1.3 Model Standard Version 4G Bonding Version 1.4 Interface Diagram 1.4.1 Back Interface 1) The back interface of the standard version is shown below: 4G antenna USB3.0 HDMI Display interface 4G antenna Gigabit Ethernet port HDMI PGM Output WIFI antenna SDI-1 Input SDI PGM Output Switch...
1.4.3 Bottom interface 1) The bottom interface of the standard version is shown below: SIM card holder Inlet 2) The bottom interface of the 4G bonding version is shown below: Inlet...
2 Installation and Commissioning 1) Open the box, then take out the power cord and NSCaster-X1 device. After that, lay the device on a stable surface. 2) Connect the power cord and the corresponding WIFI and 4G antennas. Then, use a network cable to connect to the RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port, or insert a 4G card.
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Connect to the call output interface through a 3.5mm audio cable as shown below: 6) To start the NSCaster-X1 device, just press the power button on the NSCaster-X1 device as shown below: 7) After the NSCaster-X1 device is started, it will enter the main interface of NSCaster-X1 as shown in the following figure:...
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8) The SDI video signal and HDMI video signal are directly loaded into the main interface. 9) To load NET signal, select " " in the NET channel and enter the stream in the pop-up stream edit box. 10) To load DDR signal, select the DDR button in the DDR alternate video window, and select one of the video sources, then click Play to load the video into the DDR channel.
3 Software Features 3.1 NSCaster-X1 Main Interface Name Name Streaming control SDI input channel Recording control HDMI input channel Tuning control for total mix output NET input channel Image overlay DDR display channel PIP (Picture in picture) Network status display Scoreboard Resource usage monitoring status Audio mixer...
3.1.2 SDI Channel SDI-1 and SDI-2 can be connected to SDI cameras or other devices as shown below: 3.1.3 HDMI Channel HDMI-1 and HDMI-2 can be connected to HDMI cameras or other devices as shown below:...
3.1.4 NET Channel The NET channel is used to load network streams and the supported formats are: rtmp/rtsp. Click “ ” to enter the network stream editing interface as shown below: 3.1.5 DDR Channel The DDR channel is used to load video footage as shown below:...
1) The button for loading video material is as follows: Button : Add video Button : Play/pause video Button : Stop Button : Back 10 seconds Button : Fast forward 10 seconds Button : Separately, play in list order, play single video loop and play in list loop ...
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2) Click to send it to the PGM, and click again to not display. 3) Click to enter the photo editing interface as shown below: Button operation is as follows: Four button : Adjust the position of the picture in the up, down, left, and right directions ...
3.1.7 PIP (Picture in Picture) Picture-in-picture can display multiple channels on the PGM channel. Click to display the selected picture-in-picture mode in the PGM channel, where A/B/C/D represent the screen of the channel. For example, select A in SDI-1 channel and the A area of the PGM will display the screen of SDI-1 channel.
3.1.8 Scoreboard The scoreboard can record the score of the live match in real time as shown in the figure below: 1) Button operation is as follows: Button : Display the score board to the PGM channel and click again to cancel the display.
3.1.9 Audio Mixer The mixer is used to control the gain and mix of all input and output audio as shown below: 1) Button operation is as follow: Button : Mixing output. Button : Mute. Button : Volume adjustment fader.
3.2 NSCaster-X1 Settings Interface Click to enter the setting interface. Respectively, there are "Channel Recording, Recording, Streaming, Clock, Network, File Transfer, General Settings, About" module as shown below: 3.2.1 Channel Recording It can record channel audio and video and also support recording of SDI-1, SDI-2, HDMI-1, HDMI- 2 and NET channels.
3.2.2 Recording Record the contents of PGM. Click the button on the “Main Interface” to start recording, and click again to stop. The recorded files are stored in the “Record/pgm” folder which located at the “File Transfer” interface as shown below: The bitrate and GOP in the interface can be customized.
3.2.3 Streaming PGM streaming is sent to VJLive3, FMS, WOWZA, etc. through RTMP protocol for live streaming. Click the button on the “Main Interface” to start the streaming and click again to stop. Video bitrate and GOP can be customized as shown below: 1) Select the server type as "RTMP"...
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2) Select the server type as "Mudu". First, you must first register on the Mudu live platform, then fill in the username and click on the authorization to get the channel and encoding information as shown below: 3) Select the server type as “AndLive”. First, you need to enter the username and password, then log in to get the activity list as shown below:...
4) Select the server type as “VJShow”. First, you need to enter the live authorization code and click the "Authorization" button. If you want to replace the authorization code, you will need to “cancel” the authorization first as shown in the figure below: 3.2.4 Clock Clock configuration status will let user know whether is on/off based on the status.
3.2.5 Network NSCaster-X1 supports ethernet, WIFI and 4G. The status of the connection is displayed on the main interface, highlighted to indicate that it is connected. 1) Ethernet: The default boot and the access network cable will automatically obtain the IP. Open DHCP and click “Apply”...
3) 4G: Click the start button and the status will be displayed as "ON". (Note: This interface does not affect the switch of the 4G bonding device. The 4G bonding device will automatically start the 4G network when it is inserted into the SIM card, and the 4G signal will be disconnected when the SIM card is pulled out.) 3.2.6 File Transfer File transfer between local files and USB flash drives as shown below:...
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Video material: Store DDR playback video. It only supports mp4 format and goes to B frame video, and if the format is incorrect, it will prompt “Import failed”. (Solution: Download the transcoding tool to transcode the video, the link is: http://cdn.nagasoft.cn/download/x1/x1transcode.zip) as shown below: 2) The button operation is as follows: ...
3.2.7 General Settings The general configuration interface is divided into the following functions: 1) Project FPS. It support 1080p25, 1080p30, 1080p50 and 1080p60 formats. After switching the system, you need to click the "Apply" button to restart the software automatically as shown below: 2) Language.
3.2.8 About The device information interface displays the details of the current device. In that interface, user can also do the software update and firmware update when there is available as shown below: 1) The button operation is as follows: ...
4 Questions and Answers Q1. What should I do if the camera signal is not displayed? Ans: NSCaster-X1 is automatically identify the input signal. HDMI input supports SD and HD all formats but for the SDI input, it only supports HD all-standard which means that it does not support SD.