Timing & Genlock menu. Connect Power Supply Connect the power supply that is provided with the BrightEye NXT 450. The boot up process takes approximately one minute. Note: The BrightEye NXT 450 must be powered by its own product-specific power supply that comes with the unit.
Quick Start Guide Selecting Sources and Destinations and Making a Cross Point Switch Preset/Take Panel Mode Use the Dest button to step through the Clean Streaming Router’s Destinations. The unit’s LCD will show the signal on each Destination. Stop on the Destination you want to use. Likewise, use the Src button to step through and then select a Source.
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BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Front Panel Router Configuration Menus Panel Config Assign shortcut buttons, adjust mix transition durations, select preset/take or direct take mode, adjust panel brightness, number of audio meters, meter reference level, peak display, disable live video...
Quick Start Guide Assigning Shortcut Buttons Assign Sources and Destinations to the nine shortcut buttons in order to streamline router operation. You can have any combination of Source buttons and Destination buttons. Press to get to the configuration menus. Panel Config is the first configuration menu.
When the signal is output through a Clean Switch, you can adjust audio levels on a per-input and per-channel basis. The BrightEye NXT 450 can apply gain or attenuation from +12.0 dB to -70 dB. When the Clean Switch is in Mix mode, the audio output will properly mix between the adjusted settings of one input to the adjusted settings of the new source.
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Quick Start Guide Mapping Audio Channels From the Audio Gain menu, press to access the Audio Map menu. Then press to go to the Audio Map editing screen. Each point on the audio map represents a potential cross-point for a specific audio channel Input and audio channel Output.
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BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Clean Switching and Up/Down/Cross Conversion Both of the BrightEye NXT 450’s clean switches have frame synchronizers, enabling you to switch between asynchronous sources without glitches or pops. Both clean switches also have up/down/cross converters. Simply by setting the output standard of each clean switch, configured independently, they automatically convert any SMPTE broadcast resolution source to your chosen output standard, regardless of the signal’s...
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Quick Start Guide Encoding The BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router contains both a full featured encoder and a decoder. Because the encoder and decoder are completely independent, they can be used independently or together. You can route any 3G/HD/SD SDI baseband source that is connected to the NXT 450 to its internal MPEG-4 H.264 encoder.
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BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Selecting the Encoder’s Profile Choose Baseline for applications such as video conferencing or mobile. Choose Main for applications such as SD broadcasting. Choose High for applications such as HD broadcasting. While in the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press navigate to the Profile menu.
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Quick Start Guide Configuring the Encoder’s Audio Bit Rate Select a bit rate that is compatible with your network bandwidth considerations and that does not exceed the bit rate of your audio source. From the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press navigate to the Audio Bit Rate submenu.
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BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Streaming After setting up the Encoder, you can configure the streaming outputs. The encoder produces simultaneous transport streams, including two unicast streams and one multicast stream. Each of these streams is independently configurable as either a high resolution or low resolution signal.
Quick Start Guide Setting the Destination IP Address This is the IP address of the destination to which you are sending the streaming output. While in the Unicast A configuration menu, press to navigate to the Dest IP Adr submenu. Then press to go to the Dest IP Adr selection menu.
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BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Setting the Packet Size Default Packet Size value: 1400 Min: 500 Max: 1500 While in the Unicast A configuration menu, press to navigate to the Packet Size submenu. Then press to go to the Packet Size selection submenu.
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Quick Start Guide Decoding Unicast, multicast, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 signals enter the decoder over an IP connection. DVB-ASI signals enter the decoder through the routing matrix. You can select which of these signals you want decoded and delivered, including embedded audio, into the routing matrix in baseband form as HD SDI or SD SDI.
Web Control and Ethernet Interface Your BrightEye NXT 450 has a built-in web server providing control from a web browser. Plug an Ethernet cable into the Control Network Ethernet Port shown on page 3 to connect directly to a computer or to your Ethernet network.
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After you have set the unit’s IP address to be compatible with your network, you can connect to it with a web browser to establish a web control point. Navigate to the BrightEye NXT 450’s new IP address with your web browser. The Control Point Needed window displays.
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Click Done. The Router Control window displays. Web Browser Router Control Window You can control the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router through its web browser user interface. Thumbnail representations of the unit’s Sources are shown in the upper area, Destinations in the lower area.
Quick Start Guide Keyboard Shortcuts Click one of the lower thumbnails to select a Destination. Click one of the upper thumbnails to select a Source. Click Take or Mix. Your chosen Source is routed to the Destination you selected. ACTION number key Select Source Click Direct to toggle the Direct Take mode on or off.
BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Factory Reset To reset your BrightEye NXT 450 Router to factory settings, press and hold both the and the while powering up the unit. Wait for the arrows to turn red and blink three times.
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