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Ubicast EasyCast Studio User Manual

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Summary of Contents for Ubicast EasyCast Studio

  • Page 1 EasyCast Studio user manual version 2.6...

  • Page 2: Guide Contents

    GUIDE CONTENTS Step 1. Setup (cables and connections) Step 2. Recording a presentation Step 3. Editing and publishing Step 4. Viewing content Step 5. Advanced settings...
  • Page 3 Step 1. Setup (cables and connections)
  • Page 4 EasyCast Studio setup Setup time is approximately 10 minutes for a mobile system Setup is identical whether setting up a mobile or fixed EasyCast Studio XLR microphone Presentation PC IP camera The data input on the Studio is natively DVI, a (supplied) VGA-DVI converter...
  • Page 5 Camera placement for Autocam When using automatic speaker framing (Autocam), the camera should be placed : min. 3 meters away from the presenter • ideally in the back of the room, in • order to cover the entire zone in which the presenter will move.
  • Page 6 Step 2. Recording a presentation...
  • Page 7 EasyCast boots directly into this home screen – it is a dedicated Linux-based appliance. The entire operating system is managed by UbiCast and this is a big difference with Windows-based lecture capture systems : here the user can’t corrupt the system by installing updates or any third-party software.
  • Page 8 YouTube channel for example. This enables the systems to be highly automated. If you wish to create profiles, please contact your reseller or UbiCast directly – they can be configured and added remotely. Select (3) to continue.
  • Page 9 (4) the Studio is connected to the Internet, specifically to an EasyCast MediaServer, allowing LIVE streaming to a portal on www.ubicast.tv. Security is built into the system here : if no audio had been found, we could not move to the next step, avoiding some users to create content with no audio.

  • Page 10: Recording Screen

    Recording screen Sources are previewed in zones 1 to 3, respectively video, audio and data. In order to start a live stream, the user must press the Live button (4) then start a recording (5). This is a security measure built into the system : if the local network were to fail, at least we have a recording of the content for later use.
  • Page 11 Step 3. Editing and publishing...
  • Page 12 Media list - Publish application This is the editing and publishing part of EasyCast. You can access this part of the system by tapping the “Publish” button from the home screen. Here we have the list of all media stored on the system’s hard drive.
  • Page 13 Adobe Premier or Apple Final Cut only to cut out the first seconds or the coffee break. To simplify the process and because UbiCast’s technical developments are client-driven, we simply developed the feature and added it to the system.
  • Page 14 Media list - Publish application We previously trimmed/edited our recording. The second phase of editing here is related to the Autocam (tracking) feature in EasyCast. The system will automatically reframe the 1080p video we’ve created around the presenter for dynamic content. Tap the “Tracking”...
  • Page 15 Autocam - setup (1/3) There are multiples cases here : 1. You have never performed a calibration of the system before the recording, you’ve just set up the system and pressed record. In this case, press the “Configure and launch analysis” (1) button and go to the next step.
  • Page 16 Autocam setup (2/3) If you’ve pressed the “Configure and launch analysis” button you will arrive on this screen. By factory default, the analysis zone – the area in which EasyCast will look for the presenter(s) – is the entire video frame (zone 1). You can redefine this zone by drawing a new rectangle.
  • Page 17 Autocam setup (3/3) Once the analysis process is over, press the “Tracking” button once more in the Media list. You will arrive on this screen, that shows you the detected human(oid) figures. In this example, a poster image has been found (1). As you do not wish to track this, select the rectangle and then the “Ignore”...
  • Page 18 Autocam preview Zone (1) shows a preview of the frame that will be extracted (green rectangle) from the original video. By pressing the play button (2) you can see that as the subject moves, so does the extract. On the video timeline (2), entry/exit of “objects”...
  • Page 19 Autocam preview and Chapters When rendering is finished, there will be a check symbol (1) to the right of the video. The video used for the media is replaced by the tracked version (2). The original video is always kept, so multiple autocam versions can be made.
  • Page 20 Editing chapters Chapters are the result of a human decision to transform a slide into a chapter. To create a chapter, simply give a slide a Title (1). On the timeline (2), there are green and white vertical bars. white bars indicate slide changes •...
  • Page 21 By default, you can publish to USB, an FTP server and the EasyCast MediaServer associated with your EasyCast Studio. If you haven’t done any of the Autocam setup steps, you can simply press “Automatic tracking”(1).
  • Page 22 Task manager 1/2 Once you have launched the export, the system will come back to the Media List. Icon (1) indicates that the system is processing that media. Tap the task manager icon in the top of the screen (2) to view what tasks are being performed.
  • Page 23 Task manager 2/2 Tap on the dropdown arrow (1) to see the tasks the system is performing. The system will : first normalize audio, so that audio is • even throughout the recording and generally so that all published content has the same audio level (more comfortable for viewers) then apply OCR (Optical Character...

  • Page 24: Step 4. Viewing Content

    Step 4. Viewing content...
  • Page 25 USB. It will deliver the highest Rich Media experience you can have without the presence of a streaming server. The USB stick contains a folder called “ubicast”. Open this folder to find the content shown left. The “index.html” (1) file will open the entire “package”...
  • Page 26 Viewing the published Rich Media (1/3) In the top lefthand side (1), we can see the title we have given to the recording (or default title) and multiple tabs. Our recording has been exported as HD Rich Media (2). The presenter is being tracked and the presentation is rendered in high quality and full motion.
  • Page 27 Viewing the published Rich Media (2/3) The “Information” (1) tab doesn’t contain anything as it is intended for manually entered metadata. Click on the “Slides” (2) tab to view all captured slides. A viewer can click on a slide here to scroll to it.
  • Page 28 Viewing the published Rich Media (3/3) Next, click on the “Search” tab. EasyCast will automatically extract all words within all slides and make these words searchable. When you type in a word, the results are by slide. Click on the slide to seek within the video to that specific slide.

  • Page 29: Step 5. Advanced Settings

    Step 5. Advanced settings...
  • Page 30 (SSH) connexion to our support servers, our engineers are alerted and can connect to the system for system-wide remote debugging. Please only perform this operation when instructed to do so by UbiCast personnel, after prior discussion.