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- Page 2 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. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents SECTION 1 QUICKSTART ..........................1 SECTION 2 INTRODUCTION AND SETUP ..................... 5 2.1 Overview ....................................5 2.2 Getting Ready ..................................6 2.3 Making Connections ................................6 2.4 Web Configuration ................................. 7 2.4.1 Studio Monitor ................................7 2.4.2 Logging In ..................................10 2.4.3 Audio/Video Settings .............................. -
Page 4: Section 1 Quickstart
After completing this short section, you’ll be all set to begin using your new camera. This document briefly describes how to prepare your new NewTek™ device for use. Please note that more detailed information is provided in the next chapter. - Page 5 Internet Explorer™. Step 5 – Update Spark Pro’s Firmware We encourage you to keep the firmware on your NewTek™ device up to date. Firmware updates may contain bug-fixes, provide improved performance, or even enable new features. The update process is not...
- Page 6 NDI channel name shown in NDI Studio Monitor refreshes. Conclusion This completes the initial setup of your NewTek™ Spark Pro. You should see its output displayed on Studio Monitor. The sections that follow provide more in depth coverage of Spark’s features and options.
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Page 8: Section 2 Introduction And Setup
NewTek provides some of the most advanced live production tools available anywhere, and we are confident you will find them exceptionally powerful and versatile. Your NewTek Connect Spark Pro™ unit delivers a huge amount of functionality in a compact package. Prosumers and video professionals alike will appreciate the convenience and flexibility it provides in connection with both video production and capture. -
Page 9: Getting Ready
NewTek NDI Tools pack, available at no cost. NDI Tools provides a very valuable array of practical NDI learning tools and utilities, including NewTek’s NDI Studio Monitor, which will not only locate and display the network video output from your Spark Pro unit, but also makes it easy access to its settings. -
Page 10: Web Configuration
If you wish, connect an analog audio source to the 6.35mm stereo audio input. If you connected a video source in step 3 above, your NewTek Connect Spark Pro is already sending NDI audio and video to your local network. We’ll talk about how to access and use it soon, but first let’s discuss how to access Spark Pro’s settings and features. - Page 11 OS X users will also find a similar NDI Video Monitor application available to them after installing the NewTek NDI Tools pack for their preferred platform. – W ™ OCATING PARK RO ON THE ETWORK INDOWS FIGURE 2-3 1. Launch Studio Monitor, and click the small menu (‘hamburger’) gadget at upper left to open the application menu.
- Page 12 FIGURE 2-5 – OS X™ OCATING PARK RO ON THE ETWORK The process is very similar for OS X users. 1. Having launched Video Monitor application, use the File menu at the top of the Desktop to locate a new main entry named SPARK_PRO.
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Page 13: Logging In
Select the newly listed channel for the Spark Pro unit you wish to configure. In a few moments, its video output will appear in the Studio Monitor window. 3. The Video Monitor Settings menu shows an option near the bottom that lets you open the Device Webpage in your system web browser. -
Page 14: Audio Input
FIGURE 2-9 Depending on your network throughput capabilities and other traffic, and of course your production requirements, you may choose to leave this option off when it is not required. Note: Multiple connections to UHD video can quickly saturate a gigabit network. Use the 4K option only when it is really needed. -
Page 15: Network Settings
FIGURE 2-12 The uppermost section of this tab displays the Device Name and NDI Channel Name which determine how your Spark device is identified on your NDI network. These names are editable, allowing you a convenient way to identify the output of specific Spark units to downstream NDI-enabled devices and systems. FIGURE 2-13 In this section, you will see the Firmware version currently installed on your Spark Pro displayed, along with the unit’s SKU. -
Page 16: Tally
OCAL AILSAFE If Spark’s default IP Address setting (Dynamic) should ever fail to provide a usable IP address within a minute or two – as when an active DHCP server is not found on the network – you can locate your Spark Pro on the network using its failsafe Local-Link (APIPA) feature. -
Page 17: External Tally
output from the device is visible on the Program output or Preview row of a video switcher, as illustrated by Figure 2-15. FIGURE 2-15 EXTERNAL TALLY 2.6.1 The external Tally connector, located near the USB-C port on Spark Pro’s chassis, allows you to send Program tally notification to external studio systems. -
Page 18: Appendix A: About Ndi
It is no surprise, then, that efficient, economical, non-linear video transfer in IP space is augmenting and even superseding traditional linear connection methods (SDI, HDMI, etc.) and systems. NewTek NDI (Network Device Interface) makes it easy to share high- ®... -
Page 19: Ndi Benefits
The NDI concept is simple: You supply a video source, and send it to your network as an NDI stream by means of your NewTek Connect Spark Pro™. At that point, anyone else on that network can see it and work with it just as if it was a locally connected to their system (unless you deliberately limit access). - Page 20 FIGURE 2-17 Afterward, you will see an entry named NewTek NDI Video (or Audio) listed along with any other qualified sources available to applications like Skype™, etc. Page 17 of 33...
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Page 21: Appendix B: End User License Agreement
The computer program(s) (the "Software") installed and/or enclosed with the Product is licensed, not sold, to you by NewTek, Inc. (NEWTEK) for use only under the terms of this License, and NEWTEK reserves any rights not expressly granted to you. You own the any disk(s) and/or tangible media that might be enclosed... - Page 22 Educational license. Any non-educational use will be considered, as with other uses in contravention of this license, copyright infringement. You may determine whether it is a Limited Educational License by referring to the serial number and letter code. **Call NewTek to determine the nature of the license for this Product.
- Page 23 This License is effective until terminated. This License will terminate immediately without notice from NEWTEK, or by judicial resolution, if you fail to comply with any provision of this License. Upon such termination you must destroy the Software, all accompanying written materials and all copies thereof. You may also terminate this License at any time by destroying the Software, all accompanying written materials and all copies thereof.
- Page 24 LightWave, LightWave 3D® and LightWave CORE. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, and others are or may be claimed by NewTek related to these or other NewTek products, some of which may be found at www.newtek.com. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
- Page 25 MPEG-4; THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE MPEG-4 VISUAL PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER FOR (i) ENCODING VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE MPEG-4 VISUAL STANDARD (“MPEG-4 VIDEO”) AND/OR (ii) DECODING MPEG-4 VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED BY MPEG LA TO PROVIDE MPEG-4 VIDEO.
- Page 26 (i) If use of the Software is discontinued to the installation specified in the purchase/delivery order and the US Government desires to use it at another location, it may do so by giving prior written notice to NEWTEK, specifying the type of computer and new location site. US Governmental personnel using this Software, other than under a DoD contract or GSA Schedule, are hereby on notice that use of this Software is subject to restrictions which are the same as or similar to those specified.
- Page 27 Skype client software thereunder will be governed by the standard Skype™ Terms of Use. NewTek is not responsible for that license nor a party to it and you agree to be bound by it and comply with the Skype™ Broadcast Terms of Use as found at: http://www.skype.com/en/legal/broadcast/.
- Page 28 (or operation) of any of the Product. NewTek’s liability is limited solely to the repair or replacement of the defective Product. NewTek is under no obligation or responsibility to enhance or update the product.
- Page 29 Blvd., San Antonio, TX, USA, 78249 to receive a Returned Materials Authorization (RMA), and deliver the product along with proof of ownership (such as the original invoice, or a photocopy) to NewTek. You will be responsible for any costs associated with the delivery to and from our service center.
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Page 30: Credits
Mohajer, Masaaki Konno, Matt Gorner, Menghua Wang, Michael Watkins, Mike Murphy, Nathan Kovner, Naveen Jayakumar, Ryan Hansberger, Shawn Wisniewski, Steve Bowie, Troy Stevenson, Zack Lounsbury Additional thanks to: NewTek Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Customer Support, Training and Development, and Operations C.1 3... - Page 31 OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. C.3 TRADEMARKS NewTek, NewTek VMC1, NewTek VMC1 IN, NewTek VMC1 OUT, NewTek NC1, NewTek NC1 IN, NewTek NC1 I/O, TriCaster, TriCaster TC1, TriCaster Advanced Edition, TriCaster XD, TriCaster 8000, TriCaster TCXD8000, TCXD8000, TriCaster 860, TriCaster TCXD860, TCXD860,...
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