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How to use every part of NWK, from your first event to the last detail.
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Getting started
Install, open and do your first stream.
- System requirements
- Install NWK on Mac
- Install NWK on Windows
- Use the program's Getting started guide
- Get to know the main screen
- Preview and Program: prepare and put on air
- Do your first stream from start to finish
- Make your first recording
- Change the program language
- Arrange the screen: ready-made layouts and your layout
Inputs
Cameras, capture cards, videos, images, NDI®, SRT and more.
- Add an input: the available types
- Add a camera or capture card
- Add a video
- Add an image
- Add a microphone or audio interface
- Add music or a bumper (audio file)
- Add an NDI® source
- Receive video over SRT
- Add color bars, a test signal or a solid color
- Add a web page (YouTube chat, website)
- Open an input's settings
- Adjust an input's color, position, zoom and crop
- Remove a green or blue background (chroma key)
- Correct color with color wheels and a LUT
- Reconnect an input or change the device
- Rename, delete and reorder inputs
- Organize inputs in tabs
- View inputs as a grid or a list
- Warning that the frame rate differs from the project
- Control an input's audio from the thumbnail
Transitions and overlays
Cut, Quick Play, stinger, FTB and the four overlays.
- Take Preview to air with Cut or Quick Play
- Choose the transition type and duration
- Use a stinger (transition animation)
- Fade the screen out with FTB (fade to black)
- Put titles and images on top with overlays F1 to F4
- Run the transition by hand with the T-bar
- Use the keyboard in Preview and Program
- Play, loop and mark in and out points of a video
- Hear Preview or Program in your headphones
Templates and titles
Ready-made layouts, lower thirds, scoreboard and the template editor.
- Start with a ready-made template
- Edit a template: slots, media, crop and background
- Change a template's colors, background, text and style
- Build a template from scratch with grid and snapping
- Create a title or lower third (name and role, ticker, clock)
- Pull live data into a title
- Run a sports scoreboard
- Put inputs on air in sequence with the Playlist
- Use the Scheduling Player
- Plan schedules by day in the Scheduling Player
- View format guides, safe areas and scopes
- Give everything on air a look with the Master LUT
Bible and lyrics
Bible verses and song lyrics on screen.
- Add the Bible and choose the version
- Find a book, chapter, verse or word
- Organize verse schedules and song lists
- Show, remove and advance verses and slides
- Set how long the text stays on screen and advance automatically
- Change the appearance of the Bible and lyrics
- Add and import song lyrics
- Run the lyrics during worship
Audio
Mixer, channels, effects, outputs, headphones and multitrack recording.
- Choose between the Native and the Advanced mixer
- Get to know the audio mixer: tabs and strips
- Turn a channel on or mute it (ON and MUTE)
- Enable or disable an input's audio
- Make audio follow video (AFV)
- Choose what plays in the headphones
- Hear a channel alone in the headphones with PFL
- Build the mixer from the audio interface
- Create, rename or delete a console channel
- Adjust a channel's gain, pan and delay
- Equalize a channel: low cut, 4-band EQ and graphic EQ
- Control dynamics: gate, compressor and limiter
- Use automatic level (AGC) and noise reduction
- Cancel speaker echo in the microphone
- Add reverb and delay with effect sends
- Use Audio Unit plugins on Mac
- Group channels into subgroups
- Use outputs A–E and echo-free return (Master minus…)
- Choose the audio interfaces and outputs
- Measure program loudness in LUFS
- Record each channel to a separate file (multitrack)
- Send audio to Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet (virtual microphone)
- Organize the console: minimize strips, rows and layouts
Streaming and internet
Destinations, networks, vertical and the pre-flight check.
- Set up live streaming
- Add a destination (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch…)
- Edit, turn on, turn off or delete a destination
- Stream over SRT
- Choose the quality of each destination
- Stream to several destinations at the same time
- Stream vertical (9:16) alongside horizontal
- Use more than one internet connection for the stream
- Check everything before going live
- Start and end the stream
- Automatically resume the stream and recording after a crash
- Send the Program over the network with NDI®
- Show the Program on a big screen or another monitor
Recording
Program, ISO per camera and formats.
Operators and guests
Bible, lyrics and audio from the browser; guests by link.
- Let other people run the audio, the Bible and the lyrics from the browser
- Run the audio from another computer or tablet
- Put verses on screen from another computer or phone
- Run song lyrics from another computer or phone
- See and change each operator's PIN
- Operators over the internet: from home or another city
- Put a remote guest on air with CALL
- Use NWK as a camera and microphone in Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet
Shortcuts and automation
Keyboard, triggers, Stream Deck and Bitfocus Companion.
- Use and change the default keyboard shortcuts
- Create your own keyboard shortcuts
- Do something automatically when an input goes on air (triggers)
- Connect the Stream Deck directly over USB
- Choose what each Stream Deck or MIDI button does
- Control NWK from Bitfocus Companion and other panels
- Which functions shortcuts and triggers can run
Projects and settings
Save, open and import projects, and general settings.
License and updates
Free trial, activation, computers and new versions.
Troubleshooting
What to do when something doesn't go as expected.