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Chapter 8 I/O CONFIGURATION
Your NewTek system provides extensive control over video sources, along with
endless
creative features. Each source has Proc Amp, keyer (LiveMatte™) and Crop
(a.k.a., ‘garbage matte’) features. Input Configuration panels are also home to real -
time Hotspot and Tracker features. The number and flexibility of outputs supplied is
astonishing, too,
and we’ll discuss these fully in this chapter.
The addition of NDI ® (Network Device Interface) support provides you with virtually unlimited input and
output possibilities. Generally, an NDI source needs little if any configuration; other source types may
require you to choose between optional connection methods and settings.
SECTION 8.1 INPUT CONFIGURATION
8.1.1 INPUT TAB
FIGURE 66
• Any external NDI source, Skype TX
Caller, output from a video conferencing
app on the App Desktop, or a local
hardware source connected to one of
the system’s hardware input
connectors, can be flexibly assigned to
any
Switcher input.
• This also means that sources can be
easily re-ordered on the
Switcher .
(Likewise, default audio sources for
Switcher inputs can be flexibly re-
assigned in the Audio Mixer module. For
example, audio Input 1 and video Input
1 are not inextricably linked.)
The assignment of one of the various types of source to a Switcher button (e.g., “Input 1” on the Switcher ) is
made in the Input Configuration panel (Figure 66), introduced to us back in Section 3.10.2.
Open Input Configuration by any of the following methods:
• Double-click the monitor viewport for a Switcher input.
• Click the Configuration (gear) icon shown at lower right when the mouse pointer is rolled over above
the viewport.
• If you have a touch-screen, you can two-finger tap the viewport.
• Or right-click a Switcher input button and select the Configure menu item.