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Welcome to your new Cablecast system! To help you get started quickly and easily, we’ve gathered all our most essential resources for new users in one convenient place. From step-by-step guides to helpful tips, everything you need to hit the ground running is right at your fingertips. Explore, learn, and get up to speed with confidence!

Guide for Timesync in VIO servers with Cablecast 7+

We've put all of our KB articles and information about getting started with CablecastCG in one, easy-to-find place.

The Cablecast Schedule uses icons to show status and settings for scheduled items. This article explains what each icon means so you can quickly understand what’s happening in your schedule.

Restarting Cablecast Video Server Engine

In this article, we'll do a high-level overview of the basics you'll need to know to get started with Cablecast as a new user.

How to use Mirrored Outputs

If you're using one of our free CablecastCG channel templates or maybe even creating your own custom CablecastCG Channel, you might want to upload your own seamless background. This article details how to do so in Cablecast as well as highlighting some design considerations.

So you're ready to dive into using captioning on your system but you've never used captioning before and don't know where to start in testing/troubleshooting potential issues? This KB article will cover some of the most common issues we've seen customers encounter along with some tips for testing captioning before you dive into using Cablecast Captions with your system.

You may have wondered what happens when you have multiple VODs queued for processing or how the VOD transcode process works in Cablecast. This KB goes over that in more detail.

Hairpinning or NAT Loopbacks

This article goes over the various ways that you can chapter a VOD, both live and with an existing file.

This article goes over the process for customizing a CG channel using one of the existing Cablecast CG templates or creating one from scratch.

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to update the YouTube library using a script and restarting the video server engine if necessary. This process is useful if you're experiencing issues with pulling in YouTube feeds, such as video with no audio or not receiving any content from a YouTube live feed that is confirmed to be working.

In Cablecast 7.5, file naming conventions have changed slightly from previous versions of Cablecast.