Controlling Cameras

Select one or more tiles and a floating control panel appears. From it you can flip each camera between off, live, and record, flip the lens, toggle the torch, switch the aspect ratio, and assign a shot from your shot list — all sent to every selected camera at once. Rolling a camera into record also captures the feed on the monitor as a slated take.

Select the Cameras First

Controls always act on the cameras you’ve selected. Click a tile to select it (a blue border appears); click more tiles to add them to the selection. As soon as at least one camera is selected the floating panel appears, and every action you take is sent to all selected cameras together — so you can, say, roll three cameras at once. The panel shows how many cameras are currently selected.

The Floating Control Panel

The panel floats over the grid so it never covers the feed you care about. Grab the handle along its top edge and drag it anywhere on screen. It stays put until you deselect every camera, at which point it disappears.

Off, Live, and Record

The tall three-position switch is the heart of the panel — it mirrors the camera-mode dial in the mobile app and remotely sets the selected cameras’ mode:

·OFF — the camera is idle and not sending video

·LIVE — the camera streams to the monitor so you can watch it, without recording

·REC — the camera records, its tile shows the pulsing REC badge, and the take is captured on the monitor too

When you’ve selected several cameras that aren’t all in the same mode, the switch reflects the safest shared reading of the group so you always know the baseline before you change it.

Flip, Torch, and Aspect Ratio

Three round buttons handle the common camera adjustments, again applied to every selected device:

Flip

Switch between the front and rear lens.

Torch

Turn the device’s light on or off for a quick fill.

Aspect

Toggle the recording ratio between 16:9 and 4:3; the button shows the current ratio.

Assigning a Shot

The Shot… dropdown lists every shot from your project’s shot list, each showing its shot label and camera angle. Pick one and it’s assigned to the selected cameras, so their tiles then display that shot label and angle and any recorded take is tagged with it. The dropdown only appears when your project has shots to choose from.

Recording Straight Into Takes

Rolling a camera into record does double duty. While the phone records locally, the monitor captures the same feed and, for the first couple of seconds, overlays a digital slate stamped with the project name, the shot and take number, and the date and time. When recording stops, that clip is saved as a take — carrying its shot label, camera angle, take number, and duration — and shows up in the project’s Takes tab, ready to review, circle, and cut with.