Camera control

Run your cameras from the board.

A small agent running on a Mac at video village connects the cameras to the project. You roll and cut from the board, clip names stay matched to the takes, and anyone on the crew can watch every camera on their phone. Not sure about your camera? Look it up.

  • ARRI, RED, Canon and Blackmagic. Record, clip naming, settings, power and media, using each maker’s own protocol.
  • A live picture for the crew. Low-latency video to phones on set, with a grid of every camera.
  • Works on the local network. Anyone on the camera’s network connects directly, so the picture keeps going if the internet goes down.

Coming soon The Mac app. Camera control and the live board in an app for the Mac at video village, finding the cameras on the set’s network for you.

Shot 8D’s details: the frame from the camera, take 3 rolling with its camera and audio clips, and takes 1 and 2 logged.
31camera bodies you can roll from the board
108bodies in the lookup below
$0.10per stream-hour, by the month
How it works

From video village to every phone.

  1. 1

    Run the agent

    Install the Camera Agent on a Mac at video village.

  2. 2

    Connect the cameras

    Add each camera by its address on the set network.

  3. 3

    Roll from the board

    Record, cut and name clips from the board, and watch the picture on any phone.

Control

Roll every camera from one place.

Roll and cut

Start and stop one camera, or all of them at once on a Multi-Cam shot.

Clip names that match

Clip names follow the shot and take so post can find every take.

A profile for each camera

Each supported body has its own control profile, so settings mean the same thing on every camera.

Remote Stream

Watching from off set.

Watching on the camera’s network is always free. From somewhere else it’s free if your connection can reach the camera directly. If it can’t, the picture goes through Cloudflare and uses stream-hours.

Hours that don’t expire

$0.10 an hour by the month, or $0.15 bought once for a single production.

One hour, one viewer

A stream-hour is one camera watched by one person for one hour.

No surprise bills

When you run out of hours remote viewing pauses, and everything on set keeps working.

FAQ

Questions people ask.

What do I need?

A supported camera on the same network as a Mac running the Camera Agent. Camera control and the on-set stream come with every paid plan, and with a project pass.

What kind of network do the cameras need?

Some cameras will only connect over a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network. If your location doesn’t have one, or there’s no internet where you’re shooting, bring a small travel router and connect it to the Mac. Put the cameras and the Mac on it and control and the on-set stream work without any internet.

Get started

Try it on your next shoot.

It's free for one project, from the script to the live board, and you don't need a card.