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- Page 2 4800, 3PXD4800, 3Play 440, 3PXD440, 3Play Mini, 3Play 820, 3PXD820, 3Play 425, 3PXD425 3Play 330, 3PXD330, TalkShow, TalkShow VS 4000, TalkShow VS100, Network Device Interface, NDI, NewTek Connect, NewTek IsoCorder, ProTek, ProTek Care, ProTek Elite, iVGA, SpeedEDIT, IsoCorder, LiveText, DataLink, LiveSet, TriCaster Virtual Set Editor, Virtual Set Editor Advanced Edition, TriCaster VSE, TriCaster VSE Advanced Edition, LiveMatte, TimeWarp, VT, VT[3], VT[4], V[T5], Video Toaster, Toaster, Inspire 3D, 3D Arsenal, Aura, LightWave, LightWave 3D and LightWave CORE are trademarks, service marks, and registered trademarks of NewTek.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL ......................5 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION ........................7 ® Section 2.1 Meet TalkShow ................................ 7 Section 2.2 Overview ................................... 7 Section 2.3 Features ..................................8 2.3.1 Physical ................................... - Page 4 3.10.3 Compressor Limiter ..............................20 3.10.4 Noise Gate .................................. 21 Section 3.11 Configure Return Video Inputs ..........................21 Section 3.12 Configure Return Audio ............................22 3.12.1 Mix Minus Audio ................................ 23 3.12.2 Calibration and Headroom ............................24 Section 3.13 Configure Genlock ..............................24 Section 3.14 Networking................................
- Page 5 APPENDIX E RELIABILITY TESTING ....................... 51 INDEX ................................ 53 CREDITS ..............................55...
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Page 7: Chapter 1 About This Manual
ABOUT THIS MANUAL This guide provides all the information you need to know to connect, configure and operate your NewTek TalkShow® live production system. Please take time to become acquainted with TalkShow’s many tools and features designed to enhance your production. -
Page 9: Chapter 2 Introduction
NewTek VS 4000 and VS 100 systems with Skype TX™ technology provide a level of interactivity previously only dreamed of by the world’s foremost broadcasters. -
Page 10: Section 2.3 Features
Skype TX, in simplest terms, is a studio-grade version of the familiar Skype™ client software, developed by Microsoft® to let broadcasters integrate Skype technology into production infrastructure. Both Talkshow models support the most recent Skype TX 4 platform. In practice, you can think of Skype TX as your ‘switchboard’. -
Page 11: Tally
Proc Amps and White Balance controls for every source preserve pristine image and color fidelity. Auto Color is another NewTek innovation. It dynamically adapts the color characteristics of incoming Skype™ video calls as the remote lighting conditions vary. Often simply enabling Auto Color is all it takes to produce a show that looks amazingly consistent. -
Page 13: Chapter 3 Setting Up
SETTING UP This chapter explains how to connect power, monitors and audio visual sources, and external control devices to your NewTek™ system. It also reviews the registration process. After completing this short section, you’ll be all set to begin using your NewTek TalkShow®... -
Page 14: Section 3.2 License And Registration
REGISTERING BY TELEPHONE 3.2.1 NewTek’s Customer Support center can also handle registration requests by telephone, if that is more convenient (when opportunity permits, you should still visit the website as discussed above to gain access to software updates). -
Page 15: Section 3.3 Rack Mounting
TalkShow is designed for convenient mounting in a standard 19” rack (mounting rails are available separately from NewTek Sales). Please keep in mind that adequate cooling is a very important requirement for virtually all electronic and digital equipment, and this is true of TalkShow as well. -
Page 16: Section 3.5 Genlock Connection
This is, of course, the ideal solution – especially when multiple channels or even multiple Talkshow units are involved. For more information on NDI and implementing NewTek’s Advanced IP Workflow (including a number of very useful free NDI utilities), visit www.NDI.NeWtek.com. -
Page 17: Analog Audio Outputs
connector(s), and also to your local network via NDI, ready for varied utilization at any convenient place where your network extends. ANALOG AUDIO OUTPUTS 3.6.2 FIGURE 4 A menu and associated slider at left in footer of the TalkShow Desktop control the audio supplied to the 1/4”... -
Page 18: Connection Details
CONNECTION DETAILS 3.8.1 Here is a pin-out listing for TalksShow’s HD15 Tally connector: Pin1 – GPI (Talk Back ch. 1) Pin9 – GND Pin2 – GPI (Talk Back ch. 2) Pin10 – GND Pin3 – GPI (Talk Back ch. 3) ... -
Page 19: Skype Video Options
4. Next, choose the Video Output format that meets your studio input needs. The video settings you choose in the Setup panel apply to all four (Skype™) video outputs Talkshow sends to your studio, whether carried using SDI or NDI connections. Talkshow provides additional control over individual Skype video outputs by channel, as discussed next. - Page 20 OLOR Lighting conditions can vary dramatically from one remote Skype source to the next. Ensuring consistent color and avoiding unwelcome brightness or color shifts as conditions change can be troublesome, and expensive. To help you overcome these problems, TalkShow provides Auto Color, a unique feature capable of dynamically adapting the color characteristics of your video sources as lighting conditions vary.
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Page 21: Section 3.10 Configure Skype Audio Output
(Note that over-saturated colors are considered illegal for broadcast transmission, and may result in display problems on some devices.) Hint: Proc Amp adjustments are also applied after LiveMatte is processed, which can help when composing greenscreen shots to match a background or LiveSet. White Balance –... -
Page 22: Equalizer
EQUALIZER 3.10.2 The seven-band equalizer allows you to ‘shape’ sound to taste, accommodate sources with different acoustic characteristics, and minimize feedback or roll off unwanted parts of the audio spectrum. Enable or disable the Equalizer using the switch beside the label above its control group. The vertical sliders attenuate or boost the tonal range centered on the frequency shown at the top. -
Page 23: Noise Gate
TTACK Attack (like Release) is labeled in milliseconds. The setting represents the amount of time it takes for the gain to change by a specified amount. It would not be grossly incorrect to think of this setting as changing the slope of a graph depicting how aggressively the compressor pursues the target value (defined by applying the Ratio setting to the amount the signal surpasses the Threshold). -
Page 24: Section 3.12 Configure Return Audio
with a program feed. Generally, having made a source selection using the Video Source menu, TalkShow will auto-detect the Video Format. Hint: SDI video sources can be manually set to a specific format (Figure 13) using the Video Format menu in the same control group if Auto-detect doesn’t produce a correct result for any reason. FIGURE 12 FIGURE 13 CONFIGURE RETURN AUDIO... -
Page 25: Mix Minus Audio
FIGURE 14 MIX MINUS AUDIO 3.12.1 Note that you will often wish to supply a so-called ‘mix minus’ audio source to return to the remote Skype caller. Using a mix minus allows the caller to hear the program without also hearing a (late) return of their own voice –... -
Page 26: Calibration And Headroom
CALIBRATION AND HEADROOM 3.12.2 In digital audio systems, levels exceeding ‘legal’ values are ‘clipped’ (uniformly assigned the maximum value). This results in audible glitches that cannot be easily corrected later. For this reason, it’s customary to configure normal operating level (also referred to as the ‘alignment level’, and sometimes, ‘nominal level’) well below the clipping limit –... -
Page 27: Section 3.14 Networking
CONFIGURE SKYPE TX SECTION 3.15 As we explained back in Section 2.2, Skype TX™ provides the switchboard interface you use to initiate Skype™ calls using your NewTek TalkShow. It also provides a number of useful options and related settings. FIGURE 16 A single instance of the Skype TX management application can control one or more TalkShow systems, and can be launched locally on run on another system on the network. - Page 28 This is quite easy – just open the Display widget using the button in the TalkShow Desktop footer, and click the Skype TX icon (Figure 17). The Skype TX controller application will launch. FIGURE 17 Hint: If you have a second monitor connected to TalkShow, you can move the Skype TX interface to it, so you can see it and the TalkShow desktop at the same time.
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Page 29: Connect To Talkshow Channels
CONNECT TO TALKSHOW CHANNELS 3.15.2 Upon launching Skype TX, you will be asked to enter login credentials for the Skype Name or Microsoft Account you wish to use for incoming and outgoing Skype calls (Figure 18). Hint: The account credentials you enter will be applied to each individual TalkShow channel under control of this instance of the Skype TX software. - Page 30 Click in the Add a Skype TX Unit to control entry field and enter the target machine name or its IP address. Hint: When running Skype TX on a local TalkShow unit, you can simply enter “localhost” as shown. ...
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Page 31: Configure Skype Tx Channels
CONFIGURE SKYPE TX CHANNELS 3.15.3 The column for a claimed TalkShow channel contains important settings, call controls, and compact monitors, making it an ideal switchboard for your Skype conversations. FIGURE 23 The lower part of each column is empty by default, and can be minimized by choosing the Compact view option in the FIGURE 22 Menu column at right in the Skype TX... - Page 32 At this point, we’ll also just mention the When not on call options. The icon you select in this group determines what appears on the channel’s output to the studio when no Skype call is in progress. Options include the Test Signal (color bars), the ‘NoCall’ image (Figure 26), or black. Hint: Clicking the ‘camera’...
- Page 33 Generally, this area holds signal processing features designed to help you cope with problems in the audio received by Skype TX. TalkShow’s audio settings and controls, discussed back in Section 3.10 and Section 3.12, are sufficuently extensive that you will seldom need to resort to these. Broadly speaking, for a well-prepared TalkShow system, you can simply enable Disable all Skype audio processing (Figure 28).
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Page 35: Chapter 4 Skype Call Management
Chapter 4 SKYPE CALL MANAGEMENT This chapter will walk you through making and receiving Skype calls using your TalkShow™ system. It also considers the options and features related to those calls, and details related to Skype accounts and managing their associated contact lists. Having made the essential connections and configured your Return to Caller inputs and Skype Call outputs, you’re ready to make your first Skype call. - Page 36 * For the moment, we’re going to assume you have added some entries to the Contact list associated with this Skype account. 1. Locate the contact you wish to call in the Contacts list at left (or, alternatively, simply type the Skype Name or Microsoft account of the remote caller into the input box on the target channel.) Hint: If calling a Microsoft account, type “live: “...
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Page 37: Snapshot
Hint: You can see the uncorrected incoming Skype call video by hovering over the video output and holding down the left mouse button. The video symbol under the return video viewport in will change from a red camera with a line through it, to a solid green camera once the return video has connected. -
Page 38: Section 4.2 Call Management
CALL MANAGEMENT SECTION 4.2 If video is lost or becomes unsatisfactory, Skype TX (automatically manually) switch between live video from the remote FIGURE 32 caller and a snapshot or default image. Click the camera icon at the bottom of a channel column to choose the Auto-Fallback Mode for that channel. -
Page 39: Section 4.4 Contact Management
When receiving a call, the remote caller will appear in the panel (the number of callers appears at any time on the Incoming calls tab above). Note that exiting Skype TX will result in the loss of any incoming calls. CONTACT MANAGEMENT SECTION 4.4 As you are using a Skype Name or Microsoft account to sign in, you have access to the Skype Contacts... -
Page 40: Contact Details
1. Navigate to the search box at the top of the Contacts list and … 2. Search for the person you want to add using their email address, Skype Name, Microsoft Account, name, or their display name. 3. Click the Search Skype for button after you’ve typed in the contact info you want to search by. Profiles matching your search info will be listed under the search box. -
Page 41: Remove Contacts
The information added to a contact will also be seen in other Skype Clients as this information roams with the contact. This means that the changes you make in Skype TX to a contact, will also be seen on the desktop Skype Client, as well as all mobile devices, to name a few. Thus it can be seen in the Skype desktop client Contact profile, accessed by right-clicking on the contact and choosing View Profile. -
Page 43: Appendix Afrequently Asked Questions
APPENDIX A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS If you experience any problems with Skype TX, check this list of Frequently Asked Questions first. You can also find helpful information on NewTek’s website, as well as the website at www.skypeinmedia.com. ’ HY CAN... - Page 44 ’ EMOTE CALLER CAN T SEE STUDIO Once the call has been accepted, a second dialogue box pops up, asking the user to accept the incoming video signal that is being sent by Skype TX. Clicking Accept allows the video being sent from Skype TX to be seen by the remote caller.
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Page 45: Appendix Bgenlocking
APPENDIX B GENLOCKING TalkShow’s Genlock feature allows it to ‘lock’ its video output Hint: The term “genlock” refers to a reference video signal supplied to its Genlock input to “generator locking”. connector. This synchronizes SDI output to other external equipment locked to the same reference. Professional video devices often provide a “genlock input”, which Genlocking is not a requirement, but it is very beneficial, and... -
Page 46: Section 4.6 Reference Type
viewed from above). The Phase setting ensures proper color alignment, corresponding to making sure everyone is on the left or right foot at the same time. Thus, the Vert Position, Horiz Position and Phase settings allow you to tweak synchronization to arrive at an optimum match between devices. -
Page 47: Appendix Cglossary
APPENDIX C GLOSSARY Automatic Echo Cancellation. Helps prevent audio from the remote caller being sent back via the local microphone. Automatic Gain Control. This is a system which automatically adjusts audio gain to keep the level consistent. Aspect Ratio Conversion. The process of converting an image from one aspect ratio to another using different techniques. - Page 48 Removes parts of the audio signal which are not intentional, such as fan noise, hiss and hum. Overlay The process of superimposing one image over another. Packets Formatted unit of data carried by a network. Ping Time it takes, in milliseconds, for a request to be sent to a remote host and then a response to be received by the sender.
- Page 49 Watermark Semi-transparent graphic that is overlaid on a video signal.
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Page 51: Appendix Ddimensions And Mounting
APPENDIX D DIMENSIONS AND MOUNTING TalkShow comprises a 1 Rack Unit (RU) enclosure supplied with ‘ears’ designed to permit ® mounting in standard 19” rack architecture (Figure 36). The units weigh approximately 14 pounds (6.35 KG). A shelf or rear support will distribute the load more evenly if rack-mounted. -
Page 53: Reliability Testing
For this reason, all NewTek products undergo rigorous reliability testing to ensure they meet or exceed our own exacting test standards, as well as relevant criteria by various regulatory bodies worldwide. -
Page 55: Index
INDEX Advanced Color, 19 Mix Minus, 23 Audio Monitor, Interface, 11 Headroom, 24 Monitoring, 9 Mix Minus, 23 Auto Color, 18 NDI, 14 Network, 25 Compressor Limiter, 20 Network Device Interface , 14 Connections, 13 NoCall Image, 30 Genlock, 14 Noise Gate, 21 GPI, 16 Output, 14... - Page 56 Video Output, Configure, 16 Video Standard, 14 Updates, 12 UPS, 11 Waveform, 19, 24, 44 Waveform/Vectorscope, 19, 24, 44 Vectorscope, 19, 24, 44 White Balance, 9 Video Input, Configure, 19, 21...
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Page 57: Credits
MERCHANTABILITY of FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Trademarks: NewTek, NewTek VMC1, NewTek VMC1 IN, NewTek VMC1 OUT, NewTek NC1, NewTek NC1 IN, TriCaster, TriCaster Advanced Edition, TriCaster XD, TriCaster 8000, TriCaster TCXD8000, TCXD8000, TriCaster 860, TriCaster TCXD860, TCXD860, TriCaster 460, TriCaster TCXD460, TCXD460, TriCaster 410,...
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