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LiveTouch
Technical Guide
Overview of LiveTouch System Components
LiveTouch Server
LiveTouch (SQ2000) provides an unrivaled channel count in a compact chassis. Utilize 24
channels of 3G or 12 Channels of UHD in a single 3RU mainframe. Each SQ2000 I/O card can
be booted in either IP or SDI, providing flexible I/O profiles for demanding live productions.
Each I/O card offers a dual redundant 100G IP interface for superior connectivity for SMPTE
2110. The I/O card also features 12 compact HD-SDI connections which are all 12G UHD
capable. LiveTouch SQ2000 is the most advanced, high performance video server on the
market today.
LiveTouch Panel
LiveTouch features a dedicated, hardware control panel. Its intuitive touchscreen provides
quick clip selection, speed tools and configurable user options. The panel features familiar
button placement as well as a number pad for fast navigation by clip number and
timecode. The responsive jog wheel provides agile clip navigation and the high-precision T-
bar enables precise control of slow-motion playout.
In addition, the LiveTouch Panel touchscreen provides enables intuitive highlight creation,
navigation and playlist building. The LiveTouch Panel can also host third-party web
applications such as RT Software tOG Sports for enhanced, live sports workflows.
LiveTouch Desktop Client PC
The LiveTouch Panel is paired to a LiveTouch Desktop Client PC, which is offered as turnkey
hardware or as a software only option. The LiveTouch Client software runs on Windows 7 or
Windows 10, as required. The LiveTouch Desktop PC acts as the intermediary between the
LiveTouch Panel and LiveTouch Manager, passing commands over the network to execute
playback operation.
LiveTouch ISA
The LiveTouch Integrated Server Architecture (ISA) system is the LiveTouch system
component which organizes one or more LiveTouch Video Servers to achieve maximum
performance while being tolerant of failures in individual components.
The system can be divided into one or more Zones, each of which has a single or dual-
redundant ISA and one or more LiveTouch Video Servers, each having one or more Pools of
RAID disks, and zero or more Video Channels.
The ISA Manager stores all the Metadata of all clips in its Zone in a well-protected directory.
For user purposes it functions as a single database of all the clips held in that Zone, even
though it may be implemented by a number of different computers to ensure reliability.
Each clip in a Zone is allocated a unique Clip ID when it is created. The ISA stores the
following Metadata items required to describe a Clip:
• ClipID
• Title
• Date of creation.
