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GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 
 

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  | XVP-801i 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Table 3.1 

Available Presets for 16:9 Output 

 

Summary of Contents for XVP-801i

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Page 2: ...do so Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel Servicing should be done in a static free environment Electromagnetic Compatibility This equipment has been tested for verification of compliance with FCC Part 15 Subpart B class A requirements for Digital Devices This equipment complies with the requirements of EN 55022 Class A Electromagnetic Emissions EN 61000 3 2 3 3 Disturbance in Suppl...

Page 3: ...ock diagrams 2 2 Installation 4 2 1 Unpacking 4 2 2 XVP 801i HD SD Universal Video Processor Cross Converter Installation 4 2 2 1 imaging Symphonie or Quartet 2 Frame 4 2 3 Rear Panel Label 5 2 4 XVP 801i Electrical Installation 6 3 Operation 8 3 1 iControl Interface 8 3 2 Remote Control Using the RCP 100 31 3 3 Card Edge Controls 31 3 4 XVP 801i Menu 32 4 Specifications 35 ...

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Page 5: ...connect a backup source which will be automatically selected when the main source fails The XVP 801i can process up to 16 channels 4 groups of embedded audio or if discrete AES inputs outputs are required the XVP 801i can be combined with the DAP 781i audio processing module 1 2 Features Built in up down and cross conversion Dual HD SD inputs Simultaneous independent HD and SD outputs HD Out can b...

Page 6: ...D OPERATION 2 XVP 801i 1 3 Functional Block diagrams The following block diagrams show the XVP 801i and the three available submodels Figure 1 1 Functional block diagram XVP 801i Figure 1 2 Functional block diagram XVP 801i UC ...

Page 7: ...GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION XVP 801i 3 Figure 1 3 Functional block diagram XVP 801i FSDC Figure 1 4 Functional block diagram XVP 801i XCDC ...

Page 8: ...odule For a closer look at module installation and removal refer to the frame s Guide to Installation and Operation 1 Remove the front panel door 2 Select an available slot with the appropriate rear module installed The rear module needs to be in place prior to the XVP 801i installation 3 Carefully place the XVP 801i between the module guides and slowly push the module towards the rear of the fram...

Page 9: ...ame 2 3 Rear Panel Label A rear connector label has been shipped with the XVP 801i A label is to be installed on the frame s rear panel in order to identify the module s external connectors To install the Symphonie and Quartet 2 label follow these steps while referring to Figure 2 3 the Quartet 2 uses the same rear panels as the Symphonie 1 Locate the rear panel connectors associated with the XVP ...

Page 10: ...the output will freeze to the reference frame rate and produce an input error and the reference LED will blink to indicate the mismatch Note that in the case of HD signals of the same frame rate any reference signal may be used to genlock any output signal regardless of scan type progressive or interlaced When a 720p tri level sync reference signal is used with an interlaced output the output is s...

Page 11: ...tandard GPI triggering User Presets The rear panel GPI connector RJ 69 provides 6 GPI 2 for input selection and 4 to recall user configurable presets Also on the RJ 69 connector two pins are reserved for delay tracking signals for backward compatibility with existing audio cards The following table shows the connector pin out Pin Function 1 GND 2 User Preset 3 3 User Preset 1 4 Select Input 1 5 GN...

Page 12: ... remote computer via an IP interface Establish the IP connection to the computer and the frame containing the XVP 801i card The iControl graphic interface window The basic window structure for the XVP 801i is shown in figure 3 1 The window identification line gives the card type XVP 801i and the card ID 127 in the example The card ID identifies this specific card to iControl which may have access ...

Page 13: ...n is not operational Move the mouse over an icon and a status message appears below the icon providing additional information 2 The left portion of the window contains all the parameter groups which become highlighted when they are selected the main panel then displays the group s set of parameters Each of the groups is described in detail below 3 The lower section of the window contains a pull do...

Page 14: ...resets are saved the input selection is saved as well for more on this subject see User Presets on page 30 This means that changing User Preset may change input selection according to which one is associated with the User Preset This is the normal behavior when Update Input Select with User Preset is chosen Selecting Do Not Change Input Select with User Preset prevents the current input selected f...

Page 15: ... glitchless in the event of a video input switch hotswitch as defined by SMPTE recommended practice RP 168 revised January 2002 a loss of input signal or other input errors The three possible options yield the following results FIELD In this mode the output is frozen on the LAST VALID FIELD BLACK In this mode the output is frozen on BLACK OFF disables the Freeze mode In all cases audio will be mut...

Page 16: ...etched or squeezed to fit the output the image will be asymmetrically distorted this is called anamorphic distortion If the image is expanded or contracted symmetrically it must be cropped and or have new blank background segments added to it in order to fill the output picture The ARC processing in the XVP 801i allows a wide range of symmetrical and asymmetrical picture size modification coupled ...

Page 17: ...os includes 4 3 Pure 4 3 12 LBox 4 3 25 LBox 16 9 Pure 16 9 12 Side and16 9 25 Side 16 9 Anamorphic In each case the list indicates the aspect ratio of the input signal 4 3 or 16 9 followed by an indication of the signal s history as follows Pure has never been subjected to aspect ratio conversion 12 Lbox has been subjected to 12 letterbox conversion 25 Lbox has been subjected to 12 letterbox conv...

Page 18: ... vertical cropping is expressed as a percentage of the size of the original image The user can manually adjust the level of horizontal and vertical cropping Horizontal cropping is done on an 8 pixel basis Vertical cropping is done on 4 line basis To achieve non symmetrical vertical or horizontal cropping unchecked the Center box underneath and position the image using the Tilt function described b...

Page 19: ...fect the data values of locked controls There is some interactivity within the locking function as follows If either V Crop or H Crop is locked Anamorphism is unlocked If either Side Panels or Anamorphism is locked the other is unlocked along with V Crop and H Crop Presets sub section Presets Several of the most common conversion situations are pre programmed into the XVP 801i and can be quickly a...

Page 20: ...GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 16 XVP 801i Table 3 1 Available Presets for 16 9 Output ...

Page 21: ...GUIDE TO INSTALLATION AND OPERATION XVP 801i 17 Table 3 2 Available Presets for 4 3 Output ...

Page 22: ...positioning the masks to cover edge effects with a minimum loss of clean picture content Usually masks are the final adjustment to be made The masking is shown on the top right Output screen by graying out the masked portion Note that mask or Background color may be changed in the Advanced tab The maximum amount of masking that can be introduced is 60 pixels horizontally and 30 lines vertically st...

Page 23: ...essing sub section HD ouput MPEG Preprocessor Mode This control changes the functionality of the detail enhancer When MPEG preprocessor is activated ON the adaptive detail enhancer will use a psycho visual model to increase the level of details and the sharpness of edges without adding high frequency content that may be difficult to encode at a lower bit rate on a downstream MPEG encoder When the ...

Page 24: ...sing sub section SD output Detail Enhancement Mode this pull down box controls the type of horizontal detail enhancement which may improve sharpness of textures and contours High Freq boosts high frequencies of the SD input signal and Medium Freq boosts medium frequencies Separate controls are available for Horizontal and Vertical detail enhancement Horz Detail Enhancer a slider and a data reporti...

Page 25: ...ected output HD format The Closed Caption sub section also incorporates a status indicator which turns green in the presence of incoming EIA 708 B or EIA 608 B closed captioning data when an HD source is installed or when line 21 closed captions are detected when an SD source is installed The Insertion pull down menu is used to select between Auto or OFF Availability of these controls is affected ...

Page 26: ...annels During frame sync mode when input video and reference signals are not synchronized audio samples may be skipped or repeated Specific behavior with non PCM audio In the same manner if an input error or a hotswitch occurs while a reference is connected no mute is applied on non PCM audio channels Alternately if a lack of audio samples is detected non PCM audio channels will be muted Dolby E a...

Page 27: ...i automatically matches audio and video throughput timing provision is made for the user to insert an audio delay offset from the nominal value in order to deal with problems such as lip sync errors and audio phase alignment in the incoming feed For each channel two sliders allow to adjust the delay The Coarse slider adjusts the delay in milliseconds ms from 0 ms to 2000 ms while the Fine slider p...

Page 28: ... to turn yellow when there is no signal present which activates the audio silence alarm Otherwise when checkboxes are not checked the signal presence indicators turns grey when there is no signal present and the audio silence alarm is not activated The HD Audio Output and SD Audio Output groups This group provides additional audio processing for the 16 audio channels embedded in the HD SD outputs ...

Page 29: ...her of the two input channels is non PCM the output will always be SOURCE A Mute Mutes the audio channel by checking this box Figure 3 11 HD Audio Output group CH 1 2 tab Source A Source B This sub section allows for each output channel to select its channels sources A B ABUS Select V A1 A2 E1 E2 selects the embedded input audio V one of two DAP 781i audio companion cards A1 or A2 or one of two Do...

Page 30: ...ly audio groups containing at least one audio channel will be embedded at the output at the bit depth selected When mode is set to OFF no audio is embedded in the SD output Figure 3 12 HD Audio Output group Embedding tab The ABUS group When companion audio cards such as the DAP 781i are used to provide additional audio channels the ABUS audio bus links installed audio cards and the XVP 801i This p...

Page 31: ...essively scanned images Conversion to 59 94 Hz video is accomplished by running the film 0 1 slow and scanning alternate film frames three times and two times creating an interlaced video image at 59 94 fields per second in which the first three fields come from the first film frame the next two fields from the second film frame the next three from the third film frame etc This is called 3 2 pulld...

Page 32: ...down each frame is scanned twice yielding two interlaced fields De interlacing of these fields is not necessary because both fields are obtained by scanning the same image Enabling this mode in the XVP 801i is a manual process because automatic detection of film material is not easily accomplished in the absence of 3 2 pulldown artifacts Leaving this mode ON will produce poor results on interlaced...

Page 33: ... video monitor at the output A slider and a data reporting entry box allow the user to select a value in the range 0 no reduction to 15 maximum reduction The Test group This group contains a single checkbox that send a 75 color bar test pattern 100 white along with audio test tones a continuous tone on right channel with pulsed tone on left channel in every pair Figure 3 15 The Test group The Opti...

Page 34: ...functional XVP Upgrade option This option can be used to upgrade an XVP 801 UC FSDC or XCDC model to a full XVP 801i The Factory group Load Factory Clicking this button will reinstate all default parameter values See the XVP 801i Menu in section 3 4 to see default values for all parameters User Presets The XVP 801i has memory registers which can hold up to 4 user defined parameter settings Select ...

Page 35: ...r alphanumeric display figure 3 18 below The LEDs indicate the status of various parameters as shown in the list below The Alphanumeric display shows the input format during normal operation It shows the current menu item when the card edge controls are being used to access the menus to change operating parameters The Pushbutton switches allow the user to select the operating mode and to navigate ...

Page 36: ...TEST Test signal selected at the output yellow Alphanumeric display Displays the input format in normal mode 3 4 XVP 801i Menu Menu level LEV1 LEV2 LEV3 LEV4 LEV5 Configuration load CONF LOAD USR1 USR2 USR3 USR4 Configuration save SAVE USR1 USR2 USR3 USR4 Input Selection ISEL INP 1 2 Gpi priority PRIO OFF ON Failover emergency mode FAIL OFF ON Failover emergency delay FDLY 0 15 Input aspect ratio ...

Page 37: ...2 CHNB CH01 CH16 MIXB 96 0 step 5dB 1dB 2 dB CH16 SMUX 20 24 bit SYST XVP A1 A1A2 HD parameters HD PSET USER LBOX CROP ANAM 14 9 ZM12 ZM25 BYPS FIT HD out format FRMT 1080i 720P Manual input vert crop ARC VCRP 0 25 step 4 unit Manual input vert position TILT 0 25 step 2 unit Manual input horiz crop HCRP 0 25 step 8 unit Manual input horiz position PAN 0 25 step 4 unit Manual output vert size LBOX ...

Page 38: ...D HIGH Horizontal detail enhancer H_DE OFF 1 7 Vertical detail enhancer V_DE 7 0 7 Metadata parameters META AUD OFF AUTO SD timecode mode TC MODE OFF AUTO SD timecode line insert LINS 9 14 20 525 6 14 22 625 SD timecode line detect LDET AUTO 10 14 20 525 AUTO 7 19 22 625 SD timecode duplicate DUP OFF ON SD close caption mode CC OFF ON N A N A in 50 Hz SD vertical blanking interval VBI OFF AUTO SD ...

Page 39: ... to 1 5 GHz JITTER 0 2UI as per SMPTE 292M REFERENCE INPUT SIGNAL 1 SMPTE 170M SMPTE 318M ITU 624 4 BUT 470 6 or Comp Sync SMPTE 274M SMPTE 296M Tri Level Sync RETURN LOSS 35 dB up to 5 75 GPI 6 CONNECTOR RJ 69 RJ 45 10 pin contacts providing 4 user preset recalls and 2 input select Opto isolated contact closure to ground VIDEO PROCESSING PERFORMANCE SIGNAL PATH 10 bits PROCESSING DELAY 1 frame mi...

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