Blackmagicdesign Smart Remote 4, Operation Manual

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GPIO Pinout
The female GPIO connector on your Ultimatte 12’s rear panel is a DE-15 connector. If you want
to build a cable for your own custom GPI and tally solution, a pinout chart is provided below.
GPIO PIN CONFIGURATION
Signal Input Pins Return Output Pins and Ground Pin
1 = GPI 0 6 = GPI 0 R
2 = GPI 1 7 = GPI 1 R
3 = GPI 2 8 = GPI 2 R
4 = GPI 3 9 = GPI 3 R
5 = GPI 4 10 = GPI 4 R
11 = Tally 12 = Tally R
13 = GPO 14 = GPO R
15 = GND
Monitor Out Settings
This selection will show all the viewing options available. The button name will be changed to
‘return’ which you can press to go back to the previous menu.
Monitor Highlight Level Control
This control adjusts the amount of highlight applied to the image viewed on the monitor output in
the areas where background mattes, garbage mattes, holdout mattes and layer mattes are used.
Monitor Setting Buttons
Matte View Range
The quality of images viewed on video monitors depends on the monitor’s brightness and
contrast setup. In many situations, the detail information in the very dark and very bright
portions of an image is sacrificed so that the rest of the image can have a more pleasant look.
The levels in a matte image cover the whole brightness gamut and most of the matte controls
are adjusted while observing matte levels near the darkest or the brightest end.
For this reason, it is difficult to adjust the matte accurately while looking at a monitor and
observing the darkest and brightest portions of the images.
Enabling the ‘matte view range’ function will raise the black level and reduce the white level of
the matte signal so that detail information in the blackest and whitest sections of the matte can
be viewed accurately on a monitor.
Reducing the range of the matte on the monitor output has no effect on any internal processing
or the signal levels of the matte out.
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