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Important: Before Installation

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Applications from All ToolsOnAir applications are provided as a Apple-compliant disk image images (.DMG format). To open the disk image, the Security settings of the system must may need to be changedadjusted.

  1. Open the System Preferences.

  2. Go to Security & Privacy.

  3. Click on the General tab.

  4. Unlock the Preference Pane.

  5. Change the setting to allow apps downloaded from App Store and identified developers.

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  1. Drag the Just Playout folder from the disk image to the Applications folder. This will install all relevant playout software applications.

  2. Eject the disk image afterwards (Command-E).

  3. Open a Finder window and navigate to the Just Playout folder inside your Applications folder.

    • Just Out provides the final output (Virtual, SDI or NDI stream). It renders the frames in realtime either on the host GPU (Graphics) or CPU (video file decoding) and should never be quit during playout operations. For more information, please visit: [v5] 8. Just Out (v.5.x)

    • Just Connect acts like a database by receiving and distributing all the information related to a playout channel. It interconnects to all Just Out engine(s) and Just Control user interface(s) which are related to a particular channel managed by Just Connect. For more information, please visit: [v5] 9. Just Connect (v.5.x)

    • Just Control is the unified user interface for all ToolsOnAir applications. During the setup, the administrator can define which one of the two available solutions/user interfaces namely just:live or just:play should be used for a certain channel. For more information about the just:live interface, please visit: [v5] just:live v.4 5 User Interface Manual

  4. Add the applications Just Out, Just Connect and Just Control to your Dock.

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To perform an easy and straightforward starting setup we recommend running Just Out, Just Connect and Just Control on the same machine (Mac). For more information about advanced setups with multiple machines distributed over the network, please refer to the [v5] 6. Setup Variants (v.5.x)

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  1. In Just Connect the Status of the Channel should be Playing, with a Green light.

  2. In Just Live the Buffer should be higher than 50% and the CTI (Current Time Indicator) should be Green. The timecode in the On Air window is showing the actual time.

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