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Here's a small guide about how I connected the Roland VR-3 to my news studio for Eagle News.

by Jim Meta

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Get your cameras and connect the camera using the video out. You will only connect VIDEO OUT.

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Here's a camera connected to video input 1.

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Your DVD Player will be connected to video Input 2 in the Video mixer. You will connect the RCA (red, white and yellow) cables to the video mixer.

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In you tv, you will connect a video cable to the video output on the mixer. This is your preview. It's the 2nd output. The first video output will go to the wall for viewing throughout school.

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This is my computer in newsroom. Several tasks happen here. I record the news here using QuickTime. The video mixer is connected with USB. I also run the pledge and video projects through computer.

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The computer is connected via VGA to mixer and the USB is connected to record news. Using QuickTime to record and play videos works very well.

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This is my computer audio out to the video mixer. You want to connect to audio input 7/8 on back of mixer.

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Here is the Samson audio mixer. All microphones go through this. I have three XLR microphones connected in inputs 1-3. I then have the main mix XLR cables connected to mics 1-2 on the video mixer.

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Microphone connection video.

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The main mix XLR cords are connected to audio inputs 1-2 on the Roland video mixer.

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Use the level knob to control volume of mic 3. This is the volume of my "live" reporter.

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Use the sliders on 1-2 to control all microphones connected to Samson audio mixer.

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This is the Audio setup part of the mixer. Here's my setup. 1-2 all mics connected through the Samson. 5-6 is my DVD player. 7-8 is the computer. Remember to always have the master volume up.

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This is the. Headphone jack connected to the front of the video mixer.

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Input connections to the Video mixer. The blue connector is the comp. video input(VGA), 3 other video inputs are 1-cam(1), 2-DVD player & 3-cam(2). For audio, the DVD is 5/6 and CPU is 7/8.

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These are the video and audio outputs. Video output 1 and the red/white outputs go out to the wall for the school to watch. The 2 other video outs are multi-view and output preview.

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The black button is power for the VR-3. The next cord is the power cord and the video stream is a USB cord that connects to your computer for recording. This is how I get the news to Schooltube.

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