Note: This is a wiki-post, you can edit it by clicking Edit below
Note 2: this is the first of many guides to come that will explain how to use Casparcg, please contribute with more content and guides
What is CasparCG?
A quote from casparcg.com:
CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs as a layer based real-time compositor. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. And the best, it’s free. Used by most broadcasters in Europe.
It is open-source and mainly developed by SVT, Swedish public service.
CasparCG uses FFMpeg internally and can play & record in many video encodings.
It can output video to BlackMagic Decklink cards, Bluefish cards, NDI, computer screens and some others.
It can also take video as input, transform (rotate, scale, color correct etc) and play it out, or record it to disk.
Explain about the server/client and how it works
The official stable version of CasparCG is currently 2.0.7. There is a beta (2.1) available, and version 2.2 is currently in development.
Downloading the stuff
Links to the downloads
Things you need:
- CasparCG server 2.0.7 is downloaded from http://casparcg.com/download.html, there you’ll also find downloads for various other things if you want CasparCG to use that, like playing Flash-templates, or outputting to NDI
Installation & configuration
short explanation about the config files, media folders, template folders etc…
Playing stuff
todo: Short example of playing an amb
More Guides
todo: add links to more guides here
More resources
The wiki on github has a lot of good resources on the different parts of CasparCG