{"id":10040,"date":"2021-04-08T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:03:29","slug":"what-is-ptz-control-and-how-does-ptz-control-work-on-ndi-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/what-is-ptz-control-and-how-does-ptz-control-work-on-ndi-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"What is PTZ Control and How does PTZ Control Work on NDI\u00ae Cameras?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the advancement of CCD\/CMOS sensor technology, many PTZ cameras, such as video conferencing cameras, smart home cameras, and others, have emerged in the consumer-level user field. PTZ cameras are featured with fast running speed, optical zoom, precise positioning, and flexible control methods, and are greatly applied in radio and television production and audio-visual fields, such as: video conferencing, educational recording and broadcasting, etc. Now there are many camera manufacturers have launched corresponding products, such as Sony\u2019s BRC-H780 broadcast-grade PTZ camera, Lumens\u2019 VC -BR70H video conferencing 4K PTZ camera, with resolutions evolving from HD to 4K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NDI\u00ae technology introduced by NewTek transmits high-quality audio and video images with low latency and high efficiency, but also transmit PTZ commands. As an official partner of NewTek, Kiloview NDI\u00ae encoders now receive PTZ commands sent from the NDI\u00ae decoder and convert them into protocols that can be recognized by ordinary cameras to realize the actual scene control of PTZ. (See blog:\u00a0What is NDI? Why is NDI technology favored by the market?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiloview NDI\u00ae series products are powerful, ultra-high-definition, high-quality, ultra-low latency, and support multiple PTZ control protocols, including Sony Visca\/Visca(Laia)\/Visca(Kato)\/PELCO-D\/PELCO-P, etc. It will continue to add features according to your needs to better help you control PTZ cameras under different usage scenarios. (See news:\u00a0Gift Before Christmas\uff01Kiloview’s NDI \u00ae Converters Support PTZ control Now!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiloview NDI\u00ae series products support the control of PTZ cameras through serial port or network PTZ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenario 1: PTZ camera supports serial port control<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a commonly used camera, you need to connect the HDMI cable and PTZ control cable to the NDI\u00ae encoder at the same time by connecting NDI\u00ae encoder via USB to RS232\/RS422\/RS485 converter. You can receive the PTZ commands converted from Kiloview NDI\u00ae encoders for control with Visca\/PELCO-D\/PELCO-P and other protocols. The receiving end is a\u00a0Kiloview NDI\u00ae converter\u00a0or a software end that supports NDI\u00ae PTZ control.\u00a0The connection scheme is shown in the figure below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scenario 2: Cameras supporting network PTZ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For cameras that support network PTZ, you can directly connect the camera and the NDI\u00ae encoder through HDMI cables, and connect them in the same local area network through network cables.\u00a0The NDI\u00ae converter\u00a0sends PTZ commands to the NDI\u00ae encoder through the network, and the NDI\u00ae encoder converts the protocol into a protocol that the camera can support, such as Visca\/PELCO-D\/PELCO-P, etc., and sends it to the PTZ camera for control.\u00a0The connection scheme is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiloview NDI\u00ae converter\u2019s backend can also simply implement PTZ control functions, such as opening and closing the camera, adjusting various directions of movement and movement speed, preset points, automatic scanning, zooming and other controls. In addition, the control on the decoder side can also replace the PTZ camera controller with a small keyboard, which makes it more convenient and low-cost to operate the PTZ control on the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiloview NDI\u00ae converter\u2019s backend can also simply implement PTZ control functions, such as opening and closing the camera, adjusting various directions of movement and movement speed, preset points, automatic scanning, zooming and other controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55363,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions\/55363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}