MacroSystem Digital Video SMART EDIT 5, User Manual

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specify how big the distance between the stylus
and the tablet can be for the system to still react.
A distance of 0 only allows for a very close
proximity to the tablet. A value of 100 allows for
a large distance. It is best if you simply try out
values to find the one that suits you.
Press “ Calibrate ” and you will see a requester,
prompting you to “ Please click the top left
corner of the tablet ”. Having done this, you will
have to repeat it for the lower right corner of the
tablet. The coordinates of the tablet now corre-
spond to the screen.
Working with the pen
To work with the pen, you have to move it
across the tablet without actually touching the
surface – as if the pen is “floating” slightly. To
“click”; either press the pen point onto the tablet
surface or press the lower button on the pen’s
side. Doing this represents the standard “left
click”.
To simulate a click of the right Trackball button
(such as for cancelling), make sure that the pen
is floating slightly above the tablet and press the
top button on the pen’s side.
3.3.2 VGA tablet
Connecting
Unpack the VGA tablet and connect it to your
system. To do so, plug one end of the VGA cable
into the “
VGA IN ” input on the tablet and the
other end into the VGA port of your system.
Then connect up the USB cable by plugging one
end of the cable that is supplied with the tablet
into the USB port on the tablet and the other end
into a free USB port on your system.
You must now provide the tablet with electrical
power by connecting the power supply cable
to the adapter and plugging the cable into an
electrical socket. Now plug the adapter cable
into the 12 V connection of the tablet.
Note: Although the menus are subsequently
displayed on the VGA monitor, you will still of
course need a TV monitor for playing your video
footage.
You can connect an additional VGA cable to
the “
VGA OUT
” port on the VGA tablet. The
other end of this cable can be connected to
another computer monitor so that you can “feed
through” the video picture and thus work on a
total of three monitors.
Switching on
After you have made the cable connections,
switch on your system by operating the front
switch and switch on the VGA tablet by pressing
the button at the top right.
Once your system has started you will still see
the menu displayed on the TV monitor since you
first have to switch over to the VGA setting. To
do so, open the “
System Settings ” menu and
set the “ Screen ” button to the required “ VGA ”
option. A notification appears informing you that
a computer monitor is required for this. You are
then asked whether you want to continue – you
should answer by clicking on “
Yes ”. The system
is then restarted.
Afterwards you will see the main SMART EDIT
menu on the VGA tablet. Now, within the next
15 seconds, confirm the notification that informs
you that the screen display has been switched
over. To do so, click on “
Yes
” in the usual way
using the trackball.
Calibration
In order to now operate the VGA tablet with
the accompanying stylus, open the "
System
Settings " menu and click (using the trackball)
on the “ Calibrate Graphics Tablet " button in the
“ Settings ” section.
A menu appears, displaying the name of the
connected tablet.
You can now set the “
Pressure Sensitivity ” of
the tablet’s pen. A higher value means that you
have to press harder to reach an effect. Push the
slider to the entire right (“
Off
”) to deactivate the
pen point totally – instead you will have to press
the lower positioned button on the side of the
pen itself (see Intuos manual for more details).
We recommend a pressure sensitivity of 35-40.
You can place a check mark in the little box
next to the "
Mousepointer " option to activate it
so that you always see a red arrow on-screen
wherever the tip of the stylus is positioned. If
you deactivate the function (dash), the arrow is