Wondering how to live stream a 4K video production?
By Jim Bask
The answer is here with Pearl-2.
This morning, in a Facebook live stream, we made a huge announcement: we’re launching our new all-in-one live video production system, Pearl-2. Pearl-2 builds on all the things you love about Pearl and gives you the ability to produce, switch and live stream 4K video. That’s right, a full 4K video production workflow!
Let’s get straight to some pictures, since that’s always the best part of new product announcements!
If you’re familiar with Pearl, the front of Pearl-2 will look pretty familiar to you, but you’re no doubt noticing the sleek, industrial makeover. Like Pearl, Pearl-2 has a touch screen display to control streaming and recording, do simple configuration tasks and acts as both a video monitor and live switching controller. And yes, that nice bright blue opening is exactly what you think it is, a USB 3.0 port for high speed file transfer!
Now for the more interesting (in my opinion) photo – the back!
Here, there are some major changes since Pearl’s launch a little more than two years ago. I’m really proud to say that we’ve improved or augmented nearly every aspect over Pearl. And each one of these changes are the result of feature requests from customers. Of course, there’s the stuff you can’t see, like the state of the art Intel 6thgeneration i7 processor, but let’s take a look at the ones we can see.
At the top left are four professional XLR audio ports. These ports have built-in audio attenuation and are calibrated for +4 dBu signals with 20 dB of headroom. To the right of the XLR ports are a set of left/right RCA ports. These can be used instead of the right-most XLR ports and support consumer line-level audio. They are calibrated for -10 dBV and have 15 dB of headroom.
Below the audio ports are the video input ports. Two HDMI ports, two 4K HDMI ports and two 12G SDI ports that support 12G SDI, 6G SDI, 3G SDI, HD SDI and SD SDI. (The 4K ports support 4K UHD and 4K DCI). You can use all six of these video ports simultaneously for HD, or two at 4K and two at HD. Pearl-2’s video encoder can output six simultaneous HD channels or one at 4K UHD…[continue reading]