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Page 1: ...USER GUIDE PART 2 NDI INSTRUCTIONS P4K THE HIGHEST QUALITY FULL NDI CAMERA ON THE PLANET ...

Page 2: ...WELCOME TO THE FUTURE ...

Page 3: ...EMENT 6 Default password 6 A V SETUP 6 Adjusting Camera image settings 6 A V Input 6 Video input format 7 NDI Encode 7 Bitrate management 7 NDI Audio 7 Onboard Tally 7 Failover Source 8 PTZ 8 Control 8 Settings 8 PT Max Speed 8 OSD 9 SYSTEM 9 System update 9 NDI NETWORK SETTINGS 9 Transmit Preferred Method 9 TCP 9 UDP 9 Multicast 9 MultiTCP 10 NETWORK 10 Device naming 10 Configuration method 10 DHC...

Page 4: ...l power to all connected devices P4K uses approximately 30 watts in PoE mode DC Located at the rear of the P4K is a DC connection port This power input socket is capable of accepting 12vDC power P4K should only be powered by the included AC adaptor Thermal management P4K has been engineered to be passively cooled In order to achieve this the entire enclosure of P4K is designed to dissipate heat Th...

Page 5: ... pre installed with Bonjour while Windows devices need a small plugin available here https support apple com kb dl999 locale en_AU Accessing P4K via an IP address P4K is configured to automatically receive a network IP address from the computer network via DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Most corporate education and home networks have a DHCP server present on the network to allow this to ...

Page 6: ...justing Camera image settings Please note in the initial release of P4K the image adjust ments for the camera are affected by using the camera s unbuilt OSD On Screen Display details of how to access this are available later in this user guide or in Part 1 of the P4K manuals A V Input P4K Enter Password 6 Video input format Please select the desired camera frame rate and video size from the drop d...

Page 7: ...equipmed with a 360 degree tally system allowing you to see a tally light from any angle of the camera head This tally light automatically communicates with receiver software and will illuminate RED when the Tally position on the receiver is set to Program and GREEN when the Tally position on the receiver is set to Preview Onboard Tally can be suppressed with this setting Failover Source Within P4...

Page 8: ...NDI you can limit the maximum speed of PTZ movements by affecting this option the higher the number 18 the faster and more sensitive the movements will be on theP4K OSD In the initial release of P4K the OSD is very important for adjusting the camera image settings since this is the primary control mechanism To adjust all cameras settings please press the OSD ON OFF button to illuminate the OSD The...

Page 9: ...Multicast Multicast is especially useful for use cases that require a single source to be received on multiple receivers simulta neously Utilising Muliticast offloads the distribution of the NDI A V data packets from the BirdDog Flex 4K to the network infrastructure You should take care to ensure your network is specifically configured to support Multicast as using it on an ill prepared network ca...

Page 10: ...ered on it defaults to the naming convention as described in the web configuration panel section of this manual It is possible to change the name along with the network settings to better suit your environment Configuration method You can configure your device to operate on the network with a dynamic DHCP IP address or a fixed address For smaller networks DHCP networking is generally suitable howev...

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