Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials
my name is Richard Evans. Do not forget to like comment and subscribe to this video. Today I'm
going to show you the NewTek 12G SDI Spark Plus IO ta-da for turning your 12G SDI sources into
NDI and decode your NDI sources into 12G SDI now this unit can also be powered via POE. So today
I'm going to connect it the to the TriCaster mini 4k and show you how to use it. let's check it out.
So let's take a look at the connections on the back of the Spark Plus IO module.
So you'll see that we have the option to bring in an external power source or we can plug it into
our NDI network right here and power that via POE. We also have an external audio source for bringing
in external audio devices we also have our 12G SDI input and output now it can do 12G SDI input and
output but can also mix and match different SDI sources as well. So now let's go ahead and turn
around and let's plug it in to connect the 12G SDI Spark Plus IO you'll just need the unit itself
an ethernet cable to connect it to your network, an optional power supply but for
today's example we're not going to need that because we're going to connect it directly into
the TriCaster mini 4k which has POE connections on it. So let's go ahead and plug that in first
I'll plug it into the ethernet jack on the back and then I have the camera that it's currently
pointing at me a 12G SDI signal right here which I will connect into the input of that system.
Now that we have the Spark Plus IO module connected to the TriCaster I also want to
show off that it has a tally light on this as well so when you're on your program row it will
illuminate red and when you're on your preview row it will illuminate green. All right and that's how
you connect it physically now let's move over to the interface and take a look at how to bring
that signal into our production. All right so here we are in the TriCaster mini 4k interface and I'm
going to bring in the output of my Spark Plus IO module into input number one by clicking on
the gear icon in the bottom right corner of input number one and under my source drop down I can see
all the different sources that are broadcasting on my network and I'm going to select my Spark IO
12G. Bring that in and ta-da there we go there's my signal coming in off of that camera directly
into my production pretty dang awesome coming in via 4k which is great. Okay
so now let's take a look at the device web page and see how we can configure this a little bit.
So this is the landing page for the Connect Spark Plus IO 12G SDI model
and as you can see coming in here my resolution is coming in at 4k at 60 frames per second and also
I have an option up here at the very top to set this to decoder mode. So now on the
decode page for the Spark Plus IO module I can now use this device to connect any 12G
SDI device to this so I can then send NDI sources out so you can connect your different 12G SDI
devices like a monitor or a video wall and then using these options here at the bottom. I can then
browse my network and select whatever NDI source that I want to output to those 12G SDI devices
so as you can see the NewTek 12G SDI Spark Plus IO module is great for getting your 12G SDI sources
into and out of the NDI environment. Now if you want some more tutorial videos like this one
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using NewTek products to bring their shows to life and if you want some more information about the
12G SDI Spark Plus IO you can talk to your local reseller or visit our website newtek.com. That's
all for this episode I'll see you again next time for another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials.