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Manual # 26-6090901-00 / Revision D

ViewMAX – High Performance Down Converter

Features

The ViewMAX provides and offers the following features:

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Broadcast-quality video, output resolution 720 x 484 in NTSC mode, 720 x 575 in PAL mode

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Up to 1600x1200 pixel interlaced or non-interlaced video input

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HDTV (1920x1080 interlaced) video input

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Internal digital signal processing in YCbCr format, 16 bits per pixel

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Automatically syncs to interlaced and non-interlaced input videos

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Built-in DB-15 connectors for PC applications; no external interface devices required for most operations;
includes loop-through on video input

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Flexible control via front panel, RS-232, or RS-485 interfaces

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User-selectable NTSC or PAL output video standards

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User-selectable RGB or Betacam (YUV) output color space formats

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User-selectable Sync on Green

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Optional digital video (D1) output

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Dynamic pan and zoom allows portions of the source video to be selected for conversion

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User-selectable under scan

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Genlockable

outputs

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Internally generated test patterns

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Freeze

frame

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Stores at least 32 user-specified pan, zoom, underscan, and output aspect ratio configurations for
subsequent recall

Summary of Contents for ViewMAX

Page 1: ...INSTALLATION AND OPERATOR S MANUAL ViewMAX ViewMAX DVI ViewMAX PRO ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter Manual 26 6090901 00 Revision D ...

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Page 7: ...__________________ 15 Flicker Filter Menu__________________________________________________________ 16 Configuration Menu_________________________________________________________ 17 Underscan________________________________________________________________ 19 View saved pan zoom underscan and output aspect ratio settings __________________ 19 Saving Views____________________________________________...

Page 8: ...________________________________________________ 30 Vertical Pan_______________________________________________________________ 30 Diagonal Pan______________________________________________________________ 31 Zoom Pan Reset to Full Screen________________________________________________ 31 Chapter 4 RS 232 and RS 485 Interface____________________________________________ 33 Computer Control Via the ...

Page 9: ...Manual 26 6090901 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 1 1 CHAPTER ONE Introduction What you will find in this chapter About the ViewMAX Features Technical Description ...

Page 10: ... the D1 output feature described above ViewMAX allows the user to control all aspects of the video conversion process via user friendly front panel menus or remotely through the RS 232 and RS 485 interfaces Examples of the type of control provided include continuous horizontal and vertical pan zoom in and out adjustable for flicker reduction adjustable under scan edge adjustments brightness contra...

Page 11: ...in DB 15 connectors for PC applications no external interface devices required for most operations includes loop through on video input Flexible control via front panel RS 232 or RS 485 interfaces User selectable NTSC or PAL output video standards User selectable RGB or Betacam YUV output color space formats User selectable Sync on Green Optional digital video D1 output Dynamic pan and zoom allows...

Page 12: ... to allow connection to broadcast or video editing systems The analog RGB input signal can be interlaced or non interlaced After being filtered to prevent aliasing the input signal is digitized ViewMAX has a triple 8 bit analog to digital converter one for each RGB video input channel The sampling frequency of the converters is set to digitize the input at 140MHz which produces a horizontally scal...

Page 13: ...6090901 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 5 2 CHAPTER TWO INSTALLATION What you will find in this chapter Rear Panel Connectors Power Cord Line Voltage Selection Video Input Output Connections ...

Page 14: ...AX is used with 230 volt supplies a UL listed line cord rated for 250 volts at 15 amps must be used This cord will be fitted with a tandem prong type plug Figure 5 2 Tandem Plug La choix de la ligne de voltage se realize automatiquement par I ViewMAX Transformateur Graphique On n apas besoin du controller usager pour la choix de la ligne de voltage Das ViewMAX Gerät mu beim Anschlu an 240V mit ein...

Page 15: ...OP output Depending on the DVI video source a video monitor may be required to be connected to the DVI LOOP connector and be powered on prior to booting the source computer to enable the video source s DVI output ViewMAX only provides for a DVI video loop output Video Output Connections RGB Betacam YUV Video Output Connect the output device to the set of BNC connectors marked R V G Y and B U on th...

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Page 17: ...find in this chapter Power Up Initialization Menu Operation Input Picture Adjustments test patterns off Input Level Adjustments View Saved pan zoom and under scan settings Video and Genlock Input Source ViewMAX PRO only Features System Configuration Menu Output Picture Adjustment test patterns on Zoom and Pan Menu ...

Page 18: ...eo signal or No Input Video The third line contains the input source type Analog RGB IRGB Analog YUV IYUV or DVI the output video standard NTSC or PAL the video blanking standard selected A for Analog D for Digital the output color space ORGB or OYUV and the status of the sync on green SOG displayed if enabled The fourth line indicates FRZ if freeze frame is enabled TPAT if test patterns are enabl...

Page 19: ...tion If test patterns are selected pressing this control button displays the selections used to control the output encoder adjustments If test patterns are not selected pressing this control button displays the selections used to control the input decoder adjustments This key also allows access to the system setup menus TEST PAT If test patterns are OFF pressing this button causes the test pattern...

Page 20: ... generated and the picture adjust menu is not being displayed pressing the PICT ADJ hot key will display the above menu on the VFD display Turn the knob to select the desired function and press SEL to activate the control function Press ESC or press the PICT ADJ key again to exit the picture adjust menu and return to the system status display Pressing another hot key will also exit the picture adj...

Page 21: ...ent menu Right and left edges are adjusted in pixels top and bottom edges are adjusted in lines Edge adjustments are maintained for each recognized input video source Do the following to adjust an edge setting Press PICT ADJ with Test Patterns OFF Turn the control knob to highlight EdgeAdj Press SEL to display the edge adjustment menu Turn the knob to highlight the desired edge to be changed or hi...

Page 22: ...Turn the knob to the right to increase the contrast or to the left to decrease contrast The slide bar will change to indicate the current setting and the output NTSC PAL video will change accordingly Press SEL to save the contrast setting or ESC to cancel any changes and return to the Input Level Adjust menu Saturation Adjustments Turn the control knob to highlight Saturation and then press SEL to...

Page 23: ... to the factory defaults Turn the knob to highlight the desired selection and press SEL A control similar to the following will be displayed to allow red blue or green brightness or contrast to be adjusted in 0 1 increments between minus 10 and 10 of the current overall brightness or contract setting As the knob is turned the slide bar will move to indicate the selected change The output NTSC PAL ...

Page 24: ...the display indicates the relative position of the currently selected aspect ratio in relation to the setting range available Flicker Filter Selecting the flicker filter control by highlighting FlickerFlt and pressing SEL displays a menu similar to the following Turn the control knob to see the effects of the currently named setting on the output NTSC PAL video monitor Press SEL to keep the curren...

Page 25: ... source Analog RBG Analog YUV or DVI if DVI option card is installed Configuring the Genlock source and mixing mode ViewMAX PRO only Configuring the Background Mixer Source ViewMAX PRO only Configuring the Keying Color and performing Cut and Fade Transitions ViewMAX PRO only Accessing the Genlock Horizontal and Sub carrier Phase Adjustment control menus displayed accessible only when the Genlock S...

Page 26: ...ssing SEL or ESC will return to the Output Format Menu The current setting is displayed on the system status display YUV is the default Once configured for a video source of a particular format this setting will be automatically recalled the next time the source is recognized Sync on Green On Off Selecting SynGrn by turning the knob to highlight SynGrn and pressing SEL displays the following menu ...

Page 27: ...ments The slide bar changes to indicate the amount of underscan selected The maximum underscan value is variable according to the current pan and zoom settings Press SEL save the current settings or ESC to cancel any changes The Configuration Menu will then be displayed Video Input Source This menu selection allows the user to specify which input video source is to be used RGB YUV HDTV or DVI from...

Page 28: ...ld be blanked out Trailing underscore characters are removed from the final view name If the name is complete and no trailing characters need to be blanked out press ESC to advance to the next display otherwise the next display will appear after the 8th character has been selected The final screen shows the name to be given the view the output aspect ratio AR the zoom Zoom underscan US horizontal ...

Page 29: ...ed on the display Highlight YES and press SEL to delete the view Highlight NO and press SEL or press ESC to cancel the delete The View Menu will then be displayed Note that view settings one through four can be deleted however these view settings are always assigned to one of the front panel view hot keys Deleting views one through four will cause a default view configuration to be loaded the next...

Page 30: ...tput video display will reflect the changes Press SEL of ESC to exit the menu and return to the Setup Menu The last highlighted selection will be maintained after SEL or ESC is pressed Once the main board Genlock is enabled the Configuration Menu will contain one additional selection to allow adjustments of the Genlock Horizontal Phase and Sub Carrier Phase Genlock Horizontal and Sub Carrier Phase...

Page 31: ...ewMAX PRO only Features Mixer Source Selection The following menu is available on the ViewMAX PRO model to select one of six background video source types This function is used with the Glck Mx menu selection and the KeyClr menu selection to control the mixing functions This menu is selected by highlighting MxSrc on the Configuration Menu and pressing SEL The following selections are available to ...

Page 32: ...nd the ViewMAX output switches to background video for that pixel Thus if an area of the foreground matches the user defined key color then that area will display background video instead of foreground video A typical application of foreground keying would be to place computer generate titles on top of a background video source In this case the computer video might have the titles on a black backg...

Page 33: ...L When the cursor is positioned at the desired color highlight Accept and press SEL The color under the cursor location will now be used as the chroma keying color for mixing effects The mixer source must be selected and the mixing mode must have been selected before this will have an effect on the output video Chroma key takes the actual color of the pixels into account when turning the key ON or...

Page 34: ...85 Device Address This selection allows the RS 485 device address to be set The RS 485 serial port allows the ViewMAX to be used in a multi drop environment with other devices It also allows longer distances between a controlling host computer and the ViewMAX RS 485 requires entry of a device address that is used to poll each device on the RS 485 data bus This control menu will allow the address t...

Page 35: ...ting to the next Larger values result in a smooth camera like transition from one configuration to the next System Reset This menu option allows the system non volatile memory to be reset to its initial factory configured state All saved view settings input video format edge adjustments brightness settings etc will be reset A confirmation message will be displayed to allow the user to accept or ca...

Page 36: ...ion Adjustments Turn the control knob to highlight Saturation and then press SEL to select saturation The following control will be displayed Turn the knob to the right to increase or to the left to decrease The slide bar will change to indicate the current setting and the output NTSC PAL video will change accordingly Press SEL to save the setting or ESC to cancel any changes and return to the Out...

Page 37: ...st pattern is generated on the output device The select key is used to maintain the test pattern and exit the test pattern menu Pressing escape will cancel test patterns and exit the test pattern menu A scroll bar on the right indicates the relative position of the test pattern selection within the list of all available test patterns Doing any of the following terminates the test pattern menu Pres...

Page 38: ...m and the output video monitor will update as the knob is turned When the desired zoom is attained pressing the SEL key will save the zoom value and return to the system status screen Pressing ESC will cancel the zoom operation restore the previous zoom setting and return to the system status screen Pressing another hot key will save the current zoom setting turn off the zoom LED and display the r...

Page 39: ...1 increments until 100 is reached The slide bar updates to indicate the current pan setting Press SEL when done to save the current pan setting press ESC to cancel the pan changes Pressing SEL or ESC will return to the Pan Adjust Menu Diagonal Pan When the Pan Adjust Menu is displayed turn the knob to highlight Diag to pan diagonally from lower left to upper right or highlight Diag to pan diagonal...

Page 40: ...el any zoom and pan settings and immediately restore the output to the full screen setting Enable Test Patterns and Display Output Picture Adjust Menu If test patterns are off pressing the TEST PAT and PICT ADJ buttons simultaneously will display the last selected test pattern on the output video monitor NTSC PAL and display the output picture adjust menu on the VFD display Diagonal Pan 5 0 100 0 ...

Page 41: ... 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 33 4 CHAPTER FOUR RS 232 and RS 485 Interface What you will find in this chapter Computer Control Via the RS 232 Interface Computer Control Via the RS 485 Interface ...

Page 42: ... via the front panel or serial command RS 232 Command Format Command Delimiter All RS 232 commands are to end with r an ASCII carriage return delimiter This delimiter signifies the completion of a command line string ViewMAX will attempt to process the command only after the r is received For example FREEZE 0 r would be a valid RS 232 command line string Please refer to Chapter 5 for a detailed li...

Page 43: ...5 data bus in line that is avoid designing an RS 485 bus as a trunk line with branches to the devices Instead daisy chain the RS 485 bus from one device to the next A load resistor will be necessary at each end of the RS 485 data bus on the receive lines If communication is poor between the host and the remote devices indicated by few or no responses to commands when the baud rate parity data bits...

Page 44: ...ID of 0 signifies that the command line string is a broadcast message If device ID is non zero broadcast receivers must be omitted If device ID is 0 broadcast receivers specifies an array of devices that must process the broadcasted command line string Broadcast receivers is a hex number up to 8 hex digits that is a bit map of the device IDs For example 0x25 0010 1001 binary would mean that ViewMA...

Page 45: ...Manual 26 6090901 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 37 5 CHAPTER FIVE Serial Commands What you will find in this chapter Serial Commands Format and Description ...

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Page 47: ... under certain conditions an error message indicative of the specific problem will be returned Command Listing The following commands are used to display a list of valid commands and its brief descriptions HELP Command Specific Information For a detailed explanation of a particular command type a as the first parameter after the command mnemonic For example to get detailed help on the input source...

Page 48: ...sable freeze Input Source Selection The following command is used to get or set the input source type If no parameter is specified the current input source selection will be returned If n is specified the input source will be set the selected source ISRC n where n 0 RGB input source 1 YUV input source 2 DVI input source if PanelLink Board is installed Output Format Configuration Video Standard and...

Page 49: ... pattern is enabled Note that hue adjustment and pedestal control will not be allowed when output video standard format is set to PAL To set an output adjustment specify type value OPADJ type value type value where Type Value B Brightness Millivolt value in 1 mV steps C Contrast percent value to tenth of a percent H Hue NTSC Only degree value increment of 1 degree P Pedestal NTSC Only 1 ON 0 OFF S...

Page 50: ...o 10 0 Contrast CO Overall CR Red CG Green CB Blue Value depends on input video signal level 70 0 to 140 0 for standard computer signal 10 0 to 10 0 10 0 to 10 0 10 0 to 10 0 H Hue 90 to 90 degrees S Saturation 0 to 200 R Reset all input adjustments to default values NA UnderScan This command is used to get or set the output underscan percentage If n is specified the output image will be underscan...

Page 51: ...l vertical and a positive value means panning right down for horizontal vertical PAN type value type value where Type Value H Horizontal pan 100 0 to 100 0 increment of 1 V Vertical Pan 100 0 to 100 0 increment of 1 T TopLeft BottomRight Pan Percent to tenth of a percent range depends on current pan setting B BottomLeft TopRight Pan Percent to tenth of a percent range depends on current pan settin...

Page 52: ...he output screen at the last known location default is center This control is mainly used for selecting a pixel color at a particular location for chroma keying purposes See CURSORLOC KEYYCC KEYRGB and KEYCOLOR Please note that the cursor will be turned off automatically when any commands other than CURSOR and CURSORLOC are received CURSOR n where n 1 turn cursor on 0 turn cursor off Cursor Locati...

Page 53: ...n n is zero the effect is a cut since the transition is immediate If n is not specified the current transition time is used View Configuration This command is used to peek at delete save or recall a particular view If no argument is specified a listing of all the views in the database will be displayed available only as a serial command A view configuration file contains the pan zoom and underscan...

Page 54: ...um Fluorescent Display VFD Brightness This command gets sets the VFD brightness Value can range from 0 to 15 inclusive with 0 being the dimmest and 15 the brightest VFDBRITE brightness value View Transition Time The following command is used to get set the current view transition time This is the maximum amount of time in milliseconds to change from one view configuration to another including pan ...

Page 55: ...eipt of conflicting commands from different sources The front panel interface allows the user to select configuration options from pre defined menus The commands received from the front panel are entered in a predictable sequence In contrast commands from the RS 232 link are designed to be entered in any sequence Only a limited amount of internal testing is conducted to verify that incompatible co...

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Page 57: ...6090901 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 49 6 CHAPTER SIX Folsom Research Information What you will find in this chapter Warranty RMA Information Technical Support General Contact Information ...

Page 58: ...is required to return for repair please call 888 414 7226 and ask for a Sales Engineer to receive a Return Merchandise Authorization number RMA RMA Conditions a Prior to returning any item you must receive a Return Merchandise Authorization RMA number b All RMA numbers must appear on their return shipping label c RMA numbers are valid for ten 10 days from issue date d All shipping and insurance ch...

Page 59: ...Manual 26 6090901 00 Revision D ViewMAX High Performance Down Converter 51 7 APPENDIX Technical Specifications ...

Page 60: ...d ViewMAX PRO Connectors DVI D Female for both video input and buffered loop through output available on ViewMAX DVI and ViewMAX PRO Format Digital Visual Interface DVI Termination 75 Ohm or high impedance switch selectable on ViewMAX with SDI option and ViewMAX PRO Mixer Video Input ViewMAX PRO Connectors Composite Video NTSC or PAL BNC Component Video Betacam Y Pb Pr BNC S Video Y C DIN 4 Digita...

Page 61: ...ht 17 lbs 7 7 Kg Cooling Forced air maintain at least 1 of clearance on the front and rear of the unit Connectors BNC Genlock Mixer Inputs D1 RGB YUV HD 15 Female PC Video DIN 4 Y C DB 9 Female RS232 and RS485 DVI D Female DVI Video IEC AC Power Line Connector Power 115 230 VAC 47 63 Hz auto ranging with Fuse rated at 1 0 0 5 A Safety ground leakage current 0 5 mA 50 60 Hz 264 VAC EMI Filter Compl...

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