What You Get, What It Costs
The AutoAuditorium System is a complete, installed addition to your new or existing auditorium or lecture room. The exact price for your system will depend on your requirements, the System Level you select, and the specific configuration of your room. Your system installer will first perform an Engineering Study of your site, and then quote you a final price.
While you are thinking about price, also consider the savings created using your AutoAuditorium System. The Savings Calculator web page helps generate the numbers.
What You GetWhat You Get
The AutoAuditorium System adds automatic video production capabilities to your new or existing auditorium or lecture room.We expect your room will have a stage, or other presenter's area separated from the audience, and a permanent projection screen. AutoAuditorium Systems work best when projectors (slide, overhead, video, etc.) are mounted in fixed positions and all project onto the same area of the screen. We expect most rooms will have a sound system.
A complete AutoAuditorium System typically adds:
- The AutoAuditorium Controller with Tracking Camera and Director modules
- A Tracking Camera with remote pan/tilt mount and lens control
- 2 or 3 stationary cameras (Spotting Camera, Screen Camera, etc.) and mounts
- Optional direct feed from projector monitor output
- Video Mixer with 3 inputs, minimum
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Sound subsystem
- Stage and Audience Microphones
- Automatic Audio Mixers
- Interconnection with the existing room sound system
- Equipment Rack, including power control
- Base-band Video and Audio Connections to an existing video recorder, video network, video-on-demand server or streaming media digital encoder
In many cases an AutoAuditorium installation can use the existing facilities of your room. For example, the existing sound system and control system are usually integrated with the added AutoAuditorium equipment.
What It Costs
Most of the components added by an AutoAuditorium System are widely available industrial- and broadcast-quality items sold by audio-visual system contractors. You may choose to use relatively smaller, less expensive, single-chip cameras, or, to achieve better video quality and system performance, you can use top-of-the-line, high resolution, 3-chip cameras.NOTE: Most PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) cameras are not compatible because they don't have sufficient control capabilities to perform well with the AutoAuditorium Controller. Contact us for details.
Choice of System Levels
The first step is to determine the system level that is nearest to your needs. Below we list three levels, Basic, Standard, and Professional which represent commonly requested feature sets.The prices are approximate budgeting guidelines. Because an AutoAuditorium System is tightly integrated into the room where it is installed, some installations are easier and less expensive than others. After you have looked over these System Levels and the available Options contact Foveal Systems to discuss your specific needs.
All the System Levels of the AutoAuditorium System start with:
- AutoAuditorium System Controller with Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse
- One-year Controller service and upgrade warranty
- One-Switch AutoAuditorium System ON-OFF Control, including power
- Foveal 3-Axis Rigid Camera Mounts for the Spotting and Screen Cameras
- Video Mixer
- Video Monitor
- Distribution amplifiers, video and audio
- Equipment Rack, power plugs, etc.
- Engineering
- Installation Labor
- Wall or ceiling camera supports, e.g. a shelf for camera mounts
- Cables
- Lighting
- Projection
- Room sound system
- Video network and encoders
† US Dollars; installation within the continental United States
Basic System
Approximately $60,000 †
Provides:
- Smaller rooms
- Moderate video quality
- 3 1-CCD cameras
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Records only the room's existing sound system
No audience sound recording
- 1/4 inch 1-CCD Tracking Camera with integrated Pan/Tilt/Zoom Unit
- 1/3 inch 1-CCD Spotting Camera
- 1/3 inch 1-CCD Screen Camera
Standard System
Approximately $90,000 †
Provides:
- Good video quality
- 3 1/3 inch 3-CCD cameras
- Automatic mixing of room sound system and audience microphones
- 1/3 inch 3-CCD Tracking Camera with remote control Zoom/Focus lens on industrial Pan/Tilt Head
- 1/3 inch 3-CCD Spotting Camera
- 1/3 inch 3-CCD Screen Camera
- Audience ceiling microphones
- Automatic Matrix Audio Mixer
Professional System
Approximately $120,000 †
Provides:
- Excellent video quality
- 4 1/2 inch 3-CCD cameras
- Automatic mixing of room sound system and audience microphones
- 1/2 inch 3-CCD Tracking Camera with remote control Zoom/Focus lens on industrial Pan/Tilt Head
- 1/2 inch 3-CCD Spotting Camera
- 1/2 inch 3-CCD Screen Camera
- 1/2 inch 3-CCD Audience Shot Camera
- Audience ceiling microphones
- Automatic Matrix Audio Mixer
While you are thinking about price, also consider the savings created using your AutoAuditorium System. The Savings Calculator web page helps generate the numbers.
Options
These options can be purchased on any level system; Basic, Standard, or Professional.Multiple Director Shooting Script
The user can be given a choice of directorial styles. Each style can have its own pace, shot choices, and effects choices.
For example, the AutoAuditorium System used to produce the first demonstration video, has a Director "shooting script" which deliberately makes decisions much faster and uses more video effects and transitions than is normal for a lecture given in the same room. By selecting that Director script, the demonstration videos go through most of an AutoAuditorium System's features in a very short time. The scripts customers normally use are much less frenetic.
In another example, a customer had an auditorium which could be split in half. (Look at the first two photos on the AutoAuditorium Installations web page. They were the same auditorium, with the partition wall opened and closed.) The AutoAuditorium System cameras were in the projection booth at the rear of the audience seating. When in Full Room mode, the AutoAuditorium Director used the formal stage and the large screen as the areas of interest. When in Half Room mode, a partition closed across the width of the room, and the AutoAuditorium Director instead was sensitive to the person standing in front of the wall and the much smaller screen. A simple toggle switch made the choice.
Dual Use System
By "Dual Use" we mean one AutoAuditorium Controller can produce a program using either of two sets of cameras. The most common case would be two rooms, each with its own set of cameras and microphones and audio mixer, and one AutoAuditorium Controller, one Video Mixer, one video recorder, and an audio/video routing switcher. Under the Controller's command, the routing switcher "bank switches" the signal sources from one room or other into the Mixer and Controller. The Director can have different production scripts to accommodate the specific needs of each room.
Remember that the Dual Use System will only produce a program from one room at a time. Switching after the end of a program in one room to the beginning of a program in the other room will only take two or three minutes.
Manual Control
Some programs are beyond the AutoAuditorium System's capabilities. In such cases it may be desirable to use the AutoAuditorium System cameras, mixer, DVR, etc. to produce a program under manual control.
We can include a joy-stick control box for the Tracking Camera. A switch then gives the user a choice:
- Have the AutoAuditorium System control the Tracking Camera and Video Mixer.
- Have a person control the Tracking Camera with the joy-stick and run the Video Mixer by hand.
It is also possible to smoothly switch the Tracking Camera from AutoAuditorium to manual mode "on the fly". This allows someone monitoring the AutoAuditorium program to correct a poor choice the software might make. For example, if more than on person comes on stage, the Tracking Camera software may concentrate on the wrong person. By switching the Tracking Camera to manual mode, a person can then create the best shot for the current situation. Switching back to AutoAuditorium mode puts the software back in charge.
Please contact us if you want more details.
Additional Stationary Cameras
It is possible to add additional stationary cameras to be used as covering shots during the program. The cost is very modest and the additional shots provide variety to the program that the viewers appreciate.
For more information, or to learn about compatibility of existing audio-visual equipment that you already own, please Contact Us.
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