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Machine 

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Reference Manual 

 

 

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Machine titan 

 

4K/UHD or 3G/HD/SD Quad (4) Channel SDI Video 

and Audio Processing Platform 

 

Revision 2.0 

– January 2019 

 

LYNX

Technik

 

AG 

Broadcast Television Equipment

 

 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

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THIS MANUAL SUPPORTS: 

 

titan from Revision 

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Page 1: ...form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose without express written permission of LYNX Technik AG LYNX Technik AG may have patents patent applications trademarks copyrights or other...

Page 2: ...15 Processing Configuration 17 Processing Configuration Menus 17 System Settings 20 Deploying Constellations with the local Control Panel 20 IP Settings 21 Panel Configuration 22 F Key Assign 23 Reset...

Page 3: ...tion Subpage 44 Pref erences Subpage 45 Hotkeys Subpage 45 SNMP 46 GET SET 46 SNMP Traps 46 LYNX Remote Control Interface 48 Supported Formats 49 Supported SDI I O Formats 49 Supported HDMI Input Form...

Page 4: ...ocations This warranty shall not apply to any defect failure or damage caused by improper use or improper or inadequate maintenance and care LYNX Technik shall not be obligated to furnish service unde...

Page 5: ...originally intended could result in less than optimal performance and or injury For in depth service information on LYNX Technik products refer to our website www lynx technik com Contact your local L...

Page 6: ...pment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause har...

Page 7: ...that is custom configured using one of the pre defined constellations which can be purchased through the LYNX sales network You are not limited to one constellation per greenMachine you can switch bet...

Page 8: ...are available The greenMachine titan comes with four audio input and output connections that can be configured for either analog or digital audio Basic conversion functionality from and to analog and...

Page 9: ...greenMachine titan Reference Manual Rev 2 0 2019 LYNXTechnik AG Page 9 of 57 Rear Connection Panel...

Page 10: ...greenMachine titan Reference Manual Rev 2 0 2019 LYNXTechnik AG Page 10 of 57 Control Panel...

Page 11: ...onverter is turquoise Image Proc is blue Generate is green Switching is gray Monitoring is cadet blue Global is magenta Constellations are pre defined in the system and are always available e g The Qu...

Page 12: ...titan even if the constellation was not purchased You will be able to test this constellation with your own signals including all the parameters available As long as you haven t been purchased the dep...

Page 13: ...f the constellation at the same time you will need to purchase additional constellations If on the other hand you want to use a constellation at several different points in your greenUniverse and at d...

Page 14: ...for detailed input and or output signal monitoring Signals Button Pressing the Signals button located on the bottom left of the control panel will show the I O Monitoring Signal Chooser to switch bet...

Page 15: ...f the diagram is shown in the display the rotary push encoder can be used to pan between the left and right side Pressing the Signals button when the display shows the right hand side of the diagram p...

Page 16: ...how details about the input format available audio optical input budget or similar 2 Preview The display will show a preview image of the selected input that is assigned to one of the video processors...

Page 17: ...to their respective processing function Settings that cannot be logically associated to any of these categories can be found in the Misc menu Inside the three processing configuration menus the param...

Page 18: ...contained in the Constellation that was deployed on that greenMachine 3G Level A B MetaData and Scaler Second Level of the Video Convert Menu The structure and usage of the configuration menus works a...

Page 19: ...ay will show a preview of what settings and or menus are available within this menu see below Pressing the encoder will enter the selected menu Pressing the Back button below the encoder will return t...

Page 20: ...menu items The inverted menu item i e dark gray with white text is currently selected There are two different shapes for the menu items The square boxes are menus containing at least one additional me...

Page 21: ...ess the encoder and the first block of three digits can be set by turning the encoder Press the encoder to confirm the first block and to edit the second Repeat this procedure until you have set all f...

Page 22: ...ry Netmask 255 255 0 0 Gateway 0 0 0 0 Panel Configuration Brightness This menu allows the adjustment of the brightness of the display and button illumination Timeout When turned on the panel will go...

Page 23: ...This will show a screen with the name of the Constellation which is currently deployed on the greenMachine Show Demo State This will show whether the greenMachine is working in demo state i e with wa...

Page 24: ...he Panel Lock button at the bottom right of the display activates or de activated the panel lock To lock or to unlock press and hold the button for 3 seconds When in lock mode the Panel Lock button wi...

Page 25: ...are Mavericks Yosemite Mac OS X 10 10 or higher El Capitan and Sierra In the table below you will find the minimum and the recommended system requirements System Requirements Minimum Recommended CPU...

Page 26: ...the screen Selecting a machine in the rolodex will cause the UI on the right to update its data and parameters General Menu Bar On left top corner of the GUI is a general menu bar where you can find...

Page 27: ...you will find the main Pages item 2 with Control Universe Configure Info Constellation and GUI Settings Some of the Pages are further divided into Subpages item 3 The control settings and monitoring...

Page 28: ...Page is further divided into 4 Subpages System Main Events Nova Advanced and Preview Page System Subpage If you select the System Subpage of the Control Page you will access the system information of...

Page 29: ...dea is based on the concept of showing the functionality of a module as a signal flow diagram Parts of this signal flow diagram are the processing blocks The user can navigate around the module by dou...

Page 30: ...lick onto the designated input or output entry and select Rename For an introduction video of the flexGUI please visit the LYNX Technik website at http www lynx technik com en products appolo control...

Page 31: ...this behavior is considered normal In this case you can disable the logging of the event on the module Likewise you may only want to log when a specific event happens and not when it s corrected For e...

Page 32: ...r or even worse lead them to make inappropriate modifications to parts of the system that should not be touched This demand for freely definable Control Panels i e which are not pre defined by LYNX is...

Page 33: ...also be accessed and set in the Advanced subpage in form of a parameter list This way of controlling the greenMachine should be used by advanced users only Those parameter names will also be used in...

Page 34: ...n a machine in the universe graphic will bring focus in the Rolodex Constellation Subpage On the right hand side of the Constellation Editor you will find a Rolodex with all the Constellations availab...

Page 35: ...e watermarked and or that a license needs to be released or purchased Deployment confirmation of a Constellation Presets A Preset is a snapshot of all the parameters available on a greenMachine The co...

Page 36: ...nMachine and enables you to update your module Update Subpage The Update Subpage provides the possibility to mirror our complete database of programming files onto your local PC and keeping it up to d...

Page 37: ...ge your network settings your panel settings as well as GPI settings Furthermore you can change your SNMP settings on this page You can reset all processing parameters and or all panel parameters You...

Page 38: ...st 9 log files of the selected greenMachine Older logfiles will be overwritten You can search for desired key words in one or several log files at once You can also save the desired files onto your co...

Page 39: ...LYNXTechnik AG Page 39 of 57 Audio Pinning Subpage On this page you can see in detail the audio pinning information for the external audio inputs and outputs Diagrams Subpage This page shows the rear...

Page 40: ...the license will remain with the other machine When the original machine comes back into the network the license will automatically move back to the original owner When a greenMachine which has licens...

Page 41: ...AG Page 41 of 57 A window will pop up where you can select available license files filename lxl Select the required license file filename lxl and open it Note The serial number of the connected greenM...

Page 42: ...akes the machine out of license sharing meaning it will not give up a license even if it is not using it Machine Lock This form of locking can be activated from the context menu of a selected greenMac...

Page 43: ...greenGUI is running has the possibility to connect to several Networks the Network Subpage will enable you to select in which of these Networks the greenMachines are located Registration Subpage To re...

Page 44: ...ate information for your greenMachine modules You can either activate this synchronization manually by clicking the Download button or let the system automatically download available updates by checki...

Page 45: ...ts of the pages Default The Software Subpage leads you to connect to the LYNX Technik greenGUI download page on the website to get the newest version of the Software http www lynx technik com support...

Page 46: ...provided to all the parameters of the greenMachine Regular SNMPv2 authentication is implemented SNMP Traps In addition to the get set access explained above all Events that a greenMachine generates ca...

Page 47: ...Technik AG Page 47 of 57 The SNMP trap will be generated and sent from the greenMachine to the host that has been specified in the Server s SNMP target host item 2 You can enter a list of multiple IP...

Page 48: ...lback mechanism A remote controller does not have to send repeated read commands polling to monitor an individual parameter It provides a dynamic query functionality which makes any kind of static int...

Page 49: ...s Level A 1080psf 24Hz 1080p 50Hz 1080psf 25Hz 1080p 59 94Hz 720p 23 98Hz 1080p 60Hz 720p 24Hz 720p 25Hz 720p 29 97Hz 3GBit s Formats Level B Dual Link 720p 30Hz 1080p 50Hz 720p 50Hz 1080p 59 94Hz 720...

Page 50: ...94Hz 1080i 60Hz 3GBit s Formats 1080p 23 98Hz 1080p 50Hz 1080p 24Hz 1080p 59 94Hz 1080p 25Hz 1080p 60Hz 1080p 29 97Hz 1080p 30Hz PC Formats with Scaler Function 720p 25Hz VGA 640x480 720p 29 97Hz SVG...

Page 51: ...can be used to frequency lock HDTV signals and vice versa The connected reference is auto detected and the synchronizer automatically configures the outputs to the frame rate of the connected referen...

Page 52: ...deo connectors Video HDMI The greenMachine titan uses type A connectors with flange for its HDMI 1 4b video input and output LAN The greenMachine titan uses a standard RJ45 connection for LAN connecti...

Page 53: ...ptional audio breakout cables which will bring out all audio connections to in line XLR connectors model number R AC MF 25 4 4 R AC M 25 8 or R AC F 25 8 Pin Number Connection Pin Number Connection 1...

Page 54: ...tan provides four inputs and four outputs General Purpose Interfaces GPI via an RJ45 connector The pinning of the RJ45 connector is according to TIA EIA 568 B The pin layout is given in the table belo...

Page 55: ...tion depending on licensed constellation is activated up to 30 frames of manual delay can be added to each video processing output 15 frames for Level B Dual Link as well as AES based audio delay up t...

Page 56: ...g jitter 0 2 UI 270Mbit s 1 0 UI 1 5Gbit s 2 0 UI 2 97Gbit s Alignment jitter 0 2 UI 270Mbit s 0 2 UI 1 5Gbit s 0 3 UI 2 97Gbit s Electrical Return Loss 15dB from 5MHz to 1 5GHz 10dB from 1 5GHz to 3G...

Page 57: ...or obtaining support and sales information LYNX Technik can be contacted directly using the information below LYNX Technik AG Brunnenweg 3 D 64331 Weiterstadt Germany Phone 49 0 6150 18170 Fax 49 0 61...

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