Science Image NDI Studio 4K User manual

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If you find that some functions are unavailable in future use, you need to check the following
to find out whether it is caused by improper operation or settings:
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Reading before use
9. NDI Studio Monitor and reopen the search.
2. If you cannot log in to the WebUI, please check whether the device's IP is in the same
network segment as the computer's IP address, and whether the device's IP address
conflicts with the IP addresses of other devices in the network segment.
3. If the IP address of the device is found to be "192.168.8.8", please log in to the WebUI to
set the IP address mode in the I network settings to manual and fill in the IP address, subnet
mask and gateway you need.
4. If a blank screen appears in the decoding, please check the decoding settings in the WebUI,
and whether the NDI source is selected, please try to click Refresh the list and select again.
1. Please use the officially designated adapter.
8. If you find that the video stream is not detected in NDI Studio Monitor, please check
whether the encoder stream name conflicts within the network segment, whether the NDI
group or discovery server settings have been set to the NDI Access Manager on the device or
PC, and try to change the settings back close.
6. If the video freezes during use, please check whether the CPU temperature of the device
is toohigh, generally should not exceed 70°C; check whether the device is connected to a
Gigabit Ethernet port; or try to close the multicast mode in the WebUI.
5. If the login fails due to the upgrade, please clear the browser cache and refresh the page
and log in again.
7. If the video output from the device to the display device has abnormal colors, sounds, or
images, please try to restart the device in the Web UI system or manually power off and
restart.
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contents
NDI® Studio 4K interface and indicator
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Three ways to power on and connect to LAN
OLED screen display instructions
Login Web UI
open the web login page
log in
Device Information
Network settings
Modify the IP
DHCP mode
Manual mode
NDI Multicast settings
NDI Group settings
NDI Discovery server settings
Encoder settings
Set frame rate
Set bit rate (bandwidth)
Video format conversion
Set NDI decoder volume
Set the screen aspect ratio
Set up tally lights
Set NDI encoder volume
Logo background image push stream
Intercom switch
Modify the NDI stream name
8. Decoder settings
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External audio embedding settings
Input source priority selection
Optical transceiver settings
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9. System settings
Reset login password
Select NDI source in decoding state
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10. Control
Camera settings
PTZ control panel
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Firmware upgrade
Restore factory settings
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Working mode switch
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Device restart
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1. NDI Studio 4K interface and indicator introduction
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SDI input-----------SDI signal input interface (Studio 4K·H does not have this interface)
SDI output----------Encoder is looped out picture, decoder is decoded output picture
(Studio 4K·H does not have this interface)
HDMI input----------HDMI input signal (Studio 4K·S does not have this interface)
HDMI output--------The picture is looped out in the encoding state,and the output
picture is decoded in the decoding state(Studio 4K·S does not have
this interface)
Network port/POE----Network connection / PoE (Power Over Ethernet) switch can be
connected to the LAN and powered on at the same time
Optical input/output----SMPTE optical fiber SFP socket, used to connect different types
of Gigabit/10 Gigabit/12G-SDI optical fiber modules
Tally indicator-------Real-time display of the two states of the current broadcast video:
green/pre-monitor, red/program
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2. Three ways to power on and connect to LAN
3. OLED screen display instructions
① Use the standard DC-12V power supply of the product to power on, and insert the
network cable to connect to the LAN;
② Use USB to power up, and plug into the network cable to connect to the LAN;
③ Connect to the LAN at the same time through the power of the network cable
connected to the POE (Power Over Ethernet) switch.
After power on, the NDI® Studio 4K will display four lines of information on the front OLED screen.
The specific informationis listed
as follows:
zoom control camera connection
USB/PTZ------------USB mode power supply/support all-round (up and down,
left and right) movement of the pan/tilt, zoom lens,
12V DC-IN----------12V DC power input
LINE IN-------------3.5mm audio input port for external analog audio embedding
Reset--------------Long press for 5 seconds to restore factory settings
Headset or Mic-------Headphone jack, adopts American standard; at the same
time can be used as Mic
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The first line:
The second line:
The third line:
The fourth line:
Displays the current NDI ® Studio 4K has two modes: encoding and decoding.
The code is "NDI encoder"; It is decoded as "NDI decoder".
In encoding mode, the current NDI is displayed circularly ® The NDI stream
name of studio 4K, such as "NDI: scim-2021" and whether the current device
input source preferentially identifies SDI or HDMI, such as"primary in: SDI";
In decoding mode, if the NDI source is not decoded, the "NDI: scienceimage"
is displayed if it is decoded to NDI source.
In the encoding mode, the resolution of the currently encoding input video
source is displayed circularly, such as "in: 1920x1080p60" and the interface
through which the connected video source is input or whether there is input,
such as "ch: sdi-y hdmi-n" (y is input and N is no input). In decoding mode,
only the resolution of decoded output video is displayed: "out: 1080p60".
In the encoding mode, the output resolution of the device is displayed circularly,
such as: "vo: 2160p60" and IP address, such as: "192.168.1.24". Only IP address is
displayed in decoding mode.
If the NDI® Studio 4K has been set to the decoding mode, the screen will first display the
default initialization encoding state each time it is first powered on, and it will resume
displaying the currently set decoding state after waiting for about 10 seconds.
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Method 1:
Open the computer or mobile browser,
enter the IP address displayed on the fourth line of the OLED screen of the device in
the address bar, and press Enter to enter the login page, as shown below:
4. Login Web UI
4.1 open the web login page
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The first step: Download and install the free NDI® tool-NDI Studio Monitor on NewTek's
official website. Download link: "https://ndi.tv/tools"
The second step:
After the installation is complete, open the "NDI Studio Monitor" program.
The third step:
The fourth step:
On the opened Studio Monitor page, click the gear icon in the lower right corner.
As shown in the above right picture.
Click the menu icon in the upper left corner or right-click anywhere, select
"SCIENCEIMAGE"-click to find an item consistent with the NDI stream name
of the device. As shown in the left picture above.
Method 2:
Open the login page through NDI Studio Monitor
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The PC or mobile phone must be in the same routing
network as the NDI® Studio 4K device.
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4.2 login in
Enter the initial login information of the device:
Username: admin Password: admin Click the [Login]
or [登录] button to enter the English or Chinese setting interface respectively.
Click [Login] for the English interface, and click [登录] for the Chinese interface.
This page is the NDI® Studio 4K device information page, which contains the
following information:
5. Device Information
Device running time (since power-on), device heartbeat monitoring (every 10s
to monitor whether the system is operating normally), the video resolution
and audio frequency of the HDMI source or SDI source of the current encoding
input (or the format of the decoded NDI video stream Information), real-time
temperature of the main chip and detailed device param-eter information.
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The device information includes:
Device name (can display the current codec mode of the device), device serial number,
hardware version, firmware version (can be upgraded on the system page with the
version update), MAC address (unique and unmodifiable), device IP address (can be
Modify at any time on the web page), local IP address (the IP address of the local PC or
mobile phone), and disk space (usage of hardware flash disk space).
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6.1.2 Manual mode
6.1.1 DHCP mode
There are two modes for device IP address setting: DHCP and manual.
6. Network settings
6.1 Modify IP
Click [Network] to enter the network setting page
If this mode is selected, the user needs to set the IP address information of the device to be
in the same network segment as the IP address information of the local PC or mobile phone.
For example: View the local computer's Ethernet IPv4 information as "IP address:
192.168.1.144 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.1.1", then you can set the
device IP address as: "IP address: 192.168.1.142 gateway : 192.168.1.1 Subnet mask:
255.255.255.0 "The gateway and subnet mask are the same as the local computer or mobile
phone, and the IP address does not conflict with other addresses in this network segment
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Automatic mode (DHCP) needs to be used in the link connecting to the router. The router
dynamically assigns the IP address tothe device in real time. An IP address will be randomly
assigned to the device every time the power is turned on.You can log in to the webpage
according to the IP address assigned by the router and modify the corresponding
information (if there is no IP address assigned by the router in the link, the default IP of the
device is 192.168.8.8). When the pattern is selectedThere is no need to fill in the IP address
information on the page, just click the "Apply" button below, and then the device will
automatically restart and get the IP address assigned by the router in the link (this process
is long)(30 seconds), to be displayed on the screen of the device after the newIP address in
the browser input IP login can be.
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After filling in the IP address, click the [apply] button below, and then the system
willcomplete the modification of the IP address and automatically restart the
equipment.The network page will also automatically enter the modified IP address
page (there isno need to enter the new IP again). This process takes about 30s.
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6.2 NDI discovery server settings
NDI discovery server can transfer video stream across network segments. To use this
function, you need to use the official websiteof newtek（ https://www.ndi.tv/sdk/
Download and install NDI SDK and NDI tools.)
Sources represents the number of encoders connected to the server, and listeners
represents the number of decoders connected to the server.
Step 1: open NDI discovery service and record the IPv4 address of this computer (for
example: 192.168.1.106).
Step 2: log in to the Web UI and find the NDI discovery server settings under the network,
click open, fill in the IPv4 address (192.168.1.106) recorded in the first step for the server
address, and click apply.
Step 4: To discover the source of NDI® Studio 4K in cross-segment coding mode,
download and install the NDI Tools and turn on the NDI For Access Manager, type √ in
front of Use Discovery Server under Advanced, and enter the IP of Server into the IPv4
address recorded in the first step (192.168.1.106), then click OK.
Step 3: NDI® Studio 4K decoding mode also needs to open NDI discovery server settings
and fill in the same server address in order to find the signal source of NDI® Studio 4K in
cross segment coding mode(for example: 192.168.1.191) click apply.
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6.3 NDI multicast settings
6.4 NDI group settings
When Multicast mode is turned on, which is the UDP (Multicast) delivery mode, it has a
default Multicast address and a subnet mask. You can configure the address manually,
and clicking Apply takes effect. Close the multicastThe transmission mode of TCP
(Multi-Connection) is adopted. The default is to turn off multicast mode.
NDI defaults to public group. If you want to add a new group, separate it with comma
",". You can also create a separate privacy group, such as science image, so that only
the device that also fills in the science image can obtain the video information.
7. Encoding settings
Encoder setting page can set the output format of video, stream name of video source,
aspect ratio of picture, frame rate, code rate,tally light switch, NDI encoder volume and
optical transceiver.
Web UI based on coding mode
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7.3 Set screen aspect ratio
7.4 Set frame rate
Supports five screen aspect ratio settings: source aspect ratio, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, square.
Support 4 kinds of frame rate settings: source frame rate, 1/2 frame rate, 1/3 frame
rate, 1/4 frame rate.
7.2 Modify the NDI stream name in the encoding state
7.1 Video format conversion
If the device is used as an encoder, you need to modify the NDI stream name. The NDI
stream name must be unique locally, otherwise software such as NDI Studio Monitor
may not be recognized. After the modification, click the [Apply] button below to take
effect in real time. You can see the modification result on the second line of the OLED
screen of the device.The default is NDI-X, and the firmwareupgrade will restore the
default.
No matter what the input format is, you can convert the output to the corresponding
format by clicking the following format. Such conversion will not change the image
quality. After selecting the format, it will be green. If no transformation is required,
select auto, which is the same as the input source format.
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7.7 Logo background image upload streaming
If it is in the encoding state, users can choose to set the logo background image as
the image stream according to the actual needs. Click the image to add a local file,
and then click Save to start the stream pushing. If not, click end stream pushing.
Push stream background image
displayed in NDI Studio monitor
7.6 Set NDI encoder volume
"Encoder volume" regulates the volume of the video source encoded by the encoder,
such as the volume of the screen in NDI Studio monitor.
7.5 Set bitrate (Bandwidth)
The adjustment of bit rate can be reduced to save network bandwidth when the
requirement of image quality is not very high.
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To turn off this mode is to output the sound of the video source through the headphone
hole, which is off by default. If you want to add new audio to the output video, select to
turn on this mode and input the audio through the line in port.
7.11 External audio embedding settings
When both SDI and HDMI sources are input at the same time, the HDMI source is preferred
by default. If you want to select the preferred SDI source, click SDI application. When
there is only one source, it will be automatically recognized and will not be affected by
this setting.
7.10 Input source priority selection
Intercom switch, click on - Application to make a call with the supporting guide software
Laudo, and click off - Application to turn off the Intercom function.
7.9 Intercom switch
7.8 Set up Tally lights
Program and preview are both started, and software with tally (such as vmix) is used to
decode the signal source and broadcast theprogram. Tally lights up the red light, while
pre monitoring lights up the green light. If the green light is on when pre monitoring is
not needed, close preview and click apply; If you don't need tally function, you can turn
it all off (note that if you turn off program, the green light will not be on when the pre
monitor is turned on). The tally function is turned on by default.
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8.1 Set NDI decoder volume
In decoding state, this page displays "set NDI decoder volume", and "decoder volume"
adjusts the volume of decoding output to display device, such as output to TV, etc.
The decoder settings need to be changed in decoding mode. Please refer to page 12 for
switching mode.
8. Decoder settings
Web UI based on decoding mode
7.12 Optical transceiver settings
Use the optical fiber interface to transmit, click to open and apply.
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9. System settings
9.1 Reset login password
Modify the login password and click apply. After the password is modified, it will
take effect at the next login.
The system can set the login password, restore the factory, upgrade the firmware,
switch the working mode and restart the device.
8.2 Select NDI source to decode in decoding state
If this device is used as a decoder, you need to select an NDI source to decode and output.
Setting steps:
① Log in to the WebUI of the decoder
② Click [Network]
③ Click [Refresh List]
④ Click the number in front of the NDI source to be decoded ( is the NDI source
currently being decoded)
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9.3 Firmware upgrade
New firmware upgrades will be released regularly on the company's official website. Users
can download the latest firmware to upgrade as needed. Download address:
“ http://www.science-image.com/cn/file-123084-92200.html ”After downloading, you can
click the [open upgrade page] button on the [system] page to enter the upgrade page, or
click the figure icon in the upper right corner, and then click the [firmware upgrade] button
Just push the button.
Restoring factory settings can restore the device to its initial state, but the firmware
version will not be restored (the factory default IP address of the device is DHCP manual
mode. If there is no router that automatically assigns IP addresses in the LAN, the device
IPwill change to 192.168.8.8).
9.2 Restore factory settings
The second is to restore all the settings on the firmware version and WebUI to the factory.
To restore the factory settings, you need to power off the device, press and hold the reset
key on the device from the small hole, and power on the device at the same time. When
you see system recover on the first line of the device screen, you can release the reset key.
During the process of restoring the factory settings, tally lights up the red light and starts
flashing, When "burning: 100" is displayed on the second line of the screen, tally always
lights up in green, and the whole process takes about 20 minutes to complete. At this time,
power on the equipment again.
The second way is to restore the factory settings. Once it starts, the
original system will not start. Please use this function carefully.
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System Recover
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State: Normal
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