Camera Preview
Vū Studio can display a live preview of a camera feed connected to the Vū One system. This lets you monitor the physical camera from your browser or tablet without a separate monitor — useful during virtual production setups.
How Camera Preview Works
When a camera is connected to the Vū Media Server software (via NDI, HDMI capture, or IP camera URL), it sends an MJPEG stream that is decoded, converted to WebRTC video, and streamed directly to your browser via a peer-to-peer WebRTC connection.
The stream is low-latency and does not go through the cloud — it travels directly between the Windows machine and your browser over the network.
Enabling Camera Preview
- Connect your camera to the Vū One system (via NDI, RTSP, or HDMI capture card)
- In Vū Studio, open the Camera panel from the left sidebar
- Select the camera source from the list
- The preview appears in the panel
If no cameras appear, verify the camera is connected and recognized in the Vū Media Server software operator menu.
Camera Preview Resolution
Default preview resolution is 1280×720 @ 24fps. You can request a different resolution from the camera settings panel. Note that higher resolutions use more bandwidth and may introduce latency on slower connections.
Camera Properties
From the Camera panel you can adjust (for supported cameras):
- PTZ controls — pan, tilt, zoom for PTZ cameras
- Exposure — brightness, contrast, shutter
- White balance — color temperature
- Focus — manual or auto
Camera Tracking
For virtual production shoots, camera preview integrates with the Camera Tracking feature to provide parallax effects. See Camera Tracking →.
Network Requirements
Camera preview uses WebRTC, which requires open UDP ports (49152–65535) between your browser and the Windows machine. On corporate or campus networks, TURN server relay is used as a fallback if direct UDP is blocked — though this adds some latency.
See Network & Firewall Requirements → for details.
NDI Audio
NDI streams that include an audio track now pass audio through to Vū Media Server for playback. Audio is handled automatically when an NDI source with audio is selected — no additional configuration is required.
Master volume for NDI audio is controlled by the Volume slider in the player controls, the same as other media assets.