Basic Info.
Type
TV Front-end Equipment
Function
Signal Transmitting Device, Signal Transmission Equipment
Product Description
NSCaster 558 is a powerful live broadcasting device, it has lots of powerful features, including 3D trackless virtual scene, multiple input channels transition, recording, broadcasting, streaming, audio mixer, delay broadcasting, subtitles, Multiview, PTZ camera control, remote connection and multiple channels GPU chromakey etc. NSCaster 558, all in one, easy to setup, easy to use. It is less than 10 kg and needs a few staff to quickly set up a professional studio and to produce high-quality video programs.
NScaster 558 adopts all in one design, highly integrated. It contains built-in mainframe, 17.3 inch Full HD display, PC keyboard, mouse touchpad, built-in control panel, PTZ camera pan and tilt control, video input and output interface package, professional audio input and output, audio mixer, bluetooth wireless communication, TALLY output, hot plug hard disk, data output, DVD burner. The total weight is less than 10KG, easy to carry and easy to go with high strength plastic luggage.
) 17.3 inch full HD display) Built-in PC keyboard and mouse touchpad) Built-in control panel, switching T bar and PTZ camera pan and tilt control) High strength handle) stereo-speaker (R)) stereo-speaker (L)) Professional audio input and output
7 ) hydronalium material and CNC fine finishing
8) Eight Tally output
9) Professional video input and output
10) mainframe 24V aerial plug power pack
12 Input Channels
NSCaster 558 has 12 input channels, including four SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI camera inputs, one full interface (SDI/HDMI/DVI/VGA/component) input, three NET inputs, two DDR (video clips) inputs, and two virtual scene inputs.
*four SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI camera inputs
*three NET inputs
*one full interface (SDI/HDMI/DVI/VGA/component) input
*two DDR (video clips) inputs
*two virtual scene inputs
) four SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI camera inputs) one full interface (SDI/HDMI/DVI/VGA/component) input
Full interface input can be used to connecting cameras or PC desktop.
Network input channel can be used to connect computer desktop, Android devices, iOS devices, IP camera through the network; it also can connect to network streaming sources, it support RTMP/RTSP/MMS/VJVGA/VJTeacher/HTTP TS/UDP TS protocol.
DDR channels are used to play media files such as audio, video and picture files. It supports most popular media file formats, and it support play with single file or playlist. It also support loop play, progress adjustment, playback rate adjustment, play time countdown and automaticly play with switching.
Four virtual scene input channels are used for build 3D trackless virtual scene.
SDI/HDMI Output
Support one SDI/HD-SDI and one HDMI output of PGM video and audio signal.
HDMI outputSDI output
Multiview
NSCaster support MultiView in external display monitor by DVI/HDMI/DP. It has five multiview modes including single screen, quad screens, ten screens, thirteen screens, sixteen screens. Multiview channel layout and multiview content hight can be adjusted.
Graphics Card output
NSCaster 558 supports output PGM to external display monitor or projector. PVW/AUX can output to monitors and it supports multi-monitors monitoring different contents simultaneously.
Eight TALLY Signals
NSCaster connect Tally lights device through two VGA (15pin) interface, outputing eight Tally signal.
*Tally sub-device 1-4
*Tally Host
Professional audio input and output
NSCaster 558 supports professional audio input and output, it supports two XLR/TRS input, balanced audio input, it supports line input and Mic input, it supports +48 Phantom Power, it supports +48 Phantom power hardware switch, it provides input gain control hardware knob. It supports one TRS monitor output, monitor gain control hardware knob. It supports monitoring input and output simultaneously, it supports mixing hardware knob control for input and output monitoring volume, it supports two XLR/TRS output, balanced audio output and supports output gain control hardware knob.
output volume gain control knobEarphone monitoring gain control knobMixing gain control knobTRS earphone monitorHI-Z switchInput 1-2 gain control knobInput 1 (Mic/Line)
Input 2 (Mic/Line/Hi-Z)
Front stereo speaker switch+48 Phantom Power swtichOutput L+R
Professional Embedded Control Surface
Professional embedded control surface is more suitable for director. It supports switching, DDR control, virtual scene control, broadcast control, subtitle control, PTZ control and other operations.
switching T barPTZ controlMixerBroadcasting controlVirtual scene controlDDR controlTransition control
High efficiency copper pipe cooling
In order to satisfy the hot environment outdoor and ensure the hardware reliability in operation, CPU heat dissipation adopts copper pipe heat conduction + turbine side cooling solution, the temperature is 10 degrees lower than the traditional heat solution.
Professional User Interface
NSCaster 558 uses a professional user interface, which is beautiful and easy to use.
Resource monitoring area Broadcast control area Virtual scene area DDR control area Transition effect area Transition control area Monitoring area Title Panel
System Resource Monitoring
NSCaster supports a real-time monitoring of CPU usage, memory usage, network usage and disk space and supports abnormal situation alarm.
CPU usage/ Memory usage/ network usage/ disk space real time monitoring
Professional Transition Effects
NSCaster 558 support multiple cameras switching with transition effects. It includes eight transitions types: wipe, slide, page, dissolve, stretch, PIP, 3D and swap, and it has more than 200 built-in transition 2D or 3D effects. Users can use the effect editor to create new transition effect or edit the built-in transition effect.
DDR Hard Disk video source play
NSCaster 558 contains two DDR channels, are used to play local video, audio and picture material, support most commonly used video, audio and pictures format and PPT files; support single file playback and playlists; support Loop Playback; support play schedule and rate adjustment, support play countdown; support automatic playback with switch effect.
ThumbnailPlaylistIn-pointOut-pointTimeline count afterwards/ backwardsPlay controlPlay speed
Subtitle/Logo/Clock/CG
CG Editing panel
Supports CG subtitle, embedded and external CG editor. Each CG page includes subtitles, text, image, image sequence, timer, clock and channel. It supports CG publishing to channel, PGM and PVW.
Logo Editing panel
It supports 4 logo overlay, supports Alpha channel and dynamic logo. Logo position can be adjusted.
Subtitle Editing panel
Supports simple text subtitle, fast type or import from text files.
Instant publishing support one key to a record.
Clock Editing panel
Support clock display, font, size and position can be adjusted.
CG Editor
External CG image and text editor, powerful CG customization feature as shown.
Remote CG publishing
NSCaster supports remote publish CG for overlay by IP network. So the subtitles operators can use another computer to publish subtitles into NSCaster. It supports text, image, image sequence, timer, clock. It supports CG overlay without layer limitation, CG position and size can be adjusted.
Social Media Support
Support to grab text and image content from RSS, Sina micro-blog, WeChat, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other social media, and publish to the PGM channel by CG.
Information gathering----Publishing
One button sharing
One button to post text and image to sina micro blog, twitter, facebook and other social media platform, sharing the exciting monment
Powerful recording feature
MPEG2 support YUV4:2:0 and YUV4:2:2
MP4 support YUV4:2:0, YUV4:2:2 and YUV4:4:4
Record settings
NSCaster supports recording PGM into AVI, MPEG2-PS, MPEG2-TS and MP4. MPEG2 support YUV4:2:0 and YUV4:2:2, MP4 support YUV4:2:0, YUV4:2:2 and YUV4:4:4.
PGM recording supports continuing recording after pause.
Support PGM clean recording, support Nvidia GPU accelerated, H.264 and H.265 encoding.
Support cameras, VGA, network input, simultaneous recording into MP4, FLV, and support for double stream recording.
NSCaster supports PGM grab, and add to DDR playlist automatically.
MP4 file recording supports safety recording, and the recorded files can be restored to normal when the system is out of power.
Powerful device access capability
NSCaster has powerful device access capability and varieties of devices can be linked into. Cameras can link to NSCaster by SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI, HDMI,Component, composite access, and IP camera can be connected through the IP network.
Computer desktop can be linked into NSCaster through DVI, VGA, HDMI or IP network access, mobile phone camera, surface camera, head mounted camera, remote control UAV camera can be access it via LAN WIFI.
NSCaster 558 can intelligently scan and list mobile phone cameras, surface cameras, computer desktops, and one button access to mobile devices in the LAN WIFI.
WIFI
IP network access
by SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI, HDMI,Component, composite access
DVI, VGA, HDMI and IP network access
Multiple Format Network Streaming
It supports MMS streaming, FLASH/RTMP push streaming, and UDP TS unicast or multicast streaming, RTSP push streaming, HTTP FLV pull streaming, HTTP M3U8 pull straming.
MMS uses WMV/WMA encoding, RTMP uses H.264/AAC encoding, and UDP TS uses MPEG2/H.264/H.265 encoding.
RTMP supports three bitrate stream encoding, and each bitrate stream can streaming to RTMP servers without limitations.
Play
Push streaming
Streaming media server
VJMS/FMS/Wowza/WMS
Nvidia GPU accelerated video codec
Support Nvidia GPU hardware accelerated H.264 and H.265 encoding and decoding, not consume CPU source, support 4K video encoding and decoding.
IPAD remote control
Support iPad App to remotely control NSCaster devices. IPad APP can automatically identify NSCaster devices. Features include switching, effect selection, broadcast control, tuning, PTZ control etc.
IPAD remote control
(PTZ control)
Professional Audio Mixer
NSCaster has a built-in professional audio mixer, which supports VU monitoring and gain control per channel, supports dBVU/dBu/dBFS VU standard, and each channel can operate independently.
The built-in audio mixer support mixing switch, follow, solo, audio channel balance and, channel copy feature and audio monitoring feature. It supports left and right channel balance settings, supports mono turning into stereo.
1. Mixing switch
2. Start/Stop monitoring
3. Follow/Solo
4. Channel balance/ Channel Copy
PTZ Camera Control
Support the operation of PTZ camera, support zoom, focus and aperture, support the upper and lower, left and right, upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right movement of PTZ camera, support mouse drag to any target location, fast positioning. Supports PELCO-D/PELCO-P/VISCA protocol, support 9 preset site calls and settings. Support RS485/RS232 PTZ camera control, support IP camera Onvif PTZ control.
PTZ operations support virtual camera control in the virtual scene.
Recording Mark
Quick mark the highlights of the activity and provides convenience for post production.
Delay Broadcast
Physical signal output and streaming support delayed broadcast, and can be switched to the safe video and audio in the case of an emergency to ensure the broadcast safety. The delay time is adjustable, with a maximum of 60 seconds. And the safe video and audio coming from the DDR channel.
Slow Motion Replay
Support slow motion replay, support forward, reverse, slow, fast replay. It supports forward and backward frame level control. It can spport four playback channels in real time simultaneously. It support maximum 4 times faster and 1/8 slow speed for the replay. It support one button to quickly create playback events, one button play and can also set point to point playback events manually. It supports multi-camera continuous play. Playback events can be sorted as list. It supports automatically play based on multi-channel playback events list. It suppotrs replay with cut in and cut out effects. Replay contents can be saved and opened synchronously. Support working with external professional slow motion reply keyboard.
NSCaster software with slow motion replay keyboard
Multi-camera fast cut and replay
Support recording maximum 4 camera channels video
Multi-Camera 3D trackless virtual scene
NSCaster 558 uses a three-dimensional virtual scene, including two camera positions three dimensional trackless virtual and each camera position can be transferred to an angle of the three dimensional virtual scene. The virtual camera can simulate camera movement, push and pull, and physical camera does not need to move but virtual camera moving path can be edited.
It supports 2 channels 3D virtual scene inputs,
Each virtual scene channel can select a virtual 3D scene and a virtual camera, each virtual 3D scene allows to set up multiple virtual cameras through the editor. It supports for 3D virtual camera paths push and pull, and the paths can be edited.
Each virtual camera has 4 preset point of paths, can track the transition and the transition time is adjustable. The scene supports maximum 4 inputs, each input can be independently linked to other input channels, the input can be arranged on the TV wall or any virtual object surface with adjustable position and size.
Professional Virtual Scene
NSCaster 558 has many built-in professional 2D and 3D virtual scenes, covering news, finance, education, military, interviews, entertainment, sports and other applications.
Nagasoft will continue to develop new virtual scene, and provide for update. And users can use the virtual scene editor to create new virtual scene or edit the built-in virtual scene.
Logo replacement in virtual scene
Pre-set the location of LOGO when edit the virtual scene and you can easily define the scene of their own.
Anteroposterior position setting feature in virtual scene
Choose the object in the scene, you can change the location of the input source to achieve the occlusion effect.
Real-time GPU Chromakey
NSCaster 558 all inputs support real-time chromakey with GPU Accelerated. It support full color background keying, not only green and blue background. It has lots of setting parameters including key color, brightness, shadows, blur, edge, overflow control, borders, and exclude.
Backup streaming for network broadcasting
Support both mobile phone to NScaster device backup Streaming and NSCaster to NSCaster device backup Streaming. If main device failure, backup equipment will replace to do the broadcast automatically.
Mobile phone and NSCaster device
NSCaster device and NSCaster device
AutoBroadcast System
Built in 7x24 hour automatic broadcasting system, can edit a broadcast list based on the timeline, and broadcast according to it automatically. The broadcast list can add video and audio files, data acquisition devices and channels. It Supports for switching effects, point to point set, automatic switch, automatic subtitles publishing, preview video and audio files and other features.
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