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RAMER

VP-701XL, VP-703XL, VP-704XL O

PERATION

ANUAL

Kramer VP-701/3/4XL

Manual

Summary of Contents for VP-701XL

Page 1: ...KRAMER VP 701XL VP 703XL VP 704XL OPERATION MANUAL Kramer VP 701 3 4XL Manual...

Page 2: ...KRAMER VP 701XL VP 703XL VP 704XL OPERATION MANUAL...

Page 3: ...ont panel 16 5 2 VP 704XL front panel 16 5 3 Button controls 16 5 4 Special button combinations and functions 17 5 4 1 Storing the current settings 17 5 4 2 Locking front panel buttons IR remote contr...

Page 4: ...NS 51 11 1 Operation of the Keyer 51 11 1 1 Preparation 51 11 1 2 Adjustment 51 12 TROUBLESHOOTING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT 53 12 1 There is no picture on the Output 53 12 2 The image is shifted and not...

Page 5: ...8 15 1 Video Inputs 58 15 2 Computer Input 58 15 3 Video Outputs not present on all units 58 15 4 Computer Outputs 58 15 5 Locking Mixing 59 15 6 Scaling sampling memory 59 15 7 Warranty 59 15 8 Regul...

Page 6: ...connection with the purchase or use of this hardware software or manual The sole and exclusive liability to the supplier and manufacturer regardless of the form of action shall not exceed the replace...

Page 7: ...o external devices requires no specially shielded cabling for FCC compliance The Instruction Manual shows or describes the proper connection of this equipment for operation that insures FCC compliance...

Page 8: ...be installed near to the unit and be easily accessible Do not plug in or attempt to operate an obviously damaged unit 2 2 Water and moisture To reduce the risk of fire and personal injury operation o...

Page 9: ...tion of these openings and ensure the unit is installed in a well ventilated area 2 6 Intellectual property Some IC chips in this product include confidential and or trade secret property Therefore yo...

Page 10: ...ectrique est d connect de la prise murale La prise murale de courant doit tre install e pr s de l unit et ais ment accessible Ne branchez pas et n essayez pas d utiliser une unit visiblement endommag...

Page 11: ...de l unit servent l a rer Pour permettre une utilisation s re vitez d obstruer ces ouvertures et assurez vous que l unit est install e dans un endroit bien a r 2 6 Propri t intellectuelle Certaines pu...

Page 12: ...a utilizar el aparato por un periodo largo de tiempo La toma CA de la pared ha de estar instalada cerca del aparato y debe ser f cilmente accesible No enchufe ni intente operar un aparato que est evi...

Page 13: ...una operaci n eficaz se debe evitar la obstrucci n de estos agujeros y tambi n asegurar que el aparato se instale en una zona con adecuada ventilaci n 2 6 Propiedad intelectual Algunos chips con circ...

Page 14: ...e Die Steckdose sollte sich in der N he des Ger ts befinden und leicht zug nglich sein Verbinden Sie ein offensichtlich besch digtes Ger t keinesfalls mit einer Steckdose und versuchen Sie auch nicht...

Page 15: ...sgem e Bel ftung zu gew hrleisten d rfen diese ffnungen nicht verdeckt werden Sorgen Sie au erdem daf r dass das Ger t an einem gut bel fteten Ort aufgestellt wird 2 6 Gewerbliches eigentum Einige int...

Page 16: ...stroomsnoer uit het stopcontact is getrokken Het wisselstroom stopcontact moet dichtbij de eenheid ge nstalleerd worden en makkelijk toegankelijk zijn Als de eenheid duidelijk beschadigd is moet u dez...

Page 17: ...de zijkant van de eenheid zijn voor ventilatie Zorg er voor dat de eenheid op een goed geventileerde plek ge nstalleerd wordt zodat deze betrouwbaar werkt 2 6 Intellectueel eigendom Sommige IC chips i...

Page 18: ...except that the VP 703XL is in a 1U rack mount case with a built in power supply VP 704XL Down Converter with Overlay This unit has all the features of a Down Converter but it also has the added facil...

Page 19: ...obsolescence by allowing the installation of the latest version of firmware This not only applies to the software used to control the unit but also to the range of resolutions stored inside the unit t...

Page 20: ...15 4 PRODUCT IMAGES Your product should look like one of the units below The rack mount units have built in power supplies 4 1 VP 701XL 4 2 VP 703XL 4 3 VP 704XL...

Page 21: ...re detailed in a later section Several other buttons on the front panel provide quick access to certain features of the unit 5 1 VP 701XL VP 703XL front panel 5 2 VP 704XL front panel 5 3 Button contr...

Page 22: ...e fades back in on next press PIP Activate picture in picture mode Activates and deactivates the Shrink value in the Adjust windows menu in the OSD RESTORE Hold in briefly to restore to last saved pow...

Page 23: ...The IR remote s LOCK and STORE buttons will always be active giving another way to turn button IR remote locking off The STANDBY ON button will flash when the unit s buttons are locked 5 4 3 Forcing...

Page 24: ...cluding tri level In most cases the particular input being used will be auto detected See Adjust sources for more information on manually selecting an input type The VP 704XL unit also has a second 5...

Page 25: ...four connections are active simultaneously showing identical images The VP 704XL also has a YPbPr output that can also be switched to RGsB on 3 BNC connectors 6 6 RS232 control All units have an RS232...

Page 26: ...the menu structure menu values changes values Left right alter current value and Toggles between up down alter the zoom pan mode next value Toggles freeze Selects the next on and off zoom level and z...

Page 27: ...will begin to flash Change the value by using the and buttons to decrease and increase the value respectively Then finalize your adjustment by pressing the MENU button once more A few menu items have...

Page 28: ...put parameters Adjust windows Controls characteristics of the scaled window Adjust keyers Controls the keying ability of the unit Adjust sources Controls signal source input parameters Adjust resoluti...

Page 29: ...fferent than the resolution of the lock source All synchronization signals are re generated within the unit so they may look slightly different when compared on an oscilloscope to the original source...

Page 30: ...abilities 8 4 Items Associated with the Adjust windows group This menu group allows adjustment to be made to window specific parameters such as the window source its position size and zoom level The s...

Page 31: ...9 1 777 PAL and NTSC inputs are physically 4 3 on your video monitor but their actual pixel line ratios are different and so will not display as 1 333 Once an image has been zoomed this control allow...

Page 32: ...lines not your physical screen size and the H V Shrink values Most resolutions are 4 3 ratio thus the third number will be 1 333 4 divided by 3 Another common aspect ratio is 16 9 16 divided by 9 1 7...

Page 33: ...h as thin line drawings High Highest amount of flicker reduction Will cause loss of vertical detail in some images Image smoothing reduces the jagged edges sometimes seen within an output image by sof...

Page 34: ...image can show through The following settings allow you to vary the colour s that are keyed out This menu item allows you to swap the foreground and background images when Lock mode is set to Lock Mi...

Page 35: ...ss A D conversion may not sample a 50 brightness as being exactly 50 i e sometimes 49 and sometimes 51 Increasing the softness value will broaden the range of keyed colors so that the keying of images...

Page 36: ...CV YC source will reveal different menu items that allow adjustments beyond those used for RGB sources The menu discussions that follow relate first to RGB sources then to CV YC type sources 8 6 1 RGB...

Page 37: ...This menu item adjusts the audio volume and balance for the selected audio channel This is only functional for certain units Since an image pixel is a very small element of the total image it s possib...

Page 38: ...rlaced input consists of two fields separated in time Both fields are required in order to make up the full resolution input image but since they are sent one after the other a moving image will have...

Page 39: ...ment Saturation is the amount of color present in the image Hue is the color tint parameter and the adjustment range is 90 degrees through to 90 degrees with 0 being the default Within limits you can...

Page 40: ...O CERTAIN CHANGES IS TO UPDATE THE FIRMWARE TRY USING THE AUTOSET SHRINK SHRINK POS TL BR ADJUSTMENTS FIRST Making adjustments here risks creating a non standard resolution that is not displayable on...

Page 41: ...sync pulse and blanking time This is normally in a multiple of 8 It is very important to get this value correct or many digital display devices such as TFT monitors will display an image with an odd m...

Page 42: ...e Horizontal Sync pulse and the width of the Back Porch have a direct bearing on where the active visible portion of the image begins Do not attempt this adjustment without monitoring the results with...

Page 43: ...refers to Product Type and BT means Board Type Both of these are hardware designators and cannot be changed by the user however both designators are important to support personnel This is an informat...

Page 44: ...ired This is useful when a unit is installed as part of an overall system When turned on the previously explained Adjust resolutions menu structure is exposed The default condition is Off to prevent a...

Page 45: ...No action is taken regardless of the value shown here however some users have an equipment cleaning or specification audit procedure and this information may be useful to those users Indicates the to...

Page 46: ...unications protocol The standard communications protocol for your unit is text based and is detailed on our website Also on our website you can find the Windows Control Panel for your unit The protoco...

Page 47: ...y provided software handshaking Note that a line feed LF should not be sent It may take around 30ms 0 03 seconds for an RS232 command to be actioned and acknowledged this will vary between different m...

Page 48: ...absolutely required to simplify programming the user may send packets one after the other with around 100ms 100 milliseconds between each one However this will not work for all packets such as Zoomin...

Page 49: ...umber WINDOW LOGO BORDER Bit 7 0 Reserved Bit 6 0 Represents the window to be adjusted for multi channel units only E g Window A the default for single channel units is sent as 41 since 0x41 is ASCII...

Page 50: ...n of each of the following as only the menu text is listed here Where an equivalent menu item does not exist on your unit then that feature is not supported on Function codes are given in hexadecimal...

Page 51: ...CIR Output Standard 101 0 NTSC PAL 1 PAL M PAL N 2 SECAM Output CV YC IRE 133 7 5 12 5 Output CV YC Hue degrees 139 22 22 Output SC H Phase 085 180 180 Output Luma Bandwidth 134 0 1 2 Low Medium High...

Page 52: ...y used in Advanced A R mode H V shr pos H 0DA 0 100 H V shr pos V 0DB 0 100 Aspect Adjust 102 0 1 Simple Advanced Flicker reduction 092 0 3 Off Low Med High Image smoothing 0A1 0 2 Off Med High Image...

Page 53: ...x31 CV2 0x32 CV3 0x40 YC1 0x41 YC2 0x42 YC3 0x50 SDI1 0x51 SDI2 0xD0 OUT1 0xD1 OUT2 0xF0 TC1 0xF1 TC2 Testcard 0 10 0DC 0 10 TL pos adj left 0 9 0B6 100 100 TL pos adj top 0 9 0B7 100 100 BR size adj...

Page 54: ...g the wrong entry The user should not adjust the Image to adjust entry using the front panel whilst also accessing it via RS232 Image to adjust 081 1 1000 Interlaced 0CA 0 1 Off On H freq crse 0BE 100...

Page 55: ...to the unit and its response When a byte is not required to be sent it is indicated by a in the table below since a Read is 6 bytes shorter than a Write Each character shown below is sent as a ASCII...

Page 56: ...between the Red and the Luminance value If part of an image is black grey or white then its value is 128 being the mid point 11 1 1 Preparation 1 Enter the Adjust windows menu 2 Select the Source thi...

Page 57: ...input signal is slightly noisy or if you want to soften the edges within the image then this may require you to decrease the min values and increase the max values to broaden the range of colors keyed...

Page 58: ...heck that the output connector you are using from the unit is also connected at the unit and the display equipment Check that the display video equipment is set to the correct line input and format st...

Page 59: ...r contrast and brightness settings on your TV or video display These are usually set up for a very different reason than viewing computer graphics and may need changing to suit If you cannot achieve e...

Page 60: ...heck the Adjust sources menu and confirm that the input type and sync method is set correctly Having YUV input selected instead of RGBHV often causes this problem 12 12 The video signal from my DVD pl...

Page 61: ...and Solutions Don t presume it is the unit that is causing the problem Check that the equipment being used with it is fully working and setup correctly bypass the unit if possible by connecting the v...

Page 62: ...put used for auto termination 12 SDA input output linked 13 H sync or composite sync for RGBS 14 V sync 15 SCL input output linked 14 2 RS232 D9 socket 16 N C 17 TX Transmit data 18 RX Receive data 19...

Page 63: ...eration 250Hz for PAL Operation 15 2 Computer Input Analog RGB YPbPr via HD15 into 75 Ohm supporting RGBHV RGBS RGsB YPbPr auto terminating into 75 Ohm Digital sync in RGBHV or RGBS mode TTL Level 10K...

Page 64: ...xception is where you can overlay one source over itself 15 6 Scaling sampling memory Size and position automatic via AutoSet or Manual Image size user definable presets Image freeze one video frame S...

Page 65: ...e DC power connector A non locking 2 5mm DC power connector will also fit 15 11 Control Methods The unit can be controlled locally via the front panel buttons and on screen display OSD remotely via th...

Page 66: ...ave and questions or require assistance with this product in areas not covered by this manual please contact KRAMER ELECTRONICS LTD 3 Am VeOlamo Street Jerusalem 95463 Israel Tel 972 2 654 4000 Fax 97...

Page 67: ...emoved 3 Damage deterioration or malfunction resulting from a Accident misuse abuse neglect fire water lightning or other acts of nature b Product modification or failure to follow instructions suppli...

Page 68: ...es based upon inconvenience loss of use of the product loss of time commercial loss or 2 Any other damages whether incidental consequential or otherwise Some countries may not allow limitations on how...

Page 69: ...e www kramerelectronics com where updates to this user manual may be found We welcome your questions comments and feedback KRAMER ELECTRONICS LTD Web site www kramerelectronics com E mail info kramere...

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