Newtek 3Play 330 Bedienungsanleitung

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Page 95 8 INDEX 1 1-Out. See Output Mode 3 3-Out. See Output Mode 3P-10 Control Surface, 10, 15, 26, 30, 85 ALT, 32, 44, 72, 73 Arrow Up/Dow

Page 96 Video Standard, 26, 50 Open/Manage Session, 13, 51, 87, 88 Backup Session, 52 Restore Session, 52 Shutdown, 56 Exit to Windows, 56 Sys

Page 97 H Hard Drive Defrag. See Administration Screen: System Utilities Hard drive (external), 85 High Definition, 12 Highlight playback. Se

Page 98 P PAL. See Video Standard Play. See 3P-10 Control Surface: Play Play Highlight. See 3P-10 Control Surface Play Position Indicator. Se

Page 99 Update 3Play. See Administration Screen: System Utilities UPS, 16 USB, 81 V Variable speed. See 3P-10 Control Surface: Speed, See 3P-1

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Page 7 a defect is determined to be covered by this warranty as determined by NewTek, NewTek will correct it, and may do so using new or reman

Page 9 3 INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing this NewTek™ product. 3PLAY™ is the newest addition to a family of video systems and softw

Page 10 For this reason, Record is automatically enabled whenever you press the LIVE button on the 3P-10 Control Surface (to select incoming l

Page 11 Figure 1 Note: A variant of the usual 3Play Desktop is automatically displayed if the External 3P-10 Control Surface is not detected

Page 12 3.4.1 STANDARD AND HIGH DEFINITION 3PLAY records and replays video in a wide variety of popular formats. For a particular 3PLAY sess

Page 13 3.5 3PLAY DESKTOP Clicking New Session (or Open Session) in the Administration Screen presents the 3PLAY Desktop (Figure 3), which pr

Revised – Nov 12, 2010 Copyright 2010 NewTek Inc., 5131 Beckwith Blvd. San Antonio, TX USA 78249. 3PLAY, TriCaster, VT[5],

Page 15 4 SETTING UP This chapter explains how to properly connect power, external control devices, monitors and audio visual sources to yo

Page 16 At this point, the blue Power LED on 3PLAY’s faceplate will illuminate, and the hard drive activity light should flicker as the device

Page 17 4.3 3PLAY LICENSE AND REGISTRATION The Registration dialog shown in Figure 4 is presented when you launch 3PLAY, and provides the uni

Page 18 4.3.2 REGISTERING BY TELEPHONE NewTek’s Customer Care center can also handle registration requests by telephone, if that is more conv

Page 19 a. SDI – Attach the SDI source connectors to the BNC connectors marked SDI in the Video In group. b. Component – Attach the approp

Page 20 And of course, from 3PLAY’s outputs you may pass either of the above on to downstream live switching and/or recording devices. IMPORTA

Page 21 2. Connect 3PLAY’s audio outputs: a. Analog audio - Connect external audio devices to the 1/4 inch (6.3mm) balanced phone jacks bes

Page 22 Hint: 3PLAY’s SDI and analog output sections can be used simultaneously. For example, for an SD session you could choose Composite O

Page 23 Figure 9 Again, ideally both the cameras and the 3PLAY need to be genlocked. If they are not genlocked to the same source as the 3PL

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Page 24 7. Click the Change button, and enter the name of your local workgroup, as provided by your system administrator. 8. Close the OK b

Page 25 5 QUICK START This chapter provides a brief ‘hands-on’ tour of the major components and functions of your NewTek 3PLAY™. In a very

Page 26 3. 3PLAY International: Select a Video Standard and Resolution setting appropriate for your connected sources (see Section 3.4.1). 4

Page 27 5.2 CONFIGURING INPUTS Figure 13 3PLAY needs to know what sort of video sources are connected to it. Click the gear icon (Figure 13

Page 28 5.3 MONITORING At this point, the video streams shown on the Input and Output monitors on the Desktop match. Live video is simply bei

Page 29  Session Time Recorded - The total duration of audio/video recorded and stored on 3PLAY since this session was created  Remaining

Page 30 The MARK IN and Out functions have some other special features too, permitting a variety of convenient marking workflows. We’ll get in

Page 31 Press MARK IN on the 3P-10 control surface. This creates a new ‘incomplete’ event in the Master List tab of the Event Panel (only the

Page 32 Another convenient approach to instant replay may suit you better in some cases. Try this method: 1. Press MARK IN (just as you did

Page 33 5.8 SELECTING THE CAMERA Keep in mind that 3PLAY simultaneously records all three inputs, not just the stream shown on the Main Outpu

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Page 34 5.9 SLOW MOTION 3PLAY is capable of variable speed play between 0 and 100%. You set the playback rate using the Speed buttons (0%,

Page 35 Here’s something to try: 1. Replay an event in the Master List by pressing ALT + Play. 2. Turn the Shuttle ring counter-clockwise, r

Page 36 type, or for highlight playback (discussed in Section 5.7). Conveniently, Custom Event List tabs can be renamed. Figure 19 Each occ

Page 37 2. Hold the ALT button down and press MARK IN. 3. If you wish, go ahead and select a new frame for the event to end at in similar fa

Page 38 Hint: By design, playback continues indefinitely after the end of an event is reached unless you deliberately press Stop (or reach the

Page 39 6 3PLAY REFERENCE This chapter aims to explain every aspect of your NewTek 3PLAY™ in full detail. Each button, menu item, feature

Page 40 6.2 3P-10 CONTROL SURFACE Figure 21 The 3P-10 control surface provides tactile control of all important operations. Knobs, buttons

Page 41 2. Speed Presets (25%, 33%, 50%, 75%, 100%): When lit, these buttons override the current Speed-Bar setting, setting the rate to the

Page 42 These buttons add and define entries in the Event Lists by setting In and Out Point timecode references for the video stream currently

Page 43 6.2.3 RECORD 4) REC (Record) button (Figure 24): toggles 3PLAY recording Though unassuming, the importance of the REC button (or t

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Page 44 5) Camera 1, 2 & 3 buttons: b) Press to place the corresponding stream on the Main Output monitor. (For 1-Out mode, this also

Page 45 Figure 25 6.2.7 LIVE 8) LIVE (Figure 25): press to restore LIVE playback mode, placing live audio and video from the sources conn

Page 46 record from there, even ignoring Out Points for events. c) ALT + Play – begins playback from the In Point of a selected event. Play

Page 47 6.2.9 JOG/SHUTTLE 12) Jog Wheel/Shuttle Ring (Figure 27): Twist the outer ring clockwise or counter-clockwise to quickly shuttle ba

Page 48 Figure 28 13) RMV (Remove): remove the selected Event List entry (or entries). If an entry is removed from a colored Custom List

Page 49 22) ALT + Arrow (Up/Down): Move selected event(s) up/down in the Event List. Note: The Arrow and SHIFT buttons permit multi-selectio

Page 50 The New Session options include:  Session Name: Click to enter a unique name in the text entry field.  *Video Standard: For the

Page 51 In addition to placing camera selection directly under control of the 3PLAY operator, this can be useful for distributing 3PLAY’s outp

Page 52 Selecting a session Name and clicking Open launches the 3PLAY Desktop (using the former input and output settings), complete with the

Page 53 The backup function will make sure there’s enough room on 3PLAY for the session you wish to restore (a modest safety allowance for ext

iv 7.2.4 Clear Out Old Data? ... 87 7.2.5 Rename a Se

Page 54 6.3.4 SYSTEM UTILITIES System Utilities (Figure 32) is home to the (hard drive) Defragment tool and Update 3PLAY utility. Figure 32

Page 55 How much better it would be to slide the remaining books closer together, combining all the free space first. Unfortunately, computer

Page 56 6.3.6 SHUTDOWN SYSTEM Figure 35 This selection provides Restart, Shutdown 3PLAY, and Exit to Windows icons – click them to perform t

Page 57 The 3PLAY Desktop provides visual feedback for 3PLAY operations, including monitoring, event marking, management and playback controls

Page 58 Figure 38 Click the small gear button (near the Close gadget in the upper-right corner of the Desktop) to open the I/O Configuration

Page 59 TERMINATION The Termination switch toggles a 75 ohm resistance, which may be required by certain video sources. PROC AMP Individual p

Page 60 AUDIO TYPE (DROP-DOWN) The optional audio connection types are: 1. Analog Audio – Utilizes the four inputs in the Analog Audio In sec

Page 61 6.4.2.3 OUTPUT VIDEO CONNECTION This drop-down menu allows the operator to select between Component, Y/C, Composite and SDI output f

Page 62 Among other things, genlocking permits seamless downstream integration of 3PLAY output with other video sources locked to the same syn

Page 63 This is essentially why 3PLAY provides several adjustments in its Genlock section. The Horizontal and Vertical Position settings pin t

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Page 64 We discussed this 3PLAY Desktop panel briefly way back in Section 5.4 (Quick Start). In addition to providing some valuable informati

Page 65 6.4.5 INPUT 1, 2, 3 Figure 46 Three Input Source Monitors at upper-left show live video from video sources connected to Inputs 1-3,

Page 66 The three monitors at the bottom of the Desktop show all three synchronized video streams available for output. The much larger monito

Page 67 When 3PLAY is in 1-Out mode, the primary output stream is displayed on the Main Monitor above. A red outline highlights the correspon

Page 68 Hint: 3PLAY’s Desktop monitors are previews, and can drop frames under certain conditions. 3PLAY Output does not do so, however – thu

Page 69  (ID#) Highlight - This tag indicates playback is in Highlight Reel mode. When you press Play Highlight, playback of events respect

Page 70 3PLAY captures. The Event Panel provides information about events you have marked, along with numerous event organization and managem

Page 71 Pressing TAB on the 3P-10 Control Surface (or clicking a tab) activates a different Custom List. The Master List contains every exist

Page 72 You are free to re-order events (and event selections) up and down in the list using the 3P-10 control surface. Use ALT + Arrow (Up/D

Page 73 Note: For normal playback, when multiple events are selected, playback begins from the last event clicked. The Play Highlight feature

Page 74 6.4.8.6 CONTEXT MENU Right-clicking on an event (or multiple selected events) opens a context menu which includes the following items

Page 75  If the Output Mode is 1-Out, the primary stream is delivered to all of 3PLAY’s output connectors for transmission to downstream vid

Page 76 Pressing Clone duplicates the current event selection. Cloning can be useful when you wish to assign copies of an event to more than

Page 77 Figure 56 Export can take some time, depending on the duration of the events selected and their resolution (note that Export to an ex

Page 78 a 3PLAY session. The reason for this is to provide assurance that - even if your 3P-10 gets lost in transit or suffers some catastrop

Page 79 CLN Clones selected Event(s) <TAB Cycles backwards through Event Tabs >TAB Cycles forwards through Event Tabs Num Pad Numeric p

Page 80 3PLAY’s front panel connections have been discussed in Section 4.4, but we’ll review them briefly here. 6.7.1 VIDEO CONNECTIONS Three

Page 81 6.7.4 USB The four USB 2.0 ports at lower right on 3PLAYs faceplate can be used to connect the keyboard, mouse and 3P-10 Control Sur

Page 83 7 HOW DO I … ? In this section, we’ll consider the most common questions 3PLAY operators may have, and of course we’ll provide the

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Page 84 Export to an External Drive? ... 91 Im

Page 85 For 3-Out output mode, you will need three such connections to view all of 3PLAY’s output streams. For 1-Out output mode, all three o

Page 86 7.1.6 CONNECT TO A NETWORK? Please refer to Section 4.4.5. 7.2 SESSIONS 7.2.1 START AN SD SESSION? 1. Connect your SD sources to

Page 87 6. Click Open Session. 7. Open I/O Configuration by clicking the little gear in the 3PLAY Desktop titlebar, and configure the video

Page 88 7.2.6 BACKUP A SESSION TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE 1. If necessary, close the 3PLAY Desktop by clicking the [x] button at the right-hand en

Page 89 7.3.1.1 ONE-BUTTON METHOD With 3PLAY in LIVE mode, watch for notable events on the Main Output monitor, and press MARK OUT whenever o

Page 90 7.3.4 PLAY AN INSTANT REPLAY? 1. With 3PLAY in LIVE mode, press MARK IN at any convenient time. This creates a new ‘incomplete’ ev

Page 91 3. To play the Highlight Reel, press Play Highlight (see Section 5.7 and 6.2.8). (Note: pressing ALT + Play Highlight beings looping

Page 92 7.4.2 IMPROVE PERFORMANCE? 1. If necessary, close the 3PLAY Desktop by clicking the [x] button at the right-hand end of the titlebar

Page 93 7.5.2 CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT? Visit the NewTek website at www.newtek.com and select Technical Support from the main Customer Care