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About a year ago Mediazone decided to move the CG SD workflow (Playbox Airbox+Titlebox) to HD. Unfortunately the cost of an HD CG solutions is extremely expensive and the ones that are affordable provide poor functionality. This is why we decided we switch to CasparCG (an open-source CG) which nowadays is an industry standard CG solution used by many broadcasters.

Installing the CasparCG Server. To begin, download the latest release of CasparCG Server from GitHub. There are multiple versions of CasparCG available to the public for download but, you specifically want the latest NRK version. Once downloaded, extract the files and navigate down the folders, CasparCG Server then Server. CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs as a layerbased real-time compositor. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. And the best, it's free. Used by most broadcasters in Europe.

CasparCG Client 2.0.8 Thank you for your interest in the CasparCG Client, a Mac/Windows/Linux client software used to control graphics, audio and video playout and recording by the CasparCG Server software. CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs as a layerbased real-time compositor. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. And the best, it's free. Used by most broadcasters in Europe. CasparCG: Video and Graphics Play-Out FREE. Use QuickTime and Flash for all your TV broadcast, event and digital signage needs! CasparCG is a free and open-source multi-layer Flash and video playout server for broadcast television and display graphics in both SD. Rating: MLT - Media Lovin' Toolkit FREE.

CasparCG consist of 2 entities:

• CasparCG Server – P
• CasparCG Client – C

For the needs of our TV studio we needed 2 machines (which must meet CasparCG minimum requirements). One for the Play-Out of content and the other one for Graphics (Fill+Key). CasparCG Server and Client can be installed on different machines for maximum reliability, but I chose to install them on the same one. First, our TV studio does not broadcast (it’s an educational TV studio) and second it will save us some space because we will only use one machine.

As for reference, our studio workflow is 1080i50 and we use the DataVideo SE-3000 vision mixer.

Play-Out Machine

This machine is used to Play-Out content using the official CasparCG Client. The client accept all popular formats. Make sure the videos meet your resolution and video format.

On this PC a Blackmagic Design Deckling Duo is installed. Only one SDI Out (Out A) is needed for this purpose. Bellow you can find the config file for the CasparCG Server.

Official CasparCG Client

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Graphics Machine (Fill+Key)

This second machine is used to overly graphics on the Program Mix. Thus we need a card that can produce 2 in-sync outputs. Blackmagic Design Deckling 4K Extreme 6G is the right one for this purpose. Other cards can work as well, as long they can have 2 in-sync outputs.

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Bellow you can find the config file for the CasparCG Server.

CasparCG client offer somes readymade templates which can be used or you can develop your own easily. CasparCG is offering the capability to overlay HTML templates. This makes the creation of graphics really easy since HTML 5 supports animation. Also, you can incorporate Javascript or PHP (or any web language) to change text and graphics. Of course you will need to develop your own client to interact with the graphics dynamically.

Below you can see an example of an HTML template I have developed.

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Mediazone Broadcast Engineer

Casparcg Playout Download Pc