Make any Q-SYS room a broadcast studio

Improve your Q-SYS space with Epiphan Pearl hardware systems, the industry-standard for capturing, enhancing, streaming, and recording video content.

Get more out of your Q-SYS space

Q-SYS is a control platform that brings incredible possibilities for room management and automation. Pearl turns any Q-SYS room into a studio that enables professional video capture, enhancement, streaming, and recording to deliver broadcast quality video anywhere.

Together, Q-SYS and Pearl enable automated video capture and streaming from classrooms, lecture halls, or meeting rooms.

Q-SYS managed plugin for easy integration

Using the Epiphan Pearl plugin, Q-SYS users can easily control and automate their Pearl:

  • Monitor all audio and video inputs
  • Start and stop recordings and livestreams
  • Switch layouts
  • Manage multiple channels independently

The controls in the Epiphan Pearl plugin can be automated through control pins or scripting, and can be dragged onto a Q-SYS UCI to streamline live or recorded events.

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Meet the Pearl family

The smartest, edge hardware devices for video capture, enhancement, streaming, and recording. Pearls simplify lecture capture, live events, one-button studios, and more for hundreds of companies and universities across the world.

  • Pearl Nexus for Q-sys

Connect any video source

Capture video from HDMI, SDI, and USB sources, including cameras, mixers, computers, or any other Q-SYS peripheral. Plus, bring in networked sources, like SRT and NDI.

Capture professional audio

Capture audio in high-quality directly from your room system. Mix embedded audio from SDI, HDMI, or USB video sources with audio from XLR microphones or mixers with individual input gain controls.

Versatile streaming to any CDN

Pearl is a live streaming powerhouse, capable of streaming to multiple content delivery networks at the same time, using SRT, RTMP, RTMPS, HLS, RTSP over TCP/UDP, MPEG-TS, or FLV. Multicast live training directly to viewers on your local network with MPEG-TS UDP, MPEG-TS RTP/UDP, or RTP/UDP.

Flexible recording and file management

Record everything – all connected sources, and switched programs. Pearl records to local storage (internal, USB, network-attached) and can automatically send your files to cloud based servers like Google Drive.

IT friendly and secure

Easily add Pearl encoders to any network and prevent unauthorized access with security features including DHCP and LDAP support, role-based access control, 802.1x network access control, and SSL.

Robust CMS integrations

Pearl encoders are fully integrated with Kaltura, Panopto, Opencast, and Yuja video platforms, creating opportunities to automate your video content even further.

Built for Pro AV

Built for ultimate flexibility, Pearl systems capture, enhance, stream, and record to deliver broadcast quality video anywhere.

  • Epiphan Pearl Nexus

    Pearl Nexus is the most flexible recording and streaming appliance for automating video in any space.

  • Q-sys streaming encoder Pearl Mini

    Epiphan Pearl Mini

    Pearl Mini offers the same all-in-one video production functionality as Pearl-2 in a more portable chassis with a giant touch screen for maximum ease of use.

  • Q-sys streaming encoder Pearl Nano

    Epiphan Pearl Nano

    Pearl Nano is ideal for small-scale live events and SRT contribution encoding, and as a streamer and recorder add-on to an existing production setup.

  • Pearl-2: All-in-one video production system

    Epiphan Pearl-2

    Pearl-2 brings the pro features and processing horsepower required for the most demanding live events.

Pearl family

Discover the power of Pearl

Epiphan Pearl systems simplify video – supported with smart cloud tools and an even smarter support team

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