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Chris, what all-in-one PTZ cameras do you use when not using your camera rigs? What video output do you use for those?

ASKED BY · Kenny Hampton · GREENVILLE IL · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:53:18

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He uses a Bolin PTZ camera at baseball games; it is waterproof, which is critical for Pacific Northwest conditions, though expensive at approximately $7,000.

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53:15Next question. Next up is from Kenny Hampton in Greenville, Illinois. Chris, what all-in-one PTZ cameras do you use when not using your camera rigs? What video output do you use for those? Do you do a lot of work with PTZs and other sports areas? Not a lot. We have one PTZ camera, and one of our cameras at baseball is a PTZ camera,

53:41and that gives me the ability to remote in. um we have at baseball we have a bolin um one of their exu series so it was i mean it was a seven thousand dollar camera but it is it is waterproof it is one of the things that kind of yeah they convinced me is that i was watching some some reviews and some demos and there was a

54:02guy in a parking lot and had the had the camera on a tripod and he's just standing there parking parking lot with a hose on the just on the camera and i'm like okay all right if it's going to survive that then it will survive the pacific northwest right yeah i was gonna say you're in you're up in the pacific northwest so rain is a serious consideration yeah yeah and so we we use

54:22the we have a bowl in and it's it's really nice it's really expensive it's the most expensive camera we have, but it's really nice. There you go. Next question. Next up is Jeff Keithley in Texas, of course. So why spend all that CapEx money on a hardware vMix server? You could have done it cheaper in the cloud and spend the CapEx difference on hardware

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