Ask for a take admin
Pick a take from today and ask. Nothing plays until you say yes, and requests wait while the camera is rolling.
Abby Monitor · free for iPad and iPhone
Your clients get their own monitor.
No more crowding around video village. Directors, producers, agency and clients watch the shoot live on their own iPad or iPhone, from anywhere on set.
It's one free app. When you let someone in, you choose their level: a viewer just watches, and an admin gets the VIP tools.
ViewerWatches live, switches cameras, sends quick notes and reactions
Admin · VIPEverything a viewer gets, plus group chats, take requests and talk-back to video village
What clients can doComing soon to the App Store
For your admins
Your VIPs, talking quietly.
Make the director, producer or agency lead an admin, and Abby Monitor opens up. They get private group chats like Clients, Camera or Producers, and can start their own. Feedback goes to the right people without anyone walking over to the monitors or shouting across set.
Admins can ask for a take and hold to talk to video village. Everyone, viewer or admin, can pin a note to the take that's rolling. Notes and requests show up with the take and go straight into your wrap report.
- You choose who's an admin, device by device
- Encrypted end to end on each device
- Video village can only read a group it's part of
- Messages delete themselves after 24 hours
Talk-back admin
Hold to talk to video village and hear it answer, over the set's Wi-Fi. A quick question never needs a walk across set.
Private by design
Only devices you approve can watch. Pictures and messages are encrypted end to end, and each viewer's name sits faintly on their picture.
On the big screen
AirPlay or cable to a TV in the client area for a clean, full-screen picture, steered from the phone.
Roll alerts
A soft buzz when cameras roll and two when they cut, so people away from the monitors know when to be quiet.
Easy for anyone
Switch cameras with a tap, or let it follow what you're showing. Hand an iPad to a client and lock it to watching only, with Face ID to unlock.
Clients can try Abby Monitor's demo mode before the shoot, with no Mac needed.
Try it as a client
Be the client for a minute.
This is a pretend iPad running Abby Monitor. Switch cameras, ask for a take, leave a note. Video village will answer.
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You · Agency
As an admin you can ask for takes and chat with your group. Switch to Viewer to see what everyone else gets.
- You're connected and following video village.
Pretend operator, pretend pictures. In the real app, every request waits for a real person.
Want it on your next shoot?
Clients get Abby Monitor free. The operator runs the abby. on a Mac.