Drive every camera in the building, whatever badge is on it, down a cable or over the network. Record up to eight channels in step, patch the router, and stream the programme. All from a single screen.
Buy a Panasonic camera and you buy a Panasonic controller. Add a Sony and you buy a Sony one. Add a third brand and there's a third panel on the desk, none of which talk to each other.
Vantera ends that. Point the panel you already own at Vantera and it drives every camera in the building: Sony from a Panasonic desk, Panasonic from a Sony joystick, all of it from one seat.
Plug in a PlayStation or Xbox controller and it just works. Thumbstick pans and tilts, triggers zoom, the face buttons jump to your presets. Most volunteers are comfortable inside a minute, because the layout is already second nature.
Prefer an ATEM Broadcast or Advanced Panel, a proper joystick, the keyboard, or the on-screen stick? All of them work, all at the same time, and whoever touched a control last is the one in charge.
Running lighter? An Elgato Stream Deck picks up camera moves, presets, recording and switching from a handful of keys, plenty for a volunteer team that doesn't need a full desk.
Most venues buy these as four separate products and spend every show tabbing between them. In Vantera they're four pages of the same app, sharing one camera list and one set of channel numbers — so channel 3 means the same thing wherever you are.
Sunday morning, a graduation, a sold-out recital. The show happens whether the software cooperates or not — which is the whole reason Vantera works the way it does.
Eight cameras, two capture cards and a recital every other evening. One technical director gets the whole thing recorded, routed and streamed without three apps fighting over the hardware.
The person running Sunday is a volunteer, not a broadcast engineer. A games controller, eight presets and one screen matter more here than any feature list.
You already bought the cameras, often from two or three makers. Vantera drives all of them from one seat instead of one panel per badge.
Vantera started as camera control and became a recorder, a router and a switcher because that's what venues kept asking for. That hasn't stopped, and because the whole product is one application under one licence, new work reaches you as an update rather than another purchase order.