ViewCast Niagara 7550 Quick start guide

1) Touch Power on the front touch panel. Aer the system

powers up the rst me, the following screen appears:

2) Touch Enter . The system prompts you to set the date.

3) To set the month, use the Up and Down

arrows to change the numerical value

of the month.

4) Touch Stop to move to the eld to the right. Touch Stream to move

to the eld to the le.

5) Use the same process to set the Day and Year unl you are sased

with your sengs.

6) Touch Enter to accept the sengs, and move to the next screen to

set the system clock.

7) Niagara systems use a 24-hour clock format for its system clock

entries. Use the Up, Down, and Stream buons to set the hour and

minute of the system clock.

8) Touch Enter to set the format. The screen appears conrming you

have successfully set up your Niagara system.

9) Touch Enter to exit the setup menu and reboot the system.

The following screen appears:

Quick Start Guide

Niagara® 7550

Congratulaons on the purchase of your new Niagara 7550 system.

The following steps in this Quick Start Guide will help you set up and

congure your new streaming media system so you can begin stream-

ing or capturing video as quickly as possible. You can perform most of

the basic operaons from the touch panel. The Niagara web interface

also allows quick and easy access to its operaonal features. You must

modify any advanced setup opons of the encoders through this inter-

face before running an encoder session. Please refer to the User Guide

on the included CD for more detailed instrucons.

Complete the following steps to begin streaming:

AC power connector for 100-240 volts,

AC, 50-60 Hz

Plug the power cable included with your

system into this connector and plug the

opposite end into an AC power source.

SDI video input 5

The high-denion and standard-denion

serial digital interface (SDI) is a professional

video input that may include embedded

audio. SDI uses a COAX cable with a BNC

connector.

Unbalanced audio input 7

These BNC connectors with RCA adapters

provide le and right stereo input. RCA

connectors (standard consumer stereo

audio connectors) are on most video

players and video cameras.

Balanced audio input 8

These XLR connectors provide le- and right-

balanced stereo inputs. High-end audio

and video equipment may have these

professional connectors.

AES/EBU digital audio input 6

There are two stereo pairs of AES/EBU

digital audio, AES1 and AES2.

RJ-45 Ethernet connector 2

The system has two network connectors.

Use either the primary or secondary

plugs to connect to your IP network.

The network sengs default to dynamically obtain an IP address from a

DHCP server on the network. For most network environments, you do

not need to modify these default sengs. If the system does not nd a

DHCP server or it remains unavailable on the network, it assigns its own

IP address.

Once connected to a network, you should be able to access the built-in

web server by browsing to the unique machine name (the serial number

is located on the boom or side of the system). You may also set the IP

address through the web interface.

If you do not have a DHCP network or you cannot connect to the system

through its DNS name, you can connect a monitor 4, mouse, and key-

board directly to USB ports 3. The system has a Microso Windows 7

desktop.

The rst me you power up the system, the system takes a few mo-

ments to boot up. The LCD display will present a series of menus that

will assist you in seng up the system clock and date.

10) From a separate computer on the same network as the Niagara

system, launch a web browser such as Internet Explorer and enter

the serial number or IP address of your system in the address bar.

The serial number can be located on the boom or the side of the

system in the format hdxxxxxxxx. The serial number and IP

address also appear on the LCD screens on the front panel.

11) Click in the User Name eld and enter admin as the user name.

Then click in the Password eld and enter admin as the password.

Finally, click Log In or press Enter.

12) Aer you enter your valid user name and password, the Welcome

window and menu bar appear.

13) To view available encoder proles, from the menu bar click

Encoders > All Encoders. This example demonstrates how to edit

a Windows Media encoder.

14) Click Edit to the le of the Windows Media encoder to open the

Encoder Properes window.

Video

2. Connect video and audio sources

Audio

3. Connect to an IP network

4. First start setup

1. Connect to an electrical power source

Continued on back

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Note: You may start a stream from the Encoders window by click-

ing the red circle in the Streaming column. This acon accepts the

current sengs for the device. The circle changes from red to blue

once you start streaming.

The Niagara 7550 Front Panel

Quick Start Guide

Niagara® 7550

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D. Stereo Headphone Connecon

• The headphone connecon is for audio monitoring.

E. Stereo Headphone Connecon Volume Buons

• Controls the audio level output of the headphone connecon.

F. Preset ABC Buons

• Assign an encoder(s) to the A, B, or C buons.

• Touch A, B, or C then Stream to start the encoder(s).

• Touch A, B, or C then Stop to stop the encoder(s).

G. Stream

• Touch once to start the encoder that is highlighted/selected in the

LCD display.

H. Stop

• Touch once to stop the encoder that is highlighted/selected in the

LCD display.

I. Enter

• Controls menu operaons.

• Touch Enter or accept the menu choice highlighted on the

LCD display.

BC D E

A. Wide Screen Video Condence Monitor

• Displays incoming video source.

A. Audio Level Meter

• Indicates audio input presence.

C. Power Buon

• When the system is powered down, the power buon is sll

illuminated.

• Touch this buon once to turn on the system.

• Touch this buon twice to turn o the system.

• Touch and press for 8 seconds to execute an immediate power o.

D. Alarm

• Indicator light remains solid when an applicaon alert has

occurred.

E. Remote Control

• Indicator light remains solid when another user is accessing the

system across the network from a computer.

G H

F. Video Present

• This light illuminates yellow when the system is not encod-

ing. It is blue when a valid video signal is being encoded.

G. Alarm Informaon

• Touch to view a log of the most recent alarms recorded.

• Touch Enter to clear alarms from the log.

H. Menu

• Touch to acvate the system menu on the LCD display.

K. LCD Display

• The LCD display shows the status, system menu, and allows you to

perform basic funcons.

A. Up/Down Arrows

• Touch the Up or Down arrow to navigate through the LCD menu.

C. USB Port

• Allows the export of les to USB memory devices, installing

updates or rmware, or connecng USB devices.

Use the following guide to familiarize yourself with the front panel controls.

15) On the Video tab, verify video Input is SerialDigital and set the size

to CIF.

16) Click the Audio tab and set audio Source to SDI Input 1.

17) Click the Output tab. By default, the Enable Pull check box is enabled

and the Pull from Port eld contains the port number 7007.

18) If not desired, clear the Save to File check box. Click Submit.

19) When the Operaon Successful window appears, click OK. Test this

streaming prole from the Encoders window by clicking the red-

circle in the Streaming column for this encoder prole.

20) Open Windows Media Player from your desktop. Posion the cursor

to the le of the Now Playing opon, right click, and select File >

Open URL.

21) Enter the serial number and port number (in the format

hp://hdxxxxxxxx:7007) in the Open URL window. Press

Enter. Your streaming video from the system displays in the

Windows Media Player window.

Note: You may also use the front panel menu and Streaming

buon to start streaming. See the User Guide for step-by-

step instrucons.

4. First start setup continued

Note: The Niagara 7550 supports streaming output resolu-

ons up to 1280 x 720.

ViewCast Niagara 7550 Quick start guide

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