Video

Video

Cameras feed a production switcher, and the program output goes mainly to the live stream — occasionally to the auditorium LED wall, and only rarely to the projectors (which are in the separate Legato/Atrium spaces and generally idle while the auditorium is in use). Config and design revisions are in Video/.

Network

  • VLAN 23, subnet 10.0.23.0/24, DHCP (authoritative) and gateway from IT’s UniFi gateway at 10.0.23.254. See Networks.
  • The rack “engine” gear (Carbonite processor, AJA router) is in the AV room left rack; the operator gear (Carbonite switcher, AJA panel, SKAARHOJ controllers, LG multiview TVs, shader/switcher PCs) is in the video control room.
  • The LG multiview TVs are the exception: they’re on the Control network, not VLAN 23, so AMX can reach them. See LG multiview TVs.

Cameras

The cameras are Sony FX-3 / FX-6 / FX-9 bodies (the PTZ-named positions are on robotic heads). Positions: PTZ left/right (.2/.3), main (.9), dolly (.8) on an eMotimo motion base (.7), stage 1 (.23), and a second stage camera (SonyImagingDevice, .223 — believed Stage-2).

Camera control — SKAARHOJ

  • Blue Pill control server (VIDEO-BLUEPILL, .6, Raspberry-Pi-based) — the brain the panels run against.
  • PTZ Extreme (.15) — the PTZ camera-operator controller.
  • Fly (COLOR-FLY, .14) — the shader-position controller (next to the PTZ Extreme).

Switching, replay, stream

Device Notes
Ross Carbonite engine/processor (.4, AV room left) + switcher surface (.13, control room)
AJA router router hardware (.5, AV room left) + control panel (.12, control room)
Blackmagic HyperDeck (.10) record/replay (switcher desk rack; only one — the “-upper” name is vestigial)
Epiphan Pearl Nano (.11) the live-stream encoder (switcher desk rack). Replaces the old Monarch HDX.
Blackmagic SmartScope (.16) waveform/scope monitor (shader desk rack)
LG multiview TVs multiview monitors at the switcher & shader positions — fed directly from the Carbonite (no separate multiviewer). On the Control network; see below
COLOR-PC (.18) / MIXER-PC (.17) shader and switcher operator PCs (control room)

SDI→fiber converters live Under-Stage Left for camera transport.

LG multiview TVs

Position Model Address Switch port
Switcher LG OLED55B2PUA (2022) 192.168.30.119 Control Room 0/22
Shader LG OLED48C3PUA (2023) 192.168.30.120 Control Room 0/23
  • Both are on the Control network (VLAN 21) with EdgeRouter reservations, so AMX reaches them directly. Companion drives them too, through its video-mixer-display and video-shader-display connections.
  • Control is LG’s Network IP Control: TCP 9761, encrypted with an 8-character keycode generated on each TV. The keycodes are in those Companion connections and in Automation/amx/include/Video.axi. Generating a new keycode on a TV breaks both until they’re updated.
  • Power-on is Wake-on-LAN only. The switcher TV drops off the network entirely within about 3 minutes of being turned off; the shader TV stays reachable in standby. Either comes back in under 2 seconds, but refuses commands for about 4 seconds after waking.
  • Both turn themselves off after 15 minutes without an HDMI signal (LG’s No Signal Power Off), for example while the Carbonite is off.
  • They answer the same IR remote codes, so one press of a remote can switch both.

Where the config lives

Video/ holds the Ross Carbonite / AJA configuration, the Epiphan stream setup, the eMotimo control docs and design revisions. (MonarchHDX_Settings.xml is legacy — the Monarch is gone.) Changes are logged in the Video changelog.