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SA-3G user manual

1. Humidity Recommended 40 to 55 Limits 20 to 80 34 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 35 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com
2. 1 485 Gbps 800mV p p 10 into Out1 Out2 Out3 750 HD SDI cable equalisation At least 100m of Belden 1694A When in 3G mode HD SDI Inputs 1 Input to SMPTE 425M 2 99 Gbps 800mV p p 10 into 750 HD SDI Outputs 3 Outputs to SMPTE 425M Out1 2 99 Gbps 800mV p p 10 into 750 Out2 Out3 33 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com HD SDI cable equalisation At least 80m of Belden 1694A General Ancillary Data Passes all ancillary data in vertical and horizontal blanking except for CRC reclalculation Control Surfaces Option of local or remote FP 9 control panel Chassis FB 9E etherBox 1U enclosure Supported Formats 720x576 50i 720x487 60i 720x507 60i 1280x720 23 98p 1280x720 24p 1280x720 25p 1280x720 29 97p 1280x720 30p 1280x720 50p 1280x720 59 94p 1280x720 60p 1920x1080 23 98p 1920x1080 23 98psf 1920x1080 24p 1920x1080 24psf 1920x1080 25p 1920x1080 50i 1920x1080 29 97p 1920x1080 59 94i 1920x1080 30p 1920x1080 60i 1920x8080 50p 1920x8080 60p Delay lt 10us Power Supply 100 240v AG Less than 50W power consumption with 6 SA 3G units installed FB 9E Dimension Width 442mm Height 44mm Depth 300mm Weight lt 3Kg Temperature lt 25 C ambient lt 55 C internal
3. M 3 5 Saving the User Preset In this case the user will store the current configuration of cursors into the current default named USER MEM 16 625 Now using digipot B move the cursor over the YES and press the digipot until it clicks A new screen will appear enabling you to name the preset as below IL eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com OMB DEPGHIJOKI ARV d MEM iG 625 3 6 Naming the User Preset To name the user preset use digipot B to move the roving cursor over any character on the two top lines of this form and Press Digipot B This will enter a character into the user name under the static cursor To move the static cursor simply move the roving cursor over the NAME section of the form and Press Digipot B Once the user has named the preset select the roving cursor over the text END in the form and press digipot B 3 2 5 Hiding safe areas in the safe area On Screen Menu Because of the quantity of the cursors in some line standards for example in 625 there are at the time of writing 42 cursors that can be selected It is often desirable to hide cursors which the user either never or very rarely uses To do this Press the following sequence from the top menu on the LCD buttons Special Screen Utils gt M
4. Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Menus 32 35 Menus User Controls Menu Num 35 Heading YES I want to doa factory reset BACK Function This will Start a factory Reset of the unit This will Wipe ALL Cages and Settings that may have been previously set up Only do this if you are setting up from scratch or there is a problem with your unit Go To Menus 28 Menus 36 39 Menus User Controls Menu Num 36 Heading Upgrade Software Software Version Resets BACK Function Pressing this will take you to the Software Upgrade last chance menu Go To Menu 40 This window displays the software version Pressing this will take you to the Reset Options Go To Menu 28 Go to Menu 20 Menus 40 43 Menus User Controls 20 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Menu Num Heading 40 41 42 YES I want to start a software upgrade 43 BACK Function This will Start a software upgrade of the unit You will need to follow the instructions in the etherbox FB 9E manual or the Flasher User Manual to correctly perform this procedure This will Wipe ALL Logos and Settings
5. menu to select a colour for the 0 7 selected cage White Yellow Cyan Green Magenta Red Blue Black 70 Centre Use this menu to select whether the 0 1 centre marker of the cage is to be Off displayed On 71 Back Go to Menu 60 Menus 72 75 Menus Cage 3 Menu Num Heading Function Style 0 5 Use this menu to select the desired Off cage style Off is not selectable Dash 1 manually Dash 2 Thick Thin Solid 73 Use this menu to select a colour for the selected cage Colour 0 7 White Yellow Cyan Green Magenta Red Blue Black 74 Centre Use this menu to select whether the DA eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 0 1 centre marker of the cage is to be Off displayed On 75 Back Go to Menu 60 to Menu 60 Menus 64 67 Menus user box Menu Num Heading Function Style 0 5 Use this menu to select the desired Off cage style Off is not selectable Dash 1 manually Dash 2 Thick Thin Solid 77 Colour Use this menu to select a colour for the 0 7 selected cage White Yellow Cyan Green Magenta Red Blue Black 78 79 Back Go to Menu 60 Menus 80 83 Menus user box Menu Num Heading Function 80 Off 0 This switches the circle on and off On 1 25 eyeheight
6. that may have been previously set up The unit MUST be installed in an FB 9E to perform an upgrade Go to Menu 36 Menus 48 51 Menus Input Status Menu Num Heading 48 Mode 0 4 SMPTE 352 MANUAL 49 Link If in MANUAL mode 0 1 Single Dual 50 Resolution 51 Back Function This Menu allows you to select whether Link Colour Mode Bit Depth and Dynamic Range will be interpreted from the SMPTE 352 packet or set manually by the operator NOT ADJUSTABLE IN SINGLE LINK This menu allows you to select Single or Dual Link Mode if Menu 60 is set to MANUAL Will indicate the link mode if SMPTE 352 packets are being received NOT ADJUSTABLE IN SINGLE LINK This menu displays the Horizontal and Vertical resolution of the detected video standard Press this button to take you back to Menus 04 07 Press the NEXT button to take you to Menu 20 DI eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Menus 56 59 On Screen Text setup for Aspect Ratio User Box Display Menu Num Heading Function 56 Onscreen If the user box is on this menu Text allows the text size to be altered 0 1 Off On 57 58 Denominator Ifthe user box is on this menu 1 15 allows the denominator to be chosen 59 Back Go to Menu 16 Menus 60 63 Cursor Type Parameters
7. wiss 31 5 1 3 RS232 Interface aaa 31 5 2 CageUploader Software uuuuussssnsssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 32 5 2 1 Connecting CageuU PlOaG Gh ccc cncccccessseiisnctcniaespseiessineeteceipeginsebauncetiens 32 3 2 2 Defining NOW CUISONS unseren 32 5 2 3 Defining New video standards rnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne 33 5 2 4 Upload Download Saving Loading 244444440nnnnn nennen 33 5 3 Technical Specification usage 33 4 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Table of Figures Figure 1 1 Front view of etherBox FB 9E fitted with FF 9 blank panel 6 pr FP 9 flexiPanel can be fitted on the FB 9E or remotely using an er EEE EE NE EE NE NR Figure 2 1 Connections to the SA 3G rrrnnnnnnnnnvrnnnnrrrrrnnnnnnnnrrnnnnrrrnnnenennsrrrnnnnnnn 7 Figure 3 1 flexiPanel FP 9 controls onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 8 Figure 3 2 Types of menus showing their characteristic colours 8 3 3 OSD User Preset Selection ernnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnne 10 3 4 OSD Preset Cursor Selection rrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnrrrrrrnvrrrrnnnnnnnrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnee 1098 3 5 Saving the User Preset euere nel 11 3 6 Nami
8. 100 Box This is the left box side position Left 101 Box This is the right box side position Right 102 Box This is the top box side position Top 103 Box This is the bottom box side position Bottom Menus 104 107 Menus User Control Menu Num Heading Function 104 Box H This is the left box side position Offset Box V This is the right box side position Offset 106 107 Oo back to menu 96 28 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Menus 108 111 Menus User Control Menu Num Heading Function 108 Hide List List of hhidden safe areas See Hiding safe areas in the safe area On Screen Menu 109 l 110 111 Back Go back to menu 96 29 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 5 Technical Appendix 51 GPI Tally RS232 technical information The Processor card has an RJ 45 connector with GPI Tally and RS232 connections as shown below 1 GPI 1 White Orange 2 GPI 2 Orange 3 GPI 3 White Green 4 GND Blue 5 RS232 TX White Blue 6 RS232 RX Green 7 Not Used White Brown 8 Tally open Brown collector Table 3 GPI Tally and RS232 pin out on RJ 45 5 1 1 GPI Inputs
9. 100 email eesales eyeheight com as cage 123 to find a Spare location to define a new safe area You next need to select the video standard that the sake area is defined in You can then name the safe area and define the Pixel and line numbers in progressive format 5 2 3 Defining New video standards The SA 3G unit is ready for emerging line standards and it is possible to define a new line standard if the situation arises Select Edit gt Add Edit Video Standard Scrolling through the standards you will see the ones already defined Scroll to the next Blank to add a new video standard 5 2 4 Upload Download Saving Loading Under the File menu you can Open either from a computer file or from a device device meaning uploading the current safe areas stored in an SA 3G unit Similarly you can save the current set of safe areas to a file or to a device device meaning downloading the safe areas to an SA 3G 5 3 Technical Specification When in SDI mode SDI Inputs 1 Inputto SMPTE 259M 270 Mbps 800mV p p 10 into 750 Link A In Link B In SDI Outputs 3 Outputs to SMPTE 259M 270 Mbps 800mV p p 10 into 750 Out1 Out2 Out3 SDI cable equalisation At least 200m of PSF 1 3 Return loss better than 18dB 5 MHz 270 Mhz When in HD SDI mode HD SDI Inputs 1 Input to SMPTE 292M 1 845 Gbps 800mV p p 10 into 750 HD SDI Outputs 3 Outputs to SMPTE 292M Link A
10. 2 Indicate that no cages are being displayed The operation of these is explained in the table below Table 2 On Board Tally settings Tally Meaning State ON 0 A cage is being displayed OFF 1 No cages are being displayed 0 Transistor ON shorting to ground 1 Transistor OFF open 3 4 3 Configuring tallies on the etherBox The SA 3G can also make use of the three configurable tallies on the etherBox chassis The etherBox chassis has three usable tallies These are 11 12 and 13 Set up these menus for the box number and tally number for channel A and channel B If you do not wish to use a tally set the box number to 0 Refer to the etherBox man 15 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 4 The SA 3G Menu Set The following set of menus defines the operational controls of the SA 3G Menus 00 03 Top Level Menus Menu Num Heading Function 0 On Off This setting switches the cursor display on and off 1 Select This action is explained in detail in User section Primary safe area generator Memories control and OSD On Screen Menu 2 Cursor This action is explained in detail in Selection section Primary safe area generator control and OSD On Screen Menu 3 Special Press this button to take you to the Screen menu 04 This is where all th
11. Colour Style Menu Num Heading Function 63 1 Cursor This takes you to the parameters for the first cursor menu 64 64 2 Cursor This takes you to the parameters for the second cursor menu 68 65 3 Cursor This takes you to the parameters for the third cursor menu 72 66 User Box This takes you to the parameters for the user box menu 76 Pe eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Menus 64 67 Menus Cage 1 Menu Num Heading Function Style 0 5 Use this menu to select the desired Off cage style Off is not selectable Dash 1 manually Dash 2 Thick Thin Solid 65 Use this menu to select a colour for the selected cage Colour 0 7 White Yellow Cyan Green Magenta Red Blue Black 66 Use this menu to select whether the centre marker of the cage is to be displayed 67 Back Go to Menu 60 Menus 68 71 Menus Cage 2 Menu Num Heading Function Style 0 5 Use this menu to select the desired Off cage style Off is not selectable Dash 1 manually Dash 2 Thick 23 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Colour Use this
12. Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 2 Installation This unit requires HD SDI SD SDI or 3G digital video connections to the BNC connectors Optionally RS232 GPl s and a Tally may also be connected normally using CAT5e cable The user should refer to the etherBox user manual for installation of the SA 3G into a chassis and connection of flexiPanels FP 9 This will also describe the process of acquiring a processing card in this case the SA 3G by the flexiPanel which is necessary to access the menu structure within the SA 3G O Figure 2 1 Connections to the SA 3G See Section 5 1 for details of the GPI Tally RS 232 pinout 7 x eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 3 Operation All geNETics products are controlled using a generic menu system This generic menu system is operated from a generic panel flexiPanel FP 9 or FP IO An FP 9 is shown below An FP IO has the same controls in a different layout style For information about acquiring processor cards for control on a flexiPanel see the etherBox manual section 4 The SA 3G card differs slightly from the generic operation in order to allow for simple use of the OSD menus however These differences are explained in section Primary
13. ORE gt MORE gt MORE gt Setup OSD The above menu should be displayed along with an on screen display In this case now to HIDE a cursor select the cursor using digipot A and the Press digipot A until it clicks An X le eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 3 3 Special purpose cursor generator control The special purpose cursor provides real time user configurable safe area text height measurement pixel strobe cursor functionality and onscreen aspect ratio information The special purpose cursor layer is composited on top of the primary safe area layers 3 3 1 Text height measurement Pressing the first button or adjusting digi pot 1 will toggle the visibility of the text height measurement cursor If another special purpose cursor is being displayed it will be removed The text height measurement cursor displays a horizontal opaque stripe across the full width of the image The Adjust menu is red to indicate that it is an unopened nested menu Pressing the Adjust menu will open it the Adjust menu will turn green and the first TEXT HEIGHT menu will go red The A value can no be adjusted using the first digi pot and the B value can be adjusted using the second Align the top and bottom of the opaque band with the top and bottom of the te
14. USER GPIINPIT TO GPI PROCESSOR Figure 5 1 Typical GPI Input GPI s are normally activated by a short to ground The GPI has its own internal pull up resistor If the user is interfacing with logic then e Vhigh 12V gt Vin gt 3V e Vlow 0 3V gt Vin gt 0V 30 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 5 1 2 Tally Output iS 2 3 a O cc w o 3 TALLY PROCESSOR Figure 5 2 Tally Output The user Tally Output is an open collector transistor The drain should be lt 200mA An electro mechanical relay can be operated by this as shown in the example below USER SUPPLIED 5 TO 12V lt USER RELAY CONTACTS RL1 G2R 14 AC120 USER RELAY CONTACTS TO GROUND PIN TO USER TALLY PIN 8 Figure 5 3 Tally interface to relay 5 1 3 RS232 Interface This loosely follows the pin convention of EIA 561 which is a standard for RS232 on an RJ45 cable Only TX RX and Signal ground pin 4 are implemented For the SA 3G the following RS232 parameters apply e 115Kbaud e 8 Bits no parity e 1 Stop bit 3l eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 5 2CageUploader Software The CageUpl
15. Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com H and V position Radius Back Horizontal and vertical position of the circle Adjust the radius of the circle Go to Menu 12 Menus 84 87 Menus User Controls Menu Num 84 Heading Text Height 0 1 OFF ON Text Top Bottom Text Height Back Function Use this menu to turn the text height reference lines on or off Use this menu to select the desired position of the top and bottom reference lines Position the top line to the top of the text to be measured and the bottom line to the bottom of the text This menu shows the height of the text the distance between the top and bottom reference lines in Video Lines Press this button to take you back to Menu 8 Menus 88 91 Menus User Controls Menu Num 88 Heading Cursor 0 1 OFF ON Function This Menu allows you to select whether Strobe will be off or on The strobe can be used to locate the line and pixel position of a position on the screen E6 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 89 Adjust 90 Blank 91 Back This menu allows yo
16. aspect ratio of the user box when viewed in standard aspect ratio 4 3 and widescreen aspect ratio 16 9 For HD signals only the W value is active 3 3 5 Circle This will operate the circle generator These menus enable the circle to be switched on and off The position can be adjusted by the Circle H amp V menus and the radius by the Circle Radius menu 14 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 3 4 GPI Tally Set up 3 4 1 On Board GPI s The SA 3G is a geNETics product The geNETics system uses generic Input Output cards which have 3 GPI s and one Tally output These have been used in this system as opportunistic GPI s which may be of use to the user They do not provide a comprehensive GPI control but may be used as part of a GPI solution in conjunction with the GPI s on the etherBox The operation of the two GPI s used is explained in the table below Table 1 On Board GPI settings GPI1 GPI2 GPI3 Effect OFF 1 1 1 The GPI s have no effect Master Hide 0 1 1 All cages will be hidden Master Show 1 0 1 Selected cages will be displayed 0 Short to ground or logic OV 1 Pulled up internally or logic 3 gt 12V 3 4 2 On Board Tally The single tally output has two modes 1 Indicate that one or more cages are being displayed
17. atford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com To select a safe area move the on screen cursor to the appropriate safe area and the PUSH the digipot in until it clicks This will then activate the selected safe area and display it on screen A star will be shown beside the selected safe area Up to 3 different safe areas can be selected on the screen Pressing the digipot C on a cursor already selected will de select that cursor Trying to select a 4 cursor when 3 have already been selected will deselect the cursor that was last selected and select the new one The user can still select another cursor feature by pressing LCD button D and selecting one of the many Special Screen Utils such as a user box circle cross hairs and so on 3 2 4 Saving a new user preset Once the user has selected a cursor or set of cursors and possibly a special screen utility this configuration can be stored in a user memory User memories depend on the line standard of the input signal and there are 16 user memories for each of the four basic line standards 525 625 1080 720 To save a configuration as a user preset select the memory you wish to store this under by selecting with digipot B and then press LCD Button B The screen will change as below EK JPUUUUDUUU 1 4 M M M M M 4 M M M
18. e other Utils cursor utilities reside Pressing the NEXT button while the Top Level Menus are displayed will take you to menus 04 07 Menus 04 07 Menus Menu Num Heading Function 4 Box Press this button to take you to the User Box menus User definable cage I6 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Go To Menu 96 5 Strobe Press this button to take you to the Strobe menus Go To Menu 92 6 More Takes you to menu 8 7 Back Back to top menu Menus 08 11 Menus Cage Menu Num Heading Function 8 Cross This takes you to the centralised dual Hair cross hair system menu 88 9 Text This takes you to the text height Height measurement system menu 84 6 More Takes you to menu 12 7 Back Back to menu 4 Menus 12 15 Menus Cage 1 Menu Num Heading Function 12 Circle Sends you to the circle utility Menu 80 13 Setup Sends you to the general setup utility Menu 16 14 OSD Sends you to the OSD setup utility for Setup hiding cursors 17 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 15 Back Press this button to take you back to menu 8 Menus 16 19 Menus Cage 2 Menu Num Heading Fu
19. eyeheight NG SA 3G SD HD 3G safe area generator user manual User Manual Versions Versions Changes Date S W Ver 0 02 Provisional Version 27 02 08 1 00 First Released Version 21 04 08 1 6 1 10 Moveable user Box and Onscreen aspect ratio calculation added 17 06 09 2 10 1 20 Changed Title Expanded section on cage uploader 28 9 09 2 11 1 30 Change to new single piece 3G compatible hardware 04 06 10 2 11 1 40 Change to SA 3G on screen menu operation 02 04 12 3 00 1 50 Change to new SD HD 3G version 05 07 12 4 00 2 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Table of Contents 1 System NENNE see 6 1 1 The SA 3G PO net nee ee 6 1 2 Associated Equipment for the SA 3G 222444ssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn 6 2 MENN 7 Se US EE ee es 8 3 1 General flexiPanel control rnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 8 8 1 1 Device be 8 3 1 2 Men Navigator ee ee 8 3 1 3 Parameter adjustment of a green menu 22444ssnnnnnnnn nennen 9 3 1 4 Parameter adjustment of a red menu 224444400nnnnnnnn nennen 9 23 1 5 Information displ y rsen eu 9 3 2 Primary safe area generator control and OSD On Screen Menu 9 3 2 1 Safe Area Generator ON OFF
20. is only one adjustable parameter There are two ways to adjust the parameter in a green menu 1 Press the green LCD button This will increment the value in that window This is most frequently done when the menu parameter is Textural for example switching a parameter between ON and OFF In this case a button press is most natural 2 Use the Rotary digipot A B C or D to adjust the parameter in the respective LCD window A B C or D The direction and speed of rotation enable numeric values to be set easily 3 1 4 Parameter adjustment of a red menu A red menu is one in which there is two or three adjustable parameters In this case it is necessary to first select the menu by pressing the red button When the red button is pressed it will turn green and either two or three of the rotary digipot LEDS will flash indicating that the respective rotary digipot will operate the respective parameter 3 1 5 Information display A Yellow menu Which on most panels does look a light orange is one in which only information is displayed An example of this is the software version display 3 2Primary safe area generator control and OSD On Screen Menu The top level menu shown below gives direct access to the selection menus for the three primary safe area generators 3 2 1 Safe Area Generator ON OFF The top level menus are in LCD windows A B C and D These correspond to the four digipots labelled A B C and D on the FP 9 panel If the user
21. nction System This takes you to further system menus menu 20 Cursor This takes you to the cursor style setup Style menus menu 60 Box Setup This takes you to the user box configuration menus menu 56 Back Press this button to take you back to Menu 12 Menus 20 23 Menus Cage 2 Menu Num Heading Tally Reset Upgrade Input Function This will take you to the Tally setup menu Menu 24 This will take you to the Rest and software upgrade system menus Menu 36 This takes you to the input type selection Menu 48 18 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 23 Back Press this button to take you back to Menu 16 Menus 24 27 Menus Cage 3 Menu Num Heading Function 24 Cage Tally If a cage is displayed a tally will be set Box 0 16 This menu allows you to select the Tally 0 99 Box and the tally Number that will indicate this 25 26 27 Back Press this button to take you back to Menu 20 Menus 28 31 Menus Cage 3 Menu Num Heading Function 28 Reboot This applies a warm restart to the unit It this unit is the software equivalent of recycling the power 29 Factory Pressing this will take you to the Factory Reset Reset Last Chance menu Go To Menu 44 30 31 BACK Go to Menu 36 19 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House
22. ng the User Presel unse ea aa 12 Figure 5 1 Typical GPI INPUT ee ea 30 Fig re 5 2 Tally OUtP t ass ee 31 Figure 5 3 Tally interface to relay unssesnsnssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn 31 Figure 5 4 Cage Uploader Software uu 222244444400nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 32 B eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com System Overview l I The SA 3G product The SA 3G is a safe area generator designed to operate in SD HD and 3G Formats The unit processes all SD and HD formats and 3G 1080p 50 60 level A The SA 3G can display up to 4 simultaneous safe areas cursors and each safe area cursor has independent controls for style colour and opacity All safe areas have independently controllable centre markers A further graphic generator will generate circles l 2 Associated Equipment for the SA 3G The SA 3G processing card requires the following in order to set up and operate the unit 1 An etherBox chassis FB 9 Up to six SA 3G units and be installed in one chassis 2 A flexiPanel control surface such as an FP 9 or an FP IO etherBox by eyeheight eyeheight Figure 1 2 FP 9 flexiPanel can be fitted on the FB 9E or remotely using an RR S kit 6 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford
23. oader software allows the editing loading capturing addition and deletion of cages However if Factory Reset menu number 96 is performed any changes will be lost as the default cages see section Error Reference source not found will be reloaded Cage Manager File Edit Tools Cages Cage Number p 34 Cage Name 169 Behars S Actn 6 chars 10801 6 chars Video Standard 1080i Horizontal Res 1920 Vertical Res 1080 Top Bottom Left Right Figure 5 4 Cage Uploader Software 5 2 1 Connecting CageUploader You can connect directly to the unit using the RJ 45 connector on the rear of the actual SA 3G card module A specialised cable will be required The connections for this are as follows RJ45 pin number 9W D type Fem pin number 48 5 2 2 Defining New cursors Once connected using this cable run CageUploader Under the Tools gt Comm Port Settings menu select the SA 3G card drop down option and select the correct COM PORT for your computer The NID does not matter Then under Edit select Add Edit Cage At this point you can use the cage number field to step through the current Safe Areas installed You will see a representation of this appear on the right hand side of the application You will need to step as far 32 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256
24. presses LCD A the unit toggles between hiding and showing the cursors SAG ON and SAG OFF 9 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 3 2 2 Selecting a User Preset Moving Digipot B will activate the OSD showing all 16 user presets on the display This is shown below pepepepe u u u un u de le me md md md me ZTT pl pl lt dd wo ALLL LL LLL ml el ed ped ml md mdr md dt sd md md mlt ES VEN SEN JE I NN NNNNNANNA AF i I FE 5 gt E sE E EF E E E E E EEE TE 3 3 OSD User Preset Selection To select a user preset move the on screen cursor to the appropriate memory and the PUSH the digipot in until it clicks A star will be shown beside the selected memory 3 2 3 Selecting a Preset Safe Area To select a preset safe area move digipot C This will activate the OSD showing allthe safe areas appropriate for the input line standard These will depend upon the line standard that is currently input Only 20 cursors are shown on each form If there are more cursors simply scroll down and more will appear An example of this is shown below _ nn SO ab ab pe gt u gt P p lt Y gt gt gt F 4 4 3 4 OSD Preset Cursor Selection 10 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House W
25. rnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne 9 3 2 2 Selecting a User Preset 222244400000n44nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 10 3 2 3 Selecting a Preset Safe Area uuuusssssnsnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 10 3 2 4 Saving new user preset unse 11 3 2 5 Hiding safe areas in the safe area On Screen Menu 12 3 3 Special purpose cursor generator control rrrrrrrrrrrrvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnr 13 3 3 1 Text height measurement 0uss444nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 13 33 2 User BOX EE EE ee EEE 13 3 33 DI 0DE EEE ee 14 GJE NE si ciisase ok 14 GE EG 0 MRSSNIRENDEUDDERIBERERENEIEUEREBERBEEETSTEUETHBERLOEESESTTURTEURTCHERERRTEUETEURTETEPERERLOER 14 34 SPT Sep ossounssoaauasnesasanusesuenianeeouneanees 15 3 4 1 On Board GP Sa samsmabesdsidndtndejedeadeadnadgedesedenedeaddseddadeldgedr 15 34 2 OB TN essen aa 15 3 4 3 Configuring tallies on the etherBox 224440snnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnn 15 4 Ihe SAG Menu Seh nenne 16 5 Technical Appendix sei sact anedecioewetid i anahanoeaiosdetadbdaanopedanaeibdaaodabnsenedebbdaantadadahoet 30 5 1 GPI Tally RS232 technical information cccceeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeees 30 ST TT EP PIE pre 30 3 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 5 1 2 Tally Output
26. safe area generator control below 3 1 General flexiPanel control Device Buttons with LEDS are used to switch from one processing card to NEXT menu Button eyeheight PS2 Keyboard PREV menu Menu Windows Button Gunder Rotory Digipots A B C D display 4 A B C D with LEDS menus at a time These are used to Each menu can have change parameters in up to 3 parameters the menu windows Figure 3 1 flexiPanel FP 9 controls 3 1 1 Device buttons There are 8 grey device buttons These switch between the currently selected processing cards installed in the etherBox It is also possible to select cards in another chassis if the I Bus is connected to the other chassis 3 1 2 Menu navigation There are two ways to navigate from menu to menu 1 Using the NEXT ane PREV buttons These are for Flat menu structures The NEXT and PREV LEDS will flash while further menus are available 2 Using a GOTO ANOTHER MENU LCD button as below coloured orange This is more common and will take you straight to a relevant set of menus Examples are the Play and UTILS menu s shown on Figure 8 Figure 3 2 Types of menus showing their characteristic colours 8 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 3 1 3 Parameter adjustment of a green menu A green menu is one in which there
27. u to position the line position of the strobe This menu allows you to position the pixel position of the strobe Press this button to take you back to Menu 8 Menus 92 95 Menus User Controls Menu Num Heading Function 92 Strobe This Menu allows you to select whether 0 1 Strobe will be off or on OFF The strobe can be used to locate the ON line and pixel position of a position on the screen 93 Line This menu allows you to position the line position of the strobe 94 Pixel This menu allows you to position the pixel position of the strobe 95 Back Press this button to take you back to Menu 4 Menus 96 99 Menus User Controls Menu Num Heading Function 96 BoxOff This menu switches the Box on and off BoxOn There is also an option for the box on BoxOn with a centre cross 97 Box Size Go to the Box Size menus menu 100 98 Box Go to the Box Position menus menu eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com 27 Position 104 00 Back Press this button to take you back to Menu 4 Menus 100 103 Menus User Control Menu Num Heading Function
28. xt to be measured and read of the text height in lines from the third menu The Adjust menu can be closed by pressing any of the menu buttons 3 3 2 User Box o 13 eyeheight Unit 34 Park House Watford Business Park Greenhill Crescent Watford Herts GB WD18 8PH Reg No 2855535 Telephone 44 0 1923 256 000 Fax 44 0 1923 256 100 email eesales eyeheight com Pressing the first menu button or adjusting digi pot 1 will toggle the user box display through Off On and On which displays the user box and its centre marker If another special purpose cursor is in use it will be removed The W and S values indicate the aspect ratio of the user box when viewed in standard aspect ratio 4 3 and widescreen aspect ratio 16 9 For HD signals only the W value is active The position and size of the user box can be adjusted by accessing the box size and box pos menus 3 3 3 Strobe Pressing the first menu button or adjusting digi pot 1 will toggle the strobe on and off If another special purpose cursor is being displayed it will be removed The selected line and pixel can be adjusted using digi pots 2 and 3 3 3 4 Cursor Pressing the first menu button or adjusting digi pot 1 will toggle the cursor on and off If another special purpose cursor is being displayed it will be removed The width and height of the cursor can be adjusted by opening the Adjust menu and using digi pot 1 and 2 The W and S values indicate the

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