OmniTek 2.3 manual

Advanced Measurement Technology User Guide for OmniTek XR Software Version: 2.3 12 th March 2008[...]

Page 2 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 © 2008 Image Processing Techniques Ltd. All rights reserved This documentation contai ns propri etary information of Image Processi ng Techniques Ltd. No part of this documentation may be reprod uced, stored in a retrieva l system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, me chanica[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 3 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 7 From Power-Up .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Quic[...]

Page 4 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Wide Screen Signalling: (L ine 23) Reader Settings .............................................................................. .................. 28 Teletext/OP-47: Reader Settings ................................................................................................ .................[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 5 Video Status window ............................................................................................................ ..................................... 55 Options menu ...................................................................................................................[...]

Page 6 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 10. AUDIO CHECKING FEATURES ........................................................................89 Audio Level Disp lays (PP Ms) .................................................................................................... ...............................89 Embedded Audio PPMs ..........[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 7 1. Introduction This user guide describes the Om niTek XR product. This produ ct consists of a PCI card installed into a Windows PC together with Om niTek software. The pro duct may be supplied already installed and configured by OmniTek, or this may be done by the user. Note however that the in s[...]

Page 8 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Quick Start Guide This section provides a basic g uide to starti ng work with the OmniTek XR application. On starting, a message first ap pears enquiring whet her you wish to use the p rogram’s Advanced Audio or the Motion-Ca pture fac ilities. Then, by default, since all OmniTek systems have th[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 9 Display Mode OmniTek XR offe rs two display modes referre d to as ‘Normal’ mode and ‘Full Screen’ mode. In Normal mode, the screen follows standar d Windows conventions, offering multipl e windows, dialogues and to olbars. In this mode, there will be a men u bar at the top, with some toolb[...]

Page 10 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 The usual sele ction of the sync for a waveform mo nitor is Ser ial lock (as selec ted by Auto detect ). For further details of video setup, please refer to page 21 of this guide. Windows Layout Normal mode generally opens with the choice of windows an d toolbars that was last use d in that displ[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 11 At the right-hand end of the Status Bar is a little field interrupt indicator. This spins du ring normal operation, indicating field interrupts are being processed. It will stop during certain operations, such as loading files from disk. Note that the four Page buttons on the status bar are only [...]

Page 12 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Presets are individual macro s that work both in the norm al Windows environment and in Full Screen mode. They can be freely assigne d to the hot-keys Shift-F1 – Shift-F12. The information recorde d as a pr eset can be of two types: the fi rst is a snapshot of all the settings currently in plac[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 13 Window Sizes The size of all of the windows is related to the video standard. When you position and size the windows in on e standard, they may well turn out to be wrongly sized when you switch to a di fferent standard. However, right click on many of the windo ws and a menu will appear that incl[...]

Page 14 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 2. Menus This section describes the menus offered on the main application menu bar when Omnitek XR is being run in Normal (Windows) mode. Whil e this section is c hiefly for reference, the options offered by these menus provide a good overview of the facilities offered by OmniTek XR. Note: The pr[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 15 Message Boxes The Preferences menu also lets you co ntrol the display of message boxes in response to error conditions. Messag e boxes that currently may be displayed are ticked. Clearing the tick disables that particula r message box. Ticking an option re-enable s a message that has been disable[...]

Page 16 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Region Of Interest This toolbar is a sep arate window that acts in conj unction with the Waveform and Vector Scope win dows, and provides fine detail control over the part of the video frame th at is used to create waveforms etc. Thi s is described in detail on page 63. Crosshair Gives position c[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 17 Engineering Options The Engineering options allow the current Engineerin g Settings to be saved in .ode files and to be subsequently re -loaded. The layout of the wind ows and toolbars is unaffected by saving and loading Engineering settings. SNMP Settings This option controls the program ’s co[...]

Page 18 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 formats other than NTSC are also located on a line other than Line 21. These details are recorded on the Teletext/OP-47 page or the Close d Caption page of the Engineering Settings control window (see pages 29 a nd 30). Reset Status and Logging This option offers a way to sim ultaneously reset th[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 19 Full Screen Menu As well as operating within a conventional application ‘window’, OmniTek XR can also operate within a ‘Full Screen’ environment. This menu allows you both to define full screen views and to select a specific view to launch in Full Scree n mode. Full Screen mode is describ[...]

Page 20 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 3. Engineering Settings When using OmniTek XR, perhaps th e most important controls are the Engineering settings. These determine the entire configurat ion of the system in terms of what video format to use, the video lock reference, etc. The Engineering settings are a ccessed either by cli cking[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 21 Video Standard The video standard currently sele cted is shown in the box. The current standard can be changed by clicking the drop-down arrow, and selecting one of the available choi ces. Alter natively, if you are monitori ng external video, it may be more convenient to select Auto detect . Thi[...]

Page 22 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Video: Generator Settings The controls on the Vi deo: Generator p age of the Engineering Settings co ntrol window all relate to video generated by OmniTek XR. This page is not available wh en the OmniTek XR system does not include the Motion-Capture opti on. Power-On Defaults The Power-On Default[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 23 Video: Analyzer Settings Range Errors OmniTek XR can detect and count where t he inco ming video falls outside pre-defined luma/chroma ranges. The levels that trig ger an error are determined in this dialogue. You specify the minimum and maximum IN RANGE values for e ach luma / chroma component. [...]

Page 24 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 These errors can also be highlighted on the waveforms. This option is selected through the Options menu within the Waveform window (see page 59). Th e same thresholds are used. Note however that i t is not possible to sim ultaneously highlight pixels wi th YCbCr range errors and pixels with RGB r[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 25 Once multiple profiles have been created, it is possible to select between them from the Profiles dialogue (called up as describe d above) . When OmniTek XR is started, the last used profile is automatically loaded but a new profile may be loaded at any time. Note: A ‘Preset’ is ideal for swi[...]

Page 26 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Note that whilst the lookup table a djusts how the waveforms and the Vecto r Scope are displayed, the data shown in the Data View window i s always the exact data o n the serial inputs. Output Format Where OmniTek XR i ncludes the Dual Link o ption, it is possible to produce eit her single- link [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 27 • Luminance Content This control works in exa ctly the same way as the Motion Content control, and detects if the picture is black. • Chrominance Con tent This control works in exa ctly the same way as the Motion Content control, and detects if the picture is black and white. The results of t[...]

Page 28 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Video Index: Reader Settings OmniTek XR includes a Video Index rea der, which is configured from this dialog ue. The lines normally used for the Video Index sign al are indicated in the dialogue, but other lines may be selected, for example for t est purposes. The Link Fields option make s settin[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 29 This data can be interpreted either a s per EN 300 294 or as modif ied by ARDSPEC. For flexibility, it is possible to monitor other lines in addition to line 23. Teletext/OP-47: Reader Settings This page of the Engineering Setting s control window is concerned with the addition al information nee[...]

Page 30 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Closed Caption: Reader Settings This page of the Engineering Settings control wi ndow caters for ‘Line 21’ captions sent within video formats other than NTSC. In NT SC, these captions are required to be transmitted on Line 21. When delivered in a video format other than NTSC, the captions can[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 31 4. Toolbars This section descri bes the toolbars available when OmniTek XR is being used i n Normal (Windows) mode. These toolbars provide di rect access to many of the functio ns contained in the menus. The above illustration shows j ust one possi ble arrangeme nt of the toolbars. Windows provid[...]

Page 32 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Crosshair Toolbar The Crosshair toolbar provides both information about and controls for the current point of interest within the video display (as indicated by the cro sshair on the Mini-Pic display). Position The toolbar shows the sample n umber and line number that the crosshair is positioned [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 33 Region of Interest Toolbar The Region of Intere st toolbar is a control window that acts in conjunc tion with the Waveform and Vector S cope windows, and prov ides fine detail control over the part of the video frame that is used to create waveforms etc. It is describ ed on page 63, alongside the[...]

Page 34 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 A Time Shift recording can be triggere d by any of the trigger conditions sho wn in this dialogue. It can be triggered in respon se to any of several VITC, LTC or ATC time code values, or in response to a specific e rror condition such as a CRC error occurri ng. In all cases, it is possible to re[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 35 Source Toolbar OmniTek XR has two main Source toolbars. Single Link Source Toolbar The above toolbar is offered where OmniTek X R is used with the Motion-Capture option. (A shorter version appears when the Adv anced/Extern al Audio option is being used.) The functionality of the above toolbar is [...]

Page 36 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 The functionality of this Source toolbar is shown through the follo wing block diagram. Where the system includes th e Motion-Capture option, the source to th e Analyzer module, the SDI monitor, the Monitor Output and the Serial Outputs can all be sele cted between Serial Input and the output fro[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 37 The principal effect of ticki ng this option is to control the a ction of the Auto Detect circuit. Ticking Dual-link forc es the Auto Detect circuit to in terpret whatever format it next finds on Link A or Link B as a dual-link format. Ticking Dual-link also extends the drop-down menu of suppo rt[...]

Page 38 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Audio PPMs icon. Enables the display of PPMs for eithe r Embedded Audio, Dolby-E Audio or AES/EBU Audio (where installed). See page 89 for details. Audio Lissajous icon. Opens a window in which the phase relationship between a selected channel p air is displayed a s a Lissajous figure. See page 1[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 39 5. Application Windows OmniTek XR offers a ran ge of windows within whi ch to display different aspects of th e video that is being analysed. The various di spla ys are generated in hardware i n real time from the video being proc essed. The displays are also fully integrated, with the different [...]

Page 40 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Window menu The windows also all have a ‘Window’ m enu that provides the following possibilities. Full Screen Select this to display the chosen win dow data in Full Screen mode, without any windows artefacts present, such as toolba rs, menus etc. Press ESCape to return to the standard display[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 41 Audio Lissajous window This window is only includ ed where OmniTe k XR include s the Advanced Audio option. It displays a Lissajous figure of the audio tr ansmitted on the two cha nnels of a particular stereo pair. The stereo pair from which the Lissajous figure is generated i s selected by click[...]

Page 42 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Audio Status window The Audio Status window is offered by all systems that incl ude audio support. Whe re included, it displays a selection of inform ation about the audio cont ent of the input being processed. The information is arranged in a collapsible hierarchy with sections of the display ab[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 43 Configure Filter Calls up the dialogue thro ugh which items for display and/or lo gging are selected (see page 119). Look & Feel Calls up the Look & Feel dialogue us ed to set display parameters a cross the whole application (see page 59). Reset options These options reset different aspec[...]

Page 44 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Closed Caption Window This window displ ays details of the closed capt ions or teletext subtitles detected in the video being analysed. The information shown compri ses: • The type of caption/subt itle – OP-47, PAL, Line 21, EIA-608 or EIA-708 (where supported) • The number of the service c[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 45 Data View Window This window displays data values associated with the image that is currentl y being processed by the built-in analyzer, exce pt in a Dual Link mode where it always shows data from the serial input. Data is shown for a specified sample number on the current line, plus samples earl[...]

Page 46 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Extended View OmniTek XR offers an alternative ‘Extended View’ of the Data View window. When Extended View is selected within the Options menu, the standard pixel value display is enhanced through the addition of pixel colour data and de scriptions of identifiable structures such as VANC pack[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 47 Extended View Offers the option of di splaying descriptive information alon gside the basi c numerical data (described above). Save Snapshot Allows the contents of the Data View window may be saved as a .txt file. The file created will include all the data within the scrollable window, so if t he[...]

Page 48 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Dolby-E Audio The menu associated with this option enables you to select the Dol by-E channel on which Dolby-E delay measurements are m ade (where supported). PCM Delay This option controls whether the Del ay Measurement window includes this item. Dolby-E Delay This option controls whether the De[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 49 Gamut Window The display in this win dow chiefly comprises a se t of bar graphs showin g the range of values for the different possi ble colour compone nts (YCbCr, RGB and Composite – or XYZ when Dual Link mode is selected) in the video currently bein g analysed. The range of colour components [...]

Page 50 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Graticule calibration can be based arou nd the standard SMPTE range of 64 to 940/960 (expressed as decimal, in 10bit format), or alternatively aro und the full range of 0 to 1 023 (again decimal, 10bit). Ful l range video formats are particularly u seful when using RGB signals in a Dual Link set-[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 51 Options menu The Options menu in the Mini-Pic wind ow includes the followi ng options: Pulse/cross The Pulse/cross mode delays the vid eo by half a frame both horizontally and vertically, to emulate the HV delay mo de of CRTs. This can give a clearer vie w of data adjacent to blanking Note: This [...]

Page 52 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Closed Captions Source This option works in tande m with the similarly-named option within the Analyzer menu to set the source for closed captions/telete xt subtitles sh own on the Mini-Pic. EIA 708 Options This option is used to select which service and font should be used for displaying EIA 708[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 53 Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of the Mini-Pic ca n be change d from its default settings to preset values, or to a custom value, to the value sp ecified in the Video Index or it may be force d to follow the Wide Screen Signalling values that can b e contained within PAL video. Show Region of Inte[...]

Page 54 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Panel Controls ROI Controls The top set of control s let you zoom the Vector Scope in on a ny portion of the di splay. Once zoomed in, you can adjust the horizontal and vertical po sition, allowing you to see all areas, not just the centre of the Vector Scope. You can also zoom i nto the selected[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 55 Video Status window The Video Status window displays a selection of information about the video content of the input being processed, and in particular about errors detected in that stream. The information is arranged in a collapsible hierarchy with sections of the display able to be opened or hi[...]

Page 56 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Configure Filter Calls up the dialogue thro ugh which items for display and/or lo gging are selected (see page 119). Look & Feel Calls up the Look & Feel dialogue us ed to set display parameters a cross the whole application (see page 59). Reset options These options reset different aspe [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 57 Clicking on the release cat ch this time will hide the waveform di splay controls, and revert to the previous window. The window also offers Options, Colour mode and Window menus. Area displayed TQ+XR The part of the image for whi ch waveforms are generated i s referred to as the Region of Intere[...]

Page 58 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Colour Modes OmniTek XR can di splay the waveforms in a vari ety of modes, which may be sele cted either from the Colour mode dro p down in the panel or from t he Colour mode menu. The possible mode s are: YCbCr Displays video in the original format as per the serial input YUV (SD) Displays video[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 59 Options Menu The Options menu allows you to adjust some sp ecifics about how the waveform traces are displayed. In particular: Data For RGB type displays, the components ca n optionally be re- ordered into the GBR order. Graticule The graticule lines can be displ ayed or hi dden, along with grat [...]

Page 60 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Note : All of the look and feel choices here dire ctly affect the waveforms di splayed within the Windows environment. They also affect wavefo rms displayed in Full Screen mode, unless specific look and feel settings ha ve been assigned to the chosen full screen view as described on page 69. Rese[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 61 Colour Mode menu This lists the different forms of waveform display that exist. This duplicates the Colour mode selection offered through t he optional control panel. The controls are duplicated for user convenience. Note how ever t hat although you can sel ect any mode from this menu, you will s[...]

Page 62 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Control Panel Display Options The controls in the panel e nable the histogra ms to be displayed in different colour modes and as either a line or as a bar chart. You can also set the verti cal scaling used for the histograms. Colour Mode The possible colour mod es (selectable either from the Colo[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 63 Region of Interest toolbar The Region of Interest to olbar acts in conjun ction with the Waveform and Vector Scope windows to provide fine detail control over the part of the video frame that is used to create waveforms etc. Many of cont rols can also be achieved by other means but som e less-req[...]

Page 64 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 In Sweep mode, the first line of the sweep i s set as Y start , while the total number of lines in the sweep is set as Y lines . There are also buttons selecting 2-line an d 15-line sweeps, full field swee ps ( FL ) an d full frame sweeps ( FR ). In Multi mode, the control also in cludes AV and F[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 65 6. Full Screen Mode As well as displaying diff erent aspect s of the video input as multiple windows on a standard Windows applica tion display, OmniTe k XR also offers the option of f ull screen views each showing a selection of the different displays availabl e in a simple rectangular layout ta[...]

Page 66 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Entering Full Screen Mode Full Screen mode can be entered in a n umber of ways. Some systems are set u p to automatically ent er Full Screen mod e on Start-up. They can also be configure d to be ‘locked’ in Full Screen mode. Both these options may be selected through the Full Screen Confi gur[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 67 Defining Full Screen Views Full screen views are defined through the Full Screen Configuration dialogue, which i s displayed either by cli cking on the Full Sc reen Configuration icon or by taking th e Configuration option from the Full Screen menu. The left-hand side of this wind ow is concerned[...]

Page 68 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Startup/Help Settings It is possible to start up the application and dire ctly start in Full Screen mode, by selecting in the Startup in full-screen mode: box. Ticking the Sho w help/information box enables the display of a small amount of Help information. In addition, pressing ‘I’ toggles t[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 69 Assigning Settings By default, no specific settings are assigned to the various portions of the fu ll screen view. So when you ente r a full screen view, each pane will adopt the current settings of the related window within t he normal environment. For example, the waveforms in a given full scre[...]

Page 70 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 7. Generator Functions Where the system includes the Motio n-Capture option, OmniTek XR include s a video store, which is accessed via a Generato r control window. The Generator window is displayed by clicki ng the Generator icon on the mai n (Windows) toolbar. The Generator window provides acce [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 71 Preferences Default pattern fit ty pe Every time an image is loaded, its si ze is compared with the current video format. If it exactly matches, the image is loaded. Default patte rn fit type lets you specify a defa ult action to take when the image size doe sn’t fit the current video format. O[...]

Page 72 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 View Menu The View menu lets you turn off the toolbar and the status line if not required, and set the size of the image thumbnails. Thi s menu can also be used to open o r close the Playlist window, and switch between the Thumb nail view shown above an d a text-based list. Source Menu The Source[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 73 Window Menu The Window menu offers the single option to enable/disable ‘snap to grid’ when moving the window around. Generator Toolbar The Generator toolbar icons have the f ollowing functions. New configuration Open existing configuration Save configuration Import existing image or sequence [...]

Page 74 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 At the bottom of the Generator window is a simple status display that displays the total memory available to store images, plus the am ount that is u sed, along with a bar that gives a graphical indication of how much memory is used. The numbers used are calibrated in fram es, and hence will chan[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 75 The frames used can be of any of image ty pes that the Generator window accepts for single frame images. Ho wever, the frames must be named in such a way that OmniTek XR recognises them as a sequence – se e the note below. Once the sequence has been accessed, the first frame of the sequence wil[...]

Page 76 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Single – Grabs a single frame. E ach time Grab is pres sed, a new sin gle image is grabbed, over writing the image previously grabbed. Repeated Frames – Grabs between 1 and 10 frames. Set th e number of frames you wish to grab. If you select 3, pres s Grab three times and each time an image w[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 77 Under Use blanking and ancillary data , select From Internal Generator to remove the entire ancillary data packets from the original source material. Alternatively select From Source Image (RVF) to use the actual data from the source image. Note: A simple RVF editor is supplied free alongside the[...]

Page 78 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 To configure the monitor, click Add to choose the location for the monitored folder(s). Specify which file format(s) to monito r by ticking the appropriate boxes. The actual monitoring p rocess can be enabled either by clicking the Monitor button on this dialogue or by clicking the ‘Start monit[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 79 Playlist options Adding/Editing items As previously mentioned, items can be added to the playlist by dragging a source pattern from the Generator windo w (or by taking Add to Playlist… from the context menu). On doing so, a dialogue will appear whi ch allows the user to specify the duration for[...]

Page 80 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 This window is displayed wh en a pattern is ‘drag and dropped’ fro m the Generator window into th e Playlist window. The window can also be accesse d for existing playlist items by double-clicking on the item, or by selecting the item then taking the Selected pattern properties option from th[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 81 Playlist save/open/new Playlists can be saved or opened u sing the ‘S ave playlist’ or ‘Open playlist’ toolbar icons or the Save playlist , Save playlist as , and Open Playlist menu items in the ‘File’ menu. Playlists are saved as .odp files. The last used play list will be opened aut[...]

Page 82 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 8. Cage Generator OmniTek XR system s include a cage ge nerator – or more precisely, two cage generators, one for safe action, and one for safe title. The Cage Generator dialog ue that controls thes e generators i s displayed by selecting the cage icon fr om the ma in (Windows) toolbar. It is p[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 83 includes the Motion-Capt ure option, cli cking the Video button will cause the keyed-out area to be replaced with the currently selected image o r sequence in the Generator window. To enable masking, sel ect the required mask type from the drop down box. Note: The mask will only be shown if Enabl[...]

Page 84 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 9. Video Checking Features OmniTek XR has the ability to di splay real-time video status in formation and to detect and count various types of error. Thi s status informatio n and associated error co unts are displayed in the Video Status wi ndow, which may be called up either from the Window men[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 85 Data Displayed Status Parameters Format Shows what video standard the unit has be en set to (if standard has been manually set) or what standard has been detected (if auto detect selected). Digital input – OK, Missing or Wrong Format Both the text of the status message a nd the colo ur of that [...]

Page 86 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Picture : Luminance content – Activ e/Chroma only The warning message can occur instant ly, or after the condition has occurred f or greater than a set period. This can be adjusted in the Picture section of the Engineering Settings control w indow. Picture : Chrominance conten t – Active/Mono[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 87 the Video: Analyzer page of the Engine ering S ettings control window. There are programmable minimum and maximum thresholds for each of Y, Cb and Cr. Composite Range Check Indicates the proportio n of the incoming vi deo for which the comp osite signal generated from the YUV data fall outside th[...]

Page 88 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Alternatively, the display of t hese errors can be cycle d through the possible option s by clicking the Toggle ty pe button at the bottom of the Video Status display. There is also the option of displaying ‘timelines’ indicating the rate at which errors are occurring (see page 84 ). Resettin[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 89 10. Audio Checking Features The audio checking facilities offered by OmniTek XR depend on the system being run and which extra options are installed. Very ba sic systems do not incl ude any audio checking facilities. Systems that include teither the Standard Audio or the Advanced Audio option, ho[...]

Page 90 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 The display is created by comparing in real time t he audio levels i n the data stream against a series of thre sholds set in the Co nfiguration dialogue (see below) The basic Red, Yellow, Green colouration shows in traditional fashion how the output compares with Permitted Maximum and Alignment [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 91 Options menu The display is configured from the Opti ons menu, which provi des the following options: Configuration This opens the Audio Configuration dialo gue (see below). Reset Pe ak And Hold This re-starts the determination of the posit ion of the Peak Hold markers. This is particularly usefu[...]

Page 92 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Graticule Type The graticule for the PPMs may be changed from DBFS to alternative calibrations corresponding to different meter types (Nor di c, BBC etc.). The required met er type is selected from a drop-down list of Graticule options. Note: The settings for the referen ce levels, alarm trigger [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 93 Note: These values are also automatically set to pre-defined stand ard values when a different graticule type is selected, so again it is important to ensure that the requi red graticule type is selected before making any adju stments to these reference levels. Group/Pair/Channel Labels These sec[...]

Page 94 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Show Phase Meters Phase meters may be displayed bel ow the PPMs, in both the standard view an d the surround sound view, to provide a quick visual re port of the correlation between the audi o data in the two channels that make up the stere o pair. Peak Hold When selected, Peak Hold marker s are [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 95 Displaying the Dolby PPM window As stated above, the Dolby-E audio and the associated metad ata are encoded on a pair of embedded audio channels, potentially alongsid e PCM audio. The first ste p is therefore to identify which pair of channels is carrying the Dolby-E data. The relevant pair of ch[...]

Page 96 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Audio Configuration Dialogue The Audio Configuration Dialo gue also features a more limi ted range of items than the Embedded Audio version of this dialogue. Graticule , Error Detection and Reference Level settings still appear, as do es the option to display Peak Hold markers a nd to set Pair la[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 97 Audio Status Display Where supported, info rmation about the stat us of each audio group is di splayed in a dedicated Audio Status wi ndow, which may be di spl ayed either by clicking on the Audio Status icon on the main (Win dow) toolbar or by se lecting this window from the main Window menu. Th[...]

Page 98 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Embedded Audio status information The following status information is display ed for each stereo pair of channels, arrange d hierarchically according to the gr oups to which they are assigned. OmniTek XR firstly detects whether each pair of channels is enab led or disabled . If it is enabled, the[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 99 Configure Filter Calls up the dialogue thro ugh which items for display and/or lo gging are selected (see page 119). Look & Feel Calls up the Look & Feel dialogue us ed to set display parameters a cross the whole application (see page 59). Reset options These options reset different aspec[...]

Page 100 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Dolby E Frame Dolby E Fram e Dolby E Frame Video Frame Video Frame Video Frame Guard Ba nd Guard Ba nd Guard Ba nd Line 512 NTSC Line 513 Line 512 Line 513 Line 525 Line 1 Line 10 Line 13 Line 14 Line 603 PAL Line 604 Line 603 Line 604 Line 625 Line 1 Line 6 Line 13 Line 14 Approx. end of Dolby [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 101 Note: In all, an extensive amount of info rmation can be displayed. If sim ply opening an d closing sections of the hiera rchy doesn’t give y ou the display you need, you can ‘filter’ the information down to just t hose items you ar e interested in (an d save the filtering you select). Thi[...]

Page 102 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Metadata Segment This is the part of the Dol by frame that carr ies (the majority of) the Dolby m etadata. The main items are: Key Bitstream key for the Metadata segment (where used) Revision ID Revision of Metadata segment syntax used Segment size Number of words allocated to the metadata se gm[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 103 Playback Where the Advanced Audio option is installed, Omni Tek XR has the ability to route any stereo pair of PCM audio cha nnels to the so und output of the system on which OmniTe k XR is currently being run. Whe re OmniTek XR also includes the External Audio option , the sound can alternativ [...]

Page 104 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 11. Logging OmniTek XR include s a comprehensive loggi ng package. The system has th e ability to log events into an XML file whenever specific conditions occur. It can al so transmit an SNMP alert when certain conditions occur. These two functions wo rk independently. Both log entries and SNMP [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 105 The other version of the wi ndow caters for multiple lo gging sessions and com prises a list of the sessions on the left and the di splay of the selected sessi on data on the right. Further details of this version of the display are given on page 106. Each line in the Event Log window start s wi[...]

Page 106 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Save session This option saves the currently selected session to disk a s an XML file. Shell-open session This option is only active where an existing Log file has been l oaded. Taking this optio n displays the XML file from which the data being displ ayed is taken. Start/stop session This optio[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 107 To launch this session, either sele ct New session from the Options menu or click on the corresponding icon. This displ ays a dialogue through which you specify eithe r that the session is to be started/stopped man ually or the details of the time triggers that are to b e used. Once these detail[...]

Page 108 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 The colour coding used i s as follows: Grey Not reported yet ( Note: Events in user-defined sessions can only be reported once the session has been completed) Green No error event occurred Red One or more error events have occu rred These icons provide a si mple green/red good/not good indicatio[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 109 SNMP Configuration and use The SNMP configuration dialogue is acce ssed from the main Configuration men u. When the OmniTek application star ts up, it will always check to see if an SNMP service is running on the host PC. T he number of attempts to connect can be set here, as well as an optional[...]

Page 110 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 12. Measuring Audio/Video Delays Where the Advanced Aud io option is installed, OmniTek XR ca n measure the relative delay between the audio and video paths. In addition, all systems can measure the delay between an SDI input an d the analog reference (th e Reference Timing – see page 11 5) an[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 111 (This last mode of operation is particularly useful where a PCM source is put through a Dolby-E encoder as the operation of dis- emb edding the audio and encoding it often introduces an unknown del ay.) The other test sequence is a PCM-only versi on that may be used to determine just the PCM del[...]

Page 112 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 5. Where a TSE_DOLBYE (RVF) test sequence is used, make sure that the option to use blanking and ancillary data From Source Image (RVF) is selected in the Video: Generator page of the Engineering Set tings co ntrol window. Thi s setting is essential for correct operation. Where the PCM-only (YUV[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 113 Relative A/V Delay Testing When determining the re lative delay between the transmission of the audio and video components of the signal, the OmniTe k A/V Dela y Test Sequence is installed remotely to the video analyzer, which mean s that it is possible to measure A/V delays i n satellite, cable[...]

Page 114 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 6. The required audio and video delay values will be di splayed in the Dolby-E Audio/Video Relative Delay slot in the Delay M easurement window, as illustrated below. The figure given shows the timing of the audio channel (the label below the b ar) relative to the video (labelled above the bar).[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 115 The figure given shows the timing of the audio channel (the label below the b ar) relative to the video (labelled above the bar). The label belo w the bar also moves in proportion to the delay being measured (imperceptibl e where the difference is small). Please note that the delay calcul ations[...]

Page 116 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Differences between inputs Use of an external analog reference also a llo ws differences between different input channels or between ch annels on different SDI inputs to be determined – as follows. 1. Use the steps given in the previous section to determi ne t he timing of one of the channels [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 117 Appendix 1: File Types OmniTek systems use some uniq ue file types. Th is section explains what type of data is held in each file type. Generic Files .ini ( Ini tialization) Used to store generic data. OmniTek uses three .ini files, one for t he full-screen-layout definitions ( full_screen_ layo[...]

Page 118 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Generator patterns Extension Input Output Description bmp x x Bitmap jpg/jpeg x x JPEG tif x x TIF (Tagged Image File Format) gif x x GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) png x x PNG (Portable Network Graphics) yuv x x YUV 8 bit-per-pixel (8 (U), 8 (Y), 8 (V), 8 (Y)) yuv10 x x YUV 10 bit-per-pixel [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 119 Appendix 2: Filtering OmniTek XR is able to monitor and report on a very wide ran ge of different data within video streams. Not all of this data will be useful to m onitor in any particular application, so OmniTek XR includes a ‘filter’ mechanism th rough which you can specify precisely whi[...]

Page 120 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 The hierarchy of the items does howe ver mean that items can only be displayed and logged if their ‘parent’ item is also selected. To indicate this, the boxe s of items that currently can’t be display ed because their parent i sn’t displayed are shown as grey. These boxes can still be ti[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 121 Note: The present release of Om niTek XR includes a p reset file that arranges for an OmniTek system with the Advanced Audio option to display the ran ge of Dolby-E information you would expect to see on an equivalent Tektro nix or Linear Acoustic s system. The range of items covered is illustra[...]

Page 122 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Index 608/708 captions, 17, 31, 44, 51, 86 About menu, 19 Active Format Description, 87 Amplitude measurement, 32, 59, 64 units, 14, 23 Analyzer configuration, 17, 23, 35 input, 17, 35 interpolator, 17 low pass filter, 17 Analyzer menu, 17 Ancillary data checking, 32, 87 dual link, 25 grabbing, [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 123 time code readers, 27 video index reader, 28 video settings, 20 video source, 35 video standard, 36 waveform window, 58 WSS reader, 28 Configuration menu, 16 Configure Filter audio status, 43, 99 event log, 105 video status, 56, 88 Configure Timeline audio status, 42, 98 video status, 55, 88 CRC[...]

Page 124 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 toolbar icon, 38 window, 48, 104 Extended Data View, 46 File menu, 14, 70 File monitor, 73 Files .oas files, 117 .ode files, 117 .odl files, 117 .ods files, 117 .ogs file, 117 .pre files, 117 Filtering, 119 supplied filter, 121 Flash (Reprogramming), 20 Flat View, 42, 55, 84, 88, 98 Folder Monit[...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 125 video status, 56, 88 waveform window, 58, 59 Low pass filter, 17 LTC, 27, 87 Luma Qualified Vector Scope, 24, 53 Luminance, 58, 86 detection, 27 luma range, 23 Measurement units, 14, 23 Message boxes, 15 Mini-Pic, 50 aspect ratio, 53 colour modes, 51 pulse/cross, 51 toolbar icon, 37 Monitor Mode[...]

Page 126 OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 RGB polarity Outside, 23 Run menu, 16 Run toolbar, 33 frame, 33 speed, 33 RVF capture, 76 RVF playback, 76 Safe action/title area, 52, 82 dialogue, 38, 43, 82 sync to ROI, 64 SDI input, 35 status, 85 SDI output, 18, 35 error signalling, 23 including crosshair, 32 Sequence playback, 33 speed, 33 [...]

OmniTek XR User Guide, Software Rel ease 2.3 Page 127 Video generation, 22 safe action/title area, 43 source, 35 Video capture, 75 full frame (RVF), 76 time shift feature, 33 Video Index, 28 reader, 28 Video standard, 21 auto detect, 36 dual link, 36 toolbar, 36 Video Status, 55, 84 configure filter, 56, 88 configure timeline, 55, 88 enable columns[...]

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