Analog way Vertige User manual

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Verge™ -Ref. VRC300

QUICK START GUIDE

Thank you for choosing Analog Way and the Verge™. By following these simple steps, you will be able to

setup and use your powerful high end Remote Controller within minutes. Verge™ is a revoluonary Remote

Controller integrang new ways to create and manage large events and mul-venues. The Verge™ brings a

simple and exible approach to show creaon and management. Verge™ can control several screens and

devices such as Ascender 48, Ascender 32, Ascender 16, SmartMatriX Ultra, NeXtage 16 or NeXtage 08

systems, independently or simultaneously in any kind of combinaon, including So Edge blending. Verge™

also supports linked LiveCore™ devices (addive modularity), LiveCore™ Expansion modules and synchronized

LiveCore™ devices (associave modularity).

• 1 x Verge™ (VRC300)

• 2 x Power supply cord

• 1 x User manual (PDF version)*

• 1 x Quick start guide (PDF version)*

* User manual and Quick start guide are available on www.analogway.com.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX

VERTIGE™ SETTINGS

REAR PANEL DESCRIPTION

Before starng with Verge™ please see the

following steps:

• Rear panel descripon

• Front panel descripon

• Seng up the Verge™

• Conguring the Show

• Running the Show

If connecng the Verge™ and device directly,

be sure to use an Ethernet crossover cable (the

Verge™ connects to the controlled devices with

standard Ethernet LAN networking equipment).

Otherwise you can use a standard Ethernet hub

and straight cables.

1. Power Supply:

Dual, redundant power supply with fuse as standard

equipment.

2. On/O buon:

Switch on/o the device.

3. Connecon panel:

Ethernet LAN adapters to control devices.

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RUNNING THE SHOW

Layer Selecon

Backgrounds, frames, PIPs, and logos are all considered

layers. Layers which are selected will be highlighted on the

touchscreen. To select a layer, there are several opons:

• Selecng Layers from the touchscreen: At any me when the Preset Page screen is open, a layer may be

selected by directly touching it on the touchscreen. Touching another layer will release your current selecon

and select the new layer. To select mulple layers, or remove a layer from your selecon, you will need to use

the selecon modier keys on the Verge™ keyboard, i.e. [+] or [-].

• Selecng Layers from the Layer Selecon buons: At any me, a layer or group of layers may be selected

by directly pressing one of the Layer Selecon buons (please read the user manual for more informaon

on this topic).

Source selecon

The Source secon allows you to:

• Fill any layer or group of layer with a source.

• Fill any nave layer or group of nave layer with a nave

source (the nave mode must be enabled).

All sources and nave sources have to be dened before (sources and their corresponding key bindings are

usually created automacally by the Iteraon Wizard whereas nave sources have to be created manually).

Use the le/right arrow to navigate into the source page. Then simply press the desired source in order to ll

the selected layer(s).

Transion secon

You have dierent opons to transion from Preview to

Program:

- The T-Bar for a manual smooth transion

- The Take buon for an automac med transion

- Independent faders for a manual transion per screen.

Below each fader you will nd a screen buon, you can use the le/right arrow to move this screen list. Each

fader will take the screen which is wrien on the buon.

Preset selecon

A Preset contains all of the layer informaon about all of

the layers on all of the selected screens. Presets stored

using the Verge™ console are stored within the Verge™

show, and can be exported and imported to another

console. By default, the unit will operate in preset Load

mode.

To save a preset, rst create the content that you wish to save on either the program or preview screens. To

save a preset from Program, make sure that the Program buon is selected. To save a preset from Preview,

make sure that the Preview buon is selected. To save a preset, press the SAVE buon next to the preset

bank and page navigaon buons. Then navigate to the preset slot that you wish to save to, and press once

on the desired preset buon. The preset will turn yellow, indicang a successful save then the system will

automacally switch back to Load mode. If the preset slot was not empty, press twice to overwrite.

To load a preset, rst be sure that the Preview buon is selected if you wish to load the preset to Preview, or

that the Program buon is selected if you wish to load the preset to Program. To Load a preset, make sure

that the LOAD buon next to the preset bank and navigaon buons is selected. Next, select the desired

preset that you wish to load. The preset will be loaded to program or preview, depending on which buon

has been selected. If you have loaded your preset to preview, you will need to press TAKE to view it on the

Program screens. If you load a preset directly to program, the new aributes including sources, size, posion,

border, etc will cut into place.

Presets can be saved, loaded and renamed directly from the Preset page. (Please read the user manual for

more informaon on this topic).

For complete details and operaons procedures, please refer to the Verge™ User’s manual and our

website for further informaon: www.analogway.com

140154 - 11/09/2015

Firmware: V02.02.05 - VRC300-QSG

All Analog Way products have a 3 year warranty on parts and labor, return to factory, but do not include

faults resulng from user negligence, any unauthorized modicaons, electrical surges, mishandling (drop/

crush), and/or any other damage caused by misuse.

Please note: The included carrying case and protecve foam is not covered under warranty.

WARRANTY AND SERVICE

CONTACT INFORMATION

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FRONT PANEL DESCRIPTION SETTING UP THE VERTIGE™ & CONFIGURING THE SHOW

1- Touch screen

The touch screen 15’’6 Wide displays comfortably on

the same page, the representaon of the Program

& Preview but also of a typical scene (Blend + 2

satellites). It is important to have the whole scene

represented to work on mulple layers from

dierent screens at the same me (change of source

of background, for example). It is useful to have both

states Program/Preview shown at the same me as

the LiveCore™ series allows you to change one or the

other at any me (even during an eect).

2- Preset secon

This secon allows the operator to save/load its

scene presets (10 direct access presets and a page

mechanism to organize them).

3- Layer secon

This secon enables the operator to select a set of

layers which belong to dierent screens in order to

edit them simultaneously. Various criteria are used to

perform advanced combinaons. It will be possible

to save those combinaons for later use.

4- Source secon

This secon allows assigning sources to the selected

layers in Program or Preview. Twelve contextual

buons display the name of source. The capability

to change a page allows beneng from numerous

sources.

5- Control secon

This secon enables the operator to select which

preset to work with, and have direct access to basic

funcons applied to all selected layers (Freeze, Clear,

Unify...).

6- Edit secon

This secon allows the operator to edit the selected

layers in three dierent ways: roughly by the joysck,

nely by coders or directly by numpad. The block

displaying the numpad is contextual: it also provides

access to pages of shortcuts, tools, layer presets

(Posion, Size, Border, Eect …).

7- Transion secon

This secon enables to use the T-Bar for transions.

Sliders can be used like T-Bar (Eects) or like Faders

(Alpha). Sliders are motorized in order to see the

current state of the selecon.

8- Control Transion

The ALPHA buon is used to give a specic role to

the sliders:

• If the ALPHA mode is disabled (key backlight turned

o), sliders allow to individually mix each screen

• If the ALPHA mode is enabled (key illuminates in

RED), dierent layers of dierent screens can be

assigned to a slider, they will allow to control the

layer opacity (transparency).

The CUE SEQUENCE mode allows buons to be used

for controlling cue sequence playback.

Starng the Verge™

Press Start

Creang a User

Select the CREATE opon.

Enter a name and

a password (oponal)

Press Create

Conguring the Verge™

Network

Press the SETTINGS buon in

the upper-right corner

Select the Network tab

Select the Ethernet port you

want to use

Enter the desired IP address,

subnet mask and gateway

Press Apply

Logging in

Select the LOGIN opon

Select a user

Press Login

Creang a Show

Select the CREATE opon

Enter a name

Press Create

Note: Creang a show

will automacally create a

default iteraon

Loading a Show

Select the LOAD opon

Select a show

Press Load

Wizard Step 1 (Assembly)

In the Device Type eld, select the type of

device that will be handled by this assembly.

In the Device Extension eld, select the opon

that matches you assembly conguraon

(Single, Linked with Slave, Linked with LOE

or Synchronized). If your device(s) have an

opon (4K or 4K - PL), then make sure to

select it in the Device Opon eld.

Wizard Step 2 (Devices)

Enter the IP address of the Master device. If

you have selected the Synchronized opon,

then check the Slave #X boxes to enable

up to three addional devices that will be

synchronized with the Master device. Then

adjust each device IP address to match

your network conguraon. Press the Next

buon to connue.

Wizard Step 4 (Screens)

Rename each screen if necessary. If some of the screens will be

used for a blend, adjust their size accordingly. Press Create.

Note 1: The wizard will automacally create an assembly with its devices

and streams, the screens, the sources and the front panel key bindings.

Note 2: If your event requires creang other devices and screens, use

the wizard as many mes as necessary.

Note 3: Aer using the wizard, you may have to adjust some default

sengs in the assemblies/ screens/sources.

Wizard Step 3 (Scene)

Select the total number

of screens wired to your

devices.

Conguring an Assembly

Select the ASSEMBLY tab

Select an assembly

Conguring a Source

Select the SOURCE tab

Select a source

Running the Show

Select the PRESET tab

Enjoy!

Conguring a Screen

Select the SCREEN tab

Select a screen

Conguring the Internal

Rate

Select the PRECONFIG/RATE

opon.

Choose the desired

mode (Internal, Follow or

Framelock).

Adjust the sengs.

Renaming the Source

Select the EDIT opon

Enter a name / Press Apply

Note: Use a short name with a maximum of two

words to ensure readability on LCD buons.

Conguring the Scene

Select the SCENE opon.

Press Move le or Move right to move your

screen in the scene.

Conguring the Inputs

Select the IN/OUT/INPUT

opon.

Press All Inputs to set up

automacally all the inputs

of the devices.

Conguring the Source key

binding

Select the EDIT opon

Navigate to an empty key

Press the corresponding buon

on the touch screen.

Press Apply

Conguring a Nave Source

Select the NATIVE tab then select the

CREATE opon

Enter a name. Navigate to an empty key.

Press the corresponding buon on the

touch screen.

Press Create

Conguring the Nave Source key binding

Select the EDIT opon. Navigate to an empty key

Press the corresponding buon

Conguring the streams mapping

Select the MAP / QUICK opon.

Select the nave stream that will get displayed on the selected nave

layers when the corresponding source key is pressed in the front panel.

Conguring the Screen Mapping

Select the MAP opon

Make sure each screen area is mapped

to the correct device output.

Note: If some mappings don’t match

your wiring, remove them and create

new ones.

Conguring the Streams

Select the STREAM/ LIVE

opon.

Make sure each "Live"

stream matches the correct

input plug. Select the

STREAM/NATIVE opon to

create nave streams.

Conguring the So Edge blending

Select the BLENDING opon.

Adjust the covering

Adjust the black levels

Adjust the blending curves

Loading an Iteraon

Select the LOAD opon

Select an iteraon

Press Load

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