Picture in Picture On Zoom Room

[PeterHKDL]

I work at a TV station that also operates multiple PTZ cameras for board room meetings. There is the table for the boards, a podium, and a computer desk that we often switch between while having two picture-in-picture windows at the bottom left and bottom right corners so you can see the back and forth discussions while not having to switch the cameras constantly.

We are looking into doing Zoom Rooms so we have flexibility in terms of remotely covering the meetings, however we were told by the person looking to install the new setup that Zoom Rooms do not support picture-in-picture the way we do it now, but I understand that Zoom does updates to their software.

Is there native support for having picture-in-picture with Zoom Rooms the way I described? Otherwise, is there any third party software like a plug-in of some sort available that would support that kind of picture-in-picture?

[bstrelko]

More information is required on your existing hardware infrastructure, but this is absolutely possible with the correct outboard hardware and/or 3rd-party software.

Having worked in broadcast, I can confidently say that Zoom is perhaps the least broadcast friendly of all the modern UC platforms and doesn't 'get' broadcast use cases (see development flops 'Production Studio' and 'Backstage' that are too complicated for non-broadcast types and too weak/limited for actual broadcasters).

ZoomISO (Mac-only, womp) and NDI will be your friend here.

Traditional hardware/software window processors are also completely valid, depending on where they sit in your design.