Portable Professional Live Production (recording and broadcasting) Device

NSCaster 358 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, all in one, easy to setup, easy to use. It just needs simple equipments and a few staff to quickly set up a professional studio and to produce high-quality video programs.
 
 All in one design 
 
 
 
NScaster 358 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.
 

 12 Input Channels 
 
 
 
NSCaster has 12 input channels, including four camera inputs, one VGA input, one NET input, two DDR inputs, and four virtual scene inputs.
Camera input channels can be used to connect to cameras by SDI, HDMI, composite, component and s-video etc.
VGA input channel can be used to connect computer screen by VGA, DVI and HDMI.
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.
Four virtual scene input channels are used for build 3D trackless virtual scene.
 
 
 
 3D Trackless Virtual Scene 
NSCaster has four 3D trackless virtual scene channels. Each channel can load one virtual camera of a virtual scene. Virtual cameras can zoom in and zoom out on a specific 3D trajectory, the trajectory can be edited in the virtual scene editor. Each virtual scene has four virtual inputs, each virtual input can connect to a input channel. So you can use the virtual inputs to put the people in front of the camera into the virtual scene, or put the videos into the virtual screen in the virtual scene.
 
 Built-in Professional Virtual Scene 
NSCaster 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.
 
 
  Anteroposterior position setting feature in virtual sceneChoose the object in the scene, you can change the location of the input source to achieve the occlusion effect.
 
  Logo replacement in virtual scenePre-set the location of LOGO when edit the virtual scene and you can easily define the scene of their own.
 
 
 Real-time GPU ChromakeyNSCaster 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.
 
    Professional Transition EffectsNSCaster 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.
 
 MultiViewNSCaster support MultiView in external display monitor. It has five multiview modes including single screen, quad screens, ten screens, thirteen screens, sixteen  screens. And each screen can connect to PGM, PVW or input channels.
 Reliable RecordingNSCaster support 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.
NSCaster support input channels recording into MP4 and FLV with H.264/AAC codec.
NSCaster support PGM grab, and add to DDR playlist automatically.
 
 
 
 
 
 Powerful StreamingNSCaster supports MMS streaming, FLASH/RTMP streaming, and UDP TS  unicast or multicast streaming.
MMS uses WMV/WMA encoding, FLASH/RTMP uses H.264/AAC encoding, and UDP TS uses MPEG2 encoding.
FLASH/RTMP supports three bitrate stream encoding, and each bitrate stream can streaming to 2 RTMP servers.
 
 Backup streaming for network broadcastingSupport 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.
 
 
 Physical outputSupport one SDI/HD-SDI and one HDMI video and audio signal output to channel.
 
 
 
 Graphics Card outputNSCaster supports output PGM to external display monitor or projector by the DVI/HDMI/ ports of the graphics card.
 
 TALLY LightsNSCaster connect Tally lights device through two VGA (15pin) interface, outputing eight Tally signal.
 
 

 Delay BroadcastPhysical 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.
 
 
 
 
 Professional Audio InputAll SDI/HDMI inputs support the embedded audio, also provides four XLR Mic input (support +48 Phantom Power), four balanced TRS Line input, one 3.5mm Mic Input, one 3.5mm line input, two XLR balanced stereo output, two TRS line output, one 3.5mm monitor output.
 
 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.

 
 
 
 
 
 DDR Hard Disk video source playNSCaster 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.
 
 Subtitle/Logo/Clock/CGNSCaster supports simple text subtitle, logos and clock overlay. There are four logos, both static image and dynamic image sequence can be used.
NSCaster supports CG overy. CG is defined by Nagasoft, it's used for subtitle and overlay. Each CG file includes one or multiple CG pages, and each CG page includes subtitles, text, image, image sequence, timer, clock and channel. NSCaster provide VJCGEditor for CG editing. The extesion of CG file is *.vjcgf.
NSCaster have many built-in CG files. You can load the built-in CG files or the files created yourself into the CG list for overlay.
 
 Remote Publish CG 
NSCaster supports remote publish CG for overlay by IP network. So the subtitles operators can use another computer to publish subtitles into NSCaster. Social Media SupportSupport 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 PTZ Camera ControlSupport 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.
 
 
 System Resource MonitorNSCaster supports a real-time monitoring of CPU usage, memory usage, network usage and disk space and supports abnormal situation alarm.
 
 
 
 
 
 IPAD remote controlSupport 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.
 
 
 
 
 
 AutoBroadcast SystemBuilt 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.
 
 
 Professional User Interface 
NSCaster uses a professional user interface, which is beautiful and easy to use. 
 
 
 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.
 
 
 
 Built-in Hot Plug 2.5 inches SATA hard disk 
 
 
 
 Built-in ultrathin DVD Burner