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This guide explains how Zoom Rooms advanced camera modes can be aligned with Q-SYS camera intelligence to create consistent, intuitive, and high-performing room experiences. The recommended approach is to let Zoom communicate the user’s intent through familiar camera mode controls while Q-SYS delivers the room-specific camera behavior, automation, and orchestration required behind the scenes.

Why Correlate Q-SYS Features to Zoom Camera Modes?

Zoom Rooms provides a familiar interface that users already understand, while Q-SYS can provide the room intelligence needed to support more complex AV designs. This separation of responsibilities allows end users to select simple outcomes without needing to understand the number of cameras, microphone zones, presets, tracking engines, or routing decisions involved.

For Integrators, this approach also creates a scalable deployment model. Zoom camera modes become consistent intent controls across rooms, and Q-SYS becomes the execution layer that adapts those controls to each room design. This helps reduce training requirements, simplifies support conversations, preserves Zoom Rooms user experience consistency, and allows Q-SYS to deliver differentiated outcomes in spaces that require more than a single USB camera can provide. Q-SYS helps deliver these experiences by combining a multi-camera model to a single, easy USB connection. 

Guiding Design Principles

• Start with the intended Zoom outcome: Match the room behavior to the camera mode label the user selects in Zoom Rooms. Make sure to select the camera options desired in the Zoom Web Portal. 
• Keep one familiar control surface: Use the Zoom Rooms controller for common user-facing mode selection whenever possible.
• Let Q-SYS handle the room complexity: Centralize camera routing, presets, tracking logic, microphone-informed decisions, and automation inside Q-SYS.
• Expose only validated modes: A mode should appear to users only when it produces a predictable, repeatable outcome in that room.
• If an extensive camera experience is desired: If control of multiple advanced camera modes are desired to be used simultaneously,please use Q-SYS Room Control to allow for a more customized mode-selection experience.

Recommended Feature Correlation

Zoom Auto-Framing Mapped to Q-SYS Auto-Framing

Zoom Auto-Framing is intended to provide a clean group shot of the participants in the room. This mode should correlate to Q-SYS Auto-Framing when the primary outcome is to keep in-room participants comfortably framed without requiring manual camera adjustment. The reason to map this directly to Zoom Auto-Framing is user expectation: when a user selects Auto-Framing, they expect the room to frame the group automatically, regardless of whether the intelligence is happening in Zoom, in the camera, or within the Q-SYS design.

Recommended Q-SYS Equipment

• Q-SYS Core or supported bridge device with USB Video Bridge enabled
• Zoom Rooms compute and controller
• Supported NC Series camera
• Q-SYS Designer Software 9.9 or higher

Guidance

Use this mapping for standard meeting spaces, huddle rooms, classrooms, and conference rooms where a stable group view improves meeting equity. Avoid enabling multiple competing auto-framing systems at the same time unless the interaction is intentionally designed and tested.

• Follow this guide to set up auto framing for Q-SYS NC Series cameras.
• Follow this guide for instructions to map Zoom Auto-Framing to Q-SYS. 
• Follow this guide for mapping Zoom advanced camera features for NC-90-G2.

Zoom Presenter Focus Mapped to Q-SYS Presenter Spotlight

Zoom Presenter Focus is intended to keep a presenter visible when they are leading from a defined presentation area, stage, teaching wall, or front-of-room zone. This mode should correlate to Q-SYS Presenter Spotlight when the room requires presenter tracking or a presenter-centric camera experience. The reason to map this to Zoom Presenter Focus is that the control should describe the desired meeting experience, while Q-SYS determines how to maintain the best presenter view.

Recommended Q-SYS Equipment

• Q-SYS Core
• VisionSuite VSA when applicable
• Supported cameras
• Microphone inputs
• Zoom Rooms compute and controller

Guidance

Use this mapping for lecture halls, training rooms, executive briefings, classrooms, flexible event spaces, and presentation environments. Define the presenter area clearly, validate presenter entry and exit behavior, and specify fallback behavior when no presenter is detected.

• Follow this guidance for setting up VisionSuite. 
• Follow this guide for enabling Zoom Presenter Focus controls.

Zoom Speaker Focus Mapped to Q-SYS ACPR or Speaker Spotlight

Zoom Speaker Focus is intended to highlight the active in-room speaker. This mode should correlate to Q-SYS Automatic Camera Preset Recall (ACPR), VisionSuite Speaker Spotlight, or supported Active Speaker Framing (on NC-90-G2) behavior when the best speaker view depends on room audio intelligence, seating location, camera angle, or multi-camera selection. The reason to map this to Zoom Speaker Focus is that users should not need to choose between audio zones, presets, or camera logic; they should simply select the mode that means “show the current speaker.” The same concept should be utilized for Speaker Spotlight. 

When using ACPR, it is recommended to enable Auto Framing in each ACPR zone to create the best far-end experience. The Presenter Spotlight camera can be integrated into ACPR by enabling Seervision Integration. For an immersive experience that can track and frame the active talker please layer Speaker Spotlight with Presenter Spotlight and map the feature set to just one Zoom advanced camera mode. 

Recommended Q-SYS Equipment

• Q-SYS Core
• Supported microphone system or ceiling microphone array for speaker localization
• NC Series PTZ cameras (or NC-90-G2 with built in microphone array)
• Zoom Rooms compute and controller

Guidance

Use this mapping for boardrooms, training rooms, classrooms, divisible rooms, and high-impact spaces where active talker visibility is a key part of the collaboration experience. Validate microphone zones, camera presets, switching behavior, and framing settle time before exposing Speaker Focus to users.

• Follow this guidance for best practices to set up ACPR.
• Follow this guide for instructions to map Zoom Speaker Focus to Q-SYS ACPR. 
• Follow this guide for mapping Zoom advanced camera features for NC-90-G2.

Final Recommendation

This recommended approach is to treat Zoom advanced camera modes as user intent controls, and Q-SYS as the execution and orchestration layer. Auto-Framing should correlate to a stable group shot. Presenter Focus should correlate to Presenter Spotlight when presenter tracking is required. Speaker Focus should correlate to active-speaker framing through ACPR, Speaker Spotlight, or supported Active Speaker Framing behavior. This alignment makes the experience easier to deploy, easier to support, and easier for customers to understand because each Zoom mode produces a clear Q-SYS-powered outcome.