hello everyone and welcome to another edition of NewTek Tuesday tutorials my
name is Richard Evans and in today's video I want to show you how to connect
the NewTek PTZ camera into the new TriCaster mini 4k version very simple to
use let's dive in and take a look. alright so this is a shot of the back of
my TriCaster Mini along with a shot of the back of my NDI PTZ camera so the
first thing that i want to point out is on the back of this new TriCaster mini
you'll see here i have these four NDI ports to choose from now that's
going to be exclusively for getting a signal from say a PTZ camera like this
or an input module like the Connect Sparks for example and what's nice about
this is that these ports POE enabled so that means that I can send video audio
tally control and power just using a simple network cable now you'll also
notice right now that I have a network cable plugged into the back of one of
the NIC cards on the Mini itself that's really just so I can connect it to the
network but let's say that you were out in the field and you don't have network
capability but still want to use the capabilities of your sparks or your PTZ
cameras well those are where these ports are going to come from here so let's go
ahead and I'm gonna take this very small network cable here and
I'm gonna plug that into my NDI port number one and then let's plug that into
the PTZ camera and now we just got to wait for the PTZ camera to boot up it'll
do its little dance here
all right yes strut your stuff camera get it
all right cool now we have our PTZ camera connected again with just this
one simple cable I'm getting video, audio, tally, control and power which is great
so let's go into the mini interface so now what I want to do is I'm going to
open up my input number one since I don't have anything in there and let me
click on this drop-down so for the local sources this is where it's going to look
different from previous TriCasters because in previous TriCasters you
would have like your inputs number one through four for example if they were
SDI or HDMI but on this particular mini we only have NDI sources available to us
here so you still have options for your skype TX caller and your test single
generator but if we want to bring in that particular PTZ camera we need to go
find it from our drop-down. so let's go ahead and look further down here and we
can see my NDI PTZ 1 let's check that out all right so I have two options here
one of these this is going to be the camera that I have on my desk that was
filming the back of the TriCaster mini but here we go here's camera number one
that I just plugged into it and boom check it out ah Skeletor
we meet again. so from here this is where you can go through and change all of
your PTZ settings and then just operate your camera like you normally would with
these different PTZ operations but what's awesome about this is again all
I've done is plugged in one cable and then I can bring in my PTZ camera or any
other spark or i/o device into my TriCaster production so the new mini 4k
is great because you can create your own little NDI PTZ network all without using
an actual network so you can get video audio tally control and power simply by
just connecting these devices directly into the machine now if you liked this
video but want a little bit more make sure you go to newtek.com/demo
to sign up for your free personalized TriCaster demonstrations hosted by yours
truly and I'll show you some more of the ins and outs of our systems also be sure
to follow us and tag us and your Instagram posts and also for more videos
like this one go to our youtube page at youtube.com/newtekinc and as
always if you have more questions and want to see a little bit more about TriCasters
contact your local reseller or visit newtek.com until then thank
y'all for watching and we'll see you next time for another edition of NewTek Tuesday Tutorials.