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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.

On this page:
What You Get What It Costs

Basic System Standard System Professional System

Choice of System Levels
Multiple Director Shooting Script Dual Use System
Options
Manual Control Additional Stationary Cameras

What 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
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.

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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.

The approximate prices include rough estimates for:

Engineering
Installation Labor
Wall or ceiling camera supports, e.g. a shelf for camera mounts
Cables

They do not include:

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
Records only the room's existing sound system
No audience sound recording

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Includes:

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

Includes:

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

Includes:

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.

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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

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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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