Re: remote camera protocols?

[Cullen Jennings <fluffy@xxxxxx>]

Lots of stuff on FECC “Far End Camera Control” - the most widely used version are stuff the security cameras. Not sure the IETF version is used much. Much of theater lighting and other things are controlled with MIDI and there is lots of stuff implementing various forms of MIDI over IP including AppleMIDI.  For audio, look at some fo the stuff that supports Dante (proprietary de-facto standard)

On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a friend who is a theater person, who as everybody knows has been completely shut down. I remarked to him that it's probably time to start thinking about streaming plays. His counter is that it's expensive which I'm guessing is mainly in the production costs much more than the equipment. What occurs to me is that you don't *really* need camera people on site, or at least it's very plausible that they could do this remotely which would cut down quite a bit of the cost.

So the obvious question is whether there are existing standards for remote operation of cameras, sound equipment, lighting, etc? Is this something we've done?

Mike