Tracking, unified
The base unit knows the column height at every moment and merges PTZ pan, tilt, zoom and focus into a single FreeD stream. One cable to your engine, nothing to stitch together.
The Lift
Rise. Track.
One signal.
A servo-driven telescopic column that lifts your PTZ camera and merges its tracking with the column height into a single genlocked FreeD stream. Built for broadcast studios and virtual production.
From €5,800.00.
Genlocked by design
Genlock in keeps every tracking packet locked to your studio reference. No drift, no per-axis offsets to chase during the show.
Smooth servo motion
A servo drive raises and lowers the column with broadcast-grade precision, quiet enough to move on air.
How it works
01
Mount your PTZ
The Lift carries your PTZ camera on top and takes its tracking data in at the base.
02
Feed genlock
Plug your studio reference into the genlock input on the base unit.
03
Take one FreeD out
Column height and camera tracking leave as one synchronized FreeD signal, ready for your virtual production engine.
Broadcast
Built to broadcast standards
Quiet enough to move during a take, so a rise belongs to the shot instead of forcing a cut. Adjustable levelling feet set the column true on a floor that never is, and hold it there.
The motion is stable and repeatable, which in the end is what the tracking is worth: an engine can only be as precise as the mechanics under the camera. Built in Europe to the standards a studio gallery expects, from materials chosen for a room that works every day.
Virtual production
Built for virtual production
A tracked camera is only worth the data behind it. A PTZ on a fixed pole gives your engine four axes and a fixed guess at the fifth, so the moment anyone changes the height the virtual set stops agreeing with the real one — and getting it back means measuring, typing in an offset, and hoping.
The Lift closes that gap in hardware. It knows its own column position at every moment and folds it into the same FreeD packet as the camera’s pan, tilt, zoom and focus, every packet locked to your studio reference. The engine receives one tracked object that is correct in space, so the set holds while the camera rises and a vertical move becomes a shot you can call live. Unreal Engine, Zero Density, Brainstorm, Pixotope: if it speaks FreeD, it speaks to the Lift.
Control
Three ways to drive the column
On the column, a 2.5-inch LCD carries the full menu: raise and lower, travel limits, network and IP, tracking settings. The operator standing next to it needs nothing else — no laptop, no leaving the floor.
Over the network, a dashboard in the browser reaches the same controls from the gallery. And an API opens the column to the desk you already run, so a Companion button can send it to a stored position between shots.
Connections
One column, every connection
The column carries the signals so the camera does not have to. Genlock arrives once at the base and leaves again on a loop-through output, so studio reference reaches the column and the camera without a splitter in between.
An integrated network switch puts two RJ45 ports on the column: one for the Lift, one for the camera, on a single run back to the gallery. Nothing new hangs off the head — the camera keeps the cables it already needed, and the column distributes the rest.
Specifications
- Height
- 780 mm closed, 1580 mm fully extended (1780mm upon request)
- Stroke
- 800 mm (1000mm upon request)
- Stages
- Three
- Display
- 2.5" LCD — column settings, network and tracking
- Genlock
- In, plus loop-through out for the camera
- Network
- Integrated switch, 2 × RJ45
- Speed
- ≈ 25 mm/s unloaded, limited to 20 mm/s
- Weight
- 30 kg
Heights include the levelling feet at the base and the camera plate on top. They do not include the camera itself.
Let’s talk about your set.
Tell us how you shoot and what you need to track. We come back with specs, lead times and pricing.
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