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Fortunately, recent technology advances are making it feasible to build automated camera management systems to capture lectures. In this paper we report on our design, implementation and study of such a system. Compared to previous work\u2014which has tended to be technology centric\u2014we started with interviews with professional video producers and used their knowledge and expertise to create video production rules. We then targeted technology components that allowed us to implement a substantial portion of these rules, including the design of a virtual video director. The system\u2019s performance was compared to that of a human operator via a user study. Results suggest that our system\u2019s quality is close to that of a human-controlled system. 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