Does anyone have any suggestions for affordable PTZ webcams (pan tilt zoom) that can be controlled through TouchDesigner? If anyone has any experience controlling a PTZ cam in TD, I would appreciate any information on your workflow/setup. I did find this post from a company, but the price for their PTZ USB cameras was very high ($1,800+).
-stewart
I think you’re going to have to spend a lot of money for a PTZ camera (1k+ usd) that supports what you’re after.
We’ve programmed AXIS cameras in the past. They’re incredible to work with, and support TCP/IP connections from TouchDesigner to control their movement. Controlling devices in this way is definitely pro-level functionality, but I’m curious if anyone knows about anything more affordable than AXIS for this sort of thing.
Building on this note, we also recently did a project with a Marshall CV605. Around $700. Worked well. Happy to share the component I made to control it to anyone interested in using it.
Hey Dylan. That would be amazing. We ended up using Obsbot Tails for a while. However, we keep having issues with them. I would love to see what you built for the Marshall. Thanks
sure thing! here you go: base_marshall_camera.tox (4.5 KB)
fyi it requires TDAsyncIO