Ensemble Designs BrightEye NXT 450 Users Guide

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BrightEye NXT 450

Clean Streaming Router

Installation, Conguration and

Operations Guide

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Who is Ensemble Designs?

By Engineers, For Engineers

In 1989, a former television station engineer who loved designing and building video equipment, decided to start a new company. He relished the idea of taking an existing group of equipment and adding a few special pieces in order to create an even more elegant

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ensemble. So, he designed and built his ﬁrst product and the company was born.

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We’re focused on processing gear– 3G/HD/SD/ASI video, audio and optical units.

very equipment you need to complete your ensemble of video and audio gear. We oﬀer those special pieces that tie everything together so that when combined, the whole ensemble is exactly what you need.

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Contents

Preface 14

Document Organization at a Glance 14

Chapter 1: Introduction 15

In this Chapter 15

Purpose of Document 15

Intended Audience 15

Introductory Videos 16

Overview 16

Clean Switches and Up/Down/Cross Converters 16

Encoder and Decoder Architecture 17

Additional Resources 17

Chapter 2: System Overview 18

In this Chapter 18

Features 19

High Quality, High Proﬁle MPEG Encoder/Decoder 19

IP and DVB-ASI Streaming Connections 19

Assignable I/O and Flexible Architecture 20

Instantaneous Clean Switching and Format Conversion 20

Multiple Intuitive Control Options 20

Signal Diagnostics 20

Ethernet Connectivity and Long Distances 20

Front Panel Controls 21

Rear Connectors 22

RS-232 Interface Option 22

GigE Streaming Media I/O Port 22

Control Network Ethernet Port 22

Two SFP Ports 22

5835 Router and Action Control Panel 23

Long Distance Capability 23

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Functional Block Diagram 24

Default Port Conﬁgurations as Shipped from the Factory 26

Applications 26

Mobile Truck Application 27

House of Worship Application 28

Rental and Staging Market Applications 29

University Stadium Sports Event Application 29

Chapter 3: Installation 30

In this Chapter 30

Ensuring Proper Ventilation 30

Connecting Cables to Ports 30

Connecting a Reference If Needed 30

Connecting Ethernet for Web Control Points 31

Connecting Ethernet for GigE Streaming Media I/O Port 31

RS-232 Interface Option 31

Connecting the Power Supply 31

Installing the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel 32

Connecting Ethernet Cable to RJ-45 Port 32

Long Distance Capability 32

Labeling Buttons 33

Key Cap Inserts 33

GPI Control 34

Chapter 4: Conﬁguration 35

In this Chapter 35

Router Conﬁguration Menus 36

Menus Accessed from the Front Panel 36

Menus Accessed from the Front Panel (Continued) 37

Conﬁguration Controls 38

Conguration Button 38

Navigation Buttons 38

Information Button 38

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Front Panel Navigation 38

Conﬁguration Menus Accessed from the Web Interface 39

Assigning Shortcut Buttons 40

Default Shortcut Button Assignments 40

Available Default Selections 40

To assign the shortcut buttons 40

About Port Conﬁguration 41

Planning Router Port Conﬁguration 41

Cabling Router and Conﬁguring Ports to Match Plan 41

Deﬁnitions of Port Conﬁguration Types 41

Unassigned 41

Source 41

Destination 41

Follow 41

Primary TSG (TSG 1) 42

Secondary TSG (TSG 2) 42

Port Conﬁguration Choices Available According to Port Type 42

For Fixed Input 42

For Fixed Output 42

For Bi-Directional 42

Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Front Panel 43

Assigning Ports 43

To Assign Ports 43

Renaming Ports 43

To Rename a Port 44

Adjusting Audio Levels 44

To Adjust Audio Levels 44

Mapping Audio Channels 45

To Remap Audio Channels 45

Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Web Interface 46

Assigning and Naming Ports 46

To Assign and Name Ports 46

Adjusting Audio Levels 47

To Adjust Audio Levels 47

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Mapping Audio Channels 48

To Remap Audio Channels 48

About Clean Switches and Clean Switch Conﬁguration 49

Up/Down/Cross Conversion 49

Genlocked to Reference 49

Embedded Audio 49

Output Port Following a Clean Switched Destination 49

Clean Switch Output Timing 50

Imposing Delay on a Video Signal 50

Pre-Selector to a Production Switcher 50

Feeding On-Set Monitors in a Live Environment 50

Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Front Panel 51

To Assign a Clean Switch to a Destination 51

To Set the Output Standard 51

To Set the Output Timing for Clean Switches 52

To Set the Audio Enables for Clean Switches 52

To Set Audio Breakaway 53

Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Web Interface 54

To Assign a Clean Switch to a Destination 55

To Set the Output Standard 55

To Set the Output Timing for Clean Switches 56

To Set the Audio Enables for Clean Switches 56

To Set the Audio Breakaway for Clean Switches 56

Setting Up Timing and Genlock 57

To Select the Reference Source from the Front Panel 57

System Frame Rate 57

Vertical Interval Switch Point 57

To Select the Reference Source from the Web Interface 58

Note on Frame Rates 58

50 Hz 58

59.94 Hz 58

60 Hz 58

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Working with the Internal Test Signal Generators 59

Conﬁguring the Internal Test Signal Generators from the Front Panel 59

To Select the TSG Standard 60

To Select the TSG Pattern 60

To Set the TSG Vertical Timing 61

To Set the TSG Horizontal Timing 61

To Congure the TSG Slate 62

To Congure the TSG Slate Text 62

To Congure the TSG Cyclops 63

To Congure the TSG Audio Reference Level 63

To Congure the TSG Audio Enables 64

To Congure the TSG Audio Channels 65

Conﬁguring the Internal Test Signal Generators from the Web Interface 66

To Select the TSG Standard 67

To Select the TSG Pattern 67

To Set the Vertical and Horizontal Timing 68

To Congure Audio Embedding 68

To Congure the TSG Slate 69

To Congure the TSG Slate Text 69

To Congure the TSG Cyclops 69

To Congure the TSG Audio Reference Level 70

To Congure the TSG Audio Group Enables 70

To Congure the TSG Audio Source Selections 70

Conﬁguring the Encoder 71

How the Encoding Menus are Organized 71

Conﬁguring the Encoder from the Front Panel Menus 73

Conguring the Encoder’s Video Bit Rate 73

Selecting the Encoder’s Prole 74

Selecting the Encoder’s Level 74

Conguring the Encoder’s Audio Bit Rate 75

Assigning PIDs (Packet IDs) 75

Conﬁguring Encoding from the Web Interface Controls 76

Presets 76

Creating Presets 77

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Conﬁguring Streaming 78

How the Streaming Menus are Organized 78

Conﬁguring Streaming from the Front Panel Menus 79

Enabling the Unicast A Streaming Output 79

Select the Streaming Source 79

Setting the Destination IP Address 80

Setting the Destination Port 80

Setting the TTL (Time to Live) 80

Setting the Packet Size 81

Setting the Source Port 81

Conﬁguring Unicast from the Web Interface Controls 82

Presets 82

Creating Presets 83

Conﬁguring the Decoder 84

How the Decoding Menus are Organized 84

Conﬁguring Decoding from the Front Panel Menus 85

Specifying the Decoder Input 85

Conguring the Unicast Receive Port 85

Conguring the Multicast IP Address 86

Conguring the Multicast Port 86

Conguring the Decoder Output Format 86

Conﬁguring Decoding from the Web Interface Controls 87

Presets 87

Creating Presets 88

Conﬁguring the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel 89

5835 Router and Action Control Panel Default Settings 89

Using the Control Panel’s Network Conﬁguration Controls 90

Modifying the Control Panel’s Network Settings 90

Creating a Control Point for the 5835 Panel 93

Enabling a Control Point’s Action Buttons 93

Setting Up a Web Control Point (Optional) 94

Connecting an Ethernet Cable 94

Control Network Ethernet Port 94

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Assigning the Clean Streaming Router a New IP Address and Subnet Mask 95

To Set the IP Address 95

To Set the Subnet Mask 96

Gateway and DNS Server Settings 96

Requesting the Web Control Point 97

Assigning the Default Proﬁle to the Web Control Point 99

Establishing Additional Web Control Points and Access Authentication 101

Characteristics of Control Points 101

Examples of Control Points 101

Conﬁguring Additional Control Points 102

First Method: Requesting Access from a Desired Control Point 102

Second Method: Assigning an IP Address From the Admin Control Point 102

Approving Pending Authorizations 102

Number of Control Points That Can Operate Simultaneously 103

Asymmetrical Bandwidth Requirements 103

Best Practice: Closing Web Browser Control Points When Not In Use 103

Creating and Editing Proﬁles 104

Characteristics of Proﬁles 104

Creating an Initial Set of Proﬁles 104

To Create a Prole 104

Examples of Proﬁles 105

Master Control Room (MCR) 10 x 2 105

MCR Prole Edited and Reordered to 8 x 2 106

MCR Prole Edited to 8 x 1 107

Setting Up Actions 108

Creating an Action—Summary 108

Areas of Functionality Available for Actions 108

Three Example Presets for the High Resolution Encoder 108

Preset Example One: 8 Mb/s Video Bit Rate 109

Preset Example Two: 6 Mb/s Video Bit Rate 110

Preset Example Three: 2.5 Mb/s Video Bit Rate 111

Creating an Action 112

Selecting Presets 112

Setting the Colors for High and Low Tally 113

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Giving the Action a Name 113

Enabling Action 1 114

Example of Congured Action 1 114

Enabling a Control Point’s Action Buttons 115

Accessing Actions 115

Setting Up Salvos 116

To Create a Salvo 116

First Method 116

Second Method 118

Security and Administrative Access to Settings 119

To Limit Access to the Router’s Settings 119

Saving and Restoring Conﬁguration Settings 120

To Save Conﬁguration Settings 120

To Upload Conﬁguration Settings 120

Chapter 5: Operations and Step-by-Step Procedures 121

In this Chapter 121

Encoding, Decoding, and Routing 121

Routing an SDI Signal to the Encoder 121

Decoding and Routing a Unicast or Multicast Signal 121

Encoding an SDI Signal to DVB-ASI 122

Decoding DVB-ASI to SDI 122

Operations Using the Front Control Panel 122

Making a Cross Point Switch in Preset/Take Panel Mode 122

Selecting a Destination 122

Selecting a Source 122

Pressing Take 123

Performing Direct Takes 123

To Enter Direct Take Panel Mode 123

To Make a Direct Take 123

To Exit Direct Take Panel Mode 123

Performing Mix Takes with the Front Panel 124

Clean Switch Required 124

To Enter Mix Mode 124

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To Make a Mix Take 124

To Exit Mix Mode 124

Viewing Information about a Routed Signal 125

Disabling the Front Panel for Safe Driving Mode 125

To Enter Safe Driving Mode 125

Operations Using the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel 126

Orientation of Front Panel 126

Performing Takes with the Router and Action Control Panel 126

To Perform a Take by Selecting a Source and a Destination 126

To Perform a Take by Selecting Only a New Source 127

Performing Direct Takes with the Router and Action Control Panel 127

To Perform a Direct Take 127

To Exit Direct Take Mode 127

Accessing Ancillary Data with the Router and Action Control Panel 127

To Access Ancillary Data 127

Operations Using a Web Control Point 128

Prerequisites 128

Accessing the Web Browser Control Interface 128

Performing Takes 128

To Perform a Take by Selecting a Source and a Destination 128

To Perform a Take by Selecting Only a New Source 128

Performing Direct Takes 129

To Perform a Direct Take 129

To Exit Direct Take Mode 129

Performing Gang Takes 130

To Perform a Gang Take 130

To Exit Gang Mode 130

Performing Direct Gang Takes 130

To Perform a Direct Gang Take 130

To Exit Direct Gang Mode 130

Performing Mix Takes 131

Clean Switch Required 131

To Perform a Mix Take 131

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Web Interface 132

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Selecting Sources 132

Selecting Destinations 132

Performing a Take 132

Performing a Mix 132

Performing a Direct Take 132

Gang Selections 132

Using Salvos 133

To Perform a Salvo 133

Salvo Keyboard Shortcuts 133

Display Preferences 134

Chapter 6: External Control 135

The BrightEye NXT 450’s Approach to Control Integration 135

RS-232 Interface Option 135

9-Pin D Connector Pin Out 135

Router and Action Control Panel (5835) GPI Inputs 135

Supported Control Protocols Overview 136

Conﬁguring External Control 137

Automation Protocols 138

Introduction 138

Conventions 138

Overview 139

Before You Begin 139

Understanding Proﬁles 140

Conﬁguration 142

Prole Conguration 143

External Control Conguration 143

Protocols 144

GV TEN-XL ASCII Protocol 144

GV Performer ASCII Protocol 148

Generic ASCII Protocol 153

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Chapter 7: Maintenance and Troubleshooting 161

Switching Signals Does Not Occur Smoothly 161

Cannot Connect to the BrightEye NXT 450 from a Web Browser 161

Supported Browsers 161

Troubleshooting the Router and Action Control Panel (5835) 162

Router and Action Control Panel has Lost its Connection to the Router 162

Rebooting the Router and Action Control Panel 162

Resetting the Router and Action Control Panel to Factory Default Settings 162

Conﬁguration Changes are not Taking Eﬀect 162

The Take Button is Grayed Out 162

Resetting to Factory Default Settings 162

Software Updating 163

Warranty and Factory Service 163

Speciﬁcations 164

Glossary 165

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Preface

Document Organization at a Glance

This manual addresses all of the essential topics for understanding how to install, conﬁgure and use the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router. See the following table for a quick glance at what each chapter addresses. Note that the items in the main table of contents, as well as the chapter titles below, are links.

Chapter Title Topics Covered

Chapter 1: Introduction A brief introduction to this document and to the BrightEye NXT 450

with links to resources such as brief overview videos, the quick start guide, the product brochure, and training videos.

Chapter 2: System Overview

Chapter 3: Installation This chapter describes installation ventilation needs, making cable

Chapter 4: Conﬁguration Addresses conﬁguration menus for the front panel and the web

Chapter 5: Operations and Step-by-Step Procedures

Chapter 6: External Control Addresses how the BrightEye NXT 450 handles external control

Chapter 7: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Speciﬁcations Presents speciﬁcations for the BrightEye NXT 450 regarding inputs,

Glossary Includes deﬁnitions of commonly-used terms relevant to the video

Describes the overall BrightEye NXT 450 Router system—its hardware and software components and example applications.

connections, and using the proper power supply.

interface; assigning shortcut buttons; conﬁguring ports; working with clean switches; audio level adjustments; audio channel mapping; setting up timing and genlock; conﬁguring internal test signal generators; conﬁguring encoding, streaming and decoding; conﬁguring the 5835 router and action control panel; setting up a web control point (optional); establishing additional web control points and access authentication; creating and editing proﬁles; setting up salvos; security and administrative access to settings; downloading and uploading conﬁguration settings.

After the Clean Streaming Router has been installed and conﬁgured, it is ready to use. This chapter addresses encoding, decoding, performing takes, direct takes, mix takes, gang takes, direct gang takes, and accessing ancillary data.

integration; supported control protocols; SNMP Interface; RS-232 interface option.

This chapter addresses possible issues that new users may encounter while becoming familiar with the BrightEye NXT 450.

max cable length, outputs and reference.

broadcast industry.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

In this Chapter

This chapter addresses the following topics:

• Purpose of Document

• Intended Audience

• Introductory Videoss

• Additional Resources

Purpose of Document

This Installation, Conﬁguration and Operations Guide supports the process of planning for, installing, conﬁguring and operating the Ensemble Designs BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router.

This manual describes the elements of the system, how they work together, and the practical aspects of working with the unit to meet your facility’s needs.

Use the Contents and the Preface to quickly link to a speciﬁc chapter or topic.

Intended Audience

In addition to the target audience listed below, this document is meant for anyone who needs to target a speciﬁc area of functionality in order to meet an immediate need, as well as for those who need to have a comprehensive understanding of the Router from a systems planning point of view.

The intended audience for this manual includes people with the following roles:

• broadcast engineers

• studio designers

• system designers

• system integrators

• installation and conﬁguration personnel

• router operators

• audio/video professionals

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Introductory Videos

The BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router can be conﬁgured with various options and in diﬀerent sizes to address a wide variety of applications. Please view the brief videos below for an overview of key ideas concerning the unit’s architecture and capabilities.

Overview

This video features David Wood, Chief Design Engineer, presenting an overview of the architecture of the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router.

Click the image to link to the video on the Ensemble Designs web site.

Clean Switches and Up/Down/Cross Converters

This video features David Wood, Chief Design Engineer, presenting an overview of the Clean Switch and Up/Down/Cross Converters of the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router.

Click the image to link to the video on the Ensemble Designs web site.

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Encoder and Decoder Architecture

This video features David Wood, Chief Design Engineer, presenting an overview of the architecture of the Encoder and Decoder of the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router.

Click the image to link to the video on the Ensemble Designs web site.

Additional Resources

In addition to this document, please refer to the following additional resources:

• BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Quick Start Guide

• BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router Brochure

• BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router product page from the Ensemble Designs web site

• BrightEye NXT 430 Training Videos. Almost all of the functionality covered in these training videos is equally applicable to the NXT 450.

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Chapter 2: System Overview

In this Chapter

This chapter addresses the following topics:

• Features

• High Quality, High Proﬁle MPEG Encoder/Decoder

• IP and DVB-ASI Streaming Connections

• Assignable I/O and Flexible Architecture

• Instantaneous Clean Switching and Format Conversion

• Multiple Intuitive Control Options

• Signal Diagnostics

• Ethernet Connectivity and Long Distances

• Front Panel Controls

• Rear Connectors

• 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

• Functional Block Diagram

• Default Port Conﬁgurations as Shipped from the Factory

• Applications

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Features

• Router for 3G, HD, SD SDI, ﬁber and HDMI video

• Simultaneous high quality, high proﬁle MPEG Encoder/Decoder

• Advanced H.264 coding techniques give superb performance at low bit rates

• Built-in dual Up/Down/Cross converters

• Dual assignable clean switches for video and embedded audio for seamless routing

• LCD display with realtime full motion video of your sources

• Flexible I/O – You conﬁgure BNCs and SFPs as inputs or outputs

• HDMI, ﬁber and composite I/O via SFPs

• RS-232 and TCP/IP 3rd-party control interfaces

• Integrated web server for setup and operation

• Dissolve and Cut transitions

• Direct Take Mode

• Audio breakaway

• 16 channel audio level adjustments

• Mix and shuﬄe audio

• System-wide conﬁguration registers

• Programmable Salvo and Action Keys

• Front panel and web-based control

• Dual built-in test pattern generator with moving element option and slate ID

• Genlockable and timeable

• PiP-Efx – Picture in Picture option

High Quality, High Proﬁle MPEG Encoder/Decoder

The BrightEye NXT 450 adds a high quality, high proﬁle H.264 (MPEG-4) Encoder to the already formidable feature set of the BrightEye NXT family of compact routers. Advanced coding techniques give superb performance even at low bit rates. The Encoder produces both a high- and low-resolution output simultaneously. Any SDI input can be fed to the Encoder through the built-in format converting Clean Switch, allowing seamless switching or mixing between all inputs. The independent Decoder operates simultaneously, with baseband output in any desired format. The Decoder output can be switched along with any other source to any destination. An NXT 450 can serve as a full duplex codec, supporting both an outgoing and incoming streaming path. Encoding and Decoding are fully integrated with the full set of resources in the NXT 450.

IP and DVB-ASI Streaming Connections

Encoded streams can be sent or received through IP networking or by direct DVB-ASI connections. The NXT 450 incorporates an RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port dedicated to streaming connectivity. The Encoder output can be delivered by either Unicast or Multicast addressing modes over the IP connection. Two Unicast outputs can be independently directed to any desired destination. Assuming the required IP gateway is in place, an NXT 450 can deliver a stream to any location. The Multicast output is limited to the immediate subnet that the NXT 450 is connected to, but can be received by multiple devices. In addition to IP outputs, a DVB-ASI formatted stream can be output through a BNC port, or by ﬁber with an SFP module. For each of these outputs, IP or ASI, there is independent selection of the high- or lowresolution stream. The NXT 450 can receive an IP stream from the Media port, or ASI from any BNC or Fiber input. This stream will be Decoded to produce a baseband SDI signal with embedded audio.

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Assignable I/O and Flexible Architecture

Flexible I/O conﬁguration – a hallmark of all the BrightEye NXT series of routers – allows on-the-ﬂy changes to the number of inputs and router destinations. From 9 inputs and 2 outputs, to 2 inputs and 9 outputs, the NXT 450 adapts to diﬀerent needs. The two SFP ports allow for ﬁber optic connections, HDMI I/O, or additional HD-BNC SDI connections. Genlock the Clean Switches and TSGs using the external reference input. Assign a Clean Switch to an output, and now that output can be timed with respect to house reference. The ﬂexibility extends to the integration of the Encoder and Decoder. The Encoder is driven as a destination of the routing matrix, and the output of the Decoder is a source to the matrix. Feed any source to the Encoder, and feed the Decoder to any destination.

Instantaneous Clean Switching and Format Conversion

The NXT 450 contains two Clean Switches. When assigned to an output, they provide clean, quiet switching – even between asynchronous sources. The format conversion feature provides automatic conversion of inputs to the chosen output format. This makes it possible to cut and mix between diﬀerent input formats. Frame synchronization in the Clean Switch is particularly valuable when assigned to the input of the Encoder. It guarantees that the Encoder receives continuous, uninterrupted synchronization, regardless of the timing or condition of the input signals.

Multiple Intuitive Control Options

Control and conﬁguration of the NXT 450 can be made from a variety of interfaces. The front panel provides a full motion, real time video display of sources and destinations. Route signals and conﬁgure resources directly from the front panel. Connect the RJ-45 Control Network port to a LAN for control using the built-in web server. From smartphone, tablet, or laptop, view thumbnails of all the sources and destinations, make routing changes, and conﬁgure parameters of all the NXT 450 resources. Control from third-party devices can be accomplished by TCP/IP or RS-232 protocols. Use the 5835 Control Panel to provide a fully customizable operator interface.

Signal Diagnostics

The unit’s circuitry detects and measures key parameters associated with each video source, such as synchronicity and timing, line and frame rate, embedded audio presence or absence, closed caption information, and timecode data. These parameters can be displayed on both the front panel LCD screen and on web interface control points.

Ethernet Connectivity and Long Distances

Because the web interface connects to the BrightEye NXT 450 over Ethernet, and because Ethernet reaches much farther than coaxial cable, BrightEye NXT 450 web interface control points can be physically located very far away from the unit if desired.

For example, if you need the capability to select sources at the transmitter remotely, such as in the event of either a master control switcher failure or a microwave link failure between the studio and the transmitter, you can use the BrightEye NXT 450 as part of a backup switcher at the transmitter. Sources such as a network feed, a small server or a weather camera could be switched to air in an emergency.

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Front Panel Controls

The BrightEye NXT 450’s front panel is illustrated below. Virtually all tasks can be performed from the front panel controls. A limited number of additional tasks can be performed only through the web interface. Please see “Chapter 4: Conﬁguration” beginning on page 35 for more information.

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Rear Connectors

The BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router’s rear connectors are shown below.

RS-232 Interface Option

If requested at the time of ordering, the Clean Streaming Router can include an adaptor cable that provides a 9-pin female D connector for the RS-232 interface.

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5835 Router and Action Control Panel

The 5835 Router and Action Control Panel is fully customizable to suit your exact application. It oﬀers Thumbnail preview so you can see your Sources before doing a Take or Mix transition. The Action Keys are fully programmable, so you can have multiple custom presets for diﬀerent operators.

The Router and Action Control Panel communicates with the Clean Streaming Router by Ethernet to control the unit and to display thumbnail previews of content. An essentially unlimited number of Router and Action Control Panels can be used in a Router system. You can also access signal diagnostic information from the LCD display on the Router and Action Control Panel. Being only 1.8” (45mm) deep, it can be installed in very shallow positions.

Long Distance Capability

Because each 5835 Router and Action Control Panel connects to the Router over Ethernet, and because Ethernet reaches much farther than coaxial cable, the Control Panels can be physically located very far away from the Clean Streaming Router if desired.

For example, if you need the capability to select sources at the transmitter remotely, such as in the event of either a master control switcher failure or a microwave link failure between the studio and the transmitter, you can use the Clean Streaming Router as part of a backup switcher at the transmitter. Sources such as a network feed, a small server or a weather camera could be switched to air in an emergency. You can do the selecting remotely, such as at the studio (or even from home if need be), or from any location with Ethernet access.

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Functional Block Diagram

H.264 Encoder

SD/HD/3G!

SDI I/O

Dual! SFP

Each SFP can provide:

Fiber: 2 ports SDI: 2 ports HDMI: 1 port Analog: 1 port

Baseband! Input

High

Resolution

Low

Resolution

DVB-ASI

Unicast A

Unicast B

Multicast

DVB-ASI

Decode

SD/HD/3G! Baseband Output

Streaming

Media Port

Ethernet

Unicast Rcvr

Multicast Rcvr

H.264 / MPEG-2!

100/1000!

GigE

IP Streaming! Input

Decoder

Genlock Input

TCXO!

Internal Precision Ref

Reference!

Processing

SD/HD/3G-SDI!

& DVB-ASI!

Crosspoint Matrix

Video!

& Audio!

Clock Gen

Test Signal! Generators

Clean Switch

Cut / Mix Transitions

Quiet Audio Switching

Up/Down/Cross!

Conversion

Clean Switch

Cut / Mix Transitions

Quiet Audio Switching

Up/Down/Cross!

Conversion

BrightEye NXT 450 Functional Block Diagram, Portrait View

Thumbnail! Processing

Panel Graphics

Live Output

Live Cam 1

Hardware

HTTP / Web!

Server

Command!

& Control

Ethernet

System! !Control

TCP/IP

10/100

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Genlock Input

SDI I/O

Internal Precision Ref

Processing

Reference!

TCXO!

Clock Gen

& Audio!

Video!

Crosspoint Matrix

BrightEye NXT 450 Functional Block Diagram, Landscape View

SD/HD/3G-SDI!

& DVB-ASI!

Generators

Test Signal!

Dual!

SFP

Dual!

SFP

Quiet Audio Switching

Cut / Mix Transitions

Up/Down/Cross!

Conversion

Quiet Audio Switching

Cut / Mix Transitions

Up/Down/Cross!

Conversion

Clean Switch

Live Cam 1

Panel Graphics

Live Output

Processing

Thumbnail!

SD/HD/3G!

Baseband Output

Decode

DVB-ASI

Analog: 1 port

SDI: 2 ports

HDMI: 1 port

Resolution

DVB-ASI

Multicast

Each SFP can provide:

Fiber: 2 ports

Baseband!

Input

Resolution

High

Low

Unicast B

Unicast A

H.264 Encoder

SD/HD/3G!

Multicast Rcvr

Unicast Rcvr

H.264 / MPEG-2!

HTTP / Web!

Command!

& Control

Ethernet

10/100

Server

TCP/IP

Hardware

!Control

System!

Decoder

Streaming!

Input

GigE

100/1000!

Ethernet

Media Port

Streaming

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Default Port Conﬁgurations as Shipped from the Factory

The default port conﬁgurations are shown below.

Port Default

Assignment

In 1 Source SFP I/O 8 Source Enc SDI In Destination

In 2 Source SFP I/O 9 Unassigned Dec SDI Out Source

I/O 3 Source SFP I/O 10 Unassigned Enc ASI Out Source

Out 4 Destination SFP I/O 11 Unassigned Dec ASI In Destination

Out 5 Destination TSG 1 Source

I/O 6 Source TSG 2 Source

I/O 7 Unassigned

Ports that are Unassigned, such as Port 7, can be conﬁgured from the front panel either as a Source or Destination. Please see:

• “Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Front Panel” on page 43, and

• “Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Web Interface” on page 46 for details.

The two Clean Switches (CS) can be assigned to speciﬁc Destinations. Please see:

• “Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Front Panel” on page 51, and

• “Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Web Interface” on page 54 for details.

Port Default

Assignment

Port Default

Assignment

Applications

The ﬂexibility of the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router makes it possible to tailor the inputs and outputs to suit a diverse range of requirements. The Clean Streaming Router can accommodate many environments and applications, including the following:

• Mobile Truck Application

• House of Worship Application

• Rental and Staging Market Applications

• University Stadium Sports Event Application

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Mobile Truck Application

Ideal for mobile applications, the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router provides signal reception, decoding, clean switching and distribution to multiple destinations using any combination of formats. Seamlessly switch between 1080i, 1080p, 720p, and DVB-ASI sources. Simply set one of the clean switch outputs to your desired format and all of your sources will be automatically converted. Multiple outputs deliver streaming by IP back to the studio, DVB-ASI to your satellite uplink, and HD SDI for local monitoring. Remotely cut and mix sources or use Salvo and Action shortcuts from your tablet or any web-enabled device. The 5835 Router and Action Control Panel is fully customizable to put exactly the right controls in front of operators.

720p HDMI

1080p 3G SDI

1080 HD SDI

Crosspoints

Routing Control with

user legendable buttons for

Sources and Destinations.

Full travel push buttons

with sculpted caps.

DVB-ASI Via Microwave

Clean Streaming Router

Encoder Output to Cable H.264 High Res Unicast MPEG

Fiber to Telco

1080p HD SDI

Feed to Production Van 1080 HS SDI

Program Feed to Satellite DVB-ASI

Control from anywhere via web enabled device

BrightEye NXT 450

Hard Surface Control Panel

5835 – Router and Action Control Panel

LCD Display

Action Keys

Thumbnail preview of Sources before Take or Mix transition. Displays input status, signal timing, and metadata.

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House of Worship Application

Simultaneously send your live service to an HDMI projector, to the youth room and to storage via Multicast, and to a remote campus via Unicast. Switch seamlessly from the Pastor to a missionary interview coming in on Skype. Use your existing IP network to distribute and control, eliminating the need to lay cable or ﬁber. With the NXT 450’s web-based control, your director can sit in the back pew with an iPad, switching between hymn lyrics and cameras while participating in the service.

DVI or VGA

Laptop for Hymn Lyrics

and Skype

BrightEye Mitto

Scan Converter

Hand Held Camera 720p HDMI

Camera 1080i HD SDI

HD SDI

1080i HDMI

BrightEye NXT 450

Clean Streaming Router

Projector

High Res Unicast to Remote Campus

High Res Multicast to Local Breakout Rooms

Feed to Production Van 1080i HD SDI

720p HD SDI

Control from anywhere via web enabled device

Rental and Staging Market Applications

The BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router is perfect for the rental market, oﬀering ﬂexible assignable I/Os, built-in encoding and decoding, simultaneous Multicast and Unicast outputs, automatic format conversion, clean switching, intuitive web-based control and more. No need for separate ﬁber or HDMI converters with the NXT 450’s optional HDMI and optical I/Os via SFP. Built-in test signal generators, audio mixing and breakaway save router I/O real estate and reduce cabling needs. Save default or customer settings for quick recall.

University Stadium Sports Event Application

Use the NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router for a combination of reception, decoding, up/down/cross converting, switching and distribution to multiple destinations using a variety of formats (MPEG, DVB-ASI, HD-SDI) and methods (microwave, ﬁber, BNC, dual SFP, IP). Receive signal inputs coming from a blimp, a sports center and a production feed. Signals can be decoded, up/down/cross converted, routed and encoded to a satellite transmitter, a scoreboard video control, a cable company, a distant location through high resolution multicast, and an announcer’s booth.

Control of the BrightEye NXT 450, including setup and complete operation, can be managed through its front panel, and/or through its ethernet control port from any authorized browser-enabled device, such as an iPad, iPhone, or web browser.

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Chapter 3: Installation

In this Chapter

This chapter describes cable connections for the installation process. Topics addressed include:

• Ensuring Proper Ventilation

• Connecting Cables to Ports

• Connecting a Reference If Needed

• Connecting Ethernet for Web Control Points

• Connecting Ethernet for GigE Streaming Media I/O Port

• RS-232 Interface Option

• Connecting the Power Supply

• Installing the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

Ensuring Proper Ventilation

Maintaining proper airﬂow is required to keep the NXT’s internal temperature normal. Air input occurs below the front panel. Air output occurs through the rear panel. If placing the unit on a surface, the four feet must be mounted on its base. If mounted in a rack, the unit must be installed in such a way that the air ﬂow on the front and rear is not restricted. Our BERKMT-Full rack mount kit, designed for this purpose, holds up to 3 NXT units in a 1RU rack.

Connecting Cables to Ports

Make your connections to sources and destinations with 75 ohm coaxial cable.

Connecting a Reference If Needed

The BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router locks to house reference or to its own internal precision standard. Connect your reference source to the Ref In SDI port on the rear panel. If no reference is connected, the router locks to its own internal precision standard.

The reference input of the Clean Streaming Router will accept these reference types:

• NTSC or PAL analog video

• Tri-Level Sync

• 10 MHz precision reference

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When VITC (Vertical Interval Timecode) is present on NTSC or PAL analog composite reference sources, it will be available to the Router for event scheduling.

See “Setting Up Timing and Genlock” on page 57 for more details about conﬁguring the Router’s Timing and Genlock systems.

Connecting Ethernet for Web Control Points

Because you can control and conﬁgure the BrightEye NXT 450 immediately upon boot-up with its built-in front control panel, it is not required to use the Control Network Ethernet connection. However, if you want to conﬁgure one or more web control points, you will need to network to the Control Network Ethernet port.

Use CAT5 or CAT6 cabling to connect the Control Network Ethernet port to a network Ethernet router or switch to make it accessible to computers on your network. The Control Network Ethernet port will auto-sense cable direction, so a cross-over cable is not needed.

Connecting Ethernet for GigE Streaming Media I/O Port

Use CAT5 or CAT6 cabling to connect the Ethernet GigE Streaming Media I/O port to unicast, multicast, or MPEG transport streams.

RS-232 Interface Option

As an option, the BrightEye NXT 450 can be equipped with a cable that has a 9-pin RS-232 port installed at the factory. This option must be requested at the time of ordering.

Connecting the Power Supply

Each BrightEye NXT 450 unit ships with the following power supply:

• Ensemble Designs Part Number 23600106

• Order Information: BEPS-NXT

• Input: 100-240V, 47-63Hz, 1.5A

• Output: 12V, 5.0A

Note:

The BrightEye NXT 450 must be powered by its own product-speciﬁc power supply

that is provided with each unit. DO NOT use a BrightEye Spider power supply (BEPS6) or a BrightEye Individual power supply (BEPS, ED part number 23118900).

The boot-up process takes about one minute. When ﬁrst applying power to the unit, the Conﬁguration button illuminates green for the ﬁrst ten to ﬁfteen seconds.

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Installing the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

Connecting Ethernet Cable to RJ-45 Port

Make an Ethernet connection to the RJ-45 port on the rear of the Router and Action Control Panel. The Ethernet cable should be connected to a network Ethernet router or switch to make it accessible to the Clean Streaming Router. The Ethernet port will auto-sense cable direction, so a cross-over cable is not needed.

A modular power supply is provided to power the Router and Action Control Panel. Alternately, power can be supplied by the Ethernet connection using PoE (Power over Ethernet), provided that you have a PoE-enabled Ethernet switch to insert power into the Ethernet cables.

The rear of the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel. Note the three connectors: the RJ-45 Port, the Power Input, and the 9-Pin GPI Connector.

Long Distance Capability

Because the Router and Action Control Panel connects to the Clean Streaming Router over Ethernet, and because Ethernet reaches much farther than coaxial cable, Router and Action Control Panels can be physically located very far away from the Router if desired. Therefore, you can install the Router and Action Control Panels wherever you need them to be located as long as you have Ethernet connectivity.

The Router and Action Control Panel is only 1.8” (45mm) deep, so it can be installed in very shallow positions.

The front of the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel.

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Labeling Buttons

The 5835 Router and Action Control Panel comes with pre-printed key cap inserts.

Key Cap Inserts

The key cap inserts give a broad range of terms and numbers printed on clear plastic sheets. Each individual button legend pops out from its sheet and can be inserted into the Router and Action Control Panel buttons between the clear overcap and the white diﬀuser, if desired.

The button legends are designed to be used individually—one per button, or as a combined set—two on a button. When combining them, one appears higher on the button and the other appears lower.

To Place a Button Legend Inside a Control Panel Button

1. Pull a button oﬀ of the Control Panel by simply squeezing and pulling. Each button is held to the Panel with a pressure ﬁt. A bit of pressure is required.

2. Remove the inner white diﬀuser part of the button from the clear overcap with a ﬁngernail or a sharp edged tool. Note the orientation of each button: there are slightly indented slits located on the top and bottom of both the clear overcap and white diﬀuser.

3. Place a button legend between the clear overcap and the white diﬀuser, keeping both parts aligned top to bottom and noting orientation. Snap the two button pieces back together.

4. Snap the button back in place on the Control Panel with some slight pressure. The button must be level to the plane of the Panel before it will snap correctly back into place.

Button legends can be inserted between the clear overcap and the white diuser of the key cap.

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GPI Control

The Router and Action Control Panel is equipped with 8 GPI (General Purpose Interface) inputs. These provide a simple, wire-per-function interface for applications such as:

• Master Control Fault “Panic” Button

• Monitor Follow in Camera Shading

• Crosspoint selection from relay contact closure

Connection to the GPI Inputs is made through the female 9-pin D-Sub connector on the rear of the Router and Action Control Panel.

The pinout of this connector is organized as follows:

Pin # Function

1 - 8 GPI Inputs 1 through 8

9 Ground

A GPI function is activated by making a momentary connection between the GPI pin and ground. This can be done with a switch, a relay, or an open-collector driver. The GPI input is internally pulled high, the external control must sink 1 mA.

Functions are assigned to the GPIs through the Control Proﬁle that has been assigned to the panel.

For more information about Proﬁles, see Creating and Editing Proﬁles on page 59.

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Chapter 4: Conﬁguration

In this Chapter

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Router Conﬁguration Menus

• Assigning Shortcut Buttons

• About Port Conﬁguration

• Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Front Panel

• Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Web Interface

• About Clean Switches and Clean Switch Conﬁguration

• Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Front Panel

• Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Web Interface

• Setting Up Timing and Genlock

• Working with the Internal Test Signal Generators

• Conﬁguring the Encoder

• Conﬁguring Streaming

• Conﬁguring the Decoder

• Conﬁguring the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

• Setting Up a Web Control Point (Optional)

• Establishing Additional Web Control Points and Access Authentication

• Creating and Editing Proﬁles

• Setting Up Salvos

• Security and Administrative Access to Settings

• Saving and Restoring Conﬁguration Settings

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Router Conﬁguration Menus

Two sets of conﬁguration menus are available—one through the front panel, the other through the web interface. An overview of these respective sets of menus are given on this page, on the next page, and on page 33.

Menus Accessed from the Front Panel

Panel Conﬁg Shortcuts, Transition Duration, Direct Take or

Preset/Take, Panel Brightness, Audio Meters, Meter Reference Level, Peak Display, Live Video On or Muted

Ports Deﬁne ports according to port type, edit port

names, adjust audio levels and audio mapping

TSG1 Select a test signal, choose its standard, adjust

test signal output timing

TSG2 Same as test signal generator 1, but for the 2nd

TSG

Clean Switch 1 Set the clean switch’s standard and assign it to an

output, choose audio breakaway settings.

Clean Switch 2 Same as Clean Switch 1, but for the 2nd Clean

Switch

Media Network Conﬁgure the Streaming Media I/O Port’s

network settings

High Res Encoder Conﬁgure video bit rate, proﬁle, encoding level,

audio bit rate, assign PIDs

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Menus Accessed from the Front Panel (Continued)

Low Res Encoder Same controls as High Res Encoder but with

lower bit rates

Decoding Select input, unicast receive port, multicast

source IP address, multicast source port, output format

Unicast A Turn on or oﬀ, select high or low resolution, set

the destination IP address, the destination port, TTL (time to live), packet size, source port

Unicast B Same set of controls as for Unicast A

Multicast Turn on or oﬀ, select high or low resolution, set

the multicast IP address, the multicast port, TTL (time to live), packet size, source port

Timing & Genlock Select between external and internal

reference, get info about the system frame rate (determined by TSG1)

Network Change the router’s IP address and other

network settings

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Conﬁguration Controls

All of the conﬁguration buttons are located to the right of the front panel screen.

Front Panel Navigation

Press to bring up the conﬁguration menus on the front panel screen.

Use the arrows to scroll through the conﬁguration menus, navigate submenus, or to change the values of a selected setting.

Press or to drop down successive levels within a menu.

Press or to come back up one menu level.

Conﬁguration Button

Press the Conﬁguration button to access the conﬁguration menus. Once in the conﬁguration menus, pressing the Conﬁguration button backs out one level. Pressing any operational button— any button to the left of the screen—will take you immediately from conﬁguration mode to the router’s operational mode. Pressing the Conﬁguration button again brings you right back to the last Conﬁguration menu you visited.

After approximately 30 seconds of inactivity of the conﬁguration controls, the BrightEye NXT 450 screen will time out and revert to the unit’s operational mode.

Navigation Buttons

Use the Up, Down, Left and Right arrow buttons to navigate the menu system and adjust settings.

Information Button

Press the Info button to access info screens about the NXT unit, such as software version, network information, rear connectors, SFP port information, and system bootup status.

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Conﬁguration Menus Accessed from the Web Interface

General Modify the name of the unit; access reporting information about model,

software version, serial number, and hardware model; enable admin password, change password; download or upload settings; update software

Network Conﬁgure the unit’s IP address and other network settings

Front Panel Conﬁgure panel mode, audio meters, live video display, front panel lock,

transition duration, meter reference level, peak display, and panel brightness.

Timing & Genlock Select between external and internal reference; view reference status; view

info about the system frame rate (determined by TSG1)

Ports Deﬁne ports as inputs or outputs, assign names to ports, adjust audio gain,

audio channel mapping, and audio mode

Test Signals Select test signals, choose standards, adjust test signal output timing,

conﬁgure slate text, cyclops settings, audio reference levels, enable audio groups, select tone frequencies of audio channels 1 - 16

Clean Switches Assign a clean switch to an output or to the encoder or decoder, set each

clean switch’s output standard, adjust vertical and horizontal timing, enable audio groups, choose audio breakaway settings, select split mode settings

Actions Conﬁgure action buttons

Salvos Conﬁgure, name, and trigger Salvos, enabling you to route selected sets of

sources to selected sets of destinations simultaneously

Media Network Conﬁgure the Streaming Media I/O Port’s network settings

Encoding Conﬁgure settings for the High Resolution Encoder and the Low Resolution

Encoder; create multiple preset conﬁgurations

Decoding Select input, unicast receive port, multicast IP address, multicast port, output

format; create multiple preset conﬁgurations

Streaming Conﬁgure settings for Unicast Stream A, Unicast Stream B, Multicast Stream;

create multiple presets for each

Proﬁles Create, edit and delete proﬁles

Control Points Enable control points, assign proﬁles to control points, enable salvo control

External Control Conﬁgure TCP/IP settings, RS-232 serial control settings, and GPIO devices

Accessing the web interface

conguration menus

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Assigning Shortcut Buttons

Assign Sources and Destinations to the nine shortcut buttons on the front panel in order to streamline router operation. You can have any combination of Source, Destination and Unassigned shortcut buttons.

This task can be done only from the BrightEye NXT 450 front panel.

Default Shortcut Button Assignments

Input 1 (source)

TSG 1 (source)

Output 4 (destination)

Input 2 (source)

Port 6 (source)

Output 5 (destination)

Port 3 (source)

Decoder SDI (source)

SDI Encoder (destination)

Available Default Selections

Prior to any customization, the following default selections are available for each of the nine shortcut button:

• ASI Decoder (destination)

• SDI Encoder (destination)

• Output 5 (destination)

• Output 4 (destination)

• TSG 2 (source)

• TSG 1 (source)

• Decoder SDI (source)

• SFP 8 (source)

• Port 6 (source)

• Port 3 (source)

• Input 2 (source)

• Input 1 (source)

• Unassigned (grey)

• Encoder ASI (source)

To assign the shortcut buttons

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display. The top menu listed is Panel Conﬁg.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Shortcuts: Button Assignments submenu.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Panel Conﬁg: Shortcuts button map.

4. Initially, the top left button is selected. Use the left and right arrow buttons to select the button you want to conﬁgure.

5. Use the up and down arrow buttons to change which source or destination to which it is assigned. Or you can map it to “Unassigned.”

6. Press OK to save your new selection to the highlighted shortcut button, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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About Port Conﬁguration

Planning Router Port Conﬁguration

Typically, during the planning stage of your Router implementation, you would determine in advance how you want to initially use the Router in terms of inputs, outputs, test signal generators, encoder and decoder.

Cabling Router and Conﬁguring Ports to Match Plan

Based on your plan, connect cables to the ports to match your intended use, and conﬁgure the ports to match how you have wired the router for your facility.

Before going step-by-step through the process of conﬁguring the Router’s ports, it is necessary to go over some background information in order to understand what the conﬁguration options mean.

Deﬁnitions of Port Conﬁguration Types

Port conﬁguration types are described below, followed by detailed examples.

Unassigned

For all Port Types

A port can be set to Unassigned when it is not in use. This will remove it from the list of Sources and Destinations that can be assigned to a Control Proﬁle.

Source

For Fixed Input and Bi-directional Ports

When conﬁgured as a Source, a port is an input to the switching matrix. The Source can be given a name, and under that name it will be available for assignment in a Control Proﬁle. Making this selection on bi-directional ports will cause them to operate as inputs.

Destination

For Fixed Output and Bi-directional Ports

Conﬁguring a port as a Destination makes it available for use in Control Proﬁles under its assigned name as a Router output. A bi-directional port conﬁgured as a Destination will cause it to operate as an output.

Follow

For Fixed Output and Bi-directional Ports

Output-capable ports can be conﬁgured to Follow, or duplicate, the signal on any Source or Destination. The Follow conﬁguration essentially makes a port into a DA. Ports that are conﬁgured to Follow will not appear on the list of Sources and Destinations that can be assigned to a Control Proﬁle.

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Primary TSG (TSG 1)

For Fixed Output and Bi-directional Ports

This Primary TSG conﬁguration delivers the test signal being generated in the Primary TSG to an output port, independently of any user control of the switching matrix.

Secondary TSG (TSG 2)

For Fixed Output and Bi-directional Ports

The Secondary TSG conﬁguration delivers the test signal being generated in the Secondary TSG to an output port, independently of any user control of the switching matrix.

Port Conﬁguration Choices Available According to Port Type

These three port types (ﬁxed input, ﬁxed output, bi-directional) can be conﬁgured in the following ways:

For Fixed Input

Fixed Input ports can be conﬁgured in one of two ways:

1. Unassigned

2. Source (the default on a new installation)

For Fixed Output

Fixed Output ports can be conﬁgured in one of ﬁve ways:

1. Unassigned

2. Destination (the default on a new installation)

3. Follow

4. Primary TSG

5. Secondary TSG

For Bi-Directional

Bi-directional ports can be conﬁgured in one of six ways:

1. Unassigned (default on new installation)

2. Source

3. Destination

4. Follow

5. Primary TSG

6. Secondary TSG

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Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Front Panel

Now that we have covered the background context for numbers and types of Router ports available and what the various conﬁguration selections mean, you are ready to conﬁgure the Router’s ports.

This section covers assigning ports, renaming ports, adjusting audio levels, and mapping audio channels.

Port conﬁguration can be done from either the BrightEye NXT 450 front panel or from the web interface (once a web control point has been established).

Assigning Ports

Assign each port that you need to use. Once you have assigned a port, it becomes available to include in a Proﬁle. It’s ﬁne to leave ports unassigned if you don’t need to use them.

To Assign Ports

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Press the down arrow button to select the top level Ports menu.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the top Ports submenu.

4. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select the Port you want to assign.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Ports Conﬁguration submenu for your selected Port.

6. Use the up and down arrow buttons to change the Port’s assignment. The choices available reﬂect the type of Port you are working with, whether it is I/O, a dedicated source or a dedicated destination Port. Dedicated ports can be either what they are, or they can be disabled by selecting “Unassigned.”

7. Press OK to set your new Port conﬁguration selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

Repeat steps 1 through 8 for as many Ports as you need to assign for your facility.

Renaming Ports

Giving ports descriptive names makes them easier to work with. Port names display in a number of places: on the front panel LCD screen

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header and footer, on the front panel Port menus, on the video thumbnails used in the web interface, on Proﬁles, and on the Ports conﬁguration page of the web interface.

To Rename a Port

1. From the Ports Conﬁguration submenu, press the right arrow button to go to the Port Name submenu.

2. Press the down arrow button to go to the keyboard submenu.

3. Use the up, down, left and right arrow buttons to navigate the keyboard. Press OK to enter a keyboard character into the label area. Change case by highlighting and selecting either “abc” or “ABC.” To backspace or delete letters one at a time, highlight the “del” key, then press OK.

4. When ﬁnished editing the port name, highlight “Set” on the keyboard and press OK.

Adjusting Audio Levels

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 Clean Streaming Router 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.

To Adjust Audio Levels

1. From the Port Name menu, press the right arrow button to enter the Audio Gain menu.

2. Press the down arrow button to go to the Audio Gain editing screen.

3. Use the right and left arrow buttons to select the channel you want to modify. The selected channel is indicated by a blue ﬁeld surrounding the channel’s level control. In the example to the right, channel 16 is selected.

4. Press the up or down arrows to adjust the audio levels to be higher or lower. Press and hold the up or down arrow button to accelerate the rate of adjustment.

A red marker indicates that gain has been added. A black marker indicates that gain has been reduced. A green marker indicates that the audio level is at its default setting.

5. When ﬁnished adjusting the audio levels, press the conﬁguration button to exit and return to the Audio Gain menu.

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Mapping Audio Channels

For any given video Input source, which can carry up to 16 audio channels, any audio Input channel can be assigned to any audio Output channel.

Each point on the audio map represents a potential cross-point for a speciﬁc audio channel Input and Output. By default, Input 1 is mapped to Output 1, Input 2 is mapped to Output 2, and so forth. This default conﬁguration is shown in the middle screen capture to the right.

As a remapping example using Port Input #1, suppose you needed to switch channels 1 and 2 with channels 3 and 4 on the outputs. Using the Audio Map menu, you can assign inputs 1 and 2 to outputs 3 and 4, and assign inputs 3 and 4 to outputs 1 and 2. This conﬁguration is shown in the lower screen capture to the right.

To Remap Audio Channels

1. From the Audio Gain menu, press the right arrow button to access the Audio Map menu.

2. Press the down arrow button to go to the Audio Map editing screen.

3. To edit the audio map, use the arrows to select a point on the grid.

4. Press the OK button to activate the selected cross-point. Pressing the OK button toggles between purple (active cross-point) and gray (not active cross-point).

5. When ﬁnished, press the conﬁguration button to exit.

Inactive cross-point.

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Conﬁguring the Router’s Ports from the Web Interface

From the upper-left drop-down menu of the web interface, select Settings. The Settings > General page displays.

If you have not previously established a web control

Note:

point, please see: “Setting Up a Web Control Point (Optional)” on page 94.

Assigning and Naming Ports

Assign each port that you need to use. Once you have assigned a port, it becomes available to include in a Proﬁle. It’s ﬁne to leave ports unassigned if you don’t need to use them.

Giving ports descriptive names makes them easier to work with. Port names display in a number of places: on the front panel LCD screen header and footer, on the front panel Port menus, on the video thumbnails used in the web interface, on Proﬁles, and on the Ports conﬁguration page of the web interface.

To Assign and Name Ports

From the left navigation panel of the Settings > General page, select Ports. The Ports page displays. Initially, all the non-dedicated ports show “Unassigned” for the Type drop-down control.

For each port that you plan to use, take the following steps:

1. Select its Type from the Type drop-down control.

2. Enter a port name in the Name ﬁeld.

Conguring Ports: Making a selection from the Type drop-down control for I/O Port 3

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3. If applicable, make a selection from the Follow drop-down control.

4. Click Done near the upper left area of the browser window to save your changes.

Adjusting Audio Levels

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 Clean Streaming Router 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.

To Adjust Audio Levels

1. From the Ports page of the web interface, select the Audio Levels button for the Port you want to work with. The Audio Level Gain menu displays.

The Audio Level Gain menu for channels 1 - 4 of

Port 1, renamed News Helicopter

2. Click and drag the slider control up or down to adjust the audio levels to be higher or lower for each channel. Or you can enter a number directly into the ﬁeld directly beneath the slider control, or click the + or - symbols to adjust the number incrementally. Click Default to return to the default value of 0 dB for a speciﬁc channel. Click Default All to return the default value to all of the channels.

3. Select a diﬀerent button along the top (Ch 5-8, Ch 9-12, Ch 13-16) to access the controls for those audio channels.

4. When ﬁnished adjusting the audio levels, click Done. The Audio Level Gain menu closes, and you will return to the main Ports page.

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Mapping Audio Channels

For any given video Input source, which can carry up to 16 audio channels, any audio Input channel can be assigned to any audio Output channel.

Columns represent Input Channels, while rows represent Output Channels. Each point on the audio map shown below represents a potential cross-point for a speciﬁc audio channel Input and Output. By default, Input 1 is mapped to Output 1, Input 2 is mapped to Output 2, and so forth. This default conﬁguration is shown in the example on the left.

Audio Map default conguration Audio Map congured so that inputs 1 and 2

go to outputs 3 and 4; and inputs 3 and 4 go

to outputs 1 and 2.

To Remap Audio Channels

1. From the Ports page of the web interface, select the Audio Map button for the Port you want to work with. The Audio Map control displays.

Selecting a point on the grid toggles that point on or oﬀ. The grid points that are dark blue are active; the gray grid points are inactive.

2. Columns represent Input Channels. Rows represent Output Channels. Referencing the example shown above, click the grid point at column 1, row 1 to make it inactive (gray). Then click the grid point at column 1, row 3 to make it active (dark blue). The result is that Input Channel 1 is now going out through Output Channel 3 instead of Output Channel 1.

3. When ﬁnished adjusting the audio map, click Done. The Audio Map control closes, and you will return to the main Ports page.

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About Clean Switches and Clean Switch Conﬁguration

Both of the BrightEye NXT 450’s clean switches have frame synchronizers, enabling you to switch between asynchronous sources without glitches or pops—very useful when taking the router output directly to air.

When a Clean Switch is assigned to an output port, its input is fed from the routing matrix and it drives the output connector. Any source in the Router switched to this output will be presented synchronously and timed.

Conﬁguration of the Clean Switch includes its video format, timing, and embedded audio group enables.

Up/Down/Cross Conversion

Both clean switches have up/down/cross converters. 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 incoming format.

Genlocked to Reference

The Clean Switches are genlocked to the reference being used within the Router. This ensures that the output is stable regardless of the input signal. Not only does this ensure clean switching between untimed and even asynchronous sources, it also guarantees a stable, Black output upon loss of input.

Clean Switch / Frame Sync

In Out

Genlock

Embedded Audio

In parallel with the video processing, 16 channels of embedded audio are silently switched as well. Incoming audio is disembedded, sample rate converted, switched, and then embedded into the output. The audio processing includes a delay mechanism to compensate for the delay imposed on the video by the frame sync. This compensation ensures that the time relationship (lip-sync) between audio and video is maintained.

Output Port Following a Clean Switched Destination

If an output port has been conﬁgured to Follow a Destination which has a Clean Switch assignment, that port will also deliver the Clean Switch output. That port set to Follow will not be seen as a destination on a control panel because there is still only one Destination. The conceptual eﬀect of this is to have incorporated an output DA (Distribution Amp) into the Router.

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Clean Switch Output Timing

Using the Output Timing control, you can adjust the timing of the Clean Switch relative to the genlock reference. The best or most appropriate setting for the timing controls will depend upon the way in which the Clean Switch is to be used and the nature of the video inputs.

Setting the H and V parameters to 0 will “zero” time the Clean Switch, matching it to the reference. Negative values will cause the Clean Switch to be early with respect to the reference; positive values will make the Clean Switch output later in time.

Imposing Delay on a Video Signal

A video frame sync imposes delay on a video signal passing through it in order to align that input to the user adjusted output timing. The amount of delay is a function of the diﬀerence in timing between the incoming video and the output of the frame sync. The frame sync can only add delay to the video in order to make up that diﬀerence, and the amount will change automatically in accordance with the timing of the input signal.

If the input signal is one line early compared to the output, the frame sync will add only one line of delay. But if the incoming video is just one line late, the frame sync will add nearly an entire frame (less one line) to bring the signal into time. If the input is asynchronous, its timing will be changing (drifting) continuously. In that case, the delay imposed by the frame sync will vary continuously between (near) zero and one frame.

Pre-Selector to a Production Switcher

When a Clean Switch is being used as a pre-selector to a production switcher, the Clean Switch output timing must fall within the input auto-time window of the switcher. In general, this will be accomplished by setting the Clean Switch H and V parameters to zero.

Feeding On-Set Monitors in a Live Environment

If the Clean Switch is feeding on-set monitors in a live environment from sources also used on the production switcher, it is generally desirable to minimize the delay on those monitors. This is accomplished by setting the Vertical timing of the Clean Switch to a small positive value. Setting this parameter to +4 lines will typically guarantee that the sources (which have near zero timing) will only experience 2 or 3 lines of delay. Since most production switchers have a forward delay of 1, 2, or 3 lines, a setting of +4 lines on the Clean Switch will also allow the switcher output to be used with minimum delay.

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Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Front Panel

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 incoming format.

To Assign a Clean Switch to a Destination

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for either Clean Switch 1 or Clean Switch 2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Assignment submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Assignment selection submenu.

5. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select the destination Port to which you want to assign the selected Clean Switch.

6. Press OK to set your new Clean Switch assignment, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

7. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

To Set the Output Standard

1. From the Clean Switch 1 or Clean Switch 2 top level menu, use the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the Standard menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Clean Switch Standard submenu.

3. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the standard you want the Clean Switch to use.

4. Press OK to set the standard to your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

5. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Set the Output Timing for Clean Switches

Using the Output Timing control, you can adjust the timing of the Clean Switch relative to the genlock reference. Setting the H and V parameters to 0 will “zero” time the Clean Switch, matching it to the reference. Negative values will cause the Clean Switch to be early with respect to the reference; positive values will make the Clean Switch output later in time.

1. From the Clean Switch 1 or Clean Switch 2 top level menu, use the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the V Timing or H Timing menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Clean Switch V Timing or H Timing submenu.

3. Use the up or down arrow buttons to indicate the timing setting you want the Clean Switch to use.

4. Press OK to set the timing to your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

5. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

To Set the Audio Enables for Clean Switches

The Clean Switch supports 16 channels (four groups) of embedded audio. In order for the Clean Switch output to have a consistent conﬁguration of audio, regardless of what is present on the input, individual enables are provided for each group.

The Clean Switch output will always contain the enabled groups, but channels that are not present in the input will simply be silent. In this way, switching between sources with diﬀering audio conﬁgurations will produce smooth, silent transitions.

1. From the Clean Switch 1 or Clean Switch 2 top level menu, use the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the Audio Enables menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Audio Enables submenu.

3. Use the right or left arrow buttons to navigate to the submenu you want to work with: Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 or Group 4.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select On or Oﬀ.

5. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

6. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Set Audio Breakaway

Audio Breakaway is accessed through the following Clean Switch menus:

1. From the Clean Switch 1 or Clean Switch 2 top level menu, use the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the Audio Source menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Audio Source submenu.

3. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the audio source you want to designate for the Clean Switch.

4. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

5. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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Conﬁguring Clean Switches from the Web Interface

There are two sets of conﬁguration controls, one for each of the two Clean Switches. Clean Switch 1 and Clean Switch 2 are conﬁgured independently.

The Clean Switch conguration page from the web interface

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To Assign a Clean Switch to a Destination

Assign the Clean Switch to any of the Destinations (Output Ports) that have been conﬁgured in the Port Conﬁguration menu. Only the currently available Destinations will be presented as choices in this menu. Because only one CS can be assigned to any given Destination, the list presented will not include any ports that are already assigned to the other Clean Switch. In order to change assignments to move a port from one CS to another, you must ﬁrst release the original assignment by selecting “Unassigned.”

Output 4, Output 5, SDI Encoder, ASI Decoder

are the default selections available for

Clean Switch assignment.

After assigning additional Ports as

Destinations, they become available for

Clean Switch assignment.

To Set the Output Standard

Select the desired output operating format and frame rate. If a source in a diﬀerent format is selected, the Clean Switch will up/down/cross convert as applicable to your selected output standard.

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To Set the Output Timing for Clean Switches

To Set the Audio Enables for Clean Switches

To Set the Audio Breakaway for Clean Switches

If you need to conﬁgure the audio source for the Clean Switch you are using:

• From the Clean Switches web interface page, make an audio source selection from the Audio

Source drop-down menu.

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Setting Up Timing and Genlock

The BrightEye NXT 450 can be locked to an external reference or operated from an internal precision reference. The Reference Source control selects between those two choices.

The Reference Status indicator displays the status of the currently selected reference.

To Select the Reference Source from the Front Panel

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for Timing & Genlock.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Reference Source submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Reference Source selection submenu.

5. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select Internal or External.

6. Press OK to set your Reference Source selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

7. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

The BrightEye NXT 450 uses the video format selection of the Primary Test Signal Generator to determine two system-wide parameters— System Frame Rate, and Vertical Interval Switch Point.

System Frame Rate

Distributed within the BrightEye NXT 450 is a System Frame Rate Reference. It is used to vertically lock the outputs of the internal Test Signal Generators and the Clean Switch frame syncs. The System Frame Rate is selected by the Primary Test Signal Generator. If the selected genlock reference is in the same frame rate family (see the Note on Frame Rates on the next page), the System Frame Rate Reference will also be locked to the external reference. If the external reference is in a conﬂicting frame rate family (for example, SD 525 reference vs. 1080p/50 in the Primary Test Signal Generator), the System Frame Rate Reference will be internally generated.

Vertical Interval Switch Point

The precise point in the vertical interval where the crosspoint switch will occur is taken from the timing of the Primary Test Signal Generator. This provides ﬂexibility in the system by allowing, for example, the use of an SD reference with a matrix that changes at HD switch points.

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To Select the Reference Source from the Web Interface

1. From the left navigation panel of the web interface, select Timing & Genlock. The Timing & Genlock page displays.

2. From the Reference Source drop-down control, select Internal or External.

3. Click Done near the upper left area of the browser window to save your changes.

Note on Frame Rates

Despite the large number of video formats supported by the Router, there are only three possible frame rate families.

50 Hz

59.94 Hz

60 Hz

The vast majority of applications, even those including both SD and HD formats, will all fall within a single frame rate family. For example, as members of the 59.94 family, both SD 525 and 1080i/59.94 can be simultaneously vertically locked to a single reference.

The 50 Hz frame rate family includes 25 Hz and 50 Hz frame and ﬁeld rates. This family includes all of the “PAL” related standards in both standard and high deﬁnition.

All of the NTSC-derived standards, including 23.98, 29.97, and 59.94 Hz ﬁeld and frame rates. There is a 4 Frame to 5 Frame relationship between

23.98 and 59.94 which allows these to peacefully co-exist.

The “not quite 60 Hz” challenges of the 59.94 world are addressed with this family which includes 24 Hz, 30 Hz, and 60 Hz ﬁeld and frame rates. Though not used for broadcast, this family is useful for ﬁlm rate and scientiﬁc/ industrial applications.

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Working with the Internal Test Signal Generators

The BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router is equipped with two independent internal Test Signal Generators (TSG). These generators are driven from the genlock source chosen by the Reference Source control on the Timing and Genlock menu.

Each TSG can be independently conﬁgured for format, Router Front Panel rate, and test pattern. The TSG outputs will always be clock-locked to the reference source. Further, they will be vertically locked and timed if the video standard the TSG is conﬁgured for is compatible with the provided reference.

Because the Clean Streaming Router generates the test signals internally, the TSGs are available as sources in the Router (without consuming a physical input BNC) and can be selected to any output destination. Source names can be assigned to them in the Port Conﬁguration menu, and their position on control panels is assigned in the Proﬁles menu.

Conﬁguring the Internal Test Signal Generators from the Front Panel

There are two sets of conﬁguration controls, one for each TSG, for both the BrightEye NXT front panel and the web interface. These conﬁgurations are independent, allowing the two generators to operate in diﬀerent formats, and even at diﬀerent frame rates. To conﬁgure them to the same standard, and to set them to matching timing (relative to the genlock reference), make the same settings for Standard, Vertical Timing, and Horizontal Timing.

Master

Reference

Input

Internal

Precision

Reference

Tone

Gen

Test Sig

Gen 1

Slate/

Cyclops

Audio

Embed

Genlock

Test Sig

Gen 2

Slate/

Cyclops

Audio

Embed

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To Select the TSG Standard

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Standard submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Standard selection submenu.

5. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select the Standard you want to use.

6. Press OK to set your Standard selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

7. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

The BrightEye NXT 450 uses the video format selection of the Primary Test Signal Generator to determine two system-wide parameters— System Frame Rate, and Vertical Interval Switch Point.

To Select the TSG Pattern

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the top level of the submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Pattern submenu.

5. Press the right arrow buton (or OK) to go to the Pattern selection submenu.

6. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select the Pattern you want to use.

7. Press OK to set your Pattern selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Set the TSG Vertical Timing

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the V Timing submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the V Timing selection submenu.

6. Press the up or down arrow buttons to set the lines value you want to use. If you want to reset V Timing to zero, press both the up and down arrow buttons simultaneously.

7. Press OK to set your V Timing selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

To Set the TSG Horizontal Timing

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the H Timing submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the H Timing selection submenu.

6. Press the up or down arrow buttons to set the clocks value you want to use. If you want to reset H Timing to zero, press both the up and down arrow buttons simultaneously.

7. Press OK to set your H Timing selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Slate

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Slate submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Slate On/Oﬀ selection submenu.

6. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select On or Oﬀ.

7. Press OK to set your Slate On/Oﬀ selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Slate Text

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Slate Text submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Slate Text conﬁguration keyboard.

6. Use the up, down, left and right arrow buttons to select one letter at a time. Press OK to enter each letter, one at a time, into the text ﬁeld.

7. When you have ﬁnished entering the Slate Text, highlight “Set” on the Slate Text conﬁguration keyboard, then press OK to save your changes.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Cyclops

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Cyclops submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Cyclops selection submenu.

6. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select one of these options: Oﬀ, Cyclops Only, Cyclops Aud Pop, Cyclops Aud Beep.

7. Press OK to set your Cyclops selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Reference Level

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Audio Ref Level submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Audio Ref Level selection submenu.

6. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select either -20 dBFS or

-18 dBFS.

7. Press OK to set your selection.

8. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Enables

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Audio Enables submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Audio Enables selection submenu.

6. Press the right or left arrow buttons to select Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 or Group 4.

7. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select On or Oﬀ.

8. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

9. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Channels

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up or down arrow buttons to select the top level menu for TSG1 or TSG2.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the TSG submenus.

4. Use the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Audio Channels submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to access the Audio Channels selection submenu.

6. Press the right or left arrow buttons to select a channel ranging from Channel 1 to Channel 16.

7. Press the up or down arrow buttons to select one of the available tones or Silence.

8. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel your selection.

9. Press the Conﬁguration button to back out of the menu one level at a time. Or wait approximately 30 seconds until the screen automatically returns to Operational mode.

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Conﬁguring the Internal Test Signal Generators from the Web Interface

There are two sets of conﬁguration controls, one for each TSG, for both the BrightEye NXT 450 front panel and the web interface. These conﬁgurations are independent, allowing the two generators to operate in diﬀerent formats, and even at diﬀerent frame rates. To conﬁgure them to the same standard, and to set them to matching timing (relative to the genlock reference), make the same settings for Standard, Vertical Timing, and Horizontal Timing.

Test Signal Generator conguration page web interface

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The conﬁguration controls for the TSGs as are follows:

To Select the TSG Standard

Select the desired operating format and frame rate.

The choice of Standard for the Primary Test Signal

Note:

Generator sets the System Frame Rate for the entire Router. This is detailed earlier in the section Setting Up Timing and Genlock on page 50.

If the Secondary TSG is set to a Standard which is incompatible with the System Frame Rate (determined by the Primary TSG), then it will have a free-running H and V. This makes it possible, for example, to produce both HD1080i/59.94 in the Primary TSG, and 1080i/50 in the Secondary TSG. Both will have the same frequency accuracy (from the genlock reference), but only one will be vertically and horizontally timeable.

To Select the TSG Pattern

Choose the desired test pattern to be presented by the TSG.

In addition to Black and Bars, the Pathological test pattern is provided. Also known as Digital Checkﬁeld, it is a “worst-case” signal that stresses SDI cable drivers and equalizers. It is extremely useful in proving the integrity of a system.

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To Set the Vertical and Horizontal Timing

The Vertical and Horizontal Timing controls adjust the timing of the TSG relative to the genlock reference. Setting the H and V parameters to 0 will “zero” time the TSG to the reference. Negative values will cause the TSG to be early with respect to the reference; positive values will make the TSG later in time.

When the Router is being operated from an external 10 MHz reference, or when it is conﬁgured to use its internal precision frequency reference, there is no external video reference against which H and V timing can be adjusted. In that case, all of the resources in the router (the TSGs and the Clean Switch/ Synchronizers) will be adjusted against a common, internally generated video timing reference. This means that they can be adjusted relative to each other. If all of their H and V Timing parameters are set to identical values (like 0), they will all be locked (synchronous) to each other and they will all be in vertical and horizontal alignment with each other.

The timing adjustments for the Primary Test Signal Generator are also used to

Note:

position the vertical interval switching point in the Router’s matrix. The timing of the Primary TSG can be compared to other sources on a Waveform Monitor to ensure that the switch point will be properly aligned to the sources feeding the Router.

To Conﬁgure Audio Embedding

Each TSG has an Audio Embedder (Multiplexer) that can embed 16 channels of audio into the TSG SDI output. Audio is embedded in groups, each of which contains 4 channels. There are 9 audio sources for each channel – 8 tone generators, plus silence.

In the world of digital audio, there is a big diﬀerence between “Silence” and “no

Note:

signal present.” In the same way that Black is a legitimate video signal, digital silence must be sent to destinations rather than just sending “nothing.” Thus, TSGs should generally be conﬁgured to embed ALL of the groups that may be in use in a facility, with Silence chosen as the audio signal for channels where no content is needed or desired. Otherwise, switching between a TSG with only one group enabled, and a source with two groups of embedded audio present, will produce undesirable eﬀects in downstream equipment.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Slate

When on, the text which has been entered in the Slate Text ﬁeld will appear over top of the test pattern.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Slate Text

Enter the desired Slate text in this ﬁeld, then hit the Tab key or click outside of the Slate Text ﬁeld. As with all of the conﬁguration settings in the Router, this will be saved in non-volatile memory so that it persists when the Router is powered down. The text entered in this ﬁeld is not lost when the Slate

Enable is turned oﬀ.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Cyclops

In order to produce a dynamic, constantly changing Test Pattern, enable one of the Cyclops modes to aﬀect the picture, sound or both. The Cyclops feature adds a motion element which is overlaid over the test pattern video. It is located below the Slate ﬁeld. The white cyclops pulse continuously sweeps horizontally back and forth in its black window. At the left and right extremes of its excursion the pulse makes a one frame bright ﬂash.

Meanwhile, the Beep/Pop feature will add variety to the tones carried by the embedded audio. Selecting Beep will produce a short beep (and is otherwise silent), while Pop momentarily takes the selected tone to silence. Industry practice identiﬁes odd numbered channels as carrying Left content, and even numbered channels as the Right half of a stereo program. The Pop and Beep timing in the audio follows this convention, with the odd channels being marked when the Cyclops makes its left ﬂash, and the even channels marked when the right edge ﬂash occurs. Further, the ‘left’ channel is a single Beep/Pop, while the ‘right’ channel is a double Beep/Pop. This allows left/right identiﬁcation even after the audio has been disembedded (demultiplexed) and has lost the implied channel association.

These aural and visual markers provide proof at downstream points in a transmission chain that it is producing live, uninterrupted delivery of content – even when not in active service. The precise synchronization between the visual Cyclops and the aural Beep/Pop are also useful to verify sound/ picture lip-sync.

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To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Reference Level

This control selects the Digital Reference Level for the audio tone generators. This sets the nominal reference level (or 0 VU) relative to Digital Full Scale (DFS). This relationship is expressed on a logarithmic (decibel) scale. Since DFS is the ‘loudest’ signal that can be represented, a setting of -18 dBFS will be 18 dB below Full Scale which is 2dB greater than a setting of -20 dBFS. This control should be set in accordance with the audio practice in use in your facility. Frequently, -20 dBFS is the common practice in NTSC countries, while -18 dBFS is used in PAL countries.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Group Enables

Each of the four possible audio groups can be Enabled independently.

To Conﬁgure the TSG Audio Source Selections

Choose between Silence, or one of eight tone frequencies. The tone generators produce sine waves with precision at 24 bits of quantization. This can be veriﬁed with a digital audio distortion analyzer with a noise ﬂoor at -144 dBFS.

Any tones that are selected will be dynamically modiﬁed if the Cyclops control is conﬁgured for Audio Pop or Beep. (The Cyclops control adds motion, audio pop or beep, and closed caption elements to the video test signal which proves that the signal reaching a given destination is a true live signal and not a freeze frame from a frame synchronizer that has lost its input.)

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Conﬁguring the Encoder

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 the internal MPEG-4 H.264 encoder. The encoder can simultaneously produce a high resolution output for broadcast and a low resolution output for mobile and hand-held devices.

The encoder’s DVB-ASI formatter provides the option of sending encoded signals back to the routing matrix as a DVB-ASI signal. You can then deliver the signal to a BNC output or to ﬁber for delivery to a distant location.

How the Encoding Menus are Organized

The encoding conﬁguration controls of the unit’s front panel and its web interface are identical, except that the web interface oﬀers an additional control for conﬁguring Presets for both the High Resolution Encoder and the Low Resolution Encoder.

From the unit’s front panel, the encoding conﬁguration controls are organized into two sets of eight submenus—one set for the High Resolution Encoder and a second set for the Low Resolution Encoder:

High Resolution Encoder Menu Low Resolution Encoder Menu

• Video Bit Rate

• Proﬁle

• Level

• Audio Bit Rate

• PMT PID

• Video PID

• PCR PID

• Audio PID

• Video Bit Rate

• Proﬁle

• Level

• Audio Bit Rate

• PMT PID

• Video PID

• PCR PID

• Audio PID

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The web interface, on the other hand, includes all of these parameter controls on a single page under the Settings > Encoding menu, as shown below. The conﬁguration controls for the High Resolution Encoder are in the top section; the conﬁguration controls for the Low Resolution Encoder are in the lower section. Notice the additional Preset control that is found only in the web interface.

This section ﬁrst covers the encoding conﬁguration controls that are accessed through the unit’s front panel. Afterwards, the Encoding Preset controls of the web interface will be addressed.

The web interface for conguring the High Resolution Encoder

and the Low Resolution Encoder

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Conﬁguring the Encoder from the Front Panel Menus

This section covers conﬁguring the encoder’s video bit rate, proﬁle, level, audio bit rate and PIDs. The information about each parameter applies equally to the web interface.

Conﬁguring the Encoder’s Video Bit Rate

Higher video bit rates accommodate higher image quality. When conﬁguring the video bit rate, consider the best balance between your image quality needs with your network bandwidth.

Default High Resolution Encoder Bit Rate: 8000 Kb/s Default Low Resolution Encoder Bit Rate: 1500 Kb/s Min: 500 Kb/s Max: 30,000 Kb/s

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up and down arrows to navigate to the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder conﬁguration menu.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Video Bit Rate submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Video Bit Rate Kb/s assignment ﬁeld.

5. Use the up and down arrow buttons to select the video bit rate you want to use. For example, 8000 Kb/s would be 8 megabits.

6. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Selecting the Encoder’s Proﬁle

Choose Baseline for applications such as video conferencing or mobile. Baseline is available only in the Low Resolution Encoder. Choose Main for applications such as SD broadcasting. Choose High for applications such as HD broadcasting.

1. While in the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press the down arrow button to highlight the Proﬁle menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Proﬁle selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrows to select Baseline, Main or High.

4. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Selecting the Encoder’s Level

Encoding levels specify the maximum picture resolution, frame rate, and bit rate that the encoder uses.

For the High Resolution Encoder, you can select from these levels: Levels 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2.

For the Low Resolution Encoder, you can select from these levels: Levels 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2.

1. While in the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press the down arrow button to highlight the Level submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Level selection menu.

3. Use the the up and down arrow buttons to select the encoding level you require.

4. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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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.

1. From the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press the down arrow button to highlight the Audio Bit Rate submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Audio Bit Rate selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to select the audio bit rate you require, from 128 Kb/s to 512 kb/s.

4. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Assigning PIDs (Packet IDs)

PMT (Program Map Table) PID Deﬁnes the set of PIDs that are

being used with a program

Video PID Identiﬁes the video stream

PCR (Program Clock Reference) PID Keeps content synchronized

Audio PID Identiﬁes the audio stream

Default: 30 Min: 1 Max: 8000

1. While in the High Res Encoder or Low Res Encoder menu, as applicable, press the down arrow button to highlight the PMT PID submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the PMT PID selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to enter the PID number you want to use.

4. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Continue in the same manner for the Video PID, PCR PID and Audio PID settings.

The Low Resolution Encoder has the same set of controls, but will generally be run at a much lower bit rate.

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Conﬁguring Encoding from the Web Interface Controls

The Encoding conﬁguration parameters available from the front panel menus and from the web interface are the same. Notice the controls for Proﬁle, Level, Video Bit Rate, Audio Bit Rate, PMT PID, Video PID, PCR PID, and Audio PID. See the previous section (Conﬁguring Encoding from the Front Panel Menus) for information about these controls.

Presets

Unlike the front panel controls, however, the web interface provides one additional control for creating Presets. This additional control is available for the High Resolution Encoder and the Low Resolution Encoder.

With Presets, you can set up and name any number of conﬁgurations that you may need to recall for future use. Access preconﬁgured settings from the Preset drop-down menu.

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Creating Presets

To create a Preset, ﬁrst conﬁgure all the ﬁelds needed for your encoding application, whether it is High Resolution or Low Resolution.

From the corresponding Preset control, click New.

The New Preset dialog box displays.

Give your new preset a name, then click New.

The New Preset dialog box closes. The new preset you have just made is currently selected on the Settings > Encoding page.

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Conﬁguring 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. Output the various streams to the GigE Streaming Media I/O port.

The Unicast A output is completely independent of the Unicast B output. For example, you can deliver the same high resolution feed to two separate locations, or you can deliver both the high and low resolution feed to one location.

How the Streaming Menus are Organized

The streaming conﬁguration controls of the unit’s front panel and its web interface are identical with one exception—the web interface oﬀers an additional control for conﬁguring Streaming Presets.

From the unit’s front panel, the streaming conﬁguration controls are organized into three separate menus: Unicast A, Unicast B, and Multicast. The web interface, on the other hand, includes the parameter controls for Unicast A, Unicast B, and Multicast on a single page under the Settings > Streaming menu, as shown below.

This section ﬁrst covers the streaming conﬁguration controls that are accessed through the unit’s front panel. Afterwards, the Streaming Preset controls of the web interface will be addressed.

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Conﬁguring Streaming from the Front Panel Menus

The conﬁguration parameters for Unicast A and Unicast B are identical. The following steps are for setting up streaming for the Unicast A output.

Enabling the Unicast A Streaming Output

The streaming output must be enabled before it can send the output.

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Use the up and down arrows to highlight the Unicast A conﬁguration menu.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Enable submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Enable selection menu.

5. Use the up or down arrow button to select On.

6. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Select the Streaming Source

After conﬁguring the settings of the High Resolution Encoder or the Low Resolution Encoder, select which of these encoders you want to use for streaming from the Unicast A Source menu.

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the down arrow button to navigate to the Source submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Source selection menu.

3. Use the up or down arrow button to select High Resolution or Low Resolution.

4. Press OK to conﬁrm your setting, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Setting the Destination IP Address

This is the IP address of the destination to which you are sending the streaming output.

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Dest IP Adr submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Dest IP Adr selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to set the address for each position. Use the left and right arrow buttons to move to a diﬀerent position.

4. Press OK to set your new Destination IP Address, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Setting the Destination Port

This is the Port address of the destination to which you are sending the streaming output.

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the up or down arrow buttons to highlight the Dest Port submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Dest Port selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to conﬁgure the Destination Port Address.

4. Press OK to set your new Destination Port Address, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Setting the TTL (Time to Live)

The TTL value sets a limit on how long a data packet will exist in the network before being discarded.

Default TTL value: 6

Min: 2

Max: 255

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the TTL submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the TTL selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to adjust the TTL setting.

4. Press OK to set your new TTL, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Setting the Packet Size

Default Packet Size value: 1400

Min: 500

Max: 1500

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the Packet Size submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Packet Size selection submenu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to adjust the Packet Size setting.

4. Press OK to set your new setting, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Setting the Source Port

This is the port address from which the unicast stream is being sent.

Default Source Port value: 1234

Min: 200

Max: 10000

1. While in the Unicast A conﬁguration menu, press the up or down arrow buttons to navigate to the Source Port submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Source Port selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to set the Source Port Address.

4. Press OK to set your new Source Port Address, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Conﬁguring Unicast from the Web Interface Controls

The Streaming conﬁguration parameters available from the front panel menus and from the web interface are the same. Notice the controls for Enable, Source, Destination IP Address, Destination Port, TTL (time to live), Packet Size, and Source Port. See the previous section (Conﬁguring Streaming from the Front Panel Menus) for information about these controls.

Presets

Unlike the front panel controls, however, the web interface provides one additional control for creating Presets. This additional control is available for Unicast Stream A, Unicast Stream B, and Multicast Stream.

With Presets, you can set up and name any number of conﬁgurations that you may need to recall for future use. Access preconﬁgured settings from the Preset drop-down menu.

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Creating Presets

To create a Preset, ﬁrst conﬁgure all the ﬁelds needed for your application, whether it is for Unicast Stream A, Unicast Stream B, or Multicast Stream.

From the corresponding Preset control, click New.

The New Preset dialog box displays.

Give your new preset a name, then click New.

The New Preset dialog box closes. The new preset you have just made is currently selected on the Settings > Streaming page.

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Conﬁguring the Decoder

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.

By setting the output format of the decoder, regardless of the incoming format in the stream, whether IP or DVB-ASI, the decoder will convert the signal to the speciﬁed format. Once decoded and delivered into the routing matrix, you can up/down/cross convert signals if needed, then send signals out of the Clean Streaming Router as SDI, HDMI or ﬁber.

How the Decoding Menus are Organized

The decoding conﬁguration controls of the unit’s front panel and its web interface are identical, except that the web interface oﬀers an additional control for conﬁguring Decoding Presets.

From the unit’s front panel, the decoding conﬁguration controls are organized into ﬁve separate submenus:

• Input

• Unicast Receive Port

• Multicast IP Address

• Multicast Port

• Output Format

The web interface, on the other hand, includes all of these parameter controls on a single page under the Settings > Decoding menu, as shown below.

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Conﬁguring Decoding from the Front Panel Menus

This section ﬁrst covers the decoding conﬁguration controls that are accessed through the unit’s front panel. Afterwards, the Decoding Preset controls of the web interface will be addressed.

Specifying the Decoder Input

Select the signal type you will be decoding: Unicast, Multicast or DVBASI.

1. Press the Conﬁguration button to get to the conﬁguration menus. Use the up and down arrow buttons to navigate to the Decoding conﬁguration menu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Input submenu.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Input selection.

4. Use the up and down arrow buttons to select Unicast, Multicast or DVB-ASI.

5. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Conﬁguring the Unicast Receive Port

This is the port address through which the Unicast stream will be received.

Default port value: 1234

Min: 200

Max: 10000

1. While in the Decoding conﬁguration menu, press the down arrow button to navigate to the Unicast Rcv Port submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Unicast Rcv Port selection.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to enter the port assignment.

4. Press OK to conﬁrm your setting, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Conﬁguring the Multicast IP Address

When decoding a multicast signal, specify the Multicast IP address and Port for the signal you will be receiving.

1. While in the Decoding conﬁguration menu, press the down arrow button to navigate to the Multicast IP Adr submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Multicast IP Adr selection submenu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to set the value for each IP address segment. Use the right and left arrow buttons to navigate from segment to segment.

4. Press OK to set your new selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Conﬁguring the Multicast Port

This is the port address through which the Multicast stream will be received.

Default port value: 1234

Min: 200

Max: 10000

1. While in the Decoding conﬁguration menu, press the down arrow button to navigate to the Multicast Port submenu.

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Multicast Port selection.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to enter the port assignment.

4. Press OK to conﬁrm your setting, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Conﬁguring the Decoder Output Format

Available selections:

720p 50, 59.94, or 60 Hz 1080i 50, 59.94, or 60 Hz 1080p 23.98, 24, or 25 Hz

1. While in the Decoding conﬁguration menu, press the down arrow button to navigate to the Output Format submenu.

3G 1080p 50, 59.94, or 60 Hz SD 525 59.94 Hz SD 625 50 Hz

2. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Output Format selection menu.

3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to select the Output Format.

4. Press OK to set your selection, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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Conﬁguring Decoding from the Web Interface Controls

The Decoding conﬁguration parameters available from the front panel menus and from the web interface are the same. Notice the controls for Input, Unicast Receive Port, Multicast IP Address, Multicast Port, and Output Format. See the previous section (Conﬁguring Decoding from the Front Panel Menus) for more information about these controls.

Presets

Unlike the front panel controls, however, the web interface provides one additional control for creating Presets.

With Presets, you can set up and name any number of conﬁgurations that you may need to recall for future use. Access preconﬁgured settings from the Preset drop-down menu.

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Creating Presets

To create a Preset, ﬁrst conﬁgure all the ﬁelds needed for your speciﬁc decoding application.

From the corresponding Preset control, click New.

The New Preset dialog box displays.

Give your new preset a name, then click New.

The New Preset dialog box closes. The new preset you have just made is currently selected on the Settings > Decoding page.

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Conﬁguring the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

Conﬁguring the Router and Action Control Panel involves:

• Connecting it to the network with an Ethernet cable,

• Turning on the power, (unless it is being powered using Power over Ethernet, or PoE),

• Determining whether to use a static (the default) or dynamic IP address,

• Granting it access to the Clean Streaming Router, and

• Assigning it a Proﬁle.

Note:

Please connect the Router and Action Control Panel to the network before turning

on its power. The Router and Action Control Panel can be powered using PoE (if you have a PoE switch upstream from the Panel), or it can be powered by the power supply included with each Router and Action Control Panel.

5835 Router and Action Control Panel Default Settings

The Control Panel comes from the factory with the following default network settings:

Menu Default Network Setting

Mode Static

Address 192.168.1.101

Subnet 255.255.255.0

Gateway 192.168.1.1

DNS Server 192.168.1.1

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Using the Control Panel’s Network Conﬁguration Controls

• For one full second, simultaneously press both

small round buttons located to the left of the LCD Display. The Network Settings screen displays.

• Five panel buttons to the right of the LCD Display

change both color and function while the Network Settings screen is displaying. A map of the green and yellow button functionality is shown in the upper right corner of the screen.

• Use the green buttons to navigate up, down, left and right among the Network Settings

menus and submenus.

• When changing numeric values, pressing and holding the up or down navigation buttons

accelerates the the rate at which the numbers change.

• Use the yellow button (Enter) to enter and exit menus and to select Cancel or Save.

• A white arrow points to the currently selected menu or submenu.

• Entering invalid combinations of network settings

causes errors. Invalid network settings cannot be saved.

Modifying the Control Panel’s Network Settings

Conﬁgure the Network Settings appropriately for your network. Gateway and DNS Server ﬁelds are optional.

Menu Conﬁguration Steps

Mode

1. With Mode selected, press Enter (yellow button) to access the Mode menu settings. The Set Network Mode screen displays.

2. Use the Up and Down navigation buttons to select either Static or DHCP.

3. Press Enter to exit the Mode menu.

Note:

Although the Clean Streaming Router must use a ﬁxed (static)

IP Address, it is possible to operate the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel with either a static address or one that is automatically assigned by your network under DHCP. If DHCP is selected from the Mode menu, the 5835 will obtain an address from the DHCP server on your network. However, we recommend using a ﬁxed (static) IP Address.

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Menu Conﬁguration Steps

Address

Subnet Mask

1. Use the navigation buttons to select the Address menu.

2. Press Enter. The Set IP Address screen displays.

3. Use the Up and Down navigation buttons to change values. Use the Left and Right navigation buttons to move to the diﬀerent segments of the IP address.

4. Once you have set the IP address to your desired setting, press Enter to exit the Address menu and return to the Network Settings screen.

1. Use the navigation buttons to select the Subnet Mask menu.

2. Press Enter. The Set Subnet Mask screen displays.

3. Use the Up and Down navigation buttons to change values. Use the Left and Right navigation buttons to move to the diﬀerent segments of the Subnet Mask menu.

4. Once you have set the Subnet Mask to your desired setting, press Enter to exit the menu and return to the Network Settings screen.

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Menu Conﬁguration Steps

Gateway (optional)

DNS Server (optional)

1. Use the navigation buttons to select the Gateway menu.

2. Press Enter. The Set Gateway screen displays.

3. Use the Up and Down navigation buttons to change values. Use the Left and Right navigation buttons to move to the diﬀerent segments of the Gateway menu.

4. Once you have set the Gateway to your desired setting, press Enter to exit the menu and return to the Network Settings screen.

1. Use the navigation buttons to select the DNS Server menu.

1. Press Enter. The Set DNS Server screen displays.

2. Use the Up and Down navigation buttons to change values. Use the Left and Right navigation buttons to move to the diﬀerent segments of the DNS Server menu.

3. Once you have set the DNS Server to your desired setting, press Enter to exit the menu and return to the Network Settings screen.

Save

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1. Once ﬁnished modifying the control panel’s network settings, select Save to save your changes, or select Cancel to cancel all changes.

2. Press Enter. The LCD Display returns to operational mode, displaying the currently selected Background.

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Creating a Control Point for the 5835 Panel

1. Browse to the 450 Settings > Control Points page.

2. Under the heading Add Control Panel, enter a name for the 5835 Panel in the Name ﬁeld.

3. Select a Proﬁle from the Proﬁle drop-down control.

4. Enter the IP address of the 5835 into the Address ﬁeld.

5. Click Add. The 5835 Panel is added to the list of Control Points.

6. Click Done.

At this point, now that you have assigned a compatible IP address to the Control Panel and you have added it as a Control Point, it will connect to the Router.

The NXT 450 Settings > Control Points window showing the process of

adding the 5835 Control Panel as a Control Point

Enabling a Control Point’s Action Buttons

Select the Action Control checkbox for each Control Point that needs to use Action Control.

Selecting the Action Control checkbox from the Control Points window enables the Action Buttons on both the 5835 Control Panel (if applicable) as well as the Action Control buttons on the web interface.

Enabling Action Control for a specic Control Point

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Setting Up a Web Control Point (Optional)

Because the BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router includes the built-in front control panel, it is not required to set up a web control point. However, creating one or more web control points adds ﬂexibility to both conﬁguring and operating your unit.

Connecting an Ethernet Cable

Your BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router is equipped with a Control Network Ethernet interface. To establish network connectivity between a web control point and the Clean Streaming Router, while the power is oﬀ, connect an Ethernet cable to the Control Network Ethernet port, shown below.

The Control Network Ethernet port should be connected with CAT5 or CAT6 cabling to a network Ethernet router or switch to make the Clean Streaming Router accessible to computers on the network. The Control Network Ethernet port will auto-sense cable direction, so a cross-over cable is not needed.

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Assigning the Clean Streaming Router a New IP Address and Subnet Mask

When you initially power up the BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router as received from the factory, it will take the self-assigned static IP address of 192.168.1.101. You must modify its IP address and subnet mask to be compatible with your network’s environment. These are general instructions. We recommend that you consult your IT staﬀ if you are uncertain about any of these network conﬁguration settings.

To Set the IP Address

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Press the down arrow button until the Network top level menu is selected. The Network menu is the last one; press the down arrow approximately 14 times to reach it.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Address submenu.

4. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Address selection submenu.

5. Using the arrow buttons, modify the ﬁelds in the Address submenu with an IP address that is compatible with your network. For example, you may want to change the IP address to something like the following: 10.123.131.158.

6. Press OK to save the new IP address, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

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To Set the Subnet Mask

The subnet mask must be set in accordance with the size and topology of your network. The default setting as received from the factory is for a smaller network: 255.255.255.0. For a larger network, a typical setting is 255.255.0.0. If in doubt, use the setting for a larger network.

1. Press the Conﬁguration button. The top level menus display.

2. Press the down arrow button until the Network top level menu is selected.

3. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to highlight the Address submenu.

4. Press the down arrow button to highlight the Subnet Mask submenu.

5. Press the right arrow button (or OK) to go to the Subnet Mask selection submenu.

6. Using the arrow buttons, modify the ﬁelds in the Subnet Mask submenu with an address that is compatible with your network.

7. Press OK to save the new Subnet Mask address, or press the Conﬁguration button to cancel.

Gateway and DNS Server Settings

Set the Gateway and DNS Server parameters according to your network conﬁguration. In general, these settings will be required only in installations with extended networking requirements, such as a remote site connected by VPN.

You can now browse to the BrightEye NXT 450 Clean Streaming Router from a computer on your network as described in the next step.

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Requesting the Web Control Point

Now that you have set the unit’s IP address in a manner that suits your network environment, you can connect to it to establish a web control point.

1. Navigate to the Clean Streaming Router’s new IP address with your web browser. The Control Point Needed window displays.

2. From the Control Point Needed window, enter the name you want to use to refer to this web control point; for example, “NXT 450 Admin.”

3. Click Request Control Point. The message “Not Authorized” displays.

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4. Click System Settings from the upper left part of the browser window. The Settings window displays.

5. From the lower left menu (you may need to scroll down), click Control Points. The Settings > Control Points window displays. The Control Point you just requested is shown.

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Assigning the Default Proﬁle to the Web Control Point

Next, assign a Proﬁle that deﬁnes which sources and destinations this Control Point can access. To begin with, choose the Factory Default Proﬁle.

1. From the Proﬁle drop-down control, select Factory Default.

2. Click Authorize. The NXT Web Control Point now displays in the list of authorized Control Points.

The Control Points window showing one Control Point. Note that this Control Point is enabled

(the Enabled check box is selected) and has a Prole assigned to it.

3. Click Done in the upper left area of the window.

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You are now presented with a BrightEye NXT Clean Streaming Router control view with thumbnail icons, shown below. Without video signals present, the thumbnails will indicate “No Input.”

Thumbnail representations of the router’s Sources are shown in the upper area,

Destinations in the lower area.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Preface

Document Organization at a Glance

Chapter 1: Introduction

In this Chapter

Purpose of Document

Intended Audience

Introductory Videos

Overview

Clean Switches and Up/Down/Cross Converters

Encoder and Decoder Architecture

Additional Resources

Chapter 2: System Overview

In this Chapter

Features

IP and DVB-ASI Streaming Connections

Assignable I/O and Flexible Architecture

Instantaneous Clean Switching and Format Conversion

Multiple Intuitive Control Options

Signal Diagnostics

Ethernet Connectivity and Long Distances

Front Panel Controls

Rear Connectors

RS-232 Interface Option

5835 Router and Action Control Panel

Long Distance Capability

Functional Block Diagram

Applications

Mobile Truck Application

House of Worship Application

Rental and Staging Market Applications

University Stadium Sports Event Application

Chapter 3: Installation

In this Chapter

Ensuring Proper Ventilation

Connecting Cables to Ports

Connecting a Reference If Needed

Connecting Ethernet for Web Control Points

Connecting Ethernet for GigE Streaming Media I/O Port

RS-232 Interface Option

Connecting the Power Supply

Installing the 5835 Router and Action Control Panel

Connecting Ethernet Cable to RJ-45 Port

Long Distance Capability

Labeling Buttons

Key Cap Inserts

GPI Control

In this Chapter

Menus Accessed from the Front Panel

Menus Accessed from the Front Panel (Continued)

Front Panel Navigation

Navigation Buttons

Information Button

Assigning Shortcut Buttons

Default Shortcut Button Assignments

Available Default Selections

To assign the shortcut buttons

Unassigned

Source

Destination

Follow

Primary TSG (TSG 1)

Secondary TSG (TSG 2)

For Fixed Input

For Fixed Output

For Bi-Directional

Assigning Ports

To Assign Ports

Renaming Ports

To Rename a Port

Adjusting Audio Levels

To Adjust Audio Levels

Mapping Audio Channels

To Remap Audio Channels

Assigning and Naming Ports

To Assign and Name Ports

Adjusting Audio Levels