Go from boxes to video in minutes—place the processor, get it on your network, map cabinets correctly, and light up test patterns to verify everything.
When making the connections to your LED screen, the starting point is the processor. Your LED processor should be placed at your front of house tech booth or in another location that you can easily get signal to and from the device. The device can be controlled over TCP IP, so you can take control of the software within it internally. To connect the processor to your screen, you'll utilize the outputs found on the rear of the device. Follow the diagram in the playbook which corresponds to which cabinets that each output will connect to. It's important that the outputs listed here follow the instructions given in the playbook. On the left side of the device, you have your video inputs in either HDMI or SDI format. Depending on your processor, you also have advanced features like genlock or loop through, and it comes down to the specific model spec for your screen. We'll now dive into configuring the processor to match your screen configuration. Your LED processor can connect to your local network, or you can simply do a direct connection between your computer and the processor. The MX line of NovaStar LED processors is both compatible with PC and Mac. If you want to connect your processor to your local network, simply assign the IP address by sending it to the auto setting. Or if you want a static IP address, you can do that as well. If you're not going to be assigning IP addresses through your local network for your processor, you can go ahead and just make a direct connection by attaching a ethernet cable from your computer to the processor. Make sure your computer is in DHCP mode, and you may need to restart it as well so that the processor can see the computer. Once the devices are talking to each other, you can then move to the next step of configuring the software for your screen configuration. The processor will automatically know how many cabinets are recognized once the data lines are connected to the back of the processor. Once I have the software open, where I'll need to go next is to the layout. Once I'm in layout, I can then see that there's three cabinets attached. This is correct based on my configuration here. I have three cabinets which the software has seen. At that point, I simply can drag and click the location of my three cabinets. It is important when I start to lay out my screen cabinets on here that I start my first cabinet based on where the data line is coming into the cabinet at the stage. I will then see arrows depicted on the image that show the data flow. That is important so that the processor and the cabinets can work together to put together the final image. Once you have your cabinets laid out here, you can go ahead and put a test pattern up on your screen by going back to the source and simply clicking the colors on the right hand pallet. You can then confirm that all of your cabinets at your screen location are functioning and displaying the correct test pattern that you're choosing there. To dive deeper into scaling and configuration of your processor, watch the in-depth detail guide on those settings based on the processor that you have in your space.
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