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Polymotion
Player
Quick Start Guide
Product code: MRMC-1998-01
Page 1: ...CRANES AND RIGS BROADCAST HEADS DSLR PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY RENTALS Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Product code MRMC 1998 01...
Page 2: ...is accurate and up to date Mark Roberts Motion Control continuously strives to improve their products and may make changes to the hardware firmware and software described in this document Mark Robert...
Page 3: ...iii Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide Contents Chapter 1 Polymotion Player Overview 1 Setting up TDCGraphics only for Configuration 2 2 Port tabs 3...
Page 4: ...lable for Manual tracking 25 Begin Tracking 26 Spotter screen 28 Football pitch 29 Camera icon 29 FOV triangle 29 Target selection 30 On Field Goto 30 Layout Main Split Switch Button 31 Info Display 3...
Page 5: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide v Appendix 1 Polymotion Player Installation 41 Installing Polymotion Launcher 41 Licensing your Polymotion Product 45...
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Page 7: ...e other heads There should be at least two heads assigned to the same user for Manual tracking to work For the camera to follow a steady pan velocity in manual tracking it is recommended that the part...
Page 8: ...Polymotion Player 4 Install Polymotion Launcher on all participating PCs in the Polymotion Player system 5 Specify TRACAB server connectivity options in MHC 6 Set up player tracking options in MHC 7 B...
Page 9: ...and a configuration for defining the position of the Robot relative to the centre spot of the pitch and configuration of the zonal data that will be sent The zonal data can be either a position of gen...
Page 10: ...stadium setup includes more than two robots to track zonal data To specify camera position 1 Double click AutoCamActive value cell to display the Set Offset for Slave Type window 2 Check AutoCam activ...
Page 11: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 5 3 Set the Camera Position value to the one given by Chyron Hego 4 Click Apply and then click OK...
Page 12: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 6 Notes...
Page 13: ...license code Contact MRMC Support for a new license 4 Once you have supplied a license code MHC Server and Client are launched login to MHC Client as Admin Username Admin Password Admin1234 Preparing...
Page 14: ...the network 3 If you want to see the LiveView from the cameras in the MHC screen add the RTSP stream address in the IP Address box for each head 4 Select Settings PLAYER WIZARD 5 SELECT STADIUM to lo...
Page 15: ...wizard screens to calibrate the robot For heads that have external cameras like AFCs this wizard includes screens to level tilt and align the camera centre to that of the pitch Calibration Step 1 Leve...
Page 16: ...Quick Start Guide 10 Calibration Step 2 If the robotic head does pan left click YES If it doesn t click NO and the direction of the pan axis will be corrected by the software Calibration Step 3 Click...
Page 17: ...the robotic head does tilt up click YES If it doesn t click NO and the direction of the tilt axis will be corrected by the software Calibration Step 4 Homing the axes Click HOME ALL AXES to home all a...
Page 18: ...5 Centre of the pitch Point the camera to the centre of the pitch such that the centre of the camera screen overlaps the pitch centre Calibration Step 6 Level tilt Move the camera up and down so that...
Page 19: ...6 3 Set the 7 Reference Points that emulate the 7 pitch positions For the corner reference points the camera crosshair should respectively point at the four corner flags on the pitch The A and B corr...
Page 20: ...screen joystick and then click tap the respective reference point A reference point once set appears with a green dot After setting all reference points click tap the SET button again to store these p...
Page 21: ...You can change the source at a later point For Manual Tracking Select the User to be assigned as the operator for the robotic head For Tracab Enter the IP address Source is the IP address of the serv...
Page 22: ...orm all substeps under step 6 for all heads 7 1 Click CONNECT TRACKING to connect a single head to the tracking server at a time 8 Click CONNECT ALL to connect all heads to the server together Polymot...
Page 23: ...re available only to Engineering type users Select Polymotion to specify the Polymotion settings Connect disconnect the current head to the tracking system Head specified as Master head Pitch settings...
Page 24: ...ar off the ground the robots should target If height offset is set to zero the tracking system will target ground level A value of 1m is usually used as this is about waist height of a football player...
Page 25: ...en click CONNECT to connect the current head or CONNECT ALL to connect all the participating heads For TRACAB both TRACAB Server and TDCGraphics must be running to connect Note that the value in Clien...
Page 26: ...data received from the TRACAB server would be in accordance with the player clustering settings specified in TDCGraphics Note While using Polymotion Player with Tracab the connection is lost to the Tr...
Page 27: ...rator login Main page Once the Player tracking options have been set up using Player Wizard the default mode will change to TRACKING To manually change the mode for a robot click tap and hold the robo...
Page 28: ...test or reset them by clicking tapping the SET button Tracking Mode Click the Tracking Mode tab second tab in the Tracking section and specify the Tracking type options For example you can select the...
Page 29: ...the Tracking type as Tactical if tracking a player cluster Tracking Offset Select the Tracking Offset tab in the Tracking section This tab is dynamic and changes depending on the Tracking type select...
Page 30: ...Tracking type is Analysis High Behind A or Analysis High Behind B the following options appear in the Tracking Offset tab Z Min X Pos is the x position on the pitch from the centre spot in meters tha...
Page 31: ...ettings appear on this tab Player Preselection Not available for Manual tracking This menu allows you to setup player selection before any Tracab data is received or before the match starts The menu i...
Page 32: ...be done via the Spotter Screen as detailed on Spotter screen on page 28 Begin Tracking Finally on the fifth tab you can use the Play button to begin player tracking When pressed the Play button should...
Page 33: ...n the Polycam tab in MHC Note If you are using an Xbox 360 controller to control the robots you can use the Red button to stop the player tracking but to restart you must press the Stop and Play butto...
Page 34: ...in relation to the field The controls and presets on this page are only available when robots are in tracking mode 1 Football pitch 2 Camera icon 3 FOV triangle 4 Target selection 5 On field goto 6 L...
Page 35: ...B server Camera icon Camera icon is visible only for the cameras that are in tracking mode Unlike the FOV triangles it is not positioned at the real life camera position If the camera is positioned at...
Page 36: ...tion circle appears at the zone position For these types of tracking the operator can change whether the camera tracks more of the zone or the ball this will not affect the position of the zone circle...
Page 37: ...play Info display shows the name of the camera and tracking type e g Home Player or Tactical If the tracking type is Home or Away player it also shows the jersey number If the selected camera is not i...
Page 38: ...ve as group presets i e when pressed all robots that have this preset position stored go to it Robot mode does not matter If at least 1 robot has a corresponding preset stored the buttons appear light...
Page 39: ...ied to Tactical target type because it is supposed to track 20 players at all times and it should be mounted at the position which will allow such framing With Offside cameras it is possible that not...
Page 40: ...the group You can also discard any changes in the selection if required In Edit mode player icon can have only two states selected and not selected To group players for tracking 1 Click tap the Groupi...
Page 41: ...the current status of whether grouping is active or not Offset menu The Spotter Screen offset menu provides similar functionality to the offset menu on the main page It is available if the selected r...
Page 42: ...default it is On Fix all Button Fix all button sends commands to fix trips on all axes of all robots Emergency Manual tracking button Enables disables Manual tracking and passes the robot control to...
Page 43: ...FOV triangle of the selected camera Start stop tracking buttons Fix all button Player layer button FOV on off button Emergency stop button The main video feed shows on the right from the football pit...
Page 44: ...st cases that s because the lens was not selected Zoom point count invalid In most cases that s because the lens was not selected All corners not set Insufficient angle difference between both the Pan...
Page 45: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 39 Notes...
Page 46: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 40 Notes...
Page 47: ...e click MHCPolymotionLauncherSetup_ x86 v2 6 0 10 exe or MHCPolymotionLauncherSetup_ x64 v2 6 0 10 exe to launch the installer depending on whether you are doing a 32 or 64 bit installation 2 If not a...
Page 48: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 42 4 Select the components to be installed Here you can clear any components that you do not want to install 5 Follow the on screen instructions...
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Page 50: ...Polymotion Player Quick Start Guide 44 6 Click Browse and navigate to C Program Files x86 MHC player USBtoIP_driver USBIPEnum inf or C Program Files x64 MHC player USBtoIP_driver USBIPEnum inf...
Page 51: ...you will be required to add a License file To obtain this copy and paste the UID at the bottom of your MHC screen and send your license request including products such as Polymotion Chat or Polymotion...
Page 52: ...Mark Roberts Motion Control Ltd Unit 3 South East Studios Blindley Heath Surrey RH7 6JP United Kingdom Telephone 44 0 1342 838000 info mrmoco com www mrmoco com...
