Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials.
My name is Richard Evans and today we're going to talk about
4k workflows. Now there are several different ways to bring
in 4k signals into and out of the NDI environment.
Now I've got a bunch of stuff on my desk to show you how to do this.
So to start off I have a camera that is currently pointed at me
outputting a 4k signal via quad link SDI meaning that there are four sdi cables
coming from it that I can connect to my NDIworkflow via this bad
boy right here the NC1 Studio I/O Module.
Now this system allows you to bring in up to eight HD SDI inputs or you can
reconfigure those inputs to bring in two 4k quad link SDI sources
which then converts that signal into NDI.
Now let's move over to the TriCaster 2 Elite and start up our broadcast.
Alright so here is the session that I've built within my TriCaster 2 Elite and
what I want to do is bring in the signal that I have coming into my NC1 I/O over
the network via NDI and to do that we'll go to any of our
inputs. Let's go to input number one click on the gear configuration for that
and under my source drop-down I'll navigate through all the different
devices that I have connected via NDI and let's find my NC1 I/O there it is
and select input number one and ta-da now I have my camera up and ready to go
on my TriCaster 2. But now let's move over to the NC1
Studio I/O module and show you how I configured that
alright so now we're in the NC1 Studio I/O module interface
and I want to show you how to configure this to bring in those signals.
So first things first, Let's go to the top right corner and click on this gear
icon and that will open up our system
configuration and then we'll select configure I/O connectors and from here
basically this is where we can go to determine what we want to have set as
an input or an output within this particular system.
So what I'm going to do for this particular one
is this setting right here where the first
four inputs are sorry the first four connections are going to be
inputs and then the last four, five through eight are going to be outputs.
So the nice thing about the NC1 Studio I/O module is you can configure to
be inputs or outputs which is pretty awesome.
Okay so let's go ahead and close that and I'm just going to show you for
example in input number two now how to select the quad link
SDI sources into this particular device. So we'll open up input number two
settings by clicking on this gear icon and under the video source drop down
take a look under local and the first thing you'll see here is
the quad link SDI in channel one which will turn all four
of those SDI connections that are plugged into the system
into one particular source. So i'll do that
and boom! Now I have a duplicate of that to use ever however I want.
So on my desk I want to bring in another source which is my Xbox One X
sending out a 4k signal via HDMI. Now I can connect that HDMI signal to
this bad boy right here, which is the NewTek Spark Plus,
which is a single channel system that allows you to convert
HDMI signals up to 4k into NDI and it can also decode NDI sources into
HDMI as well. But today we're just going to use that
to connect our input to our system all right so now I'm going to take the
output of the converted signal from the Xbox one that's going
into my Spark Plus I/O module and bring that into
my TriCaster 2 Elite so to do that we'll go over to input number two
click on the input setting for that and let's go to our source drop down
and then I can find the output of my Spark I/O
and boom now I got Rocket League going. Okay so now I have the output of my
camera coming into my TriCaster the output of
my Xbox One X coming into my system as well
and I want to add one other signal which is this the
NewTek 4k UHD PTZ camera so let's go ahead and
go into the interface and bring that in. Alright so now back
in the TriCaster 2 interface I'm going to bring in this camera that's
connected to my network via NDI by clicking on this gear icon
on input 3 and then under my source drop down
let's go ahead and select my PTZ camera. There we go, bring that on here
and now we have a scruffy looking nerf herder in input number three
and now we can have ourselves a cool little broadcast so I can switch between
myself being the host and criticizing how terrible he's doing
at his game. And then I can also switch back over to
him and even bring him on as a lower third
and give him the job title that he has earned.
So these are just some of the different ways that you can bring 4k sources
into the NDI environment but you can also configure
the Spark Plus I/O module to output 4k HDMI video
you can also configure the NC1 Studio I/O module outputs
to broadcast 4k via quad link SDI and you can also use the TriCaster 2
Elite output connections to distribute video via 4k as well so
a lot of different ways to handle 4k video in
an NDI workflow. I hope this video helps expand your NewTek knowledge and
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Thank you for watching and we'll see you next time on the next edition of
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