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Simply drag horizontally or vertically on the canvas to pan or tilt. The mouse-wheel provides zoom control.

Hint: If no camera is connected, a virtual display updates to simulate rotation and zoom as you navigate, but you
may well prefer to connect a camera and assign it to Preview, checking the output the camera on a larger monitor
while making adjustments.

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Some further camera settings are grouped together just to the right of the Preset Editor’s Canvas. The White
Balance
menu offers three options – Auto, Indoor and Outdoor. (This is a global setting, and affects all presets
for the selected camera.)

By contrast, the Focus setting, and the state of its Auto switch are stored individually in each preset. This is
also true for the Iris setting, and its Auto switch.

12.1.4

PTZ AND THE CONTROL SURFACE

Pan, tilt, zoom control, and several settings for connected robotic cameras are also directly supported on
several NewTek control surfaces. See Chapter 22, Control Surfaces for details.