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Pearl-2 User Guide About automatic channels Auto A and Auto B
Layout example Description
One 4x3 video source in a 16x9 frame with
a green background matte.
To get this look:From the Encoding page
for the channel, make sure that the 16x9
frame size is selected. Then using the
custom layout editor, select a background
color. Add a video source to the layout and
stretch to the full height of the screen,
leaving the background matte visible.
One 4x3 video source and a cropped 16x9
video source together with a background
image. Make sure the background image
has the correct aspect ratio.
To get this look: Upload your background
image (you can do this from the Media
page or the Layouts page for the channel).
Follow the steps from the first 4x3 example
to add the video sources, then use the Crop
tool to crop the second source to a square
aspect ratio.
About automatic channels Auto A and Auto B
To get you started as quickly as possible, Pearl-2 comes pre-configured with two channels: Auto A and Auto B.
Simply plug a source into one of the "A" inputs and a second source into one of the "B" inputs. Pearl-2
automatically configures the channel's frame size to match the source resolution and configures a frame rate
and bit rate. Audio, if present, is automatically added to the channel.
Default audio setup for the auto channels is always as follows:
Video Source Audio Source
SDI SDIAudio
HDMI (DVI) HDMIAudio (no audio for DVI)
USB video USB audio
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