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4.2 Crestron CaptureLive HD

The first of the systems that was tried and tested for this thesis is the Crestron Cap-

tureLive HD. Figure 5 displays the CaptureLive HD system included with a few of the

peripherals required for the system to work; the CAPTURE-TPMC-4SM Touch Screen

Controller, CAM-IFB-100, CAM-IPTZ-100, or a similar camera and a microphone. The

components that were acquired for testing the solution were the CaptureLive HD, the

Touch Screen Controller, a compatible camera that was assured by a Crestron repre-

sentative, to work with the Capture HD system, and the Crestron MP-FS100_PAK

FreeSpeech microphone solution. [17]

Figure 5 Capture HD with Camera and the Touch Screen Controller [16]

As the Crestron CaptureLive HD product description claims, “The CaptureLive HD™

system from Crestron® answers the call for a high-quality meeting and lecture capture

solution that is simple enough for the entire faculty to use, and affordable enough for

wide-scale deployment across any sized campus or corporate enterprise”. It is market-

ed as an all-in-one recording and streaming system and comes in two versions, the

CaptureLive HD and the upgraded version the CaptureLive HD Pro. The CaptureLive

HD, out-of-the-box, has several key features that make it a viable choice; the Capture-

Live HD has ports for content, camera and speech inputs, as well as ports for local

output, live streaming and Ethernet. It also comes with a 16 gigabyte (GB) memory

card with support for USB (Universal Serial Bus) Flash drives and uses an HDMI-