RGBlink Q16pro User manual
● Each module supports up to 8 video layers
● Each layer support for scaling, moving, crossing and overlying
● Support 4K@60 inputs and outputs
● Each module supports for customized output resolution,single
port's width up to 3840 and height up to 3840
● Optional independent audio input&output modules
● XPOSE visualization operation
● EDID management
Q16pro
Quick Start
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Content
Content...........................................................................................................................................................................1
Install Your Product...................................................................................................................................................... 2
Plug in Power...........................................................................................................................................................2
Connect Input Signal Source...................................................................................................................................2
Connect Output Source...........................................................................................................................................3
Connect control Computer..................................................................................................................................... 3
Connect PVW Module.............................................................................................................................................4
Turn on Your Q16pro...............................................................................................................................................4
Use Your Product......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Search Device.......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Input Setting............................................................................................................................................................6
Output Setting.........................................................................................................................................................8
Display Management............................................................................................................................................ 11
Layer Management............................................................................................................................................... 13
Preset Management..............................................................................................................................................19
XPOSE APP Control................................................................................................................................................21
Contact Information....................................................................................................................................................22
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Install Your Product
Plug in Power
Connect Input Signal Source
Connect power and Q16pro-4 with standard AC Power Cord.
Take Q16pro-4 as example
Q16pro series supports HDMI,DVI,SDI,DP1.2,HDBaseT and other optional input modules.
Connect Q16pro-4 with IP Camera,PC,DVD,laptop and other device as shown in the figure above.
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Connect Output Source
Connect control Computer
Method 1:Direct Connection:Connect Q16pro-4 with computer via network cable as shown in the figure below.It
is suitable for single user to control the device.
Method 2 ：Router Connection:Connect control computer and Q16pro-4 with Router as shown in the figure
below.It supports simultaneous online operation by multiple users.
Q16pro Series supports SDI,DVI,HDMI,HDBaseT and other optional output modules.
Connect Q16pro-4 with monitors.
Q16pro series is operated by XPOSE,so it is necessary to connect device with control computer.
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Connect PVW Module
Q16pro series supports preview input source via control computer or output image via monitor.
Turn on Your Q16pro
LAN:preview input and output
HDMI monitor:preview input source
After connection,slightly press the power button in the front panel to turn on Q16pro.
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Use Your Product
Search Device
3. Click to enter interface as shown in the right
figure
1. Click to enter <System Setting>interface.
2. Find Device ：New version of XPOSE 2.0 is blank
default in Find Device. Users are supposed to choose
the device needed in System Setting.
4. Click the device you need in the <All Devices>
list,as shown in the figure
5. click in the <Chosen Device>.
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Input Setting
Click any input port in purple area, the board where
the port locates is selected. Users can do settings to
the board now. A red rectangle flashes around the
chosen port when it is clicked.
Click to open <Property>and<EDID>
Property Setting
Input Port：chosen port
Scale:
X/Y：the starting horizontal and vertical position
Width/Height : the horizontal and vertical size of
scale
EDID
Input Port: chosen port
Basic Parameters:
EDID Template: RGB-DVI or RGB-HDMI
Monitor Name: type the monitor name
Width/Height/Frequency: type in custom parameters
to meet your needs.
Q16pro’s modules which support EDID are as follows:
●HDMI Input Module (with video)
●HDMI Input Module
●DVI-M Input Module
●DVI-I Input Module
●4K@60 Input Mdule
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H.264 IP Settings
When there is H.264 input module installed on Q16pro,
through the module, Q16pro is able to search and take
the video signal from webcam in the same local
network.
1. Click H.264 port,To make sure H.264 module take
effect, IP setting is required. IP of H.264 should in the
same network section, for example:network IP is
168.192.0.1, IP of H.264 shall be 168.192.0.X (X≠1)
2. Tick “URL”first and then fill in the URL of camera
(Note:URL address must be in RTSP format.The account and
password of camera should be included in the address.
e.g:rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor
?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif,in which
admin:admin is the account and password of camera)
3. If only one camera’s address is set,click “Set” in the
right directly;If several cameras’ address are set
together,click “set”in the bottom of the page after all
the address being finished.(Note:For the account and
password will be hidden automatically after click“Set”,
repeatedly click“Set” will result in the error address)
4. The camera signal can be seen in the IPC list in
<Display Management>.Drag and drop the IP Port 1.1
to the display directly ,four camera signals will be in
one group to show the four image in only one layer;
Drag and drop the IP Port 1.11/1.12 to the display
respectively,the camera signals will show the image
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Output Setting
Standard Resolutions can be chosen as shown in the right
figure.
Resolution:
Click any output port, the board where the port locates
is selected. Users can do settings to the port now.
A red rectangle flashes around the chosen port when it
is clicked.
OSD
Q16pro module which supports OSD as shown below:
●2K HDMI Output Module(with OSD and background）
Output port : current output port
Status : ON/OFF OSD
Screen Group : current group
X/Y：the starting horizontal and vertical position
Width/Height : the horizontal and vertical size of the text
Font：font of the text,all fonts installed in the computer is
available
Font Type : Normal,Italic,Bold,Bold Italic
Font size : 0-300 pixels
Color : font color
Customize Resolution
Q16pro supports to customize output resolutions.
Click any output port and type in width,Height and Refresh
Rate.
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Steps of OSD Set are as follows：
Precondition: The Display Management of output ports
has been completed before the OSD Set.
1. Open OSD Status.
2. Position: If the width of a single output is 1920 and the
OSD will be displayed on the screen which is spliced by
four outputs horizontally, then type 7680 for width (that
is, the width of the four outputs).
3. Font: choose font type,size and color.
4. After all settings done,click<Set> and the OSD will be
displayed on the screen.
Background : Transparent
Color : background color
Scroll Speed : 0-16
Scroll Direction : Scroll Off, Scroll Left, Scroll Right
Input Text : The exact content of the text.
Save OSD : save what you have set in previous steps
Clear OSD : clear OSD if the setting is not desired
Close All OSD : close all OSD shown on the screen
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Overview
Note: after modifying IP, the device needs to be powered off and restated in 30s.
Output Module Info: users can check current output
module name and MCU version
Input Module Info: users can check current input
module name and MCU version
“....”indicates that there are no input modules,as shown
in the right figure.
Click Return , there are overview, IP, Factory
Setting.
Device Info: users can check version and MAC information
IP : Show IP Address, Netmask, Gateway
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Display Management
Container
Container here means the Display Area, for example it
could be a formed LED screen or an array of LCDs.
Note: After factory reset,the device needs to be powered off and restarted,and the IP will be reset to 192.168.1.200.
Display System is for users to set layout of outputs.
Click this icon first and then click enter the
interface.
Template
There are 16 types of basic “Display Area” which is used to
contain output interface,and could be regarded as layout of
output.
Drag a template to create a container in other word a display
area.
Factory Setting
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2. Click <Create>,the container will display in the interface,
and shows the width and height of each Display.
3. Click<Save> to save the container.
Mode
At present, there are Presentation Mode, PST+PGM
Mode,Rotation Mode and Edge Blending In XPOSE2.0 . Each
mode is marked in different color and provided with fitted
templates
Q16pro：Presentation Mode only.
Users can do operations like splice under Presentation
Mode.
Resolution
Users can choose output resolution as shown in the figure.
Customize Container
Click this icon at the bottom of template list.
Monitor Layout: Auto or Manual
Steps of create container are as follows:
1. Fill in H Total/V Total and Row/Column,it will calculate H
item and V item automatically.
For example, if you would like to create a container with 2
rows and 3 columns and each display has a width of 1920 and
a height of 1080, the total width will be 5760 and the total
height will be 2160.
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Screen Group
Layer Management
Layer Management is designed to manage the layer of each
monitor.Click this icon to enter the interface:
Container Adjustment
1. Move: Drag the boarder of the display area to move its
place in the interface.
2. Scale: Click icon to shrink,Click to enlarge the
proportion of display area on interface.
3. Cancel: Long pressing the to cancel the screen group.
Q16pro supports to manage 6 screen groups at most on
XPOSE.
It allows users to edit the name of the
Screen group that has been created just click the .
Display
Output List:
White one: available
Gray one: unavailable
Operation Steps:
Left-mouse click the output and drag it to the display of the
set container.
Replacement:
Drag and drop the output into the corresponding Display. The
output being replaced will turns from gray to white in the list.
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Group
Signal
Audio
Signal list, showing all input signals and resolutions currently.
Drag the signal to the display.
click ,users can rename the input signal and then click
to confirm.
Q16pro supports Audio Input/Output Module,which should
be inserted into the slots supporting both input&output
module.
1. Select a bank you would like to add audios;
Every bank and every layer can be added different audio
inputs&outputs.
When enter Layer Management interface, the window is
blank. The screen group created in Display System shall be
dragged from the Group.
2. Drag audio inputs from “Signal List”to audio outputs as
shown in the right figure;You can also drag a new audio input
to replace the previous one.
The relation between audio input and output is unique;
3. Click left mouse to adjust the volume in “volume
bar”shown in the audio output.
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Layer
Layer number: Numbers in the corner is to show how many
layers at present allowed to put in the output.
A 2K signal occupies one layer, and a 4K2K60 signal occupies
four layers
The number in the red rectangle on the right figure represents
the number of layers that can be placed at the output.
Layer Adjustment
there are two ways to adjust layer.
1. Use the bar under the interface
Choose one layer and the bar shows its signal source, type in
position and size.click Set to confirm.
Layer Movement
Place the cursor on the layer, it turns to a palm icon , press the
left of mouse, the icon turns to a fist , moving the mouse can
drag the layer.
Layer Remove
Click the cross on the top right of the layer to remove the layer if
needed.
2. Layer Scale and Crop
Choose one layer needed to be adjusted,and type in its
position and size.
this icon means data related, when width is changed,
height will be changed as same proportion.
this icon means data not related, width and height need to
be filled respectively.
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Other Operation on Layer
Use the tools bar on top of window to do such operations
Layer
Backward
Layer to Top
Paste
Selected
Layer Forward
Select All
Cancel
Selected
Layer to
Bottom
Copy Selected
Delete
Selected
Layer Set
:to crop the layer
:lock the layer to prevent misoperations
:max to cover up the monitor
: cover up all monitors in the same screen group with the
one signal
Layer Copy
Press Ctrl and mouse left at the same time, move the mouse
the layer selected can be copied and place in any monitor in the
same Display Area but it doesn’t work when cross over display
area.
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Quick
Stream
H.264 Module supports to preview image.
1. Turn on Layer Preview,Input Preview,Scene Preview or
Expand Preview according to the actual need.
Quick is to set layer layout quickly.
1. Monitor：choose the monitor you would like to set
2. Source：Signal
3. Drop Area：Drag the source from the Signal List to the
Drop Area.Drag as many signals as you need, such as signal
1 and signal 2, into the drag area.
4. After setting,click <Set> to confirm and the layout will
be shown on the interface as shown in the right figure.
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Background
Q16pro’s modules which supports background set are as
follows:
●2K DVI Output Module（with OSD and background）
●2K HDMI Output Module（with OSD and background）
Order Codes of modules refer to 4.2
Operation steps are as follows：
1. Turn on Edit Status；
2. Click “Browse”to choose picture.
3. Position：fill in the X/Y and Width/Height.
4. After settings,click“Set”to confirm and click“Clear
Image”to clear the image if needed.
5. After click“Set”,the background is set successfully
when red progress bar at the bottom of the interface
turns to green.
Note: H.264 is the master switch. If the user turns on H.264 first, it cannot be set successfully.
2. Turn on H.264,and users can preview the image as
shown in the right figure.
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Preset Management
1. Manual Mode
Script
Preset Management is designed to switch bank (scene
setting done in last step).
Preset Management Mode：
1. Manual Mode 2. Schedule Mode
The chosen scene will be displayed in the main interface,
and the PGM screen is in the first in the Bank Column.
Hotkey
Cut
Cut, switch from PST to PGM immediately
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