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The system consists of a server housed in the equipment room with a decklink card running software called CASPAR CG (open source).

The two iMacs (that can still be used for Premiere playback as a backup) are used to setup playback lineups and control playback of the CASPAR CG software.

The software running on the iMacs to control CASPAR is called SuperConductor

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(also open source.)

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User Logs in to IMac A or B

With EID and Pw

Then Copies the settings from tempstorage to

the Documents folder 


(Keefe working on a script

that does this automatically?)

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Next mount the media server so can add files

to the playback library

.Note that files


Click on

>Go>Connect to Server


Files should be a .mp4 or .h264 of the

story package or PSA commercial to play during

the newscast

Click on

>Go>Connect to Server

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Enter the IP address of the Caspar server -

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Type in

smb://192.168.1.1

Click

Then click on Connect

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Enter in the -

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User Name and PW

is taped to the computer monitor

at the top of the screen

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Mount the volume share named ‘media’.

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If this is your first time logging into this system this semester then located on the volume share named ‘media’ is a folder named

_NEED FOR DOCUMENTS FOLDER_

Inside of that folder is a folder named SuperConductor. Copy that folder and paste it into your user’s Documents folder.

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is 

user: ftp

password: casparftp


mount "Media" share

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Next look for the app named

SuperConductor in Applications

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Once SuperConductor is launched you should see a green indicator in the upper right corner that indicates you are connected to the Caspar server. If that indicator is red then you need to check the Bridges settings (see next item).

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If the indicator is red then select the Home tab and then select Bridges

Check to see if the IP address for the Caspar server is set to 192.168.1.1

If it is not then you probably need to quit out of SuperConductor and copy the folder from 3 steps earlier over to your user Documents folder. Then go ahead and RESTART the entire computer. Don’t just log out, please REBOOT.

If the IP address for the server is set to 192.168.1.1 and SuperConductor is still not connecting to the Caspar server then please request assistance.

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When the application opens

Check that the server is connected to the application.


Go to >Home

>Bridges

>Check Casper CG in the upper left corner and

>Internal Bridge

>Devices

Status should all be green

If not green then RESTART the IMac don't just log out 

RESTART and tha seems to fix it.

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Next

Click on Layers


DVR A and B have settings

Example here is DVRB should be set to

Chanel 2 Layer 1 and 

CasparCG 2-1 should be set to 

Chanel 2 Layer 1


DVRA should 

be set to

Chanel 1 Layer 1 and 

CasparCG 1-1 should be set to 

Chanel 1 Layer 1

Next to add content to the Media server

Simply drag over the file to the media server as shown


The file should automatically show up in the 

SuperConductor library. 

If it does not load open QuickTime player and export out

a 1080 file to recompress and it will fix the problem and the

file will show up in the app.


QuickTime Player – Export a H264 file

The file should automatically show up in the 

SuperConductor library. 

hit refresh on SuperConductor

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Click on Default Rundown tab to use the rundown playback

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hit refresh on SuperConductor (need a picture for this)

When the file loads into the library drag it to 

the Rundown menu

Once the file is loaded

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then click the

play button when you want to play the desired clip

Cueing has proven to be more trouble than needed, so do NOT cue any clips

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To delete a rundown

Click on the RED trash can to delete

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Confirm you want to delete and click DELETE

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Tech Note:

Check the 2nd Ethernet port that connects to the Caspar server

This port must be set to the same IP range of the server.

Caspar IP is 192.168.1.1

Station 1 should be set to Manual IP

192.168.1.5

Station 2 should be set to Manual IP

192.168.1.6

Cue first part button

to cue up the clip for playback

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Then when DVRA or B is pressed on the Ross Switcher the

file will play automatically.




Katherine Heard set this up before she left, but ran out of time to document before she left. Hopefully we can get her back in a month and she can get all the things in this wiki. The crash cart is a useful KVM in the equipment rack room to use for directly plugging into the CASPAR server for configuration, for example, we already messed up the ftp login and had to re allow access by this method.

The advantage of this setup is that it does not require setup of a timeline. It accepts all frame rates, and raster sizes and does the conversion in realtime...so, the students are told 1080i, but if they mess that up, no big deal.


These general users (like ftp) will not and should not be the final way we use this system, but for now we're doing our best to try and get this thing rolling without spending 40k on a play out system...this was essentially free.


To Play SuperConductor from iMac


To control SuperConductor from Ross switcher


To setup SuperConductor to connect to CASPAR