Hand-controllable

Hand-control your entire edelkrone motion control system, including the slide, pan, tilt and focus for a hassle-free production. Camera motions (keyframes) can be positioned using your hands without the need for a remote control or mouse. This hand-control capability creates unprecedented efficiency in your workflow and makes the whole process that much more intuitive.

Turn knob to focus

Easily control Focus Module & Focus/Zoom Module for HeadPLUS using the knob located on Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco to adjust the focus of your camera and capture the perfect shot for every frame of your stop motion.
While the Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco is optimized for the new generation HeadPLUS and Focus/Zoom Module for HeadPLUS, it can also be used with the previous generation HeadPLUS v1 and Focus Module.

Precise & repeatable motions

Both HeadPLUS and Motor Module, and their predecessors, have super-accurate, backlash-free gear design which creates perfectly repeatable and smooth motion, even with the most demanding shots. The system can be moved back to the same position each time, making it especially useful when you need to retake previous frames of your animation.
Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco only supports the shoot-move-shoot motion when used with Dragonframe.

Mobile edelkrone App essentials on your personal computer

Access all the innovative and essential features of edelkrone App (iOS/Android) on your desktop or laptop computer with the Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco. You can control pan & tilt, slide, jib, dolly and focus motions, create keyposes, and also adjust the speed and acceleration via edelkrone Web App.
When using Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco, you can connect and control your edelkrone motion control systems with both edelkrone Web App and edelkrone App at the same time.
edelkrone Web App will be installed on your computer by default when you install the edelkrone Software Development Kit (SDK).

Simultaneous control of multiple setups on a single computer

Each Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco can be connected to a single edelkrone motion control unit or bundled setup, and multiple edelkrone motion control setups can be managed simultaneously when using more than one Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco.

When multiple Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Mocos are connected to the same computer, you can run a dedicated edelkrone Web App for each Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco side by side on a single screen. This allows you to operate several edelkrone motion control setups from a single control center and run an entire production by yourself effortlessly.

Intuitive pairing with the edelkrone ecosystem

Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco is compatible with edelkrone motion control systems released after November 18, 2018 and can connect to them wirelessly. Additionally, the edelkrone motion control systems released after July 2020, such as the Motor Module and HeadPLUS, have the option of a wired connection with Mac/PC Adapter for edelkrone Moco using cables.
In trying conditions, where there is environmental interference with wireless connection, compatible edelkrone motion control systems can have a wired connection with cables to ensure optimum and stable connection with the help of the new Wired Signal Hub for edelkrone Moco. Wired Signal Hub for edelkrone Moco is sold separately to connect the devices with one another.
By design, the ingenious edelkrone Web App runs on your computer without requiring an internet connection, so you can also work offline when needed.

High-level motion control

edelkrone SDK is currently in the beta stage and only supports high-level motion control commands that allow you to move the axes via joystick commands or keypose commands. With keypose commands, you can store multiple axis values in a single setpoint group called keyposes and recall them with specific speed and acceleration. Motion planning and control are handled inside the motion control system firmware. You can check the progress and instant axis values via periodic readout API commands.

edelkrone SDK is the backbone of edelkrone Web App

We developed the edelkrone Web App not only as a final product that our end-users can use to simply control their edelkrone motion control systems on a personal computer, but also to showcase the limitless capabilities of edelkrone SDK. Each API call to edelkrone SDK that we use in edelkrone Web App is openly documented. The source code of the edelkrone Web App itself is released as open source under MIT license. You may refer to the source code when developing your own web or other platform based software.
In addition to edelkrone Web App, we supply Python based example scripts for you to explore. More examples of other platforms are coming soon. When you install the edelkrone SDK, you will receive the necessary documentation, the source code of edelkrone Web App as well as these example scripts.

More features coming soon

If you want even finer level motion control support, wait for our v1.0 release which is coming soon. With the upcoming motion command set called the real-time motion interface, you will be able to send setpoints for each axis down to ~16ms periods with supported products when using the wired interface. With this upcoming real-time motion interface, you can playback any arbitrary motion curve in real life up to 60FPS.
This motion control interface will be crucial for various artificial/virtual/mixed reality, VFX and robotics applications.