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Connect the 3p-10 control surface, Connect the genlock reference signal, Connect an external hard drive – NewTek 3Play 330 User Manual

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For 3-Out output mode, you will need three such connections to view all of 3P

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’s output streams.

For 1-Out output mode, all three of 3P

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’s output connections transmit the same stream, selected

by the 3P

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operator (see Sections 3.4.2 and 6.3.1.1).

1. For downstream video monitoring, connect cables between your downstream devices

(whether monitors or a broadcast switcher) and the appropriate output connectors on
3P

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’s front panel (see Section 4.4.2).

2. Open a 3P

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session from the Administration Screen, and access the I/O Configuration

panel by clicking the small ‘gear’ icon at upper-right in the titlebar of the 3P

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Desktop.

3. Set the Output>Video Connection type (see Section 4.4.3) to suit the connected external

monitor(s).

RELATED QUESTIONS:

I connected video sources and monitors, but don’t see video being passed through 3P

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– why not?

Source video streams are not sent to 3P

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s outputs unless Record is enabled (please see

Section 3.2).

7.1.3 CONNECT THE 3P-10 CONTROL SURFACE?

Connect the USB cable from the 3P-10 Control Surface to one of 3P

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’s USB 2.0 ports.

7.1.4 CONNECT THE GENLOCK REFERENCE SIGNAL?

1. Connect the reference signal to the Genlock Input on 3P

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’s faceplate.

2. See Section 4.4.4 for details on configuring Genlock settings.

7.1.5 CONNECT AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE?

Connect an external hard drive to one of 3P

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’s USB 2.0 ports. Note that the external drive should

probably be formatted using the NTSF file system (the FAT file system chokes on exported files
exceeding 4 Gigabytes, as will often be the case).