Barco RLM W Series User manual

RLM W-series
Reference manual
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28/07/2010

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Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Basic concepts .....................................................................................5
1.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 5
1.2 About a Configuration ......................................................................................... 5
1.3 About a Snapshot.............................................................................................. 5
1.4 About storing Configurations and Snapshots ............................................................... 5
2. Installation ...........................................................................................7
2.1 General requirements ......................................................................................... 7
2.2 Free download of Projector Toolset .......................................................................... 8
2.3 Projector Toolset installation.................................................................................. 8
2.4 Starting up .....................................................................................................10
2.5 Manual installation of a device plug-in......................................................................13
2.6 Uninstall Projector Toolset ...................................................................................15
2.7 About this manual.............................................................................................15
3. Menus ............................................................................................... 17
3.1 General.........................................................................................................17
3.2 Menu and button bar..........................................................................................17
3.3 Main window...................................................................................................18
3.4 Short cut keys .................................................................................................19
3.5 Workspace Explorer ..........................................................................................19
3.6 How to adjust a setting .......................................................................................20
3.7 About Projector Toolset.......................................................................................20
3.8 Snapshot management.......................................................................................24
3.8.1 About snapshots.........................................................................................25
3.8.2 Managing snapshots....................................................................................25
3.8.3 Take a snapshot .........................................................................................26
3.8.4 Apply a snapshot........................................................................................28
3.8.5 Delete a snapshot.......................................................................................29
3.8.6 Add shot cut key to a snapshot ........................................................................30
3.8.7 Remove shot cut key association......................................................................31
4. Preferences ........................................................................................ 33
4.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................33
4.2 Start up the preferences......................................................................................33
4.3 Access level ...................................................................................................34
4.4 Software Appearance.........................................................................................35
4.5 Bug report setup ..............................................................................................37
4.6 Logging.........................................................................................................39
4.7 Workspace selection..........................................................................................40
5. Configurator ....................................................................................... 43
5.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................43
5.2 Configurator window..........................................................................................43
5.3 Create a new configuration ..................................................................................44
5.4 Add device to a configuration via scanning ................................................................44
5.5 Add projector to a configuration .............................................................................46
5.5.1 Add projector.............................................................................................46
5.5.2 General properties ......................................................................................47
5.5.3 Connection setup........................................................................................48
5.5.3.1 Set up a serial connection ........................................................................48
5.5.3.2 Set up a Ethernet connection.....................................................................50
5.5.4 Decorator setup..........................................................................................53
5.6 Reconnect a projector ........................................................................................54
5.7 Edit projector properties......................................................................................55
5.8 Configuration preview ........................................................................................56
5.9 Configuration properties......................................................................................56
5.10 Preview layout properties ....................................................................................57
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5.10.1 Background color........................................................................................57
5.10.2 Background image ......................................................................................60
5.10.3 Rearrange pictographs in preview pane ..............................................................61
5.11 Multiple projector selection...................................................................................62
6. General projector settings ..................................................................... 65
6.1 Start up.........................................................................................................65
6.2 Projector identification and control interface ...............................................................66
6.3 Basic control, lamp............................................................................................66
6.4 Basic control, pause ..........................................................................................67
6.5 Basic control, text .............................................................................................68
6.6 Test pattern ....................................................................................................68
6.7 Advanced projector control...................................................................................69
6.7.1 Start up Advanced projector control...................................................................69
6.7.2 Advanced control........................................................................................70
6.8 Maintenance, Restore factory defaults .....................................................................72
7. Alignments ........................................................................................ 75
7.1 Lens control....................................................................................................75
7.1.1 Lens shift.................................................................................................75
7.1.2 Lens mid position........................................................................................75
7.1.3 Lens zoom ...............................................................................................76
7.1.4 Lens focus................................................................................................76
7.2 Test patterns...................................................................................................77
7.3 Gamma adjustment...........................................................................................77
7.4 Horizontal keystone correction ..............................................................................78
7.5 Vertical keystone correction..................................................................................79
8. Adjustments ....................................................................................... 81
8.1 Auto Image adjust.............................................................................................81
8.2 Aspect ratio....................................................................................................82
8.3 Zoom ...........................................................................................................83
8.4 Source selection ..............................................................................................84
8.5 Working with PIP images.....................................................................................85
8.6 Input settings, viewport properties ..........................................................................87
8.7 Input settings, image properties .............................................................................89
8.8 Color space....................................................................................................90
8.9 Input balance ..................................................................................................91
9. Color alignment .................................................................................. 95
9.1 Color space selection.........................................................................................95
9.2 Custom color space...........................................................................................96
10.Installation ........................................................................................ 97
10.1 Image orientation..............................................................................................97
10.2 Lamp power mode ............................................................................................98
10.3 Lamp overview ................................................................................................99
11.Communication .................................................................................101
11.1 Network settings ............................................................................................ 101
11.2 Infra red setting.............................................................................................. 101
12.Warping ...........................................................................................103
12.1 Warping method selection ................................................................................. 103
12.2 Normal warping ............................................................................................. 104
12.2.1 Keystone correction................................................................................... 104
12.2.2 Rotation correction .................................................................................... 106
12.2.3 Barrel-PinCushion correcion ......................................................................... 108
12.2.4 Blanking corrections................................................................................... 109
12.2.5 Scenergix................................................................................................111
12.2.6 Corner Manipulation....................................................................................113
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12.2.7 Recover Warp crash ...................................................................................115
12.3 Advanced Warping...........................................................................................116
12.3.1 RS232 communication setup..........................................................................116
12.3.2 Loading and applying a warp file .....................................................................116
12.3.3 Launching the WarpUI .................................................................................117
12.3.4 Recover Warp crash ...................................................................................118
12.4 Configurator, Warp User Interface..........................................................................119
12.4.1 About the Warp UI..................................................................................... 120
12.4.2 About the Floater menu............................................................................... 121
12.4.3 Increasing - decreasing the number of nodes...................................................... 122
12.4.4 Make node selection .................................................................................. 123
12.4.5 Change selection to new active node............................................................... 126
12.4.6 Making an adjustment via drag and drop ........................................................... 126
12.4.7 Making an adjustment via the Floater menu or keyboard......................................... 127
12.4.8 Add a hard edge....................................................................................... 128
12.4.9 Move a hard edge line ................................................................................ 129
12.4.10 Remove a hard edge................................................................................. 130
12.4.11 Show hard edge in active node mode.............................................................. 130
12.4.12 Save configuration to file ............................................................................ 131
12.4.13 Load a configuration in the Warp UI................................................................ 132
12.4.14 Start up cylindrical warping.......................................................................... 133
12.4.15 Indentation ............................................................................................ 134
12.4.16 Gradient ............................................................................................... 135
12.4.17 Fast preview .......................................................................................... 136
12.4.18 Re-size and centering for cylindrical warping...................................................... 137
12.4.19 Recover warping board.............................................................................. 137
12.4.20 Preferences ........................................................................................... 138
12.4.20.1 Background of the grid......................................................................... 138
12.4.20.2 Active node intersection ....................................................................... 139
12.4.20.3 Interpolation node intersection................................................................ 139
12.4.20.4 Hard edges...................................................................................... 140
12.4.20.5 Color selection.................................................................................. 141
Index ...................................................................................................143
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1. Basic concepts
1. BASIC CONCEPTS
Overview
• Introduction
• About a Configuration
• About a Snapshot
• About storing Configurations and Snapshots
1.1 Introduction
Overview
Projector Toolset is a software tool to set up, configure, manage and control Barco projectors.
The concept of this Projector Toolset software is modular. The basic package can be extended with sev-
eral optional device plug-in modules, now and in the future available.
The Projector Toolset software works with configurations that can be loaded. Within a configuration, differ-
ent snapshots can be taken. A snapshot represents a current state of a configuration and can be reloaded
to return to this typical state. These terms will be used through the complete software.
Projector Toolset is a stand-alone application that runs on a Java Virtual Machine and that does not require
extraservicestorun.
Several configurations can be controlled simultaneously. Even when the configurations are connected via
different ways.
1.2 About a Configuration
What is a Configuration?
AConfiguration is a collection of projectors with all their current settings, connected to a computer. A
configuration can contain different settings, called snapshots, for all the projectors in the configuration.
1.3 About a Snapshot
What is a Snapshot?
ASnapshot is collection of settings of a configuration. Such a snapshot represents the current state of a
configuration.
A snapshot can contain all settings or specific settings as input settings, lamp settings, layout settings or
projector settings. When restoring a snapshot, only the stored settings will be restored. The others remain
on their current value.
1.4 About storing Configurations and Snapshots
Overview
All information is stored by default in the install directory of Projector Toolset in the subdirectory Workspace.
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Configurations are directly under the subdirectory Workspace and have the extension .config. Snapshots
are stored in a subdirectory of Workspace, called Snapshots.Thefiles have the extension .snapshot .
This structure makes it possible to zip the workspace and send it the another computer for further use.
Tomakeabackupofallyourconfigurations and snapshots, just make a copy of Workspace with all its
content.
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