EPTZ support use uh support use stream deck via the PTZ optics plugin? No. So that's actually just a new firmware update for our cameras. Um so when could you expect EPTZ or Super Zoom to come to the Studio 4K? Uh so the EPZ and Super Zoom will be coming to the Studio 4K should be early next week. Uh we are finalizing the the second version of the firmware on the 12x version. Right now, the 20X version is available in our beta program. Um, please try it out, but we think we are ready for production and we'll be pushing it out later. They always want to make sure it's rock solid before we push it in release. Well, and and one of the good news for for all of the viewers that are watching today, if you are the ones watching, you get the first crack at at the release before we even make announcements. Yep.
So, as soon as it's available, especially through that beta group, check it out. This is a maybe the toughest question we've had all day here. What does the E stand for in EPTZ? Is it Edward? Is it Edison?
I I like I could I could go with Edison. Uh I I truly I truly believe it stands for the uh the electronic pan, Tilt, and Zoom. That's correct. Thank you, Josh. Bingo. You win all the prizes. Speaking of prizes, well, let's jump over to our crowd purr. We do a fun little giveaway every stream here. every last Wednesday of the month. We love to give back to you guys because you guys are so generous to us. We want to show exactly what we can do with our cameras and we've done that today. But we want to know who's going to win, who's going to compete here, and you have to scan this to join or you can go to the link in our description if you want to join this. It's a 10 question trivia. You got to answer the questions as fast as possible and that's how you win. And what do you win, you might be asking? Well, you're going to get a standard studio license to Hive Studio. That's the setup that I was just showing you with those three cameras. You'll get that for a month and I think you're going to really, really enjoy it. And if you get access to Studio Hive or any of these new cameras, please reach out to me and we'll end the show with a contact card. So, if you want to reach out to me and get some more information or talk one-on-one, you can do that as well. All righty. So, I'll give you a couple more minutes here to join the game and I will start the countdown. Now you'll have another 45 seconds to join here.
All righty. So the game begins in 40 seconds here. All these questions are going to be studio series related. So I hope you paid attention today. Ladies and gentlemen, we are counting down here.
See, Road just released new firmware for their Roadcaster. Do your cameras play nice with it? That is something I just saw. I think I actually saw that they're supporting NDI now as well. So, I think I actually, funny enough, Josh is sitting right over here and I think uh yesterday I just saw that announcement on LinkedIn and I think I DM'd you that LinkedIn announcement about Roadcaster and their NDI service. Okay, the game has just begun. Uh we will get into Roadcaster. We haven't uh jumped into that support yet, but we will certainly get there. Uh, what is the maximum resolution output of the Studio 4K? H, tricky, tricky, tricky. I think we can just skip right to that. I think we all know what's happening here. What's the answer? What's the answer?
You have three seconds and Oh, I jumped right over it. Sorry about that, folks. It's been a while since I've done this. Okay, there we go. 89% answered correctly. Let's jump to question number two here. Which camera in the Studio series offers EPTZ?
Boom. Ran out of time. But the Studio 4K. It's exclusive to the Studio 4K, right Josh? That is correct.
All right, let's check in our leaderboards. Here we have Grant in first and couple runnerups, but he's got a big lead. Let's jump to question number three now. All right, question number three. Can the studio series be Hive linked? We talked a little bit about linking your cameras to Hive and how that process works and the benefits to that process.
All right, let's check in our live results. Everyone thinks A it's true because it is true. That is correct.
Great job everybody. That is correct. A is true. Question number four. Which output connections are available on the Studio series? Is it HDMI and SDI or is it IP? SDI USB and HDMI? Maybe it's just USB and IP.
All right, let's check in our live results. Oh, you saw right through us. Too easy. PC last last stream too hard now it's too easy for you guys and the correct answer is B of course studio series supports HDMI USB SDI and IP video NDI HX3 and RTSP so let's jump to number five Studio 4K supports which video streaming protocol natively noticing a trend here let's see the live results again you guys are Good. The correct answer is C. Great job, everybody. 94%. Let's check in on those leaderboards. Grant is still crushing it. Congrats, Grant. You're doing great. Rick right behind it and Stephen third. Great job. All right, question number six. The Studio Series has what kind of zoom options? Is it just a digital zoom camera? Is it a 20x optical zoom camera? or is there both a 12x and a 20x optical zoom choice?
Let's check in on those leaderboards. Grant still there. Nothing has changed obviously and we'll go to correct answer is C. Great job everyone.
There's a 12x and a 20x optical zoom. Question number seven. Studio series has a built-in microphone.
H I have a mic right in front of me, but I'm using a Studio 4K. Is there Is there a microphone in the Studio 4K? H We showed you the 3.5 millimeter jack on the back. Let's see what we got. False. Interesting. Okay, this tells us something. Absolutely. Let's show the correct answer.
It is true. So, most of you think there's no built-in microphones. That's good to know. That means I didn't properly explain that, I think, is what that means. So, thank you guys for letting me know. We'll make sure to get that message out there. Question number eight, which cameras are included in the PTZ Optics action bundle? Is it three Move 4Ks? You can get a bundle with three Move 4Ks. That's called a producer bundle, but that's not the action bundle. Is it two studio 4Ks and one move 4K or is it two studio sees and one move SE? Interesting. Show the live results. Oh, it's so close. But what is the right answer, A or B? It is B with eight answers. Is two Studio 4Ks and one MO 4K? All right, two more questions.
Question number nine. Which feature is exclusive to the Studio 4K compared to the Studio SE?
We're looking for an exclusive feature.
There's a couple exclusive features and exclusive things. Let's show the live results.
Most people are looking at the 4K 60. Too easy, guys. Too easy. Because that's correct. But Josh, that's not the only exclusive feature to the studio 4K, right? That is correct. Super zoom, which also encomp encompasses EPTZ.
And our final question here, who is going to get that studio hive license?
Question number 10. The custom buttons on the studio series cameras can be programmed to do what exactly? Can you change exposures modes only? Or maybe you can just adjust digital zoom levels.
Maybe you can do a lot more. Let's show the live results. Too easy. Too easy.
Everybody's getting it. Oh, it's changed. But you guys are on the money here.
Question number 10 is B. You can trigger PTZ presets. You can push a one-stop push of white balance or even snap focus. Uh, and there's a lot more. You can do a lot more with that custom button than just that. All righty. So, let's reveal the winner here. Let's see who's the winner.
Oh, Anthony in third place. So close. Nice try, Anthony. We got to catch up. It's been a while, Anthony. Rick, congrats on second place. But who is the lucky winner? Did Grant come in? Grant.
He's carried it from question number one all the way to question 10. Congrats, Grant. That is impressive.
Alrighty. So, let me just jump back to my presentation because I would like to end here on one final thing here as I wrap up here. Alrighty, let's close this out. And I want to end by just asking you guys if you guys have any requests from us, any questions at all, you can always reach out to me at john.robertspoptics.com.
I'm here to help. If you guys want to talk about your production or anything else at all, feel free to reach out. You can scan that QR code and set up a meeting with me as well. And we are always listening. Like I said, you want to go to our beta group at ptzoptics.com/ba. There's a lot of great new features.
We're always releasing for our products and stay tuned. We're always updating and providing new things and we're gonna have some new features and products coming down the line in the future we're very excited about. So t stay tuned.
Josh, are there any final words here for us? Uh yeah. Uh just wanted to remind everyone once again IBC booth 1B07 in the beginning of September. Please come visit us. Ask us some questions. You're lucky y'all. you're in Amsterdam or Europe, you guys have a great time there. And we had a great time chatting and streaming with you all today.
Remember, we're here at the last Wednesday of every month. Remember to like, subscribe, and we will be back with some brand new PTZ content. Stay tuned, guys. We'll see you soon