Video Transcript
Set up Seervision in Q-SYS Designer
4m 51s
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Welcome back.
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In this part of the training,
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we're going to link Seervision and Q-SYS together,
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which means giving Seervision direct control over our Q-SYS cameras
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and using the Seervision plugin inside Q-SYS.
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We're going to start off in Q-SYS Designer.
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For our first example, we're just going to need one camera.
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So I'm going to create a basic Q-SYS design with an NC 12x80 a mediacast router,
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and I'm going to wire that into the USB bridge on my core.
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Now let's return to the, Seervision user interface.
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Take a look at the menu bar at the top of the page.
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You can see there we have a /1 and a /2 after the server's IP address.
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That's because this is a two channel server.
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And those two buttons let you access the two separate instances of the service and software.
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For now, we just want to configure the first instance.
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So let's press slash one.
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Now the first thing we need to do is connect our camera to Seervision so it can receive the stream
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and control the camera That's done in the operations server.
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Click here to access it.
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Now, in the operations server, we have settings for network licensing and our camera connections.
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We're going to focus on the PTU configuration section for now.
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But what does PTU stand for?
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It's actually a penguin transportation unit. not really.
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PTU stands for Pan Tilt Unit and it comes from Seervision's broadcast background,
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where you might be using cameras that have a separate pan tilt unit to the camera itself.
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Now, of course, we're using Q-SYS and nc-series cameras
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and we can select that as the PTU right here.
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Of course, we need to enter the camera's IP address,
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which you can find in Q-SYS Configurator,
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if you're not sure what it is.
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It might be a good idea to set this to a static address in Peripheral manager,
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just in case you're working on a DHCP network and the camera's IP address changes after a reboot.
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Next, we're going to tell Seervision the camera and the lens.
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that’s attached to the PTU. Of course,
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this is the same in a conferencing camera where everything's integrated.
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So choose Q-SYS as the model and Q-SYS NC 1280 or 20 by 60 as the lens.
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Lastly, we can invert the pan and the tilt for ceiling mounted cameras
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and we can add pan and tilt limits if desired.
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When you're ready, just click apply.
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Now, before we leave the operations server,
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we might want to adjust the IP settings.
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The Q-SYS plug in is going to be connecting to the server via its IP address.
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So it might be a good idea to set this to a static address If you're on a DHCP network.
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When you're ready, just click on the arrow in the top left to go back to the main user interface.
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Next, we need to link our camera stream to the
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Seervision server as well as the PTU control that we've just configured.