Auto Framing adds three behaviours. Multi-Person widens or tightens the shot to hold everyone on a panel, with an adjustable composition transition speed; Face Direction leaves space in front of the face; Sit/Stand recomposes as a guest rises from a chair. Registered Face Tracking keeps a ranked list of up to seven people and begins following automatically as soon as one of them is detected. Each face can be enabled or disabled as a target, which suits a weekly webcast with the same host and rotating guests. Tracking can be switched on or off over Standard Communication from external control systems, and RC-IP1000 users can now assign Auto Tracking, Trace or Auto Loop to Stream Deck keys.

Tracking moves the head; holding focus is a separate job. Here it falls to EOS iTR AF X, running on Canon's Dual Pixel CMOS AF, which gives priority to the eyes, falls back to the face and finally locks onto the head. Imaging relies on a 1.0-type CMOS chip of 3840 x 2160 effective pixels, working with a DIGIC DV7 engine and outputting 4K UHD up to 59.94p in 4:2:2 10-bit. Optically stabilised, the 15x zoom spans 25.5–382.5 mm in 35 mm terms at f/2.8–4.5 and reaches 30x in Full HD. A motorised ND filter (1/4, 1/16, 1/64), roughly 2.5 lux minimum illumination at 50 Hz and an infrared Night Mode cover difficult light. HLG, PQ, Canon Log 3 and the Wide DR variant of BT.709 keep the tracked angle in step with the main cameras at the grading stage.

London live-streaming company Kinura used exactly this pairing for the UK Climate Change Committee, where three speakers each delivered an address of at least ten minutes in a single take. DoP Max Elgar operated a Canon XF605 as the front camera and left a CR-N700 with Auto Tracking as the unmanned B-camera, controlled from a browser with its feed going into vMix. Because tracking kept a slightly swaying speaker centred, he could place the PTZ closer and frame it tighter than he would normally risk with an unattended camera. In budget terms, that is a usable second angle without a second operator on the day's call sheet.

On the gallery side, 12G-SDI and HDMI output 2160p59.94 in 4:2:2 10-bit, a second 3G-SDI output feeds HD monitoring, and genlock, timecode in/out and RS-422 sit alongside. Network output covers NDI|HX, SRT, RTMP/RTMPS and RTP/RTSP, plus FreeD camera data for virtual sets. Two XLR inputs supplying 48 V phantom power accept lavalier receivers directly. Firmware 1.7.0 also enables SD card recording in XF-AVC or MP4 up to 4K 60p at 600 Mbps, so every tracked angle keeps its own ISO file. The same release opens the crop function to IP streams; it takes as many as two 1080p windows out of the UHD picture and sends one of them out as a main or secondary feed.

A single cable does the rest on a PoE++ switch (IEEE 802.3bt, Class 5); PoE and PoE+ ports cannot power it, and a 12 V DC input is available. Pan reaches ±170° and tilt −30° to +90°, at 0.1–100°/s. Its 100 presets can be driven from RC-IP1000 or RC-IP100 desks, from the Multi-Camera Control app on iPhone and iPad, or from a computer running Remote Camera Control Application software. The carton holds a ceiling plate, two safety cables (one of them running from camera to mount) plus the WL-N01 infrared handset with its battery. Ask our team for a tracking profile built around your venue plan, or for a check of your network switches, before the Canon CR-N700 White Auto Tracking goes up on the rig.

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