Users report issues with Canon's native PTZ auto-tracking, with one user's company building their own software to enhance the system and another stating it "sometimes doesn't work" in corporate...

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        "author": "GuyNamedLindsey",
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        "excerpt": "Depending on how you define \"AI\" \"auto-tracking\" and \"broadcast\" I can argue that I have around a dozen systems that do zero operator live broadcasts (a few OTA/cable, most YT live) -- camera positioning, switching, graphics, etc. all done automatically with essentially no direct intervention besides a \"Start Broadcast\" and \"End Broadcast\" button press.\n\n I'm working on an additional layer of logi",
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        "excerpt": "So... this is interesting, my company does this routinely, but made our own software and tracking system (beefed up version of the Canon OS native tracking, with a couple other tracking metrics).\n\n But this is something we routinely use and record at a 1 op : 4 cam ratio.",
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