OPTIMOD-PC INTRODUCTION
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Presets in OPTIMOD-PC
There are two kinds of presets in OPTIMOD-PC: Factory Processing Presets and User
Presets.
Factory Processing Presets
There are over 20 Factory Processing Presets. These are our recommended settings
for various program formats or types. The description indicates the processing struc-
ture and the type of processing. Each Factory Processing Preset on the Open Preset
list is really a library of 20 separate presets, selected by using the
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to adjust OPTIMOD-PC for less or more processing.
Factory Processing Presets are stored as text files on the hard drive of the
same computer that houses the OPTIMOD-PC card. After an OPTIMOD PC
card is installed in your PC, a Presets folder containing all the factory and
user Preset files is created on your hard drive.
Each set of preset files consists on one “master” file and several
“less/more” files. Master files contain the preset data that is first loaded
when you activate a factory preset. Less/more files contain the preset
data that is called up when you edit a factory preset via the Control ap-
plication’s one-knob “less/more” editing procedure. If there is no
less/more file for the less-more setting you choose, OPTIMOD-PC will
automatically generate the data by interpolating between the contents
of the two nearest less/more files.
The suffix of the master Factory preset files is ORBF11. Within the preset
folder on your hard drive, there is a corresponding less/more folder
named after the master factory preset file. The Less/More files are located
in these folders. The file names of the less/more files are [preset name]
LMxxx.ORBF11, where “xxx” is three numbers, like “080” (which corre-
sponds to a LESS/MORE value of 8.0). All of these files have been given
the “read-only” attribute to make them inconvenient to erase, even at
the operating system level. You cannot erase or overwrite them from the
OPTIMOD-PC Control application. If you erase or modify a factory or
less/more file from an external file manager like Windows Explorer (a
very unwise thing to do), you will have to reinstall the Optimod-PC soft-
ware to regenerate the file unless you have a backup copy of the file
elsewhere.
The normal location for factory presets is
c:\Program
Files\Orban\OPTIMOD-PC\presets
. Each factory preset has an associated
folder containing all of the less/more files for that preset. The less/more
folders are located immediately below the
presets
folder; each less/more
folder bears the name of its associated preset.
There is only one copy of the factory presets per computer, regardless of
the number of OPTIMOD-PC cards installed in that computer.
You can create custom “factory” presets that have full
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functionality. See
Creating Custom “Factory” Presets
on page 3-56.
