Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – May 6, 2026 – At Panopto Innovate EMEA 2026, the largest gathering of university video learning professionals in Europe, Panopto and Epiphan Video announced the availability of the EC20, the world’s first Panopto Certified PTZ camera. The EC20 integrates seamlessly with Panopto’s video management platform, expanding deployment flexibility by allowing institutions to connect a Panopto Remote Recorder directly to the camera while continuing to leverage existing hardware encoder infrastructure.
“We are proud to deepen our strategic partnership with Epiphan and bring the world’s first Panopto Remote Recorder Certified PTZ camera to market,” said Kuljit Dharni, Chief Product Officer at Panopto. “While dedicated capture appliances remain a vital cornerstone of our ecosystem, customer feedback has highlighted a strong desire for direct-to-camera remote recording options. Epiphan has excelled in delivering this next-generation approach. This collaboration expands the range of options available to our customers, giving institutions a flexible, affordable, and streamlined path to extending high-quality video capture across every room on campus and enhancing the overall learning experience.”
The Epiphan EC20 is purpose-built for lecture capture, offering direct Panopto integration and a zero-encoder workflow. It features a high-quality CMOS sensor capturing 4K video at 60fps, a 20x optical zoom, and built-in AI auto-tracking with both Presenter and Zone modes. Designed for unprecedented ease of installation, the EC20 utilizes a single Ethernet cable to deliver power (PoE+), Dante audio over IP, and direct network streaming to Panopto. With its LCD screen for easy IP identification and Epiphan Edge cloud management tools, it ensures secure content recording, precise delivery, and effortless deployment at scale.
“The EC20 represents a major step forward in simplifying lecture capture for educational environments,” said Yusupha Touray, Head of Product at Epiphan Video. “This partnership is about empowering institutions to expand video across every room without compromise. Together with Panopto, we’re delivering a solution that reduces barriers to adoption while maintaining the highest standards for video quality, reliability, and scalability. Being the first to bring a certified remote recorder PTZ camera to market provides confidence to all Panopto customers that our teams are working together at the highest levels to define the future of ubiquitous, high-quality video on campus.”
Panopto and Epiphan remain dedicated to elevating the online learning experience for modern institutions and commercial businesses. The strategic partnership empowers new and future models of educational and employee learning design and delivery with a next-generation video capture solution, including improved knowledge sharing, remote recording, and scaling content delivery across time zones, cultures, and campuses.
“With flexible connectivity and control, the EC20 simplifies camera deployment across classrooms and collaboration spaces while delivering reliable, broadcast-quality video,” said Troy Powers, AV Systems Support Lead at Northwestern University. “The EC20 works seamlessly within Panopto workflows, giving instructors consistent, high-quality video without adding complexity. When integrated with Panopto, the EC20 truly delivers a ‘set it and forget it’ lecture capture experience.”
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For more information on the Epiphan EC20 Panopto Certified Remote Recorder, please visit https://www.epiphan.com/ec20-panopto-recording-camera/
About Epiphan Video
Epiphan solutions are used in a wide range of applications, such as professional audiovisual events, corporate communication, collaboration, distance learning, training, simulation, medical imaging, computing, industrial control rooms, security, and transportation applications. Epiphan’s products are trusted anywhere capturing, processing, recording, sharing, and replaying multiple high-resolution audio video sources is critical to effective communication.
Epiphan Video is a trade name of Epiphan Systems Inc., a privately owned company incorporated in 2003. Epiphan is based in Palo Alto, California, USA, and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with regional offices and a network of authorized channel partners and OEMs throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.epiphan.com.
About Panopto
Panopto, the leading video-learning platform, makes the future of learning flexible for educational institutions and smarter teams. AI-driven features connect students to accessible coursework and classrooms and employees to searchable training–wherever they are, whenever they need it.
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