Canon continues to expand its product range in India. Recently, the company has announced the launch of its new indoor 4K remote PTZ camera, CR-N700, expanding its remote camera lineup. The camera is designed to assist broadcasters with advanced video production and deliver high image quality, featuring exceptional connectivity and class-leading autofocus. In addition to the camera, Canon also introduced two innovative add-on applications, auto-tracking and auto-loop, to enhance productivity.
With the increasing demand for content
creation and live streaming, Canon has been expanding its range of indoor
remote PTZ camera systems to contribute to efficient production workflows and
provide visually appealing experiences. The CR-N700 excels in image quality,
supporting high-quality 4K/60P/4:2:2/10-bit video recording and enabling HDR
recording in HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) or PQ (Perceptual Quantization) formats to
meet diverse production requirements.
Leveraging Canon’s technology and
expertise in professional video cameras, the CR-N700 also includes a 15x zoom
lens, 1.0-inch CMOS sensor, and DIGIC DV7 image processing engine, among other
features that enhance image quality. The CR-N700 is particularly suitable for
professional video production, offering superior image quality and excellent
support for broadcasting large-scale live events. It incorporates enhanced
human recognition features such as Dual Pixel CMOS AF autofocus, eye-detect AF,
and head-detect AF.
These features enable the camera to
identify and track fast-moving subjects with greater accuracy and clarity.
Additionally, the two new innovative applications, Auto Tracking and Auto Loop,
currently support the CR-N700 and will expand to cover more compatible remote
PTZ cameras from Canon’s lineup in the future. These consumer-centric features
are designed to improve productivity and reduce workload and manpower for
remote production, allowing operators to focus on tasks such as camera
switching and content delivery without the need for additional equipment like
servers or computers.
This application enables the remote camera
to automatically track speakers or other specified persons during commercial
presentations, lectures, and events. With in-camera visual analysis, the system
achieves exceptional tracking capability, allowing shooting with various
viewpoints, including full body, upper body, shoulders-up, and others, while
accurately following the movement of subjects ranging from slow to brisk
speeds.
In addition to capturing human figures
typically required for broadcasting commercial events and lectures, the remote
camera, equipped with a high-performance pan/tilt mechanism, can smoothly
capture the slow movement of subjects for high-quality video production. The
application also offers a wide range of adjustment settings, such as
Composition, Tracking Sensitivity, and Priority Display Area.
This application enables the remote camera
to automatically repeat subtle pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) staging movements commonly
performed by operators during the broadcast of events like sports competitions,
interviews, TV commercials, and movies. Operators can adjust parameters such as
Position Setting to determine the pause duration at each point, Route Setting
to determine movement speed, and other operations including Preview and Start,
which can be easily configured on the settings screen