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EasyCast boots 

directly

 into this home screen 

– it is a 

dedicated

 Linux-based appliance. The 

entire 

operating system

 is managed by 

UbiCast and this is a big difference with 
Windows-based lecture capture systems : 
here the user can’t corrupt the system by 
installing updates or any third-party software.

The entire user interface was created from the 
ground up by UbiCast and is optimized for 
touch screens.

Here, the user can :

•

record a new presentation

•

edit and publish existing media

•

(1) press a single button for system wide 
updating from drivers to the deep Linux 
kernel (and consult the new version 
changelog)

Press the (2) Record button to continue.

Home screen

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Summary of Contents for EasyCast Studio

Page 1: ...EasyCast Studio user manual version 2 6 ...

Page 2: ...GUIDE CONTENTS Step 1 Setup cables and connections Step 2 Recording a presentation Step 3 Editing and publishing Step 4 Viewing content Step 5 Advanced settings ...

Page 3: ...Step 1 Setup cables and connections ...

Page 4: ...proximately 10 minutes for a mobile system Setup is identical whether setting up a mobile or fixed EasyCast Studio The data input on the Studio is natively DVI a supplied VGA DVI converter will be necessary if using a VGA cable from the presentation PC to the Studio The use of a power injector enables you to run only one network cable to the IP camera The cable going to the camera should be plugge...

Page 5: ...aming Autocam the camera should be placed min 3 meters away from the presenter ideally in the back of the room in order to cover the entire zone in which the presenter will move Camera Min 3 meters Camera placement for Autocam Stage ...

Page 6: ...Step 2 Recording a presentation ...

Page 7: ...t corrupt the system by installing updates or any third party software The entire user interface was created from the ground up by UbiCast and is optimized for touch screens Here the user can record a new presentation edit and publish existing media 1 press a single button for system wide updating from drivers to the deep Linux kernel and consult the new version changelog Press the 2 Record button...

Page 8: ...n of custom user based profiles For example here we could have just 2 profiles HR and Communications Selecting HR tells the system that it needs to publish the content to a specific location in a specific video format and burn a specific logo into the video The Communications Profile can be entirely different and send the recording into the client s YouTube channel for example This enables the sys...

Page 9: ...o is connected to the Internet specifically to an EasyCast MediaServer allowing LIVE streaming to a portal on www ubicast tv Security is built into the system here if no audio had been found we could not move to the next step avoiding some users to create content with no audio All devices have been found press the 5 Next button to continue Detected peripherals 1 2 3 4 5 ...

Page 10: ... quality Before or during a manned recording the user can enter metadata concerning the recording by tapping 6 This information can also be entered later on of course During a recording a user can also manually add chapters 7 that will assist especially for media trimming for example during a conference press this button when a new speaker starts a talk this will enable to quickly cut out each tal...

Page 11: ...Step 3 Editing and publishing ...

Page 12: ... disk and can hold approximately 500 hours of FullHD content Our previous recording is the media at the top of the list Select it and press the play 1 button for playback Below the video the captured slides will appear as the presenter moved from one slide to the next The first thing we may want to do is trim the recording to take out the first and last few seconds Tap the Trim 2 button to move to...

Page 13: ...ed by pressing the Extract 4 button You can create multiple segments and extract each of them as separate media files data will stay synchronized or merge the multiple segments by pressing the Merge 5 button before pressing Extract Trimming is simplified by the fact that EasyCast creates colored indicators on the timeline corresponding to Microphone ON OFF and Data Connected Disconnected events So...

Page 14: ...econd phase of editing here is related to the Autocam tracking feature in EasyCast The system will automatically reframe the 1080p video we ve created around the presenter for dynamic content Tap the Tracking 1 button Media list Publish application 1 ...

Page 15: ...next step 2 You have already configured the analysis zone red rectangle In this case just press Launch analysis and rendering 2 The system will go back to the Media list and start processing to reframe in this case skip the next 3 steps Note that pressing the Calibrate Autocam 3 button will start a long processing time that will find objects in the room that might look like humans and that should ...

Page 16: ...apes not faces so the suggested analysis zone should just contain the presenter s bust area in this case for example zone number 2 the analysis zone should cover all the space the presenter will be moving around in so define wide areas The default extracted frame s size is defined by the Medium shot zoom factor X You can modify the size of the frame using the and buttons 3 You can also modify the ...

Page 17: ...mage has been found 1 As you do not wish to track this select the rectangle and then the Ignore button The preview image will then be of reduced opacity The same person has been found twice so select the two images 2 and 3 and press Join Press the Apply button to continue to next screen If there is only one person found usually the case simply press the Apply button Autocam setup 3 3 1 2 3 ...

Page 18: ...g from wide angle original video to tracked frame Segments 3 shown in grey are created from one green bar to the next On each segment you can activate disactivate the tracking of detected objects 4 by simply tapping their image modify the zoom level using the default Medium shot or the Custom shot frame size defined in Settings You can manually create and delete segments if you wish to manually ch...

Page 19: ...ight of the video The video used for the media is replaced by the tracked version 2 The original video is always kept so multiple autocam versions can be made Our last editing step is chapters Press the Chapters 3 button to continue Autocam preview and Chapters 1 2 3 ...

Page 20: ...th titles always in the same slide area top center if users place a supplied small chessboard pattern 3 on any part of the slide EasyCast will find this pattern read the title inside a pre defined zone 4 can be modified by drawing a new rectangle using Optical Character Recognition and automatically enter it in the Title 1 zone The slide is thus automatically transformed into a chapter Here you ca...

Page 21: ...nalysis zone analyze and extract To add a logo that will be burnt into the video upon export insert a USB stick containing a JPG PNG TIF or BMP image and tap the Logo settings icon 2 Select the desired image and modify at will the proportion of the video width that the logo should take and placement Prefer the use of large logos they will be downsized You only need to add a logo once for subsequen...

Page 22: ...the export the system will come back to the Media List Icon 1 indicates that the system is processing that media Tap the task manager icon in the top of the screen 2 to view what tasks are being performed Task manager 1 2 1 2 ...

Page 23: ...er Recognition on all slides to extract keywords for search if selected perform Autocam analysis and rendering transcode the video into the video formats indicated in the Profile used Here the Windows Media Video WMV and MP4 formats will enable compatibility with all major Web browsers Safari Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer even version 6 copy the content to the USB stick When tasks are completed...

Page 24: ...Step 4 Viewing content ...

Page 25: ...rowsers are Internet Explorer Chrome Safari not Firefox which requires WebM format not published by default but can be activated The media 2 folder contains captured slides and video MetadataEditor 3 is a Java application will thus run on Windows Mac and Linux that lets the user edit Metadata on the comfort of his her PC You can open this application change the media s Title and click Save The sta...

Page 26: ...hat have been created automatically using the chessboard pattern Click on the Why Linux chapter You can also navigate visually by slide by moving your mouse over the video timeline 4 Go back to the beginning of the video by clicking on the beginning of the timeline Click the Display current slide icon 5 This will show the captured slides in JPEG format This shows how clean the captures are and a v...

Page 27: ...nded for manually entered metadata Click on the Slides 2 tab to view all captured slides A viewer can click on a slide here to scroll to it This is useful if you remember what a slide looked like and want to go back to it Viewing the published Rich Media 2 3 1 2 ...

Page 28: ...will automatically extract all words within all slides and make these words searchable When you type in a word the results are by slide Click on the slide to seek within the video to that specific slide Viewing the published Rich Media 3 3 ...

Page 29: ...Step 5 Advanced settings ...

Page 30: ...reen press the Advanced button on the bottom right corner You arrive on this interface On the top right press the Run Maintenance 1 button When you press this button the system will create an outbound secure SSH connexion to our support servers our engineers are alerted and can connect to the system for system wide remote debugging Please only perform this operation when instructed to do so by Ubi...

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